?The modern library in the network society?A study of cultural politicians and librarians opinions about libraries' use of social mediaSocial media is becoming more and more interacted in our daily lives and Carlsson (2013) argues that today's libraries have undergone major challenges in the digital information technology's entry in the library arena. The new technology has led to sum up in one question: how a library should relate to the digital information technology, the issue has applied in particular the social communications media, such as Facebook, Twitter and more. The purpose of this paper is to examine the culture of politicians and librarians 'perceptions of public libraries' use of social media linked to the libraries and their democracy promotion efforts. This is analyzed from Castells theories about the network society and the digital divide.In summary, the study concluded that the majority of the culture politicians and librarians believe that social media is a part of the future of the library.

Uppsatsen behandlar virtuella communitys som en plats för social interaktion, kommunikation och identitetsskapande. Syftet med uppsatsen var att utforska hur relationer skapas, hur kommunikationen sker och hur individer framställer sin identitet på Internet. Studien har bedrivits genom en kvalitativ intervjustudie med fokusgrupper och målgruppen har varit unga vuxna i åldern 19-25 år. Som bakgrundsmaterial har vi undersökt tidigare forskning kring virtuella communitys, identitetsskapande, chattande och cyberkultur. Resultatet av studien kom att visa respondenternas användning av virtuella communitys och att dem ser det som en viktig del av det sociala livet.

I och med min kontakt med invandrarungdomar i skolan har jag ställt mig frågan om relationen mellan muslimska tjejer och idrottsutövande. Den kontakt som jag har fått inom skolan med muslimska tjejer och idrott är positiv över lag och detta gör att den bild som media ofta visar med stereotypa bilder av islam inte stämmer. De frågeställningar som belyses i denna undersökning är hur muslimska tjejer ser på idrott och idrottsutövande och om idrottsföreningar gör någonting för att integrera dessa tjejer i sin verksamhet.För att besvara frågeställningarna utgår jag ifrån en intervjustudie med fyra muslimska tjejer. Resultatet av denna undersökning visar att tre av de muslimska tjejerna som blir intervjuade är positiva till ett aktivt idrottsutövande. Samtidigt är det en av tjejerna som säger att hon inte får hålla på med idrott på grund av religionen.

The aim of this study was to examine the view of social service workers on the secondary housing market based upon their work with social investigations regarding people with a difficult substance abuse. The foundation of this study rests upon a phenomenon, which according to other scholars, occurs in the secondary housing market in Sweden. The secondary housing market consists of a multitude of housing projects that social services provide for people who are homeless. The phenomenon is that the secondary housing market contains a number of demands aimed at the clients who live in these housing projects. If a client fails to live up to the demands it can sometimes lead to negative consequences which results in an exclusion from the housing projects.

Denna studie syftar till att söka samband mellan människors bakgrund vad gäller uppväxtförhållanden och klass; med vilket avses ekonomiska, kulturella och sociala förutsättningar och olika former av missbruk av alkohol, läkemedel och narkotika. Hur inträdet i olika drogkulturer kan tänkas ha påverkats och hur missbruket kommit att utformas utifrån givna bakgrundsförhållanden samt huruvida och i så fall på vad vis, missbruket, när detta väl varit ett faktum, mötts av olika former av reaktion och respons från den missbrukande människans omgivning.Forskningsansatsen i studien är kvalitativ. Empirin bygger främst på strukturerade intervjuer med fem respondenter i åldrarna 23-32 år. Respondenterna har alla valts ut via selektivt urval utifrån en förstudie i form av ett enkätformulär. Resultatet redovisas under de fem rubrikerna; ekonomiskt kapital, kulturellt kapital, socialt kapital, missbrukets process samt omgivningens reaktion.

This paper deals whit the problems concerning social organisation in the county of Dalarna in middle Sweden during the Middle Ages 1050- 1528. This paper also deals whit the every day ife in Dalarna during the same period. In the paper archaeology, ethnology, history and osteology is used in order to create a so accurate as possibly picture of every day life at the farm, the villa and the keep. Each environment is compared to each other in order to try to see the social structure of the county. The geographic frame for the paper is the part of Sweden above the border zone of Limes Norrlandicus, or lower Norrland.The results presented in the paper shows that Dalarna most probably had a flat social organisation in the meaning that the every day life and its artefacts was much the same in all the environments.

The aim of the study was to examine how substance abuse influences social relationships to families, friends and others. Five ex addicts in a treatment centre were interviewed. We used thematic interviews with themes that we regarded as relevant for our study. In the analysis we applied the theoretical concept of symbolic interactionism. Theories of emotions also helped us to explain feelings that arise in the social relationships.

The aim of the thesis was to explore the attitudes toward social documentation held by care personnel, as well as factors that could have an impact on the process of social documentation. The study is based on a survey encompassing 100 respondents working as care personnel at six different eldercare units at Kungsholmen in Stockholm. The data was analyzed by quantitative methods, using a statistical software package (SPSS). The main questions in the study are whether the respondents know how, what and why they should document, what obstacles they experience and what they would need in order to document more or better, as well as whether there are factors that influence their attitudes and knowledge regarding documentation. The key results show that more time is the most common need, and lack of time the most common obstacle to social documentation reported by the respondents. Furthermore, the results show that those who report that they are satisfied with their working conditions are most likely to also report that they know how and why social documentation should be conducted. These results suggest that it is urgent for organizations to create good working conditions in order to increase motivation for social documentation. The results are analyzed using organizational theories.

This study illustrates the views of working socialpedagogues when it comes to socialpedagogical and social work within compulsary schools. The focus of the study is on how social problems can be prevented and get noticed among children and youths in compulsary school, and what possibilities of development there are in preventive social work. The socialpedagogue?s capability for supporting this development, together with people that are important in the children?s and youths?s lifes, opens up new possibilities in the future for the social work in schools. The main concepts in the study is treatment and attitude, interaction and cooperation with different people inside and outside the school as well as individual- and grouporientated work.

The aim of this thesis was to study how social workers in social services in several municipalities perceive that they interpret the concept of domestic violence and how they believe they would act when it comes to different types of domestic violence. The thesis has focused on three types of violence; physical, psychological and economical. Seven social workers were interviewed with a thematised interview guide and six vignettes. The theoretical perspectives applied in the analysis were the process of normalization and the continuum of violence. The results showed that the social workers did not interpret domestic violence unanimous, and they had different ideas of how they would act in the vignettes.

This essay is about children who have psychological and social problems. An increase part of children and young people in Sweden describe this kind of difficulties. These problems are at the same time a concern for the school as well as the social welfare. The purpose in this essay is to explore if children with psychological and social problems have the same legal rights to education as other children. The main questions are to describe the legal rights in this area and explore how schools and social welfare cooperate in order to achieve better possibilities for the children.The facts take a legal aspect as a starting point.

The aim of this thesis was to study how social workers in social services in several municipalities perceive that they interpret the concept of domestic violence and how they believe they would act when it comes to different types of domestic violence. The thesis has focused on three types of violence; physical, psychological and economical. Seven social workers were interviewed with a thematised interview guide and six vignettes. The theoretical perspectives applied in the analysis were the process of normalization and the continuum of violence. The results showed that the social workers did not interpret domestic violence unanimous, and they had different ideas of how they would act in the vignettes.

This paper examined if childrens wellbeing affected their social and academic competence. The data was collected through an anonymous study using questionnaires, where the measuring instruments GHQ12 and EQ was used, and also a number of questions concerning academic competence. The population concisted twentytwo eight grade students, both girls and boys. The population had both Swedish and foreign ancestry. The result showed that wellbeing and the academic competence had a positive correlation.

Institution: Högskolan i Halmstad Titel: Vi kan väl träffas och fika. Några muslimska invandrarkvinnors upplevelser av kontakten och samarbetet med svensk skola. Författare: Susanne Castro & Birgitta Johansson Typ: C-uppsats. Examensarbete i lärarprogrammet. Sidantal: 53 Handledare: Claes Ericsson & Ulrika Sjöberg Examinator: Anders Persson Medexaminatorer: Torbjörn Jansson & Ole Olsson Slutseminarium: 2007-01-10 Dagens svenska skola skall arbeta för en ökad föräldrakontakt då elevens sociala och kunskapsmässiga utveckling menas vara gynnad av det aktiva samarbetet mellan hem och skola. Genom uppsatsens litteraturforskning ses en skev fördelning av inflytandet till nackdel för föräldrar med invandrarbakgrund. Arbetets syfte har varit att med en hermeneutisk ansats intervjua och tolka fyra muslimska invandrarkvinnors framställning av sina erfarenheter av kontakten och samarbetet med sina barns svenska skolor. Vidare avsågs att jämföra dessa upplevelser med styrande texters budskap och resultat från tidigare forskning. I analysen avspeglas fyra individer med skilda men också jämförbara erfarenheter.

Institution: Högskolan i HalmstadTitel: Vi kan väl träffas och fika.Några muslimska invandrarkvinnors upplevelser avkontakten och samarbetet med svensk skola.Författare: Susanne Castro & Birgitta JohanssonTyp: C-uppsats. Examensarbete i lärarprogrammet.Sidantal: 53Handledare: Claes Ericsson & Ulrika SjöbergExaminator: Anders PerssonMedexaminatorer: Torbjörn Jansson & Ole OlssonSlutseminarium: 2007-01-10Dagens svenska skola skall arbeta för en ökad föräldrakontakt då elevens sociala ochkunskapsmässiga utveckling menas vara gynnad av det aktiva samarbetet mellan hem ochskola. Genom uppsatsens litteraturforskning ses en skev fördelning av inflytandet till nackdelför föräldrar med invandrarbakgrund. Arbetets syfte har varit att med en hermeneutisk ansatsintervjua och tolka fyra muslimska invandrarkvinnors framställning av sina erfarenheter avkontakten och samarbetet med sina barns svenska skolor. Vidare avsågs att jämföra dessaupplevelser med styrande texters budskap och resultat från tidigare forskning.I analysen avspeglas fyra individer med skilda men också jämförbara erfarenheter.