According to statistics, a significant increase in sickness has occurred in the public sector in recent decades in Sweden. Human therapeutic professions is the area where the illness is most prevalent. The purpose of this study was through a qualitative method and hermeneutic approaches explore how conscious six social workers in the social services are on stress and how they cope with it. Further it investigates and analyzes how these results affect their daily work.One important result due to stress is that the social workers ability to treat their clients is impaired and they are less able to be empathetic. Inadequacy in the work environment leads to a sense of insufficiency by social workers, and a reduced quality of life.

Social housing in Northern Europe and the importance of social and political consideration in planning. Focus of the essay lies on the "burning suburbs" of France, based on literature studies combined with a study visit to Les Minguettes outside of Lyon..

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Problem: I dagens teknologiskt och kulturellt globaliserade värld skapas nya tendenser och riktningar för vår kultur. Möjligheten för språk- och kulturmöten av olika slag ökar och med dessa följer blandandet av kulturer med alla dess implikationer, innefattande språket, som grundläggande sammanhållningsfaktor. Språk- och kulturmöten kan resultera i en företeelse som spanglish, vilken är en blandning mellan spanskan och engelskan.Syfte: Uppsatsens syfte är att försöka förstå hur spanglish kan ses i relation till sociala, kulturella och globala processer, samt vilka funktioner fenomenet har. Med hjälp av uppsatsens fyra genomgående teman (språk, globalisering, diaspora och föreställda gemenskaper) vill jag ta reda på följande frågeställningar:1. Hur kan man förstå spanglish som språkligt fenomen?2.

The focus of this thesis is on social workers? knowledge in assessing and making decisions in child welfare cases. The primary aim is to identify what skills or knowledge social workers find most useful within child welfare agencies in Swedish municipalities. Six different types of knowledge, social policy and the approach of child welfare cases are perspectives considered in the analysis. The interviews with social workers were held in three agencies in southern Sweden, in 2014.

Purpose: The purpose of this essay is to describe the social media usage of five European official national tourism organizations (NTO). The essay proceeds to discuss and evaluate the findings, whilst reflecting on the advantages of social media usage from the point of view of an official national tourism organization.Method: The authors used three different methods of research: one structured observation to study the national tourism organizations? everyday work in social media, one field stimulation to study if and how different NTO respond if a prospective visitor makes them a direct question via social media and finally an email interview to gain insight into NTO?s underlying strategies and policies about social media usage.Theoretical framework: The theories that have been used in this paper include the Uses and gratifications model, theories of one-way and multi-way communication, theories of social media and relationship marketing.Conclusion: By making use of social media the company releases some of its control to the customers as the latter can express their opinions freely in this type of media. One of the advantages of social media is that the platform favors dialogue and feedback. Social media can be used for traditional one-way communication, but works best as a supplement to the regular marketing activities, allowing the activities on social media platforms to focus on branding and building long-term customer relationships.

Syftet med vår studie är att undersöka hur förskollärares syn på lärande i mångkulturella förskolor kan ta sig uttryck, samt att få en tydligare bild gällande vilka hinder respektive möjligheter förskollärareupplever i detta arbete. Med hjälp av totalt sju kvalitativa intervjuer - sex intervjuer med förskollärare och en med en förskolechef - har vi fått en klarare bild över hur förskollärare ser på arbete med lärande i en mångkulturell förskola.Resultatet av studien visar att flertalet förskollärare arbetar med lärande hos barn med annan kulturell bakgrund på ett likartat sätt. De lägger dock en stor tyngd på språket och barns språkutveckling. Likformigheten anges bero på brist på tid och resurser. Men vår tolkning är även att det finns en stor osäkerhet hos förskollärarna gällande hur arbete i en mångkulturell förskola kan bedrivas.

Den här uppsatsen handlar om erkännande, om vikten av att erkännas som individ. Den teoretiska utgångspunkten för uppsatsen består av teorier om erkännandets vikt för självbilden och syftet är att ge några exempel på hur elever med ett annat modersmål än svenska upplever att de har bemötts i skolan utifrån sin kultur. Metoden för att finna dessa exempel är kvalitativa forskningsintervjuer med fem gymnasieungdomar. Dessa intervjuer har sedan analyserats i två steg, först genom meningskategorisering och sedan genom meningstolkning. De forskningsfrågor jag försöker besvara genom detta är hur ungdomarna ser på sig själva utifrån kulturell tillhörighet och hur de upplever att de blivit bemötta under skoltiden.

This thesis studies public service social workers' opinions regarding their ability to act with moral courage as loyalty conflicts occur. The purpose of the thesis is to describe the social workers' experiences of their possibilities to stand up for what they believe in. We made qualitative interviews with five social workers in Stockholm. In an effort to pinpoint their experiences we asked them questions about what they want but cannot do and what is stop-ping them, what they do not want to do and why, aswell as what the possible solutions would be as loyalty conflicts occur. We were able to identify five different opinions on the organisa-tional cultures and how the employees' experience the extent of their actions.

This is a study with a qualitative approach and a social psychological perspective. Our purpose is to describe and analyze authority officials descriptions of individuals with a social disability and their perception of how the interaction in the encounter with its implementation. We are interested in how they experience their power as authority representatives. The following issues are highlighted.? How do people in authority describe individuals with a social disability?? What is the authority officials view on the interaction in meetings with individuals with a social disability?? How do authority officials experiencing his or her position of power in relation to the meeting?Our results are based on semi-structured interviews with five persons in authority, which is active in Insurance and Employment Service in Örebro County.

Syftet med vår studie är att undersöka hur förskollärares syn på lärande i mångkulturella förskolor kan ta sig uttryck, samt att få en tydligare bild gällande vilka hinder respektive möjligheter förskollärareupplever i detta arbete. Med hjälp av totalt sju kvalitativa intervjuer - sex intervjuer med förskollärare och en med en förskolechef - har vi fått en klarare bild över hur förskollärare ser på arbete med lärande i en mångkulturell förskola.Resultatet av studien visar att flertalet förskollärare arbetar med lärande hos barn med annan kulturell bakgrund på ett likartat sätt. De lägger dock en stor tyngd på språket och barns språkutveckling. Likformigheten anges bero på brist på tid och resurser. Men vår tolkning är även att det finns en stor osäkerhet hos förskollärarna gällande hur arbete i en mångkulturell förskola kan bedrivas.

There is a known link between relative deprivation and street crime among market liberal countries. Although some research has been done with cross-national data, there is none to suggest that the observed link is as valid in a country well known for its extended welfare and generous social expenditure like Sweden. The following study uses longitudinal data to see if this recognized link between relative deprivation and street crime also stands in a country with almost a century long tradition of striving for social-, economic- and cultural equality. Even though Sweden, over the last decade, has been subjected to a series of deregulations due to policy changes at national level, and with a following rise in inequality, it is still considered to be one of the most equal countries in the west. It is therefore not unlikely that the high degree of social security will reduce the negative impact of relative deprivation on social relations among its citizens, perhaps enough so that the correlation will be significantly weakened.

This is a qualitative study based on five semi-structured interviews in Sweden. The aim of the study is to explore what experiences non-monogamous people have of dating and the social support surrounding them. The study investigates what effects norms and normative structures have on non-monogamous dating. This is done through a thematic analysis with queer theory, and the underlying theoretical concepts performativity, heteronormativity, mononormativity, relationship escalator and queer temporalities. To help analyze the social support, we have used Bourdieu's (1986) theory about social capital.

The purpose of the thesis Masculinities ? Gender and its Impact on the Social conditions of individuals is to perform a critical study of how gendered norms influence the social conditions of individuals. This has been done by a problematization and the attempt to answer the question of how the hegemonical masculinity can be analyzed as a discourse, and how the structural aspects of this discourse inflict on the social conditions of masculinities.The question was divided into the analytical themes: the boarders of the discourse, the institutionalization of the discourse, the actuation of the discourse and the agents of the discourse. The theoretical frame is constituted by the theory of discourse by Michel Foucault, the theory of the hegemonical masculinity by R.W. Connell and a subversive identity theory by Judith Butler.

The aim of this study was to understand how the professional in social work handles the media scrutiny. When the media writes about social services there is seldom anything positive written about it, many social services organizations are instead heavily criticized and scrutinized by the media. When social services organizations are scrutinized by the media there is a crisis at work, and therefore should be handled as a crisis. Therefore, we describe how a crisis management might look like in an organization. The study is qualitative therefore we have interviewed four municipalities in Sweden that have been exposed by the media at a national level.