This thesis examines young people's thoughts about their presence on social media. With asocial constructive approach the study focused on how young people think and act on socialmedia in relation to constructions of gender and normality. The analysis is based on fourgroup interviews with 13-year old boys and girls. The theoretical approach is based partly onsocial constructionism where discourses and ideas of normality are identified and analyzed.Erving Goffman's theory of social interaction was central to illustrate how young peoplepresents themselves based on the prevailing discourses. It is clear that they adjust theirrepresentations of themselves depending on the context.

Travellers pÄ Irland Àr ett resandefolk som hÄller fast vid sin kultur och grupp trots en politik som arbetat emot dem. De har lÀnge, men inte alltid, betraktats som en grupp med egen identitet men inte som en sÀrskild etnisk grupp. FN rekommenderar Irland att ge dem erkÀnnande som etnisk minoritet. Varför irlÀndska regeringen Ànnu inte gjort det har en historisk förklaring och olika politik har styrt behandling av Travellers under de senaste 50 Ären som uppsatsen behandlar. Attityden till hur de ska bemötas har gÄtt frÄn assimilering till integrering, frÄn att ha sett dem som en problemgrupp till att uppmÀrksamma dem som en diskriminerad grupp.

This thesis examines the relationship between recognition of prior learning and the aim to increase social and ethnical diversity in higher education. Recognition of prior learning is a result of educational politics aiming to broaden social and ethnical recruitment to higher education. By examining if recognition of prior learning rather can, and shall, be seen as part of what Pierre Bourdieu calls educational social reproduction I try to question whether it fulfils education policy goals or not. My results show that persons responsible for recognition of prior learning rather recognise knowledge from prior educational institutions than knowledge gained outside the educational system. Considering this, recognition of prior learning does not quite live up to the aims.

An individual's social capital consists largely of the social networks that may consist offamily, friends and acquaintances. The social network is of great significance on olderpeople's physical and mental health. Aim: The overall purpose is to examine the knowledgeof social network and the health of the elderly. Method: Litterature review, using threedifferent databases, CINAHL, PubMed and Scoupus for searching of articles, with differentcombinations of keywords. Results: Different types of social networks have both positive andnegative effects on health.

Bakgrund: Teknikens utveckling har gÄtt oerhört fort fram och fÄtt en stor betydelse i dagens samhÀlle. Detta gör att man i framtiden rÀknar med att en allt större integrering av tekniska verktyg kommer att ske i klassundervisningen. Den interaktiva skrivtavlan (IWB) Àr ett av de tekniska verktyg som Àr aktuell dÄ den bedöms fÄ en allt mer betydande roll i klassrummet. För att kunna optimera anvÀndandet av skrivtavlans funktioner mÄste det ske en förÀndring i skolans och lÀrares förhÄllningssÀtt till tekniska verktyg.Syfte:Fallstudiens syfte var att undersöka de hinder och möjligheter som upplevs vid införandet av IWB, samt undersöka förekomsten av olika lÀrartyper vid anvÀndningen av IWB.Metod:För att fÄ svar pÄ vÄra frÄgestÀllningar anvÀnder vi oss av semistrukturerade intervjuer och strukturerade observationer.Resultat:Resultaten analyseras utifrÄn Glover och Millers teori baserad pÄ tre olika lÀrarkategorier som beskriver lÀrares olika instÀllningar till den interaktiva skrivtavlan. Vi anvÀnder Àven Prestridges teori som behandlar "First och Second order barriers".

This essay will examine the social organization in the archipelago of Tonga. To accomplish this purpose, archaic societies and structures such as ancient Egypt and Hawaii will be examined to obtain a closer understanding of the building blocks which constitute a chiefdom or kingdom. Since Patrick V. Kirch (2010) recently redefined the Hawaiian archipelago as a kingdom this essay will examine if the same can be done with the chiefdom of Tonga since it have similarities to the Hawaiian social organization.To do this the essay will examine and describe both the geographical organization of the states and the social organization. Social organization in this essay will be defined as an archaic state organization that requires several levels of administration to rule the society..

I en vÀrld med en stÀndig strÀvan efter en hÄllbar utveckling finns det olika tillvÀgagÄngssÀtt för att arbeta mot detta mÄl. TillvÀgagÄngssÀtten och rönen utvecklas med jÀmna mellanrum och i dagslÀget Àr hÀnsynstagande av ekosystemtjÀnster aktuellt bÄde internationellt och nationellt. Med ekosystemtjÀnster menas nÄgot som naturen tillhandahÄller och som bidrar till mÀnniskans vÀlfÀrd. EkosystemtjÀnster kan ocksÄ vara nÄgot i naturen som mÀnniskan Àr beroende av. De senaste Ären pÄgÄr ett arbete i Sverige som handlar om att belysa dessa aspekter av ekosystemtjÀnster samt integrera ett hÀnsynstagande av dem i bÄde planering och miljöarbete.

Andersson, Anna (2008) Vad kan grundskolan lÀra av sÀrskolan? Att arbeta med matematik med elever i grÄzonen. (What can compulsory school learn from the special school for pupils with learning difficulties? Teaching mathematics to children in the gray zone). Skolutveckling och ledarskap, Specialpedagogisk pÄbyggnadsutbildning, LÀrarutbildningen, Malmö högskola. Syftet med arbetet Àr att undersöka och beskriva hur man pÄ tvÄ olika sÀrskolor arbetar med elever i grÄzonen och deras matematiska utveckling för att kunna ha nytta av det för eleverna i grÄzonen i grundskolans tidiga skolÄr (F-6). Genom studiebesök och intervjuer med specialpedagoger i sÀrskola har jag tagit reda pÄ hur de arbetar med elever i grÄzonen och deras matematiska utveckling.

The purpose of this essay was to investigate and analyze affecting factors concerning social workers in two different municipality social services, Karlskrona and Karlshamn, working with cases of youth drug abuse. We wanted to see what affects social workers in their choices of assessments of youth drug abusers. We wanted to find out whether the organizational aspects or the cliental qualities affect the social workers more than the other in the choices of assessments. Among the cliental qualities we used in this essay, gender was the most important quality and therefore the quality we wanted to pay special attention to. When it came to the organizational aspects we paid special attention to the social workers boundaries of agency.

The aim of this qualitative deep interview study was to gain deeper understanding of single immigrant mothersÂŽlife situation. Grounded Theory was the method of analysis. Repeated interviews with five immigrant women from different parts of the world showed that women were in need of wider and deeper social networks in order to reconstruct their identities. Social support and social networks benefit, not only reconstruction of identity, but also personal well-being. Yet it is difficult for them to create social networks in the new country, because of single motherhood.

Teknologin forts?tter att, i takt med samh?llet, utvecklas i ett rasande tempo vilket st?ller allt h?gre krav p? medborgare att ?ka sin f?rtrogenhet med samtidens digitala kommunikationsmedel. Vi har d?rf?r valt att i v?r studie unders?ka hur fritidshemspersonal och v?rdnadshavare upplever dagens digitala kommunikationskanaler i fritidshemmets kontext. Det empiriska underlag som ligger till grund f?r v?r diskussion och analys och som vi slutligen baserar v?ra slutsatser p? ?r svarsresultatet fr?n v?r enk?tstudie d?r v?rdnadshavare och fritidshemspersonal har f?tt ta st?llning till ett antal p?st?enden som ber?r digital kommunikation och samverkan. Som teoretiska utg?ngspunkter i v?ra analyser har vi anv?nt oss av socialkonstruktionism och l?roplansteori.

The objective of this bachelor thesis is to examine how some larger Swedish public libraries reason about the use of social media as part of their activities and outreach. To attain the purpose three research-questions were established; why does the public library use social media? How does the public library utilize social media? What extra value do librarians believe that use of social media can add to the libraries? function? The methodology used in the thesis is qualitative interviews. Six interviews were conducted with librarians in charge of social media at their respective libraries. Five of the interviews were conducted by telephone and one by email.

This Bachelors exam is about young adults and their use of Mobile Social Network System.The use of mobile social media has become more common in today?s society, ranging fromteenagers, the dominating internet users, to the elderly. The traditional purpose of use inmobile phones, the voice communication from one place to another, has in Sweden beendominated by text communication instead. Along with the development of Smartphones andthe mobile interface, the births of mobile social media have increased in the market.Reports have shown that of all the devices with the possibility to connect to social networks,the one kept closest to our bodies is the mobile phone. One of the advantages of using thephone for mobile social media is that you can easily and smoothly update whenever andwherever, within one arm?s reach.

The purpose of this study was to examine how modern information and communication technology influence collective action within the framework of social movements. By studying the protests in the Arab World 2011, and focusing on the social movements in Suleimanya in northern Iraq, by observation taken on place, the essay discusses that collective action is closely related to the use of technology, for example cell phones and Internet.Result shows that modern communication technology has enabled immeasurable access andconnection between individuals throughout the world, which seems to be different from previouscollective action. The new communication channels in the form of social media, has been used for the dissemination of information and news, documentation, organization and membership recruitment in the social movements in the Arab World and Suleimanya. The new social movements have the tendency to be decentralized and flattened organized, they are now self-organizing and that they only do a whole as global patterns, as evidenced by the social movements in the Arab World andSuleimanya..

The purpose of this article is to examine how social workers may experience fear in their profession, how they and their organizations handle the fear and how the fear may affect their practice. To obtain the purpose, in-depth interviews were carried out with seven social workers from the southeastern part of Sweden. The experiences of fear were many and are summarized in four categories. Fear of treats and violence, fear of the responsibility in complicated situations and without optimal solution, fear of being regarded and judged as worthless and fear of being scrutinized with the risk of being stigmatized. Five strategies were identified to handle the fear: Safety strategies (e.g.