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.

När en person inte kan vara delaktig i meningsfulla aktiviteter kan hjälpmedel vara ett måste för att underlätta. Studier har visat att elrullstol möjliggör delaktighet, och detta kan därmed leda till en ökad livskvalitet. Fyra personer medverkade i denna studie, baserad på Canadian Model of Occupational Performance, CMOP. Två tekniker användes för datainsamlingen. Dels utfördes en intervju och dels skattade informanterna, med hjälp av VAS, sin upplevelse av delaktighet och livskvalitet före och efter att de fått sin elrullstol.

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 Sverige kan individer som beg?r brottsliga g?rningar komma att d?mas till R?ttspsykiatrisk v?rd ist?llet f?r att d?mas till f?ngelse. Detta sker efter en f?rdjupad utredning beg?rd av domstol f?r att unders?ka om individen beg?tt brottet under p?verkan av en allvarlig psykisk st?rning. Den r?ttspsykiatriska v?rden ?r inte tidsbest?md utan v?rden avslutas n?r individen inte l?ngre anses utg?ra en fara f?r samh?llet och att den allvarliga psykiska st?rningen ?r behandlad.

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.

Amputation innebär en kroppslig förändring som inte enbart medför en funktionsnedsättning utan även påverkar den subjektiva upplevelsen av kroppen. De personer som genomgår en benamputation utgör en relativt liten patientgrupp sett ur ett samhällsperspektiv, trots detta är den påföljande rehabiliteringen både tidskrävande och kostsam. I sjuksköterskans arbete ingår att tillgodose patienters unika behov samt att i rehabiliteringsarbetet, understödja patienters egna resurser. Det är således viktigt för sjuksköterskan att nå ökad förståelse för de upplevelser som är förenade med en amputation samt att ha kunskap om de faktorer som kan bidra till en hälsosam rehabilitering. Syftet med denna studie är att utifrån ett patientperspektiv belysa upplevelser av benamputation.

The aim of this qualitative deep interview study was to gain deeper understanding of single immigrant mothers´life 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.

Ruptur av det främre korsbandet (ACL) uppkommer ofta i samband med idrott. Personer som drabbats av ACL-skada kan under en lång tid uppleva instabilitetskänsla och begränsas i vardagliga aktiviteter och fritid. Behandlingen kan vara konservativ eller operativ, men oavsett behandlingsmetod krävs en stor insats av den enskilde för att komma tillbaka till tidigare aktivitet. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att studera evidensen för olika träningsmetoder vid rehabilitering av främre korsbandsskada. Metod: En litteratursökning gjordes i databaserna PubMed och CINAHL, vilket resulterade i att 20 artiklar inkluderades.

Fibromyalgi innebär smärta i muskelfibrer och är en komplex sjukdom med många och skiftande symtom. Sjukdomen är som mest utbredd bland kvinnor i arbetsför ålder och kan påverka arbetsförmågan. Syftet med vår studie var att undersöka och beskriva vilka arbetsuppgifter personer med fibromyalgi upplever som svåra att utföra. Vi ville även undersöka vilka anpassningar som är av betydelse för att en person med fibromyalgi ska kunna stanna i eller återgå till arbete. Studien genomfördes i form av halvstrukturerade intervjuer med fyra kvinnor som hade diagnosen fibromyalgi.

Does playing have to hurt? - A quantitative study of ergonomics and double bass playing. This is a paper about ergonomics and double bass playing. I have studied the prevalence of playing-related pain in professional double bass players, teachers and students. This study is based on a questionnaire with 11 questions about double bass playing and pain.

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.