The purpose of this essay is to analyse how the leadership and the structure of the organization affect the process of changes within a specific department in Lunds kommun socialdepartment, from the director of social work to the co-workers at Utredningsenheten för ungdom och familj. We aim to answer the following questions;How does the structure of organisation affect the process of change?What do the co-workers and the leaders believe is the best way to engage the co-workers in the change?How does the leaders view their own leadership in the process of change?How does the co-workers view the leadership in the process of change?How does the leadership affect the process of change?To develop an organisation and to make it a functional, change is a necessity. The leaders are they who create the change but the co-workers are they who make it happen. In the process of change, leadership and the leaders capacity to create motivation for the co-workers, is therefore a matter that is decisive to its success.This is a study based on a qualitative method, where the interview is the main source of empirical material.

The purpose with this essay is to describe how the principal, social worker and the teacher work to prevent bullying at school. The following questions have been discussed:Does the school have an action plan for bullying, and if so, what does it say? Who has the practical responsibility for making sure that the plan is followed, and how does that responsibility work? How is the responsibility divided between the different professions? Are the children in any way active in the planning of the work against bullying? What does the children think about who has the main responsibility for stopping bullying?The method I have used in the essay is individual interviews with principals, welfare officers and teachers from two schools.My results show that the schools have different ways of handling bullying, and different forms of cooperation within the staff. One school have active students in the work against bullying in the form of classmate support (kamratstödjare). The social worker is used in different ways in the work against bullying.

The object with this bachelor thesis is to illustrate if equality is present during the interaction between female and male players in the World of Warcraft with focus on the female players conception. The main question is: How does gender matter in the interaction between female and male players in WoW? This question is particularly interesting because WoW is in its own construction neutral in regards to gender in the aspect that gender does not hinder or benefit your avatar when it comes to the avatars development or possibilities. This bachelor thesis describes the views three of female WoW players and how they perceive the interaction with male players with focus on equality. The informants? personal thoughts and experiences are described.

The aim of this study was to deepen the knowledge about the meaning of being internationally adopted for individuals living in Sweden. Through group discussions with young adults data was retrieved, and then analysed with a qualitative phenomenological approach. The study revealed three main themes: 1) experiences of being Swedish, 2) experiences of ethnic origin, and 3) the interaction between the two aspects of the identity, how the internationally adopted individual integrate's his/her ethnical origin with his/her Swedish identity. With regards to previous studies about adoption and psychological theories the meaning of being internationally adopted in Sweden is discussed..

Enligt Blekinge Polismyndighets mångfalds- och likabehandlingsplan är rekrytering av fler kvinnor till chefsfunktioner ett av målen för ökad jämställdhet. En åtgärd som vidtagits för att uppnå målsättningen inom myndigheten är Kvinnligt nätverk. I 10 år har nätverket bedrivits men Blekinge Polismyndighet har fortfarande det lägsta antalet kvinnliga chefer i landet. Vilken betydelse har Kvinnligt nätverk på individ- och organisationsnivå? Tidigare forskning pekar på flera olika faktorer till att kvinnor inte avancerar i samma utsträckning som män.

Deltagardemokratiskt utövande kan ta sin form på olika sätt och begreppet är därför mångfacetterat. Globaliseringen har gjort att intresset för deltagande på lokal och regional nivå vuxit. Så har även den deltagardemokratiska debatten. Den dominerande debatten tenderar att fokusera på hur deltagardemokrati utövas i västvärlden. Med detta enkelspåriga fokus, finns det risk, menar vi, att andra länders deltagardemokratiska former utesluts.För att påvisa denna exkludering, används empiri från två fall i tredje världen där deltagardemokratiska inslag införts, Porto Alegre och Kerala.

Title: I saw it on Facebook ? Youth presentation of self on FacebookAuthors: Nicole Dreher & Anders SkoglundPresented: 01.06.2010Purpose: The purpose of this thesis was to examine how the, in the study, participating youths make their presentation of self on their Facebook profiles.Methodology: The method used in the thesis was a social semiotic analysis focusing on the social semiotic concepts: semiotic resource, semiotic potential, affordance, denotation and connotation. A social semiotic analysis of composition was also used with the purpose to gain a deeper knowledge of the social semiotic affordances of Facebook?s composition.Theoretical perspectives: The theoretical base of this thesis consists mainly of Erving Goffman?s theory on presentation of self in everyday life as well as relevant theories to youth culture in sociology and identity in social psychology.Conclusions: The results show that the youth?s presentations of selves mostly takes place in their profile picture, status updates, groups, fan pages and through their communication with other users on their wall. The borders between front and back stage on Facebook entirely depends on the norms that the reader expects the profile owner to uphold.

Syftet med denna studie är att skapa en större förståelse för individens upplevelser av förändringar i de vardagliga arbetsrutinerna. Med ett hermeneutiskt tolkande har vi genom semistrukturerade- och djupintervjuer arbetat fram vårt resultat. Resultatet i vår studie kategoriseras upp under fyra huvuddelar: information/kommunikation, lärande, social arbetsmiljö och ledarskap som tillsammans utgör grunden för en ökad förståelse för individens upplevelser av förändringar i de vardagliga arbetsrutinerna..

I uppsatsen analyseras representationer av den groteska kvinnliga kroppen i feministisk konst. Alltfler konstnärer väljer att i sin konst utforska gränslanden i uttryck, så som det karnevalistiska, hysteriska och motbjudande. Utifrån en fallstudie som fokuserar på tre nutida konstnärer vilka arbetar med det groteska uttrycket vid framställningar av kvinnliga kroppar studeras intentionerna bakom deras verk. Kropparnas emancipatoriska potential problematiseras därefter utifrån postkoloniala teorier, feministisk konstvetenskap och queerteori. Att använda representationer av en kropp som definieras som kvinnlig är inte ett ofarligt projekt.

Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur svenska dagstidningarnas nyhetsvärdering påverkar vetenskapsbevakningen.I en kvantitativ studie jämförs antalet doktorsavhandlingar som läggs fram inom varje vetenskaplig disciplin med antalet som får genomslag i medierna.Resultatet visar att medicinska avhandlingar visserligen är de som genererar flest antal artiklar, men att det jämfört med forskningsfältets storlek ändå är förvånansvärt svårt för medicinska avhandlingar att tränga igenom mediebruset. Humaniora och samhällsvetenskap är istället de discipliner som relativt sett är bäst representerade i medierna medan naturvetenskap och teknik hamnar långt efter.En sammanställning av artiklarnas publiceringsplats visar också att nya avhandlingar inom medicin konsekvent klassas som nyheter eller feature medan humaniora klassas som kultur.I den efterföljande kvalitativa studien undersöks tre specifika avhandlingar inom medicin, litteraturvetenskap och juridik som alla figurerat stort i dagspressen.Genom intervjuer med de inblandade parterna kartläggs hela processen, från det att avhandlingarna färdigställs tills de uppmärksammas i medierna.Förutom att alla tre behandlar ämnen som i någon mån är uppseendeväckande visar sig mellanhanden, en nyckelperson som överbryggar klyftan mellan forskaren och medierna, vara en viktig gemensam faktor..

AbstractThe aim of this study was to highlight who represents elderly immigrants and apply the theory of social exclusion. We chose channels for representation that we found important in relation to this group. The first part is a study of available litterature of the subject. We found three main arenas: participation in elections, participation in associations and clubs and representation in political institutions. The findings showed a democratic deficit among elderly immigrants, which gave an indication of social exclusion from the political arena and from participation in associations.For the second part we decided to concentrate on the arena of participation in associations and clubs that represent the elderly and/or immigrants.

Ineffektiv humanitet eller inhuman effektivitet? handlar om idéströmningarna i den offentliga diskussionen om organisering av asylprocessen. Som teoretisk utgångspunkt har använts vad författarna kallat ett asyletos. Detta har rekonstruerats utifrån lagtext och övrigt material som Migrationsverket och Utlänningsnämnden använder i sitt beslutsfattande. Med hjälp av en för uppgiften anpassad version av Göran Bergström och Kristina Boréus metod för idé- och diskursanalys utföres den empiriska analysen ? en kartläggning över vilken avvägning de respektive aktörerna på arenan gör mellan de tre dimensionerna rättssäkerhet, effektivitet och humanitet.

This thesis is a critical discourse analysis of the vision of Malmös contemporary urban development. By analysing official documents produced by Malmö municipality our aim is to make discursive and sociolcultural practices in the constitution and construction of the city visible and problematicize them. To do so we use critical discourse analysis and theories on Urban Studies. Malmö is a city historically labeld as a ?labour- city?, with heavy industry as its main labourmarket.

The purpose of this essay was to examine the experience of the judicial process concerning domestic violence from the perspectives of abused females and from some of the authorities and organisations which meet these women. The essay investigated several views of the judicial process in order to obtain a wide perspective. It responded to the following questions:- How are abused women treated by the authorities and organisations?- Are there enough resources and knowledge among the authorities and organisations?- Is there any collaboration between the authorities and organisations which the female meets in the judicial process and if so, how does it look like?- What does the aspect of security of person look like for the women which have been exposed to domestic violence?- What in the judicial process is important for the women's ability to move on in her life after experiences of violence in a relationship?This study was based on a qualitative method, where the interviews constituted of empirical material. The essay was based on interviews with two females who have experiences of violence in a relationship, two social workers from Kvinnojouren in Lund, two social workers from Kriscentrum in Lund, one lawyer, one prosecutor, one policeman and one social worker from Kvinnoforum in Lund.

The purpose of this essay is to examine cost-benefit-analysis as a method of evaluation of labour market policy. To illustrate the possibilities and difficulties of the method chapter four contains a partial cost-benefit-analysis of the results of a labour market project in Kävlinge. The questions this essay strives to answer are the following: What possibilities and difficulties do cost-benefit-analyses entail? How would one conduct a cost-benefit-analysis of the project in Kävlinge?The method used in this essay is mainly a literature study of cost-benefit-analysis of labour market programs. The labour market project Brännpunkt is used as an example in a partial cost-benefit-analysis.The applied cost-benefit-analysis of the Brännpunkt project in Kävlinge shows that it is possible to calculate the profit for the society as a whole, given that the necessary information is obtainable.