SammanfattningSyftet med vår uppsats var att studera kvinnors upplevelser av vägen in i ett tungt narkotikamissbruk och beroende. Vi ville därigenom öka förståelsen och förklara deras upplevelser ur aspekterna uppväxtår och tonår. Vi har valt att utgå från den grundade teorin då vi genomfört vår studie. Vi har genomfört en intervjuundersökning med åtta kvinnor, där vi sökte närma oss kvinnornas berättelser så förutsättningslöst som möjligt. Detta för att låta kvinnornas upplevelser stå i centrum.

This essay will focus on the people using and are involved in, and have a large interest in the horror film genre. The purpose of this essay is to find what urge these people to continuously watch horror movies and how they believe to be acknowledge by the society in a modern sense. Our study is mainly based on two separate interviews and therefore, mainly from the users perspective. This essay is also complemented by earlier research on this topic. In context of stigma, violence debate, exclusion we found that the users truly can be found in a rare type of alternative sphere, besides the public sphere.

The aim of the study was to reach a deeper understanding and knowledge about how women with an experience of prostitution perceive what this has meant for them and how it has influenced their lives. The questions of the study were: (1) How has the prostitution experience affected the women in their lives? (2) How have they learnt to deal with this experience? To answer these questions a qualitative method was used where interviews were conducted with four women with experience of prostitution. All women experienced that the prostitution had affected their lives. Examples given that inter alia relationships, sexuality, and self-image had been affected.

We have studied the process of recruiting young people to the white power movement. With the help of theoretical concepts as Outsiders and Stigma, we have elaborated the purpose of the study. The focus of the study lays in finding out which elements contributes to adolescence seeking membership in white power, and furthermore what white power organizations offers young people, to attract them to recruitment. We also want to find out if it possibly lays a desire for communion, behind adolescences decision to join these movements, and also how the communion manitains within the group? To expand our knowledge in the field of White Power, we have taken note of a body of literature that deals with the current topic, and previous research that treats questions about subculture, community and recruitment.

The purpose of the essay is to see if the pupils of Ross Tensta Gymnasium feel it is necessary to have an existing cooperation between the police and Ross Tensta Gymnasium. I would like to know how the cooperation works between Ross Tensta Gymnasium and the police and also if the cooperation is visible for the pupils. Furthermore I would like to know if it is necessary to have cooperation between schools and the police even though there are not any obligations to have any.The methodology I have been using is a qualitative analysis. The entire essay is based on interviews which I have recorded and later transcript it into writing. The theories which I have been using are Wacquant?s use of territorial stigma and also the concept of us and the others in which Stuart Hall explains.

Mitt syfte var att ta reda på hur gymnasieelever med specialundervisning upplever sinskolsituation, vilka för och nackdelar den för med sig, om de blir behandlade annorlundaav omgivningen på grund av deras skolform och om så är fallet hur de hanterar det. Jaganvände mig av kvalitativa intervjuer för att få min empiri. Intervjuerna visade attfördelarna med specialundervisning är extrahjälpen, någon som lyssnar och bryr sig,individualiteten och en lugn miljö att studera i. Nackdelarna med specialundervisningsom gick att utläsa från intervjuerna är en känsla av att inte vara som de andra eleverna,att bli behandlad i den ?vanliga? klassen utifrån att man inte kan och bör därför inteförsöka, avundsjuka kring att de med specialundervisning får bra hjälp.

This study is based on an observation of one of the biggest webcommunitys in Sweden today, called Lunarstorm. My main purpose was to research how young people use this media for talking about drug and alcohol-related subjects. The questions I posed were the following:- In which way do young people talk about drugs and alcohol on Lunarstorm?- What possibilities does Lunarstorm create for these questions?- How do the users relate to each other, regarding support for relatives to drug or alcohol-abusers or own substance use?My method of collecting empirical data consisted of observation of the forum, and my method for analyzing the data was based on a discourse- analysis. Trough this I found that the media creates a way for young people to meet others with similar problems, both grown-ups and people of the same age.

Syftet med vår uppsats är att fördjupa kunskapen kring vad ett arbete i ett arbetskooperativ innebär för en person som lämnat ett missbruk bakom sig, när det gäller att bygga upp en ny identitet, finna ett meningsfullt sammanhang och bli delaktig i samhället. Våra frågeställningar är: ? Vad innebär delaktigheten i det sociala arbetskooperativet för de före detta missbrukarnas syn på sig själva?? Vilken roll spelar det sociala arbetskooperativet i de för detta missbrukarnas liv utifrån gemenskapen på arbetsplatsen?? Hur kan arbetet på det sociala arbetskooperativet öka den före detta missbrukarens delaktighet i samhället? Vi har använt oss av kvalitativa intervjuer utifrån frågeguide med tema. Analys har skett utifrån våra huvudteorier; exit-process, stigma och KASAM, samt utifrån de mönster som framträdde ur materialet. Våra huvudsakliga fynd är att arbetskooperativet har förändrat respondenternas syn på sig själva så tillvida att de beskriver sig som mer kompetenta, glada och stolta sedan de börjat på kooperativet.

The purpose of this study was to examine if there are common factors that lead to young people committing crimes according to professionals in social work, crime prevention and the police. The study also aims to examine if juveniles in Swedish suburbs commit more crimes, the consequences that follows and what actions socialworkers have for these juveniles. The study was conducted through qualitative interviews of five professionals in the area who were contacted from different units. In the analysis Goffmans (1971) theory of stigma was used and Goldberg's (2005) Conspiracy Theory. Some of the conclusions that could be drawn from the study was that there is not only one factor influencing young people to delinquency, but often combinations of different factors that lead to this.

Studiens syfte har varit att undersöka hur transsexuella personer passerar som sitt upplevda kön och om det finns några skillnader mellan hur transsexuella män respektive transsexuella kvinnor passerar. Transsexuella personer beskrivs ofta som en utsatt grupp i samhället som ibland råkar ut för negativ uppmärksamhet genom olika typer av stigmatiseringar, till exempel för att de inte följer heteronormen. Därför valde jag stigma och queer som teoretiska begrepp för att analysera empirin. Materialet varvas även utifrån de centrala teman som vuxit fram genom tio kvalitativa intervjuer i en abduktiv analys. Resultatet ger sedan exempel av hur transsexuella personers vardag kan se ut genom kopplingar med hur väl de passerar som deras upplevda kön.

The aim of the study is to gain a deeper understanding of how young people's current identity is affected by their criminal background. We also want to understand the impact of resources in these young people?s social networks (that is their social capital) on their life course and formation and reformation of their identity. The theoretical frameworks used (as a tool to be able to analyze the empirical data) are theories of stigma, identity and social capital. The empirical study was conducted using semi-structured interviews that focused on questions about the life-story of informants.

The Forthcoming Essay concerns the publicly protected employment (Offentligt skyddad anställning), it's content and what actually happens to its participants after they have retrieved it. We have also, during our research, discovered a great lack of background research concerning this subject. Beside statistics and publicly protected employment rulework there only exist a small amount of research. This is mainly focused on people with physical function disorders and socialmedicial function.Of that we believe there is an urgent need to undertake more research in this unexplored sector of the labour market. Our purpose with this essay was to examine what happened to publicly protected employment -participants after they had undergone the process.- In what ways has the participation in publicly protected employment altered their possibilities on the labour market?- What happens to the participants when they after the participation in publicly protected employment as judged qualified not for the labour market?In this essay we have chosen a qualitative method as an approach, mainly because we consider our material as being qualitative in its character.

Det har länge varit en del av både nationella samt internationella dokument att alla som arbetar i skolan ska möta alla elever med samma respekt och möjlighet att lyckas utifrån elevernas olika bakgrund, tidigare erfarenheter, intresse och kunskap. I verkligheten fungerar det inte alltid så. Så hur påverkas elevernas akademiska prestation, sociala utveckling och välmående av deras egna tolkningar av lärarens bemötande och förväntningar?.

The aim of this study was to examine young adult cannabis users? attitudes towards cannabis and their perception of the normalization of cannabis. The purpose was also to explore how their views of cannabis correspond with norms regarding cannabis. This study is based on interviews with five young adult cannabis users. The theoretical framework is based on Parker?s normalization thesis, Goffman?s notion of stigma, Becker?s definition of outsiders and the definition of social identity developed by Stone.

This paper aims to investigate what part Swedish media plays when it comes to portraying hiv and people infected by the virus. The study comes from articles published in Sweden's two largest daily newspapers, Dagens Nyheter and Göteborgs Posten, in 2007.By using discourse analysis we found that hiv within Sweden is described as related to riskgroups or risk behaviour and that individuals with hiv is portrayed as average people living normal lives. Except for the above described pattern, stories about so called hiv-men frequently occur. Overall, the words abroad and foreigners are reproduced in articles about individuals living with hiv or aids. When it comes to articles describing hiv abroad, aids is more in focus and people living with the virus is portrayed as innocent victims.