Social work is a social phenomenon, existing in most societies, that has given rise to a multitude of special organizations and professions. For that reason social work is dealing with a complex identity. The purpose of this study is to illustrate how social workers and the scientific discourse interpret the concept of social work. In addition to that the study intends to show similarities and differencies. The research process containes two studies, one based on qualitative interviews with five social workers and the other consisting a surway of academic litterature.

Syftet med denna studie har varit att undersöka personliga assistenters arbetsmiljö inom privat och offentlig verksamhet, utifrån ett personalperspektiv. I studien ingick sex personliga assistenter. Fyra inom två olika offentliga verksamheter och två inom privat verksamhet. Den datainsamlingsmetod som har använts är intervjuer, det empiriska materialet presenteras i studiens analysdel där empirin ställs emot teori. I empirin framkom bland annat personliga assistenters upplevelser av arbetsmiljö, anställning och om yrket.

The purpose with this work is to describe the language that is built around the chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in Sweden. Our questions are: What does the professional field look like; who writes, about what and for which kind of readers? How do they describe the expressions and the upcoming of CFS? For which reasons can CFS be considered as a medical diagnosis/illness? How can CFS be understood from a social perspective? Our theoretical starting point is a social constructive theory and also Karin Johannisson's theory about medicalization and Foucault?s theory about power. We have from a literature-exposition of Swedish articles from 1989 to 2006, done a social constructive discourse analysis with help from Laclau & Mouffe's discourse theory, and Fairclough's model of social practices. In our textual analysis we found three dominating discourses: A medical discourse, a social/cultural discourse and a general/popular discourse.

Stora och växande företag får ett behov av att decentralisera, vilket leder till mer självständiga avdelningar. I decentraliseringens kölvatten följer oftast kontroll- och samordningsproblem. Detta kan reduceras med ett internprissystem. Andra fördelar med ett internprissystem är att enheterna bättre kan kontrolleras, styras och motiveras samt att skapa ett kostnadsmedvetande hos dem. I uppsatsen har en jämförelse gjorts mellan en offentlig och en privat verksamhet angående deras internprissystem.

Problemområde: Vi intresserar oss främst för är hur livsstilsentreprenören påverkar sin verksamhet, i vårt fall inom vandrarhemsbranschen. Då det oftast är en mindre verksamhet som styrs utav ett fåtal aktörer, vill vi undersöka i vilken utsträckning värdens livsstilsval påverkar verksamheten. Syfte: Vårt syfte är att utveckla kunskap om och förståelse för livsstilsentreprenörens roll i den svenska vandrarhemsnäringen. Metod: För att uppfylla vårt syfte har vi valt att arbeta med en kvalitativ metod. Vi har genomfört fyra djupintervjuer med värdar på två lantliga- och två stadsnära vandrarhem i Götaland.

Enligt  socialtjänstlagen  är  syftet  med  daglig  verksamhet  att  hjälpa personer med intellektuell funktionsnedsättning mot ett avlönat arbete på  en  vanlig  arbetsplats,  vilket  dock  är  ett  mål  som  mycket  sällan infrias.  Daglig  verksamhet  skall  även  bidra  med  en  meningsfull sysselsättning.  Syftet  i  uppsatsen  är  att  granska  daglig  verksamhet utifrån   teorier   om   meningsfullhet,   samt   utifrån   upplevelsen   av meningsfullhet   i   sysselsättningen   hos   personer   som   har   daglig verksamhet.  I  teoridelen  resonerar  vi  att  meningsfullhet  kan  förstås genom  behov,  varpå  vi  granskar  behovsteoretiska  resonemang.  Vi finner en lucka gällande uppkomsten av behov kopplade till identitet, vilket  vi  löser  genom  att  framföra  en  egen  teori  som  kombinerar  en behavioristisk förståelse av drivkrafter med en socialkonstruktionistisk syn på identitet. Därefter utför vi en intervjustudie där vi undersöker upplevelsen  av  meningsfullhet  hos  brukare  inom  daglig  verksamhet. Resultatet analyseras mot tidigare forskning och behovsteorierna från teoridelen,  och  utgör  sedan  det  underlag  som  vi  använder  för  att granska  daglig  verksamhet. Vi  kommer  fram  till att  idén  med  daglig verksamhet verkar vara baserad på antaganden om meningsfullhet som inte  går  att  generalisera  till  hela  målgruppen.  Detta  resulterar  i  att daglig verksamhet, förutom att misslyckas med att leda individerna till anställning,  även  i  stort  misslyckas  med  att  bidra  med  meningsfull sysselsättning..

The purpose of this thesis is to examine how social procurement can be a further development of public-private partnership. This is done with interviews and a case study of the social procurement Mitt Gröna Kvarter and its labor effort Boendebyggarna. The theoretical framework used in the thesis consists of public-private partnership and corporate social responsibility. It tries to answer the following questions:What does this social procurement mean by the concept of public-private partnership?What does this social procurement mean for the participants involved?How can social procurement be seen as a further development of public-private partnership?The thesis uses the theory development around the concepts of public-private partnership and corporate social responsibility and shows that social procurement does indeed have similarities to public-private partnership and could very well be a further development of it..

The aim of this study is to illuminate social worker?s perception of social class within the Swedish social service system. This study therefor examine if social class contributes to the production and reproduction of the client and what impact social class has on the interaction between client and social workers. The study was conducted with qualitative semi-structured interviews with social workers from three different departments of social service. The theoretical approach is Yeheskel Hasenfeld?s theory about moral practices in welfare organisations, Michael Lipsky and Roine Johansson?s theories about client construction and Pierre Bourdieu?s class theory.

Purpose: To compare the expectations of coming profession in social work with experienced social work. We wanted to compare the pictures between the students in school of social work studies with social workers. We also wanted to increase social workers as well as other readers? awareness of social work as a profession.Questions: What characterizes the school of social studies? How do students in school of social work view the coming role as a professional? How do students in school of social work view upon social workers as professionals? How do social workers view upon their own profession? How do social workers view upon the own role as a professional? How do social workers view upon the relation between the idea of the profession and the daily practice? How do the students in school of social work studies and social workers view upon professional social work?Method: Qualitative study with qualitative interviews.Conclusion: Social work is a low status profession. How to increase the status of social work is not easy.

My big interest in sports was what shaped my choice of subject for the essay. The purpose of this study has been to explore the social meaning of team sports for functionally impaired persons. In order to fulfil the purpose of the essay I formed following questions: How do the actives experience their participation in team sports? And how important is the social intercourse in team sports to the individual welfare? The methods I?ve used have been qualitative with an ethnographic approach. I have used participant observations and field interviews to gather my empirical material.

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur pedagoger i förskolan arbetar för att utveckla barns sociala kompetens och vad som kan påverka detta arbete. Studien har en kvalitativ ansats. Vi använde oss av semistrukturerade intervjuer som genomfördes med nio pedagoger på tre olika förskolor. Resultatet visade på olika tillvägagångssätt för att utveckla barns sociala kompetens i förskolan och det mest betydelsefulla var att social kompetens alltid ska finnas med som ett förhållningssätt i förskolans verksamhet. Det framkom att social kompetens är ett omfattande begrepp med en rad olika aspekter, där samspel och empati var de mest framträdande.

This study analyses social age as a phenomenon and if unaccompanied refugee children has a social age that, according to the Swedish culture, do not correspond with their biological age and if so is, the reason for that. Furthermore, our study has discussed the potential consequences of the effects for the unaccompanied refugee children and the social age when interacting with Swedish society. According to our study, the social age is effected by other factors besides cultural norms, values and role expectations that a society has on a specific biological age. The results in this study shows that social age is a vital component to someone?s identity.

Social phobia is a fear which limits a person's capabilities in daily situations. The fear can be so strong that a person can distance themselves from all social situations, for example education, marriage, sports activities etc. The purpose of this study is to discover whether there are any correlations between social fear and choice of educational program, between social fear and sex, and between social fear and Internet use. Questionnaires were administered to 80 upper secondary pupils. Each questionnaire answer was assigned a certain score, which was then coded in SPSS, the highest scores corresponding to highest degrees of shyness.

The purpose of our study is to get more knowledge about how moral dilemmas affect social workers in their work. This because we find that a big part of social work involves ethic reflections and that is why we find it important for social workers to have knowledge about how they should and can think and act in these situations. Ethic statements exist for social workers to use in their work but we haven?t found any guidelines for concrete situations and that?s why we decided to study this area. Questions we want to answer are how do the social workers define moral dilemmas in social work? How do the social workers deal with moral dilemmas in their work? How do moral dilemmas affect social workers in their work? This is a qualitative study with interviews from seven social workers from one social service office although they are from different units.

In Sweden the social assistance from a historical perspective, has been a part of the social legislation, since the 18th century. In that time called poor relief. Through the centuries this has established the social assistance we have today. With focus on the child, we have attempted to illustrate how the social workers consider the child perspective when they are dealing with the social assistance. We wanted to get a view of how the social worker reasons about needs the children have and how they can see that the benefit has been provided for.