The focus of this thesis is on social workers? knowledge in assessing and making decisions in child welfare cases. The primary aim is to identify what skills or knowledge social workers find most useful within child welfare agencies in Swedish municipalities. Six different types of knowledge, social policy and the approach of child welfare cases are perspectives considered in the analysis. The interviews with social workers were held in three agencies in southern Sweden, in 2014.

Purpose: The purpose of this essay is to describe the social media usage of five European official national tourism organizations (NTO). The essay proceeds to discuss and evaluate the findings, whilst reflecting on the advantages of social media usage from the point of view of an official national tourism organization.Method: The authors used three different methods of research: one structured observation to study the national tourism organizations? everyday work in social media, one field stimulation to study if and how different NTO respond if a prospective visitor makes them a direct question via social media and finally an email interview to gain insight into NTO?s underlying strategies and policies about social media usage.Theoretical framework: The theories that have been used in this paper include the Uses and gratifications model, theories of one-way and multi-way communication, theories of social media and relationship marketing.Conclusion: By making use of social media the company releases some of its control to the customers as the latter can express their opinions freely in this type of media. One of the advantages of social media is that the platform favors dialogue and feedback. Social media can be used for traditional one-way communication, but works best as a supplement to the regular marketing activities, allowing the activities on social media platforms to focus on branding and building long-term customer relationships.

Vi vill med vår uppsats undersöka och analysera hur lagidrottsföreningar i Sverige kan utveckla sin marknadsföringsstrategi. Initiativet togs delvis med anledning av en pågående diskussion om ändring kring 51-procentsregeln samt ett delat intresse i idrott.De idrotter vi har haft fokus på för undersökningen har varit inomhusidrotter som handboll och ishockey. Vi har även tagit del av allmänhetens synpunkter kring idrottsföreningar. Med hjälp av dessa respondenter går det att få en bild av hur idrottsföreningar marknadsför sin verksamhet och vad allmänheten tar in.Urvalet av tillfrågade idrottsföreningar gjordes utifrån författarnas respektive intresse i olika idrottsgrenar samt att båda är inomhusidrotter. Idrottsklubbar valdes strategiskt från olika nivåer för att få in en helhetsbild istället för att endast rikta in på elitnivå.Vi genomförde undersökningen genom att samla information med hjälp av enkäter till idrottsföreningar och allmänheten.

IS- och IT-strategier är ett koncept som idag är av stor betydelse för verksamheter, både inom den privata och offentliga sektorn. Problemställningen i detta arbete syftar till att undersöka vad som bör ingå i en IS/IT-strategi för att den ska vara ett bra styrdokument för en offentlig verksamhet. Informationen från studien syftar även till att finna ett tillvägagångssätt som är lämpligt vid utvecklandet av en IS/IT-strategi.De slutsatser som drogs från studien påvisar att IS/IT-strategier bör vara heltäckande för verksamheter och att strategin har tydliga kopplingar till verksamhetens övriga mål. En IS/IT-strategi bör vara ett måldokument där detaljrikedomen är lång och verksamhetstiden är mellan 3 och 5 år.Studien påvisar även att det kan fungera bra att utveckla en IS/IT-strategi internt inom kommuner, men att ett bra resultat även kan uppnås med extern hjälp. En viktig faktor för att skapa en framgångsrik strategi är att ha delaktighet vid utvecklandet.

This thesis studies public service social workers' opinions regarding their ability to act with moral courage as loyalty conflicts occur. The purpose of the thesis is to describe the social workers' experiences of their possibilities to stand up for what they believe in. We made qualitative interviews with five social workers in Stockholm. In an effort to pinpoint their experiences we asked them questions about what they want but cannot do and what is stop-ping them, what they do not want to do and why, aswell as what the possible solutions would be as loyalty conflicts occur. We were able to identify five different opinions on the organisa-tional cultures and how the employees' experience the extent of their actions.

This is a study with a qualitative approach and a social psychological perspective. Our purpose is to describe and analyze authority officials descriptions of individuals with a social disability and their perception of how the interaction in the encounter with its implementation. We are interested in how they experience their power as authority representatives. The following issues are highlighted.? How do people in authority describe individuals with a social disability?? What is the authority officials view on the interaction in meetings with individuals with a social disability?? How do authority officials experiencing his or her position of power in relation to the meeting?Our results are based on semi-structured interviews with five persons in authority, which is active in Insurance and Employment Service in Örebro County.

There is a known link between relative deprivation and street crime among market liberal countries. Although some research has been done with cross-national data, there is none to suggest that the observed link is as valid in a country well known for its extended welfare and generous social expenditure like Sweden. The following study uses longitudinal data to see if this recognized link between relative deprivation and street crime also stands in a country with almost a century long tradition of striving for social-, economic- and cultural equality. Even though Sweden, over the last decade, has been subjected to a series of deregulations due to policy changes at national level, and with a following rise in inequality, it is still considered to be one of the most equal countries in the west. It is therefore not unlikely that the high degree of social security will reduce the negative impact of relative deprivation on social relations among its citizens, perhaps enough so that the correlation will be significantly weakened.

Detta är ett examensarbete från Bild och visuellt lärande på Malmö Högskolas lärarutbildning. Arbetet är en sammanställning av diskursanalyser av nio olika texter från den process som resulterat i att Estetisk verksamhet inte blir ett gymnasiegemensamt ämne i den nya gymnasieskolan Gy 2011. Analyserna utfördes i enlighet med Norman Faircloughs metod för kritisk diskursanalys. Syftet med arbetet var att undersöka den diskursiva och sociala praktiken i de nio olika texterna. Följande två frågor ställdes: Vilka diskursordningar råder i texternas resonemang om Estetisk verksamhets funktion och mening i gymnasieskolan? Vilka idéer går att uttyda ur texterna om vilken typ av samhällsmedborgare som kommer att formas med ett Gy 2011 där Estetisk verksamhet försvinner? Undersökningen resulterade i följande: I de nio texterna rådde huvudsakligen två diskursordningar, en marknadsekonomisk diskursordning och en humanistisk diskursordning.

This is a qualitative study based on five semi-structured interviews in Sweden. The aim of the study is to explore what experiences non-monogamous people have of dating and the social support surrounding them. The study investigates what effects norms and normative structures have on non-monogamous dating. This is done through a thematic analysis with queer theory, and the underlying theoretical concepts performativity, heteronormativity, mononormativity, relationship escalator and queer temporalities. To help analyze the social support, we have used Bourdieu's (1986) theory about social capital.

The purpose of the thesis Masculinities ? Gender and its Impact on the Social conditions of individuals is to perform a critical study of how gendered norms influence the social conditions of individuals. This has been done by a problematization and the attempt to answer the question of how the hegemonical masculinity can be analyzed as a discourse, and how the structural aspects of this discourse inflict on the social conditions of masculinities.The question was divided into the analytical themes: the boarders of the discourse, the institutionalization of the discourse, the actuation of the discourse and the agents of the discourse. The theoretical frame is constituted by the theory of discourse by Michel Foucault, the theory of the hegemonical masculinity by R.W. Connell and a subversive identity theory by Judith Butler.

The aim of this study was to understand how the professional in social work handles the media scrutiny. When the media writes about social services there is seldom anything positive written about it, many social services organizations are instead heavily criticized and scrutinized by the media. When social services organizations are scrutinized by the media there is a crisis at work, and therefore should be handled as a crisis. Therefore, we describe how a crisis management might look like in an organization. The study is qualitative therefore we have interviewed four municipalities in Sweden that have been exposed by the media at a national level.

During the study's first stage we noticed that the Swedish term ? utanförskap? was constructed for political purposes, the term?s ambiguity what was first raised our interest. Therefore the aims of this study was to examine how social workers at the social welfare office and the labor market related project Framtid Kronoberg  as well as politicians within the administration of Arbete & Välfärd (Work & Welfare) relates to utanförskap as a social phenomenon. The study?s second aim was to examine how the aforementioned persons consider utanförskap to be counteracted among young adults.

This investigation aimed to shed light on the terms of the dispensing and the retaining of municipal social benefits granted by Swedish social services, this in regard of a less visible societal subgroup; citizens who cannot attain or retain housing of their own.Through qualitative interviews with six municipal social workers in Skåne, the plight of these citizens is revealed from a policy-making perspective in respect of views on discretion and individual appreciation. How may the applicant impact the application process and how does social subletting operate as a service effort?Further analysis of the accounts of informants? views on change and the reasons for change, sketched an image of a society where public acceptance and tolerance are crucial factors for citizens hoping to achieve a homestead through means of municipal intervention.In conclusion, flexible attitudes towards job description are of major import to the possibility of offering client support in under-staffed municipal environs. Furthermore, reflexive social workers allying with the applicant throughout the process, from application to intervention are decisive for efficacious, long-term social work..

The purpose of this study has been to analyze how managers within the elderly care who operate according to the Social Services Act work to support the assistant nurses with the social documentation. In order to achieve my purpose and to be able to answer the research questions, a qualitative approach was selected. My empirical material consists of seven interviews, four with assistant nurses and three with managers. Anthony Giddens? structuration theory in Månsson, (2003 s. 422) has been my theoretical starting-point and the concepts of practical and discursive consciousness have been used in the analysis.

An increased use of social media has enabled a new arena for HR functions and the work with HR issues. Proponents are critical of this, as it can lead to ethical and legal dilemmas. So far the research on this area is limited. On this basis I found it interesting to study how social media is used in connection with the recruitment process. Those who will benefit from this study are primarily those dealing with recruitment, but also others working with HR issues.