This report tries to discuss the concept of social sustainability; what it means and how residential development can be made more socially sustainable. This is done by interviewing several and various representatives in JM AB, the municipality of Uppsala and residents of Åriket to explore how JM AB as a housing developer and the municipality are working with issues regarding social sustainability and what the residents in one of the new housing projects themselves think of these issues. The result of these interviews will be compared and analyzed with the prospect of finding common variables and hopefully ways of improvement.This will result in our own recommendations of areas of improvement either by broad initiatives or specific actions to increase the social sustainability. Areas such as meeting places, sustainable functions and joint efforts between different parties. During the work on the report we come in contact with several other areas of interest that we are not able to process ourselves and therefore recommend them for future studies..

Balanced Scorecard [svenska; balanserad styrning] är ett koncept framtaget för vinstdrivande verksamheter men kommunförbundet har genomfört försök med adoptering av balanserad styrning i kommunal verksamhet, med vissa skillnader som motiverar anpassningar. Förvaltningen kommunkansliet i Tierps kommun har officiellt arbetat utifrån balanserad styrning sedan 2003 och anledningen till varför de började arbeta utifrån metodiken i balanserad styrning grundar sig företrädesvis i att den traditionella ekonomistyrningen konstaterades vara otillräcklig parallellt som den inte levererade en helhetsbild över verksamheten. Jag har genomfört en fallstudie vid kommunkansliet i syfte att se hur konceptet verkar i offentlig verksamhet. Fallstudien syftar till helhetsförståelse och insikt, vilket innebär att den vetenskapliga inriktningen på arbetet är hermeneutiskt. Undersökningen är av kvalitativ karaktär baserad på individuella intervjuer bland förvaltningschefen, enhetschefer samt medarbetare och jag har använt mig av den abduktiva forskningsansatsen i arbetet.

The purpose of this essay was to study how school welfare officers cooperate with other school staff, regarding children in vulnerable positions, and how the school staff apply their obligation to report to the social services if they have concerns regarding children at risk, according to the law of social service, SoL.We have especially focused on questions concerning cooperation, both between the school staff, and between the school and the social services. We also wanted to identify some of the restraining factors and dilemmas that could come up during the process of reporting children at risk to the social services. The study was based on qualitative interviews with ten school welfare officers from the same municipality.Our conclusions of our study are that there exists a well-developed cooperation between several organizational levels, including the school welfare officers, other professions in the schools and the social services. There were though opinions among the school welfare officers that they wanted to increase their professional claims in relation to the school nurse, due to their larger competence in talking to children. Regarding the formal responsibility to report to the social services, a majority of the school welfare officers felt they had access to the support they needed from both their principal and the students healthcare-team, and that they were not left alone in the process..

Jag har gjort en intervjustudie med utgångspunkt ien sociokulturell syn på lärande. Syftet var att studera hur fritidspedagoger beskriver lärande, hur de uppfattar lärande på fritidshemmen samt vilken roll de uppfattar att kvalitetsmätning har i fritidshemmens och fritidspedagogernas verksamhet.I min bakgrundsdel beskrev jag fritidshemmets historia. Jag gav också en bild av hur det ser ut idag. I teoridelen redogjorde jag i korthet för lärande utifrån ett sociokulturellt perspektiv samt för teori om lärande i fritidshem.Jag valde en kvalitativ ansats och en halvstrukturerad intervju som redskap. Tanken med den halvstrukturerade intervjun med öppna frågor var att få berättande svar.Intervjupersonerna var ovana att tänka på sin verksamhet utifrån lärandebegreppet.

The purpose of this study was to examine the resources and barriers that social workers have incorporating the Social Service Act states during meetings with clients, using and developing the client's skills and knowledge, develop their own resources and to promote the use of self-determination. A qualitative study was done by interviewing six social workers working within the in social service?s department for family and individual welfare. Social workers were encouraged to describe and discuss the key aspects of cases that developed positively respectively negatively. Motivation theory, evidence-based practice, empowerment, and expert-expert relationship are the theories and concepts that we used to analyze the material.The study's main conclusion is that the most important prerequisite for positive development of cases is that the social worker emphasizes and stimulates the client's own resources during meetings.

Det har blivit ett hårdare och egocentrerat klimat i samhället. Enligt statliga rapporter mår många unga dåligt idag. För att förbättra ungdomars psykiska hälsa och välmående rekommenderar Ungdomsstyrelsen mer psykosSocial verksamhet i skolan. SET är en metod som handlar om social och emotionell träning i skolan och den är till för att förebygga problem för unga. Syfte med denna uppsats har varit att belysa SET-metoden utifrån lärares erfarenheter och åsikter.

The central part in all public health work is health promotion and disease preventing actions among the population. Since all public health work includes the whole population, the work has to embrace disabled people as well. Within the disability policies, participation and equality are important goals, which illustrate the importance of a job. In previous studies the positive effects of animal have been detected among persons with disabilities, by better balance, better mobility, larger social network, new knowledge and most of all happiness. The aim of this study was to investigate how people with disabilities experience their health when they are working with animal husbandry at daily activities.

Author: Nina Ekberg and Therese LjungTitle - Within the social services approach: A qualitative interview study of the social services attitudes towards young offendersSupervisor: Melker LaboryAssessor: Ulf DruggeThe purpose of this study was to see the social workers attitude towards young offenders and how this can affect the teenagers. The theoretical perspectives have been the theory of street-Level Bureaucracy, social constructivism and Stages of change. The material has been collected through qualitative semi-structured interviews and email-interviews with the social workers. The aim of this study was to examine if the social workers uses their theoretical experiences about their attitudes in their practical work and if their response can raise or reduce the young offenders motivation to change their behaviour. To collect information it was chosen that this study would only concentrate on the social workers opinions.

According to statistics, a significant increase in sickness has occurred in the public sector in recent decades in Sweden. Human therapeutic professions is the area where the illness is most prevalent. The purpose of this study was through a qualitative method and hermeneutic approaches explore how conscious six social workers in the social services are on stress and how they cope with it. Further it investigates and analyzes how these results affect their daily work.One important result due to stress is that the social workers ability to treat their clients is impaired and they are less able to be empathetic. Inadequacy in the work environment leads to a sense of insufficiency by social workers, and a reduced quality of life.

AbstractTitle: Communications through Social media ? new challenges for organizations Kommunikation i sociala medier ? nya utmaningar för organisationerAuthor: Jenny Lilius Location: University of Kalmar Language: Swedish Number of pages: 46 (62 including appendix) Level: BA Thesis in media and Communications StudiesAim: The main purpose of this thesis was to explore what kind of challenges organizations face when communicating through social media. Because social media is a new phenomenon the thesis also examined how organizations active in Sweden today looks upon, defines, monitoring what is said about them and uses social media today.Method: The thesis was based upon the qualitative gathering of empirical facts. Through deep interviews with five organizations and literature studies the author was able to gather the results.Theories The analysis is primarily based upon theories about organizational communications such as PR, Rogers?s diffusions of innovations and the marketing mix.

ÖREBRO UNIVERSITYDepartment of Behavioural, Social and Legal SciencesProgram of social workSocial Work CC-essay in Social Work, 15 creditsAutumn term 2013The family is the only way back home? A qualitative study on staff?s view on family involvement in the treatment of adolescentsAuthors: Cakici, Nahrin and Claesson, SandraAbstractThe aim of this study is to investigate how the staff at residential treatment centers works to involve the family and the social network in youth?s treatment and how they experience that the involvement affects the young person. The aim is also to study the difficulties the staff experience in their work to involve the family and the social network. In this study, staff from two residential treatment centers in Sweden participated. The study is conducted based in on qualitative method in which four semi-structured telephone interviews and one group interview have been conducted.

The opinion of social workers towards their work with children and young persons wasstudied in this essay. Even their point of view with reference to the term the child?s bestinterest has being considered and special focus was laid on the social workers attitudestowards media coverage and its criticism towards their work. A qualitative approach was usedconsisted of six interviews. The theoretical frameworks were based on the theory aboutfreedom of action and the theory of social representations.

This thesis discusses and analyses the existence of two different perspectives, a social and a technical one, in Library and Information Science (LIS). Most of the time the division between these perspectives seems to result in research only using either of them. This can be a problem when studying complex phenomena. We therefore see a need for a metatheory that unites the social and the technical. By presenting and analysing all doctoral dissertations published at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS) 1993-2005, we try to detect and critically discuss the dichotomy between the two perspectives.

Nästan dagligen möts vi i media av olika rapporter kring klimathotet, naturkatastrofer eller andra händelser med koppling till klimatdebatten. Frågor om klimatet och vilka insatser som bör vidtas för att stoppa temperaturökningen diskuteras ofta på olika toppmöten. Klimatfrågor är ständigt närvarande och påverkar såväl beslut av styrande politiker likväl som beslut som enskilda tar i sitt dagliga liv.Samtidigt som klimatdebatten intensifierats har det blivit vanligare att företag frivilligt tar ett visst samhällsansvar, så kallat Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Denna typ av samhällsansvar gör att företag kan förbättra sitt renommé i allmänhetens ögon. Inom ramen för sitt samhällsansvar är det en del företag som väljer att klimatkompensera sin verksamhet.

The purpose of this study was to analyse the concept of empowerment and its meaning in the political document "En Förnyad Folkhälsopolitik" from the present Swedish government, containing guidelines and politics in the area of public health. The underlying question was if it could be considered as representative for some kind of general "empowerment approach" since the concept is central to the very definition of social work by the International Federation of Social Workers IFSW and International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW).By comparing its definition and consequences in the document with a historical review of different contexts of empowerment the conclusion was made that such a common approach doesn´t exist at all. The meaning of empowerment in the central document showed some similarities with the "northamerican" version of the concept represented by the social scientist Charles Murray, which is just one of the political meanings of empowerment. Alternative ways of understanding the concept was also presented such as being a tool of a constant conflict between central political principles or as a fashionable but not important word. Another alternative was to consider it a means of power through witch different political discourses tries to dominate the world..