The purpose of this study was to examine social workers working process in social assistance with focus on the child´s perspective. We were interested in learning about the existence of variations in approach and attitude between two municipalities. Question to be answered about what methods and approaches used by social workers to include the child´s perspective in the process of social assistance. Another question to be answered about what the manner in which social workers took into account the child´s perspective when the families apply for social assistance in relation to the operations and requirement. To fulfill the purpose, qualitative methods were used.

The main purpose of this Masters thesis is to contribute to the understanding of high school teachers information seeking behaviour in the transition from university studies to occupational practice. The theoretical framework encompasses theories of professional socialization, the sociology of knowledge, of professions, and of library and information science. The empirical material has been collected through interviews with six recently qualified high school teachers in different subjects. The interviews have been analysed on two different levels; first on a descriptive level and then on a theoretical level. The major findings are that the academic context limited the student teachers information seeking and they did not have the opportunity to choose cognitive authorities on their own initiative.

This bachelor thesis? purpose is to investigate how purchase librarians work with foreign language collection management. Since about 15% of the citizens of Sweden are born abroad or have a foreign background, the subject of investigation becomes relevant because it touches a wide user group of the public library.Interviews were conducted with four librarians responsible for purchasing of foreign literature. The purpose of these interviews was to investigate which underlying strategies and thoughts are used as a basis for purchasing.Since the library act does not include guidelines regarding the content of the foreign literature collection, how is the literature chosen and to what purpose?As a theoretical framework a self-developed model was used to categorize the foreign literature into its different functions.

The purpose of this study is to examine the retrieval performance of three search engines, specialized in retrieving news articles: News Index, Excite News Search and Ananova. Thirty questions, grouped into three categories – politics, economy and sports, were used and the first twenty documents for each question were examined. The questions used were designed to be as current as possible and efforts were made to perform the searches with as little time span as possible between each search engine. The precision of the search engines was determined for each of the questions as well as for each category and for the combined categories. In measuring precision an average was calculated, intended to favour search engines that place its relevant documents early in the ranked list.

In today?s technological society, there are increasingly less physical demands on the locomotor system. However, despite that notion strength and function in the hand?s complex biomechanical system are in fact both needed to cope with daily life. The grip function is a main function in the hand and is used in many examples of scientific research, for instance when assessing physical health and predicting the probabilities of premature mortality.

Problem/Bakgrund: Arbetet behandlar sociala strukturer och samvaro mellan medlemmar i studentföreningen Ateneum och undersöker hur de diskurser som ligger som grund för den politiska gemenskapen påverkar sättet att umgås och tala om sig själv.Syfte: Mitt syfte är att redogöra för hur gemenskapen medlemmarna emellan konstrueras och reproduceras utifrån deras politiska ideologi.Kortfattad beskrivning av uppsatsens utgångspunkter och undersökningens upplägg: Jag använder mig av kvalitativ metod där fokus ligger på den individuella upplevelsen ur ett etnometodologiskt perspektiv. Jag ger en bakgrundsbeskrivning av föreningen och redogör för mitt metodologiska tillvägagångssätt samt eget intresse och förförståelse för fenomenet. Detta följs av ett avsnitt om mina teoretiska utgångspunkter och därefter analysen. Arbetet avslutas med en sammanfattning.Slutsatser/Resultat: Upplevelsen av gemenskapen i föreningen präglas av motsättningar mellan diskursen om öppenhet och tolerans för skilda åsikter och diskursen om en enad ideologisk front där medlemmarna gör anspråk på en "sann" tolkning av verkligheten. Den senare genererar motstånd mot gällande politiska doktriner och tar sig uttryck i olika motståndsstrategier, som i sin tur för medlemmarna närmare varandra.

Libraries are often associated with positive values such as democracy and equal rights. The contents of the literature on offer should therefore be of great interest to the librarian, the supplier of said literature. The topic of this Master?s thesis is the popular literary genre known as chick lit. The purpose is to investigate the love theme in Swedish chick lit, and how it relates to Anthony Giddens? theory on love in late modernity.

In today?s technological society, there are increasingly less physical demands on the locomotor system. However, despite that notion strength and function in the hand?s complex biomechanical system are in fact both needed to cope with daily life. The grip function is a main function in the hand and is used in many examples of scientific research, for instance when assessing physical health and predicting the probabilities of premature mortality.

In today?s technological society, there are increasingly less physical demands on the locomotor system. However, despite that notion strength and function in the hand?s complex biomechanical system are in fact both needed to cope with daily life. The grip function is a main function in the hand and is used in many examples of scientific research, for instance when assessing physical health and predicting the probabilities of premature mortality.

The aim of this Master?s thesis is to investigate the modern Swedishreader?s possibilities to understand the literary allusions in Jane Austen?sfirst three novels in light of young people?s decreasing readingand understanding of classic literature. This is done by examining historicaloverviews of literature written in Swedish, curriculums forliterature courses at three Swedish universities and library holdings inSwedish libraries, both public and academic.In the thesis three different elements are combined ? informationabout the alluded authors and texts, a comparison between the Swedishand the English versions of the novels and the result from theabove mentioned investigation. The description of the alluded authorsand texts provide information about the connotations that can be madeby an allusion to them.

I denna magisteruppsats undersöks Julia Donaldsons engelska bilderböcker i svensk översättning av barnboksförfattaren Lennart Hellsing. Huvudsyftet med denna studie är att avgöra om de svenska måltexterna även bär drag av Hellsings egen författarstil. För att kunna undersöka detta har Kårelands tidigare forskning (2002) om Hellsings litterära produktion använts för att ta fram stilvariabler. Dessa stilvariabler har sedan applicerats på måltexterna i denna fallstudie. Det teoretiska ramverket orienterar sig inom deskriptiv översättningsvetenskap och Tourys (1995) modell för rekonstruktion av översättningsnormer används.

En allmän beskrivning av socialt kapital skulle kunna benämnas som en resurs som blir tillgänglig först genom sociala nätverk och i socialt deltagande. Detta kan kallas för social sammanhållning och har även i teorin benämnts som ?det sociala kittet?, som håller ihop grupper och samhällen. Litteraturstudiens syfte var att identifiera sambandsfaktorer mellan socialt kapital och hälsa samt tydliggöra förhållandet mellan dessa. Genom att undersöka socialt kapital ur olika teoriperspektiv och utifrån olika mätmetoder, kan ett kunskapsunderlag skapas om hur och varför samhället ska arbeta med att öka tillgången av begreppet socialt kapital ur ett folkhälsoperspektiv.

Syftet med studien var att undersöka studenters kost- och motionsvanor vid Högskolan Väst relaterat till kön och institution. Studiens resultat baserades på 323 insamlade enkäter, relevant litteratur och vetenskapliga verk som avhandlingar, rapporter och artiklar. Resultatet av högskolestudenternas kost- och motionsvanor analyserades ur ett sociologiskt perspektiv. Studien visade skillnader mellan studenters kost- och motionsvanor i flera avseenden beroende av kön och institution. Kvinnliga studenter på Högskolan Väst har i flera avseenden uppgett sig ha bättre kost- och motionsvanor än de manliga studenterna.

Problem/Bakgrund: Dagligen får vi i Sverige ta del av nyhetsvåldet genom TV, radio och press. Hur upplever vi detta?Nyhetsproducenter och mediefolk framför hur viktigt det är att vara upplysta, men samtidigt lyfter mediekritiker fram skadliga effekter med våldsexponeringen. Väldigt få studier har gjorts i Sverige om hur vi upplever verkligt medievåld, dvs. inte fiktivt våld som visas i filmer och serier.

The purpose of this essay was to study how youths think about their youth and future. Our intention was to study in which order of priority today's high school students in Helsingborg ranked family life, education, career and vagabonding. We also investigated what the term adolescence meant to them.Our main questions were how our respondents looked upon their youth and their future. In which way did they give priority to family life, education, career and vagabonding and why did they give these priorities? Which meaning did the respondents lay in the term adolescence?The study was based on interviews with seven young people, studying at a communal high school in Helsingborg.