The purpose of this essay was to investigate which factors the individuals found important in the process of becoming a person with a drug-free life. The framing of the questions we had were to get the experiences, thoughts and wishes of the drug users. The survey was based on thematised qualitative interviews and focused in the personal stories of the interviewees. We interviewed four women and five men, all of which had several years of drug-abuse behind them. We found similarities and patterns and we could identify that the three most important things was the own motivation, will and that the drug-abuser had the possibility to change their social network and had the ability to find other important things in life..

I have in this essay, studied both the definition of the concepts segregation and integration and how you as an urban planner can promote integration, by working with increased feeling of security and more venues. The aim is to cast light on these two tools and how you within city planning can use them to create a more equal society. To gain a wide base of knowledge, I have studied both government and municipal reports as well as prior investigations where these methods have been used. I have also interviewed a landscape architect who actively works with questions regarding integration in Malmö, to get information as recent as possible about their work today. Malmö is today a segregated city with large gaps between the residential areas when it comes to economic possibilities and the composition of inhabitants.

 The purpose of this study is to examine how individuals' social capital can affect the opportunities for finding a job. That is, what benefits social contacts can provide in the hunt for a new job. The main questions that will be answered throughout this study are:- Of what importance are social contacts when looking for a job?- What are the advantages and disadvantages that the respondents present with recruitment thru informal channels/social contacts?-What are the advantages and disadvantages that social contacts can provide in terms of personal recommendations when looking for a job according to the recruiters?The study is based on five qualitative interviews with mainly recruiters from various parts of the labor market. The collected empirical data that the study has yielded indicate that individuals' social capital of the highest degree is crucial for the opportunities they have to find a job.

The purpose with this study was to get a deeper understanding of how the social welfare secretaries experience the meeting with clients.Our main questions were how the social welfare secretaries thinks about their own way to behave in the meeting with clients, which difficulties/obstacles there can be a and which factors they think affect the meeting. What is it that makes the social welfare secretaries experience a meeting as good or less good.Theory used: ?naive theory? and ?theory of communication?. The social welfare secretaries emphasised the importance of respect and clarity in their relations with the clients. By contrast with literature, the hover between power and support was not found difficult.The goal is that the social welfare secretaries and the clients understand each other and that they reach the purpose with the meeting..

The purpose of my study is to gain insight into how the education system (particularly social studies) is morally-minded based on the governing documents, former students and a textbook. I wanted to find out what morally-minded means and if it has a big role in social studies. Through interviews with former high school students (when my thesis is aimed at high school) I wanted to find out how they felt their social studies were educational and which the values that they had taken on from the lessons. I also chose to analyze a textbook to get a broader understanding of how the morally-minded education is written in specific areas relating to social studies. My study is a qualitative study and what I came up with is that the former students consider their social studies teaching lacked to some degree when it came to the morally-minded education. My investigation concludes that the morally-minded education is important in social studies as the purpose of social studies is to promote active democratic citizens.

I denna uppsats görs en diskursanalys av alliansregeringens integrationspolitik avsedd för Ären 2008 till 2010. Syfte Àr att titta pÄ hur integrationspolitiken Àr organiserad, vilka beskrivningar och förestÀllningar som kommer till uttryck kring integration och vilka konsekvenser organiseringen kan fÄ i integrationspolitiken. Den teoretiska och metodologiska utgÄngspunkten Àr diskursteori dÀr fokus ligger pÄ sprÄket och hur förestÀllningar om verkligheten organiseras. I studien pÄvisas hur integrationspolitiken bygger pÄ en förestÀllning om ett homogent och harmoniskt samhÀlle. ?Utanförskap? och ?mÄngfald? upprÀttas som yttre grÀnser för samhÀllet och som hot mot ordningen.

Behandlingsstudien gÀllande individuell KBT-behandling för social fobi genomfördes pÄ en allmÀnpsykiatrisk öppenvÄrdsmottagning. I studien ingick 22 individer som alla uppfyllde kriterierna för social fobi enligt DSM-IV. Antalet sessioner planerades bli 15 stycken, med viss flexibilitet gÀllande individuella skillnader. MÀtningar gjordes före och efter behandlingen. Som utvÀrderingsmÄtt har anvÀnts SPS, SIAS, FNE, BDI, BAI, CSQ-8, gÀllande diagnostisk bedömning har anvÀnts ADIS-IV.

Our paper is targeting mainly students, but also all other people interested in social work with children. The purpose of our study was to investigate how the social workers experience and handle their work with children, who have been exposed to sexual abuse, and what kind of support and guidance the social workers are offered, in order to handle their working situation. We chose to perform a qualitative study, by the use of interviews, since we found it to be the most appropriate way to gather the information. Our conclusion is that the work with these issues is emotionally burdensome and requires a great commitment, however it is essential for the social workers to maintain a certain distance to their work, in order not to influence their personal lives. It is through experience and knowledge that the social workers learn how to handle their working situation.

Under vÄr skolförlagda utbildning har vi varit pÄ olika skolor, dÀr vi sett att lÀrarnas undervisning varierade stort i dessa skolor. Vi undrar varför det Àr sÄ mycket Àmnesstrukturerad undervisning ute pÄ skolorna och varför inte lÀrarna undervisar mer Àmnesintegrerat nÀr vi ser att det finns möjligheter till detta. En av de viktigaste uppgifterna som verksamma lÀrare bör ha, Àr att ge eleverna möjligheter till överblick och sammanhang mellan Àmnen. Syftet med vÄr studie var att undersöka varför lÀrarna integrerar och varför inte lÀrarna integrerar i skolorna. VÄr undersökning grundar sig pÄ telefonintervjuer med 25 lÀrare frÄn tvÄ kommuner.VÄr studie visar att lÀrarna integrerar Àmnena för att eleverna ska förstÄ samband och se helheter.

The law firm industry has during the last years met new demanding conditions and one tool to handle these new conditions has been to implement a Knowledge Management system. Large investments have been made in these Knowledge Management systems but the implementations have met many challenges from within the organizations.With a multiple study, based on interviews with Knowledge Management Managers included in a Knowledge Management network, this thesis aims to study the challenges with Knowledge Management and the underlying causes. The result, based on McDermott's theories shows challenges within technical, personal, social and management areas where the law firm need to shift a focus from Information to Knowledge Management, create a culture of trust and integration and use the informal powerbase.The causes for these challenges are found in the base of Mintzbergs theories of Professional bureaucracy where the Knowledge Management is affected by strong self-regulated individualist, a divided organizational structure and industry conditions..

This study means to research the importance and significance of the social and informal learning opportunities offered at a workplace. With Wenger?s theory about social learning and communities of practice as a starting point, this study will create understanding about how teachers at a school comprehend their opportunities for learning within the teacher community. The study is conducted at an independent school in Sweden, and is based on interviews with eight of the teachers employed at the school. The purpose of the study was to research how employees perceive how their social interactions with their colleagues can create learning, and what obstacles they might face along the way.

Denna studie syftade till att öka förstÄelsen för hur mottagandet av Àldre invandrare kan upplevas i en svensk medelstor kommun. FrÄgestÀllningarna rörde hur företrÀdare för invandrades egna organisationer och yrkesverksamma uppfattar att mottagandet fungerar. För att undersöka detta har dokument rörande mottagandet av invandrare i kommunen undersökts. FöretrÀdare för tre olika invandrarorganisationer har intervjuats enskilt och tre yrkesverksamma kommunala tjÀnstemÀn har deltagit i en fokusgruppsintervju i Àmnet. Med hjÀlp av Aaron Antonovskys individteori kÀnsla av sammanhang (KASAM), Roine Johanssons organisationsteori och Berth Danermarks tankar om samverkan har materialet analyserats hermeneutiskt.

I vÄr undersökning ville vi belysa unga förtagenerations-invandrarkvinnors identitets förÀndring. Dessa unga kvinnor lever under inflytande av tvÄ kulturer dÀr deras identitetstillhörighet till sitt ursprung oftast bestÀms av ett essentialistiskt synsÀtt, vilket innebÀr att den definieras av ett gemensamt ursprung och en speciell kulturtillhörighet. Men kvinnorna i vÄr studie visar att deras identitet egentligen bygger mer pÄ ett konstruktivistiskt synsÀtt dÀr den kulturella identiteten inte bestÀms av en gemensam tillhörighet utan att identiteten förÀndras och omskapas hela tiden beroende pÄ den situation man befinner sig i. Vi har gjort ett urval dÀr vi har valt aktiva och kvinnor som har anstrÀngt sig för att integreras i det svenska samhÀllet och inte valt ?den traditionella hemmafrun?.

Swedish and international research indicate that many measures made by social services, concerning children and adolescents who are taken from their homes to an institution, are interrupted prematurely for different reasons. The word "breakdown" is used when a measure granted by the social service is broken before the projected time has passed. Research concerning how social service employees are influenced by measures being interrupted prematurely is very limited. The aim of this qualitative study is to examine how social service employees in Malmö are influenced by the premature interruption, "breakdown", of measures concerning children and adolescents who are taken from their homes to an institution. The theoretic basis for the study is Symbolic interactionism, especially the theory of Stefan Morén concerning conditions for change.The study is based on interviews with social employees, relevant material from research in this field and an examination of the theoretical basis.

This thesis examines young people's thoughts about their presence on social media. With asocial constructive approach the study focused on how young people think and act on socialmedia in relation to constructions of gender and normality. The analysis is based on fourgroup interviews with 13-year old boys and girls. The theoretical approach is based partly onsocial constructionism where discourses and ideas of normality are identified and analyzed.Erving Goffman's theory of social interaction was central to illustrate how young peoplepresents themselves based on the prevailing discourses. It is clear that they adjust theirrepresentations of themselves depending on the context.