The social dimension in the EU, explored through the document texts of the Treaty of Rome, the Lisbon Strategy, the Social Policy Agenda and the Swedish Strategy ReportThis paper explores the social dimension of EU social policy, except the aspects of the economic and labour market. The EU documents reveal an underlying line of thought stemming from the alignment of the six founding countries, spearheaded by France, with the conservative corporatist welfare model. As one of four European welfare models, the conservative corporatist model emphasises labour market issues, corporate social responsibility and the subsidiarity principle in EU social policy. It also influences how the texts define the terms social, social policy and social exclusion. The definitions determine how policymakers combat problems such as social exclusion and identify the policy issues to be included in EU social policy.The Swedish Strategy shows how the country is responding to the objectives that it has been assigned by the EU and how it plans to attain them.

We have in this field study been researching how social comfort is affected by the work of social services and their collaboration with police, schools and health care within a small village located countryside in the northern part of Sweden. The attribute which sets this village a part from most other small countryside villages is the fact that the crime rate is amongst the lowest in Sweden as well as the social security feeling within the inhabitants are amongst the highest. We traveled 2298 kilometers back and forth to be able to interview professionals and gather empiric material for this study. The method we have used for data collection has been in the form of semi structured interviews. We have used previous research concerning collaboration, social comfort, social discomfort and fear of crime as our aid to analyze our findings with the help of theories regarding different types of communites (gemeinschaft and gesellschaft) invented by Ferdinand Tönnies (2001) and Human Service Organisation by Hasenfeld (1983).

Ett antal förÀndringar har under Ären 2006 ? 2008 genomförts i lag (1982:80) om anstÀllningsskydd. Det finns flera olika faktorer som har bidragit till dessa förÀndringar. Sverige har bland annat fÄtt till uppgift att införliva tre EG-direktiv i svensk rÀtt. Detta har lett till att regeringen gjort en rad förÀndringar, bland annat rörande andelen tillÄtna tidsbegrÀnsade anstÀllningar samt hur lÀnge en arbetstagare fÄr befinna sig i en tidsbegrÀnsad anstÀllning innan den övergÄr till en tillsvidareanstÀllning.

The purpose of this thesis is to examine how five public libraries reason about the use of social media in their day-to-day work. This thesis aim to answer three research questions: What is the libraries use of social media today? How do libraries look upon their own use of social media? And have the libraries formulated any goals about their use of social media, and what are their thoughts on this? The methodology used in this thesis is a content analysis of the libraries social media and a questionnaire interview which was sent by mail to all of the libraries involved. The theoretical framework for the thesis is a model developed by Jochumsen, Hvenegaard Rasmussen and Skot-Hansen.The results of our study shows that the room of meetings, from the theoretical framework, are the most represented in the content of the social media used by the libraries. The libraries find that social media is a good way to connect and communicate with their users, but they feel that the time they spend on their social media is not enough.Our study also shows that most of the libraries have not formulated any goals for their use of social media, and that they do not have any intentions to do so..

Syftet med studien var att beskriva hur ungdomar och vuxna med cerebral pares och en kommunikativ nedsÀttning upplever och resonerar kring vad som pÄverkar social delaktighet i vardagliga aktiviteter. För att besvara syftet valdes en kvalitativ ansats i form av innehÄllsanalys. Datainsamling genomfördes med skriftliga intervjuer via internet utifrÄn en intervjuguide samt genom tillgÄng till dagboksanteckningar. Analysen resulterade i ett tema "Samverkan av interna och externa faktorer pÄverkar upplevelsen av social delaktighet i vardagliga aktiviteter" samt tvÄ kategorier ?Personliga faktorer? och ?Omgivningsfaktorer?.

Vi har funnit att den sociala identiteten har förÀndrats pÄ Banverket Projektering i och med organisationsförÀndringen, och att coaching haft inverkan pÄ detta. Vidare har framkommit att det förekommer grÄzoner inom coachingverksamheten. GrÄzonerna kan motverkas genom social identitetscoaching. Social identitetscoaching bygger pÄ utvidgad och koncentrerad gemenskap, utbyte av Äsikter och trygghet för de anstÀllda..

In 2007 a project began in the Uppsala region, which aimed to help municipalities implement BBIC (Barns behov i centrum). BBIC is a system that helps social workers increase children?s participation in investigations relating to social work. This study follows up on BBIC?s implementation process in Enköping, a municipality in the Uppsala region.

Delaktighet och socialt kapital Àr tvÄ viktiga bestÄndsdelar för en god hÀlsa. Inom dessa begrepp inryms sociala nÀtverk, socialt stöd och tillit som Äterkommer nÀr föreningsdelaktighet diskuteras. I Sverige Àr föreningstraditionen vÀl förankrad vilket bevisas dÄ ungefÀr hÀlften av Sveriges befolkning arbetar i en förening.Syftet med studien var att kartlÀgga studenters delaktighet i studiesocial verksamhet samt studera relationer mellan studenters delaktighet och hÀlsa. För att besvara syftet skickades en webbenkÀtundersökning till samtliga andraÄrsstudenter pÄ akademin för hÄllbar samhÀlls- och teknikutveckling pÄ MÀlardalens högskola, VÀsterÄs.Resultatet, med en svarsfrekvens pÄ 20 procent, visar att tvÄ tredjedelar av studenterna har deltagit i aktiviteter inom studiesocial verksamhet medan ungefÀr 40 procent var delaktiga i arbetet i nÄgon förening. Anledningen till att studenter valde att vara delaktiga i arbetet var frÀmst för att trÀffa andra mÀnniskor och skapa kontaktnÀt.Statistiska signifikanstest av samband var inte möjliga att genomföra mellan deltagande i aktiviteter och hÀlsa, praktiskt stöd eller emotionellt stöd pÄ grund av att datamaterialet var för litet och Àven snedfördelat.

Syftet med studien Àr att utgÄ ifrÄn barns perspektiv och belysa hur de upplever den sociala tryggheten pÄ fritidshemmet. I detta arbete belyses barns sociala trygghet pÄ fritidshemmet i förhÄllande till olika relationer, samt till barns sjÀlvförtroende, sjÀlvkÀnsla och social kompetens. LitteraturgenomgÄngen kommer presentera olika aspekter som Àr viktiga för att nÄ den sociala tryggheten.Barns perspektiv kommer studien utgÄ ifrÄn och studiens deltagare Àr flickor och pojkar i Ärskurs ett frÄn tvÄ olika fritidshem. Genom samtalspromenader som sedan följs av observationer synliggörs det hur den sociala tryggheten ser ut. Resultatet visar att barnen kÀnner sig trygga i relationer med kamrater och fritidslÀrare pÄ fritidshemmet och utifrÄn detta kan sjÀlvkÀnslan och sjÀlvförtroendet frÀmjas.

The aim of this thesis is to examine the theoretical developments on social entrepreneurship. Our purpose is to create a better understanding of the phenomenon leading to new insights. We have categorized the knowledge of the concept into social economy, social ownership, social innovation and social missions. Drawing from our theoretical review we have chosen four empirical illustrations, Grameen Bank, Wikipedia, Basta Arbetskooperativ, Jörn HÀlsogemenskap, and we have shown how these fit into the general description of the social entrepreneur. With help of our illustrations we show that it is complicated to pin point the core of social entrepreneurship as they each have separate structures, innovations, social missions and operate close to different sectors.

Corporate Social ResponsibilityThis thesis intends to exam the strategic use of Corporate Social Responsibility within fifthteen different companies, classified/divided into three various industries. The aim is to compare the three different industries, to look for disparities and similarities in their use of CSR. The disseration looks into both variance and resemblance in the use of Corporate Social Responsibility between the companies within the same branch of trade and between the industries.The industries of intrestThe three industries that the study has focus on is consumer, manufacturing and service related industries. Where the consumer industry is classified as companies with direct sales towards private consumers, the physical citizen. The manufacturing industry is classified as companies that manufacture products but that doesÂŽnt sell their products directly to the regular consumer.

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.

VÄrt syfte med denna studie Àr att undersöka begreppet social kompetens och hur social kompetens kan förebygga konflikter. Studien bygger pÄ fyra fÀrdigheter: empati, ansvarstagande, identitet/trygghet och kommunikation. Den empiriska undersökning vi genomfört bygger pÄ kvalitativ forskning. Vi har intervjuat tolv stycken lÀrare för att fÄ veta deras syn pÄ begreppet social kompetens.Studien har visat att lÀrarens arbete med att utveckla elevens sociala kompetens Àr mycket viktigt, i syfte att förebygga konflikter. Detta har vi fÄtt bekrÀftat bÄde genom vÄr litteraturstudie samt vÄr empiriska undersökning.

Kosovoalbanerna Àr i Sverige en relativt ny invandrargrupp. DÀrigenom Àr kunskapen om deras kulturella och sociala förutsÀttningar ganska okÀnt..

The purpose of this essay was to investigate affecting factors concerning social workers in social services assessments with cases of abuse. We wanted to see if social workers in social services tend to make different assessments of the need of substance abusers care. Our survey was carried out as a vignettesurvey with complementary interviews as means to deepen the outcome results.Our survey showed that the included social workers in social services in some senses make different assessments when it comes to choice of effort put in for the client. We shed light on different factors and circumstances, which could bear meaning for the social workers in social services assessments. Examples of factors were the social workers in social services age, gender, working experience and attitude towards substance abusers..