The aim of this study is to examine how Young people look at and perceive drugs by studying how they discuss and reason about drugs. The essay's main interest is not whether Young people use drugs or not. We are primarily interested in how Young people talk about drugs. The questions that we want to get answered are:What are the beliefs that Young people have about drugs, drug use and drug users? More specifically we seek answers to which images, symbols and attributes that Young people links to drugs, drug use and drug users.What is important in Young people's construction of beliefs about drugs and drug users? More specifically, which are the information sources and reference groups that Young people assigns significance?We used focus group interviews as the research method.

Title: Facebook girls, a qualitative study of social medias and Facebooks impact on Young girlsNumber of pages: 32Author: Mirja LarssonTutor: Amelie HössjerCourse: Media and Communication studies CPeriod: Autumn 2010University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information and Media,Uppsala UniversityPurpose/aim: To discover any possible difference between Young girls and older girls in their wayof using Facebook.Material/method: Personal interviews, literature, electronic sources, Internet sources.Main results: The Younger girls are not as aware as the older girls of their exposure on Facebookand the possible down-sides of their frequent Facebook-usage. Young girls in general use Facebookas a source to form their identity.Keywords: Facebook, identity, Young girls, Cooley, Elza Dunkels, Altman and Taylor.

Hasselapedagogy mission in society, as a collective activity, is to help Young people in LVU-care. Young people who are in need of help have shown abnormal behavior and thus become analyzed and sentenced for custodial care. The analysis and the establishment of the Young people go after the rules for how a healthy life should look like. This means that there is an understanding in society about how we should live in order to fit into society. There is knowledge of normal and abnormal behavior in linguistic structures.

The honour norm is strong within the Middle East but is scattered all over the world. As a result of immigration, the honorary context has become more established in Sweden. Violence, committed in the name of honour, is commonly executed by male family members. Thus, Young men are forced, in some degree, to participate in the oppression and control of their sisters. Violence exercised in the name of honour, can be traced back to the patriarchal family system in which woman are subordinate to men.

The aim of this thesis is to examine discourses about the user category Young people in two well-established Swedish library journals between the years 2005 and 2010.The empirical material consists of 65 texts derived from the library journals Biblioteksbladet and Bibliotek i samhälle. By using discourse theory and methodology I discover several different ways in which Young people are categorized in the library context. As a complementary theory I have analyzed the material from an intersectional perspective. The result shows that Young people most of the times are defined by adults. Several characteristics such as creativity, interest in modern technology, messiness and need for support are repeated in the descriptions of the Young, suggesting that there is clear idea of how Young people are.

Young councillors are currently under-represented in Sweden's municipalities. Young councillors are also stepping down in greater numbers than older members. This paper explores the reasons why Young councillors choose to resign from their mission, so to identify possible remedies to the problematic trend of underrepresentation of Younger people in local authorities in Sweden.This qualitative essay intends, through interviewing politically-active Young people who has left their assignment, to study the reasons for resignations from elected posts. To see what could be the reason I have looked at previous studies and theories about opting out but also tried to remain open to identifying new and emerging trends previously undetected in existing surveys.The results showed that the political assignment proved to be too time-consuming, with Young people choosing to spend their time on career and leisure. Those who resign from political life often express criticism towards the Municipal Council; they consider it tedious and many complain of having little influence.

The aim of this study was to examine why Young females develop self-harm behaviour. We also wanted to look at the differences between Young females born in foreign countries and Young females born in Sweden and investigate if there were any differences regarding the reasons for developing self-harm behaviour and the actual extent of the self-harm behaviour within the group. We used a qualitative method and performed interviews with nine professionals that work with Young females with self-harm behaviour. To be able to analyse our qualitative interviews we used concepts such as modernity, anomie, safety and cultural differences in the bringing up of children. The results of this study shows that self-harm behaviour is a symptom of excessive anxiety, which can be caused by a number of reasons, such as childhood trauma or great demands in modern society.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the Young caregivers thoughts of the elderly caretaker. A qualitative method was chosen when interviewing Young caregivers in order to get an insight of how they perceive and speak of the elders. The main questions of the study are: How do the caregivers believe that the elders perceive their day-to-day life and situation? Is it possible to distinguish if the Young caregiver?s thoughts about the elders affect their work with the elderly caretaker? Is it possible to notice any common factors that the Young caregivers perceive as important in their work with the elderly caretaker? The criteria for inclusion in this study are caregivers aged 18 to 25, who are working with elderly at special accommodation. The theories chosen for this study are the salutogenetic perspective, the activity theory and the theory of gerotranscendence.

The purpose of this essay was to investigate the opinions of Young people, age 14-16, at a school in a middle-sized city in Sweden, concerning narcotics. The questions we asked ourselves were;-What are Young peoples' ideas of narcotics?-What do Young people imagine when they think of a drug addict?-What reasons do Young people give to start using narcotics?-What gender-related opinions do Young people have regarding drug abuse?-What do Young people think about legalization of narcotics?For this purpose we interviewed six girls and six boys. We interviewed them one at a time, for about an hour each. We used a qualitative method for the interviews.The Young people in our study described narcotics as "dangerous".

The purpose of this study is to find out how social workers in one medium and one smallmunicipality in central Sweden perceive the need of financial support for Young adults formore than one year and what the causes might be. To answer our research questions aqualitative research method was used and four social workers were interviewed. The resulthas been analyzed based of social exclusion, stigma, as well as on structural and individuallevel and linked to previous research. Our results show that although Young adults are anexception for long duration for financial support, there are those who lack other means ofsupport for a long time. The results also show that Young adults often are recurring in thesocial services, and they are long-lasting.

The rates for teenage conception and motherhood in the UK are according to recent research, the highest in Wester Europe. The ongoing debate concerning these teenage pregnancies and teenage motherhood has therefore become political in a wide range. The government?s goal is to reduce the number of teenage pregnancies until the end of 2010 to prevent social exclusion among vulnerable Young women. However, there is controversy in other research that describes teenage pregnancies more likely to be a result of social exclusion than its cause.The purpose of this study is to examine how Young mothers in a borough of London, from their own point of view, experience their situation, their difficulties and possibilities in present and in future.

Mental health problems among Young people - causes and actions Results from several studies indicate that the prevalence of mental illness among Young people has increased recently. This paper has a qualitative approach where three counselors and a school nurse was interviewed. The purpose of this study is to try to get an idea of how these staff are working with Young people suffering from mental illness at school. The aim is also to examine whether there is an opportunity for the staff to work proactively to promote mental health..

This project investigates how team sports can be used to include Young women in public space aswell as how through the addition of a sporting facility adjacent to three schools can be used as a stepping stone for the Young people of Dharavi to have a chance at a brighter future..

The aim of this master?s thesis is to explore what learning potentials there are in Demoteket. Demoteket is an on-going project that preserves and exhibits Young people?s artistic creations. The idea is that public libraries receives and lends out the Young people?s artistic creations.

Music not only fun but also necessary. This paper investigates how Young people describe their relationship to music. The Young people - students - in this study are coming from two different districts of Malmö: One with a population with mainly ethnical Swedish background and the other with a multicultural population. The research question is how we can describe Young people's relationship to music on the one hand from the social theories which are presented and on the other hand from own experience as a music teacher. Group interviews are used to get the Young people's own descriptions.