Criminality is a very normal problem that occurs between youths within today?s society. In this study we will be accentuating and therefore be focusing on how Young men are living their lives with criminality. In this study we have analyzed the underlying factors for what the causes and reasons are for Young men to be part of the criminal life. One basic and underlying factor is families, growth, friendships and economic resources.

The purpose of this study is to examine Young peoples' perception of their media criticial competence in relation to digital news. The study is based on quantitative research interviews with Young people (15-17 years) and qualitative interviews with people in the same age group as well as teachers and international media professionals.This study's theoretical point of departure is McQuail´s observation that peoples' values and views to a great extent are influenced by the media. Another source of theoretical inspiration was Haberman's ideas about how a diversity of views and arguments increase the citizens' ability to reflect critically on social developments - maybe even more so than in societies with  independent media and "neutral" news.The study shows that the Young generation of web based news consumers assumes that it is very important to be an aware and critical consumer but also that they do not feel sufficiently equipped with the right tools required to understand the long-term impact and effect of the media reporting online. Young people basically seemed to acquire their knowledge about media by doing and learning on their own. Surprisingly, according to the Young people that were interviewed for this project, the schools seemed to play a secondary role in the development of their media critical capacity.

The purpose of this thesis is to understand the ways in which rumors affect the everyday lives of a few Young women. The questions are: What kinds of rumors do the Young women find are the most common? How do they respond to these rumors? Do the rumors affect their everyday lives and if so, how do they react to them? Do they resist them? Do they feel limited by them?The empirical data was collected through unstructured interviews (focus groups) with three groups. The groups discussed different themes without prompting questions by the interviewer and it was clear that rumors played an important role, in multiple ways, in the lives of the Young women. The most common rumors were sexualized and were mostly concerned with the view that the Young women should not engage in ?too many? heterosexual relations ? preferably none.

This study is about Young girls' mental health. In Sweden, the mental health deteriorated in recent years among adolescents, particularly among Young girls. Results of the Liv & Hälsa Ung in 2011 in the southern part of the county of Örebro is the basis for the study. The results of the survey showed that a remarkable number of Young girls rate their mental health as poor. The purpose of this study was to examine what Young girls in southern part of the county of Örebro County believes are contributing factors for good mental health and the method used is qualitative.

Investigations concerning adolescent mental health shows a negative development. Many pre-vious studies have focused on Young women's mental health. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate Young men's (17-19 years) experience of their mental health. Qualitative interviews were used as a method. The participants were six Young men who all go to high school in a major municipality in the county of Gävleborg.

AbstractTitle: The picture of the Swedish church - Young peoples image of the organization in comparison with the organizations profile (Bilden av Svenska kyrkan ? Unga människors image av organisationen i jämförelse med organisationens profil)Number of pages: 55 (57 including enclosures)Author: Ebba GöranzonTutor: Göran SvenssonCourse: Media and Communication Studies CPeriod: Fall 2006University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information Science, Uppsala UniversityAim: The aim of this essay is to study the external communication of the Swedish Church, and how they want Young people (16-18 years old) to perceive them. Further I would like to compare that information with how Young people actually perceive the Swedish church. Do the both pictures agree?Method/Material: Together with literature studies, a qualitive method has been used and four focus group interviews with a total of 16 informants have been conducted.

The study concentrates on which significance the pre-school?s yard and the outdoor environment has and how it influence the Young children regarding their development and learning. The study is carried out through observations of the children complimented by interviews of them. The results show that children?s outdoor environment is important for their development of mobility, language, social competence and learning about nature.

The purpose of this study is that through a discourse theoretical perspective, analyze Young girls 'statements about living with self-injuring by sexual behavior. The aim is to locate the discourses that surround them, visualize how discursive constructions affect these Young girls' identity as victims and/or actors in relation to self-injury, the sexual violence and in meetings with the professionals within the health authorities. In addition discourse theory as an analyze method, the authors also use Nils Christie's (2001) theory of the ideal victim and Ingrid Landers (2003) theoretical perspectives on normative femininity. The authors of the study show a diversity of discourses that surround the Young girls. All discourses contain normative actor- and victim?s positions that Young girls constantly are obliged to relate to, which partially conflict with social constructions of the idea of victim and femininity.

AbstractThis essay concerns Young women´s point of view and discussions about rape and rape victims. The purpose was to examine Young women´s view on rape and rape victims. By Young women we mean 17 to 18 year-old-high school-students.Our main questions were how Young women define rape, if there are any circumstances were they blame the victim and/or consider her less trustworthy and how they explain rape.This study is based on one qualitatively oriented group interview, with six Young women, and four individual interviews, as compliment to the group interview. We have used our interviews and earlier research to answer our questions. The analysis is based on a feministic point of view and Nils Christies article on "ideal victims".The result that appeared was that the Young women´s broad definition of rape narrows down through the different circumstances concerning the alcohol consumption, the woman´s way of living and what clothes she was wearing, the acquaintance-level between the victim and perpetrator and how the woman says "no" to sex.

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 with this study was to find out how Young people at age 16-19 years in Kalmar, Sweden use and interact through Facebook. The questions in our questionnaire were based on three themes, these are; friendship relations on Facebook, what influence Facebook has on Young people and how they choose to present themselves on Facebook. The theory that was applied on this study is of social-psychological kind. We chose the theory because we figured it would be suitable to further explain and dispute the aim of the study. The result shows that many different variables can matter in a study like this. We chose to look at a few, such as for example sex and age and we found out that there is a great difference between the way girls and boys use Facebook and how they choose to present themselves in this social media. Another conclusion that our study led to is that Facebook is an important tool for Young people, in the meaning that they use it since it makes it easier to communicate with their friends and it also strengthens their relationships with their friends. Keywords: Facebook, Young people, Friendship, Facebook and Social Relations, Facebook use among adolescents & Facebooks? impact on adolescents..

The last 1½ decade Young people with intellectual disabilities have been a part of my life. My now 13 year old son and several pupils I have taught as a teacher in the compulsory school. Their future and what will affect their lives has always been interesting to me. How do I affect them, why do I do the things I do and think the way I think? This study springs out of that curiosity.

My thesis brings up the subject of power. In the 33 local authorities we have in Skåne, I have made a quantitative study, to see how many Young people that are included in the power of politics, through local authorities parliament. This is the first of the two parts that I have devided my thesis into. The second part is qualitative and examines four Young politicians, and their thoughts on holding a position that is so unusual to hold at their age. This is the basis for my analysis where I bring up age as a form of discrimination.

The aim of this study was to examine the possibilities to enter the regular labour market for pupils and Young adults with intellectual disabilities. The method used is tape-recorded qualitative interviews with; Two pupils with intellectual disabilities, studying the last year at a special school. Two Young adults with intellectual disabilities, former pupils at a special school and at the moment in search of work at a Public Employment Service office for Young adults with disabilities. Furthermore were interviews made with two professionals, one student counsellor at a special school and one representative at a Public Employment Service office for Young adults with disabilities. For analysing the empirical data, Iris Marion Young's theory about Five Faces of Oppression, Crip theory and Dalrymple and Burkes theory about empowerment was used.

The purpose of the essay is to, in retrospect, take a closer look at how the Young people experienced their placement for assessment at Albogården and what it resulted in. With this purpose I inadvertently came to look at other aspects, for instance their lives before and after the placement.The underlying questions were:* The Young people social situations before the placement?* The experience of being locked up?* What was it like being analysed?* What are the Young people's thoughts on the methods of working at Albogården - rules, procedures, methods etc.?* What were the results from the placement at Albogården? Did something change in the Young people's social situations?To answer my questions I interviewed four persons that previously were placed for assessment. To ascertain information on how the assessment is done I also interviewed the director of Albogården. I also studied relevant literature.The investigation showed that a majority of the Young people didn't understand the purpose or felt participant in the assessment, being restless and locked up felt extremely arduous and violating.