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Participation of the people is essential for a democracy's vitality and survival. In this study we focus on the individual as an active participant in the traditional political arena and beyond its sphere into the society as a whole. The first part of the study has a normative aim. Firstly we examine why political participation is essential for democracy, and especially the ideal of representa

I denna uppsats presenterar vi en teori och modell som syftar till att illustrera interaktion utifrån en spelteoretisk ansats som en avvägning mellan relativ vinst, definierad som vinster som görs på motpartens bekostnad, kontra ömsesidig vinst, definierad som vinster som görs i samarbete med motparten. Vi förklarar detta synsätt genom att använda oss av kortfattade exempel och applicerar sedan de

How is the identity of Swedish diplomats affected by living a very international life, regularly moving from one place to another, while their main task is to represent Sweden at all times? How does the national identity relate to the professional and the international identity and what role does the context play in this process? These are the questions asked in this thesis. By interviewing 39 Swe

The purpose of this study was to examine what kind of difficulties and possibilities social welfare officers experience with the discretion in the processing of social assistance cases. Investigation is based on qualitative semistructured interviews with eight social welfare officers who work at social welfare offices in five different districts in Malmo city. Three vignettes are a complement to i

Abstract The aim of our essay was to study how attendants in forensic psychiatry experience their work situation, how they see forensic psychiatry as an institution and survey how they experience the relationship between themselves as professionals and their patients. In our essay we have primarily used previous research on psychiatry, but we have also used semi-structured interviews in our sear

The purpose of this study was to examine the work of clinical social workers. More specifically our aim was to perceive the knowledge and competence of clinical social workers using their own description of their work. The main questions that we address in this thesis are: How do the clinical social workers describe their knowledge and competence? What are the opinions of clinical social workers o

English title: Song writing and gender. The purpose of this study has been to find out if there are any differences between women's and men's song writing processes, primarily in the singer/songwriter genre. I have interviewed three female songwriters and three men about their way of writing songs. The result shows mainly that there are not any gender related differences in the way songs a

My purpose with this essay was to understand the contact persons view of his/her own professional role/identity, and the specific work environment at a correctional facility as an organization. To reach my purpose I answered three questions: how the correctional organization affect the individual contact person and their workmanship seen from a professional perspective, how contact persons find th

Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur ett antal psykosociala dimensioner i bemanningsbranschens flexibla arbetsmiljö var relaterade till och predicerade de tre komponenterna av organisatoriskt commitment; affektivt, normativt och upprätthållande. En internetbaserad enkät användes och besvarades av 65 bemanningsanställda. Resultaten av korrelationsanalyserna visade att affektivt commitment hade The purpose of the study was to examine how a number of psychosocial dimensions in the staffing industry's flexible work environment related to and predicted the three components of organizational commitment; affective, normative and continuance. An internet-based questionnaire was used and answered by 65 agency workers. The correlation analysis showed that affective commitment had strong posi

The aim of our study was to examine how staff, working with unaccompanied refugee children experience their work and the children’s integration to the society. Many previous studies in the same field have often focused on the young refugees, how they perceive their situation and how they perceive the integration work. Our study is based on a qualitative research strategy and we used semi-structure

Ohälsosamma levnadsvanor leder till hälsoproblem. En stor del av distriktssköterskans arbete handlar om hälsofrämjande arbete. Motiverande samtal (MI) är en samtalsmetodik där distriktssköterskan i samarbete med patienten kan locka fram patientens inre motivation till förändring. Syftet var att beskriva distriktssköterskans upplevelse av att använda MI i det dagliga arbetet på vårdcentral. Intervj

I Sverige väljer de flesta vårdnadshavarna att vaccinera sina barn enligt barnhälsovårdens vaccinationsprogram. Internationella studier visar att det till stor del beror på tillit till BHV-personalen. Syftet med studien var att beskriva vårdnadshavares motiv till att vaccinera sina barn sett ur BVC-sjuksköterskans perspektiv. Datainsamlingen var tre fokusgruppsintervjuer inkluderande nio BVC-sjuks

This master’s thesis focuses on the experiences of retired public librarians in relation to their professional life. The public library as an institution and the librarian profession have to this day gone through many changes, and a high level of research has been conducted regarding this. Yet, there is a lack of perspective from those who have actually lived through and during these changes. Base

The purpose of this thesis is to critically examine the anti-EU party the Swedish demo-crats own political medium SD-Kuriren and its articles regarding the European Parliament elections of 2014. The study aims to analyse how the use of language in SD-Kurirens articles forms the basis for how nationalist and populist discourses are shaped and expressed. The theoretical framework applied in this the

Authors: Emelie Dahlstedt & Nadja Bjärenstam Title: ”…to apply for an adoption for your own child.” - a qualitative study of same-sex parenting and second parent adoption. Supervisor: Frans Oddner Assessor: Tove Harnett The aim of the study was to examine how same-sex parents perceive and construct their parenting in a second parent adoption. The empirical material consisted of six semi-s

The aim of this study is to examine how women have proceeded to end an abusive relationship, the support and help they received and whether there were any difficulties during this procedure. Our study is based on qualitative interviews with six women. All of the women are over 18 years old and have been out of the relationship for more than two years. The data is analyzed based on thematic analysi

The aim of this study was to focus on how municipal social-workers work with honor related abuse (HRA) in a smaller community in Sweden. The purpose of the study was to study if there were any changes in how the municipal social-workers described their work with honor-related abuse today compared to the year of 2012. The theories and the perspectives used for this study include: the gender theory,

The aim of this qualitative study was to investigate and shed light on how care workers perceive their care work and the dilemmas they encounter in the work of adults diagnosed with severe intellectual disabilities. I conducted six semi-structured interviews with care workers working with the study target audience. For my analysis, I have applied the theoretical perspectives ethics of response, pr