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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

Almost all children and teenagers are active in sports clubs at some time during their lives. Sports clubs have a significant impact during childhood and adolescence, and they play a key developmental role. Participating in a sports club helps a person gain the kind of social capital that has a substantial positive impact on individuals and consequently on society. The very foundation of sports cl

Bakgrund/problem Konsultyrket kan anses som ett modernt och flexibelt arbete som korresponderar med de nya krav som finns i vårt samhälle. Mitt intresse ligger i att förstå konsultarbetets karaktär men kanske främst att studera närmare konsulternas eventuella utveckling i arbetet. Syfte Syftet med uppsatsen är att ge en bild av konsulternas arbetssituation och konsultyrkets karaktär samt undersöka

Problem. Det vi idag känner som arbete är oftast associerat med förvärvsarbete. Förvärvsarbetet som huvudsaklig källa till att försörja sig är historiskt sett en ny företeelse för människan. Förutom att vara en källa till försörjning är förvärvsarbetet även en aktivitet som upptar en stor del av människans liv idag. Uppsatsen försöker se hur dagens människor förhåller sig till förvärvsarbetet, är

The aim of this study is to investigate the role and position of the principal in private, publicly funded schools in Sweden, and how they themselves interpret it. The Swedish school system has undergone several major changes during the past twenty years, and the results of these changes are still a frequently discussed and often appear on the political agenda. I have performed interviews with pri

Människors användande av andra djur för sina egna syften och intressen uppfattas ofta som opropblematiskt och självklart. Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att synliggöra de bakomliggande ideologiska mekanismer som kan bidra till att möjliggöra och legitmera denna ordning, som kan benämnas speciesism. Med hjälp av Faircloughs kritiska diskursanalys analyseras Arlas och Scans egna beskrivningar av si

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