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A number of theories explain how and why groups are setting up boundaries between them. Groups are often categorising each other and individuals are created into stereotypes for belonging to a certain group. Our theory is that there exist boundaries between individuals and small groups within a larger group. We examined different factors that we think could participate in these exclusion- and incl
Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur personer som tidigare erhållit socialbidrag beskriver orsakerna till att de inte längre behöver socialbidrag samt hur de upplevde kontakten med socialtjänsten. Målgruppen har varit hushåll som idag klarar sin försörjning utan det behovsprövade socialbidraget. Undersökningsgruppen bestod av 158 hushåll i Jönköpings kommun som under 1997 avslutat sin kontakt
The purpose of this paper was to listen to juvenile criminals about there experience of the social service secretary, the sentence and the correctional system. The questions I wanted an answer to was: how did the youngster experience the contact with the soical service? What did they think of the sentence and the measure from the social service? Did they have any significant others who could helpe
The aim of this essay was to examine, from the relative's angle, which actions and behaviour that had an effect on how the relatives valued the encounters with the personnel at so called group housing for persons with cognitive disabilities. The constructional frame of the investi-gation originated from two presumptions. Firstly that the encounter between people is af-fected both by the person
The purpose of this essay was to find out why people who had used alcohol and narcotics for a long time, stoped using drugs. If there were any special occurrences, personal skills or surroundings that influenced sobernes. The main questions were: · Why stop using drugs? · How has the way to a drug free life turned out? · Were there any special occurrances or factors that started the drug free life
The purpose of this paper was to find out which objectives the curriculum for the compulsory basic school (Lpo 94) and the Education Act, states for the support of pupils in need of special support in general and the measure programmes in particular, furthermore which experiences the pupils and their custodians have about the support and the measure programmes, which have been offered in the compu
The aim of the study was to analyze the reasons behind the increasing number of people with the diagnosis Asperger syndrome and the effect of the diagnosis on the individual, the family and society. The theoretical approach was based on the theories of Michel Foucault and complemented with two articles by Mats Börjesson and Per Solvang. I asked the following questions: How was the diagnosis establ
The aim of the present study was to investigate the background, efficacy and theories behind a parent education program. I came in contact with this program during my practical fifth semester at the Bureau of Family Treatment in Lund. The training program originates from the United Kingdom, where it was called Mellow Parenting. The goal of the parent education is to enhance parent-child relationsh
This study aimed at understanding the phenomenon of permanent living in caravans. The central questions where; how did it come that the camping inhabitants chose to live permanently in caravans? How did they describe their living and the context? How did they describe themselves, the society and others reaction to their choice of living? Empirical data from interviews with seven inhabitants was pr
The aim of this paper was to investigate how parents of children with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorde r) or ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) experience the treatment and support that the child and its family gets from society. Some of the questions I concentrated on are: · How do parents experience the support they get from different institutions, such as schools, child psychiatrists
This essay is an evaluation of studies in the Swedish language for immigrants, called "sfi", in Helsingborg. Our purpose with the study was to illuminate "sfi". We wanted to find out how "sfi" is organized. "Sfi" is contracted out to three organizers, "NK DataCenter" and "Vuxenutbildningen Kärnan" in the daytime and "ABF" in the
The purpose of this thesis is to describe the concept of social sponsorship within the public sector as well as the phenomena itself. The focus will be on the following topics: - What is the general conception regarding social sponsorship? - How is it possible to explain the growth of sponsorship? - What kind of business and welfare areas are in contact with social sponsorship? - What are the pros
Unemployment among immigrants in Sweden has lately been exposed as a problem in mass media. One of the reasons is that it´s been noticed that many immigrants with university education are unemployed or having jobs they are over qualified for. I chose to investigate unemployment among immigrants in the community of Helsingborg. Helsingborg is a town in the south of Sweden. Helsingborg as a communit
This essay is a study about "Sfi", Swedish language education for immigrants. Our main purpose with the study was to find out the reasons behind Helsingborg’s decision to privatize Sfi, a part of the public sector. We interviewed a local politician and representatives for the public organizer, Vuxenutbildningen Kärnan, and the private organizer, NK-Datacenter. In the interviews we wanted
The main purpose of this study was to investigate young girls´ and boys´ socialization in sport involvement and what keeps them motivated do continue. This study is based on a qualitative method. I have interviewed three girls and three boys, all between 15 and 16 years of age. My main questions were; what kind of sports is he/she active in, who introduced him/her to sports, what keeps him/her mot
The object of this essay is to examinate if there exist any values and moral aspects of the politics of voluntary returning home of refugees. The questions in issue are the following: - When is it of importance to argue voluntary returning home? Is it when integration does not work, or has it always been topic of interest? - In what degree has values and different ideas about “the best for the ref
The objective of this thesis was, on the basis of the Theory of Residualist Conversion, to examine if students in social work education were trained to maintain the structures in society by converting social problems into personal problems of the people they serve. I chose 'the multicultural society' as an example of an issue that is often perceived as a social problem. The research questi
The purpose of this essay was to contribute to an increased understanding about battered women. We also wanted to find patterns and explanations as to why the women acted as they did. The questions asked were: - Why didn't the women leave the men after the first abuse? - Why did the women accept the abuse? - What makes the women choose the same kind of men over and over again? "Love on wh
When we started this project our aim was to discuss and interpret older women's adjustment to their new lifes as retired. Did we interpret the retirement as a difficult transition for the women, or as if they felt satisfaction with their new situation? We interpreted the results of the interviews using gerentologic theories. The questions that led our work was how our respondents apprehended t
The purpose of this essay was to examine the importance language has to the feeling of being left out of the society. The intention was to compare thoughts and feelings between two different groups. One of the groups was people suffering from aphasia and the other was immigrants. In the first group, I interviewed a man suffering from aphasia and a relative to another man also suffering from aphasi
