The purpose of this study was to examine domestic adoptions in Sweden, and also compare the Swedish adoption system to the Canadian adoption system. I wanted to find out why there are so few domestic adoptions in Sweden, and how it has changed over the years. I also wanted to know why there is such a large difference between Sweden and Canada regarding adoptions. I interviewed five social workers

Uppsatsen behandlar konflikten mellan Israel och Palestina ur självmordsterroristers och terroristers synvinkel. Intresset riktas mot förklaringarna bakom självmordsterrorism och terrorism och medias betydelse för de studerade fenomenen uppmärksammas. Uppsatsens syfte är att finna och analysera de förklaringar som finns i vetenskaplig litteratur och i svensk kvällspress till självmordsterrorism o

Uppsatsen syftar till att studera vilka förutsättningarna är för de anställda att känna arbetstillfredsställelse på de två företag som jag gjort min undersökning på. Jag tittar också på hur de anställda och cheferna upplever situationen på arbetsplatsen. Jag tittar vidare på vad cheferna på respektive avdelning tror gör att man känner arbetstillfredsställelse. Jag har gjort min fallstudie på Råby

Under senare tid har förändringar mot ökat elevinflytande genomförts i skolan. Undersökningen syftar till att se hur eget ansvar och inflytande över lärandet fungerar utifrån en pedagogisk modell, TEA. Modellen är införd på en grundskola och studien avser elever i år 9. I teoriavsnittet beskrivs olika sätt att se på lärande och olika möjligheter att utforma lärandesituationer. Undersökningen, som

This essay is about the integration work in Helsingborg. It's main focus bases on the collaboration concerning the integration work, between the immigrant's organisations in Helsingborg and the municipality. It's also focusing on the results of the survey, Integrationsbarometer 2003, which was carried out in Helsingborg. We wanted to know if the results altered the integration work in

The purpose of this essay was to get some knowledge about how the situation was for children with overweight and obesity. I wanted to examine what experience about causes, consequences and measure the professionals, who meets children in different situations in their daily work had, and I wanted to find out which explanations current research had about the problem. The knowledge I have acquired d

Att bli utbränd är något som drabbar allt fler i vårt samhälle. Mitt syfte med studien, har varit att se vilka processer i organisationerna som kan leda till att de som arbetar där blir sjuka. För att kunna göra detta, har jag med en induktivansats gjort en kvalitativ empirisk undersökning med hjälp av semistrukturerade intervjuer. Jag har intervjuat fem stycken som har diagnosen utbränd och bett

The purpose of this essay was to study factors that influence some youth to use narcotics. I wanted to increase my understanding and knowledge about these factors. I believe it is good to have such knowledge when you are working with youth who are using narcotics but also for a good drug-prevented work. It is a literary study, which covers the most frequently quoted results in the field of researc

The purpose of this essay was to examine what consequenses of alcohol and narcotics that youth magazines describe and how the user and addict is described. My porpose was also to examine what situations the magazines claim that alcohol and narcotics are related to. The questions for my studie was: 1. How is an alcoholic/drug addict /user described in youth magazines? 2. What situations are rela

The present Equality Project in the Swedish preschool has been studied according to its view on sex and equality. The purpose was to find out how the Equality Project is described, interpreted and implemented. The research questions focused the central concepts sex (gender identity, gender roles and gender patterns) and equality in the political level, the educational level and the executing leve

The purpose of our study was to look at the connection between theories, research work and concepts when it comes to teenagers and the testing of drugs. The theories we have used are Erikssons development theory, psychoanalysis and labelling theory. Concepts that we focused on for our study were youthculture, the search for identity and the testing of drugs. We did this by asking students, in nint

In Sweden approximately ten percent of all children grows up in a family where at least one parent is having an alcohol related addiction. Since 1998 the development of group activities for children in this situation has been immense. The aim of group activities is to break the child's isolation and make them feel that they are not lonely in their experiences, give them knowledge about addicti

Our purpose with this essay is to examine how staff that works with drugaddicts in compulsory-treatment institutions for women and men uses gender in their work. We are trying to get knowledge and understand how the staff is using their own and the client's gender in the work that they are doing. We have chosen to take focus within women's care in institutions and compare if the work is do

The object of this study is the female user of amphetamines and the characteristica which she is often described by. Many of these descriptions regard the female amphetamine user's sexuality which also have come to form the assumption that these women make a living from having sexual relations with men in exchange of drugs. In order to be able to draw any kind of conclusions regarding this, w

Fildelning och dess koppling till piratkopiering är ett ämne som ligger högaktuellt i vårt samhälle vad det gäller kultur, lagstiftning, teknikutveckling och musikdistribution. I dagsläget talas det frekvent om unga som jublar och använder fildelningsprogram för att ladda ner mängder av "gratis" musik från Internet, samtidigt som skivbolagen förlorar stora summor pengar. Vår undersöknin

The purpose of this essay was to find out what alcoholics themselves mean were the way out of their drinking abuse. The questions at stake are: · What kind of context did the interviewed live in before and after the turning point? · How did the process of getting out of the alcohol abuse look like? · What different factors may have influenced the turning point, the maintenance and the intervie

Jag vill med min uppsats undersöka vilka handlingsutrymmen män med rörelsehinder upplever sig ha i förhållande till samhälleliga förväntningar på dem som män och som rörelsehindrade. Med grund i kvalitativa intervjuer och läsning av framförallt feministisk handikappforskning försöker jag tolka och förstå männens berättelser och ställningstagande utifrån sin kontext. Männen upplever alla negativa f