Abstract Socio-cultural standards of beauty ideals contribute to a widespread dieting frenzy. Pro-ana subculture advocates anorexia and eating disorders in terms of lifestyle choices. Using the Internet as a basis for a subcultural community online. The aim of this study is to find out how this phenomenon is expressed on the Internet: How does Pro-ana argue for their cause? How can Pro-ana be desc

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

Studies have shown that refugees have been described in Swedish media as either victims or threats. Those stereotypical images affect how people understand refugees. It has also an impact on how professional social workers act when they meet them. We were interested in studying the discourse around a new phenomenon: climate refugees. Climate refugees have been a topic in Swedish media for the last

The production unit for v-shaped shaft seals in Forsheda has historically been experiencing long internal lead-times. Trelleborg wishes to reduce these lead-times without negatively affecting the product quality. Another goal for Trelleborg is to implement a new system for express orders. The purpose of this new order class is to serve customers that require short lead-times and a high level of re

Individuals with mental illness and a contemporary substance addiction has been more and more noticed within social work and issues on interaction between different instances that have a mutual responsibility for the individual has been illuminated within research. It has shown that the goal of interaction between for example Social Services and the Psychiatry has been difficult to achieve. We hav

Abstract Author: Emily Andersson and Nathalie Lantz Title: The traumatised children – a study about how children suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder are being received and treated [translated title]. Supervisor: Gunilla Lindén Examiner: Åsa Lundqvist The purpose of this study was to enter deeply into the treatment of children with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. More specifically the ai

The purpose of this study was to examine how middle managers within the social service experience and perceive their own role and work situation. It was also my intention to investigate what kind of demands and expectations were attributed to their role. Furthermore, I aimed to investigate how they experience their possibilities to fulfill or match these demands and expectations. I have read artic

Många tycks hävda att Twilight-böckerna av Stephenie Meyer sänder ut en mer stereotyp och normerande genusbild än J.K. Rowlings Harry Potter-böcker. I denna uppsats analyseras och jämförs karaktärerna Bella och Edward i Om jag kunde drömma (2005, Twilight) med Hermione och Ron i Harry Potter och Halvblodsprinsen (2005, Harry Potter and the Half-bloodprince)utifrån vilka traditionellt manliga respe

The main purpose with this essay is to understand the motivation behind norms concerning collection of fee and compensation to victims from a group of people to pay convicted persons fee and compensation to victims. In this essay I assume that the motivation in the norm is that the judgement is wrong. By using the method trial and error I will test the assumption. I will also try to explain what c

In contemporary research on foster care there is little research on what impact fostering has on relationships between the members of the carer’s biological family, and how family as a whole becomes affected. The questions we intended to look at were the following: (1) How do family members experience changes in the life of their family when they started to foster? (2) What strategies have been us

This thesis is the result of a minor field work in a coastal Bangladesh village where peoples are struggling to adapt with salt water intrusion. It describes how people in one community under climatic change or variability adapt to an acute problem, and how their perceptions of that environment, their Ethnoecology influence this response. To make sense my primary and secondary data I have used ada

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

My intentions with this essay are to highlight the importance of leadership for gender integration. Some professions have big differences in the distribution between men and women, for example in social work. What opportunities and constraints do we have to affect the equality between men and women? And maybe a more important question –What can leaders do to increase equality? My purpose is to an

The purpose with this essay was to investigate which kind of norms prison warders have about female inmates in a Swedish prison for women. I also examined where norms about female inmates cause from. The study is based on a survey that I have made with nine prison warders. Michel Foucaults theory of power and discipline, gender theories by Frances Heidensohn, Simone De Beauvoir, Ingrid Lander and

Sverige är en representativ demokrati, vilket innebär att vi väljer de personer vi vill ska styra samt har möjlighet att uttrycka våra åsikter tack vare yttrandefriheten. Ändå finns det dem som väljer att handla på ett brottsligt sätt för att påvisa fel eller orättvisor i samhället. I En uthållig demokrati anses att rätten bör ta hänsyn till personens moraliska motiv i mål som handlar om civil oly

The aim of this study was twofolded; on one hand I have been studying how the social services and the women’s crisis center work to contribute to assaulted women’s need of support and protection, while on the other hand I have been analyzing how discursive categories from the group of women addicted to alcohol is being made by professionals. The reason for this purpose was that I would like to see

In recent years, school have taken on the responsibility to, in a higher degree, concentrate on social fostering and preventive measures in order to help children with conduct disorder. This paper deals with the question how the educational system works around children with special needs. The focus lies in mapping out the prevailing strategies and the driving forces behind alternative schooling. T

The aim of this study was to examine international adoptees' reflections of the own ethnic identity. Through semi-structured interviews, six adult adoptees shared their experiences from their childhood and the present concerning identity. Five different themes were used in the interviews to discuss identity; reflections of the self, interactions with the adoptive family, interactions with same