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The aim of this essay was to find out what children consider to be necessary consumption at three senior level schools in the municipality of Lund. I had three questions to help me to reach my aim: · What consider pupils in senior level to be necessary consumption? · Are there any differences between the answers from the girls and the boys? · Are there any differences between the pupils depending

This thesis describes the development of childcare facilities in The Netherlands. The Netherlands have a comparatively special position in regards to the participation of women on the labourmarket and has also a poorly developed childcare, which is traditionally not initiated or supported by the Dutch government. The Netherlands has through different factors always had a high number of housewives

The purpose of this essay was to focus on the prospects and limitations for the drug-abusers to make a change to a new way of life. Questions: What can literature tell us about the risks involved with the client leaving the treatmentfacility? How can social service departments offer support and what kind of support does the client request? What is important for him/her to feel participant in socie

The purpose with our essay was to illustrate child-care workers, headmasters for the child-care and social-workers opinion and knowledge about the obligation to report according to the 71 § SoL, and investigate if there are any restraining factors like lack of knowledge or lack of support and to see how the cooperation works and how it understands by the different parts. The main questions have be

Our purpose with this essay was to examine and compare the help, that children with Asperger’s syndrome and their parents receive and have received from the Swedish welfarestate. The question we asked were: · From the parents point of view, what do they and their children need help with? · Which help have they received? We decided to divide our study into two time-periods, the time before and the

The purpose of this assignment was to illustrate how some young boys, who attend upper secondary school on the specific ice hockey and dancing branches, look upon manliness, how they consider themselves and the environment in which they are active. Key questions were how they consider themselves, how they consider their immediate environment, what the sport gives them, and how they view upon their

This study has been done among swedish backpackers (age 20- 35) on the island Koh-pah-gan in Thailand. The aim of the study is to find out why swedish backpackers are using illegal drugs when they are out travelling, and also to find out if they are using illegal drugs back home in Sweden. The study shows that factors like curiosity, grouppressure, gruppaffinity, availability and experience capita

The purpose of this paper was to obtain knowledge of crime preventional work and how it can be practiced. Through this obtained knowledge and with the aid of theorethical modells and a social-political perspective establish how crime preventional work should be practiced in Sweden today and lead to provable results. The following questions were of central importance for the paper. On what theoreth

The purpose of this essay was to research the citizenship of a minority in relation to that of the majority and what importance it has for Greenlanders in Denmark. The questions asked were the following; What elements underlie the Danish people's image of the Greenlanders and the Greenlanders' image of themselves? What is the importance of official institutions recognising cultural minorit

Bullying should not be considered as an isolated phenomenon. Bullying does not only affect individual victims but even touches upon the basic values and rights within society. Bullying does not only occur during school hours and several researchers imply that relationships between the school and home are of significance. The aim of this essay is, by means of surveys, to illustrate the attitude of

This essay is written about how parents experiences the meaning of the child’s diagnosis within the autismspectra. We wanted to recreate a picture of feelings and reflections that the parents have with the thought of the child’s diagnosis. It is the parentperspective as the essay treats in questions as: how is autism discovered? Who gives the answer about the diagnosis and how does it feel to get

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The purpose of this study has been to describe and analyse how gender is represented and passed on in 12 Swedish child- and youth magazines. We put focus on three different arias; how gender roles were passed on, which kind of problems girls and boys were ascribed and how sexuality was represented. We chose to do a qualitative study of the magazines using 11 theme questions. Our study showed that

Anxiety is a common symptom in the life of young girls life. The aim of this study was to search for positive coping factors in young girl with anxiety and also find out if these factors were related to these of a standardized questionaire (KASAM). Five girls, 18-24 years old who had had a consultation at the Young Womens policlinic the last year were interviewed. Their answeres were related to th

The purpose of this essay was to investigate what function death metal music has on young people's identity development. We interviewed five girls and five boys between the ages of 14 and 19 over the Internet. The interviewees are all participants of the death metal subculture. The results of the interviews were correlated to relevant youth research concerning identity development, gender and

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, is a disease which 2-3 % of the Swedish population suffers from. The purpose of this essay was to examine how the disease affects the children who grow up in families where somebody has got OCD. Our first question was: In which way did relative’s disease affect the child? The second question was: How did the relative’s disease affect the child’s relations to the

The purpose of this paper has been to observe and compare similarities and differences in approaches to work and providing for themselves amongst two groups of young people between the ages of 19-24, the so called generation Y, one including people who were currently out of work and therefor involved in jobseeking activities and another group who were undergraduate students of social work. We want

The purpose of this study was to investigate what facts that matters in relation to where drug abusers get their care and treatment, after a decision of voluntary treatment has been taken, by the social welfare. Another question I wanted to answer, was if there was any deviation between social secretaries with or without the authority to make those decisions in their opinion of what underlying mat

The purpose of this essay was to illustrate the identity and the double belonging among second generation immigrants. We also wanted to illustrate the second generation immigrants view of identity, language and society. The questions asked were: How do the second generation immigrants, in our study, experience theirs identities in the two different cultures they are living in? Have the society and