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The importance of religion in the contemporary society is viewed as decreasing, however, it is significant. Especially, since patients within palliative care tend to turn to their religion for support and comfort. The aim of this thesis has been to examine social workers experience of religion within practical social work in palliative care. Qualitative semi-structured interviewing was used as met
Studien undersökte organisatoriska och demografiska faktorers förmåga att predicera utfall på beroende variablerna Burnout, Secondary Traumatic Stress och Compassion Satisfaction hos personal på kvinnojourer. I linje med tidigare forskning var studiens hypoteser att skyddande organisatoriska faktorer skulle predicera höga utfall på Compassion Satisfaction, som innebär den positiva påverkan arbetetThe study looked into the ability for organizational and demographical factors to predict outcome on dependent variables Burnout, Secondary Traumatic Stress and Compassion Satisfaction. In line with previous research, the study’s hypothesis was that protective organizational factors would predict a high result on Compassion Satisfaction, which stands for the positive aspects of the work, and low r
The debate on populism is and has been a contested phenomenon. Mostly, scholars focus on defining populism and explaining its development during the two past decades. What is still an unexplored area is why populist parties succeed in gaining electoral support in some countries and fail in others. Despite the consequences of the financial crisis of 2008, a right-wing populist party has failed to g
To-date, sustainable consumption in grocery is gaining awareness. In response, different sustainable retailing approaches emerge. They entail different scale of changes to consumers’ current shopping practices, as well as varying visions of a sustainable living. This paper aims to shed light on the congruity between consumers’ notions of sustainability and retailers’ sustainable practices, in hope
The internal dimension of an individual is a potential deep leverage point for a collective change toward sustainability that is currently overlooked. Especially in their professional context, certain individuals can create change beyond themselves and the enterprise subjected to them. The environment of individuals, however, influences the activated potential of individuals for contributing to th
The perspective from children is often overlooked in urban planning. This is partly because children are hard to reach in the often used citizen council. Since the Convention on the Rights of the Child has become Swedish law the interest of children is more important than ever before. Therefore, this study examines how the thoughts from children can be collected in better ways. The study uses inte
The field of change management is continuously developing and is an important subject for organizations worldwide. The models and theories of change management are broad and cover many aspects but cannot be applied to all change processes. In this study, we have looked into the challenges and strategies to overcome them in a small manufacturing business based in Sweden. The change process of the c
This project has focused on improving the psychosocial working environment for hospital staff that uses electronic patient records in Region Skåne. Through making qualitative interviews with nurses, doctors and medical secretaries that use patient records on a daily basis I’ve gotten a view of some of the issues with the current system. The problems today seem to be that the documentation system
The purpose of this thesis was to develop a deeper understanding of child pornography as a crime and its sentencing. The main purpose of the study is to relate the current debate regarding the sentencing connected to the crime of child pornography to a standpoint of sociology of law perspective on the law. As our starting point we have considered the question of Thomas Mathiesen, through sociology
This paper consists of a Namibian case study of how current debates in Namibia view ‘colonial legacies’ and how these legacies continue to affect the Namibian society today. The discourses are built upon identified challenges of the Namibian society and the debates about them, and thereafter they are supported with the theoretical framework. The study was carried out through qualitative methods of
This study aims to investigate how six social workers in elderly care in southern Sweden experience working with dementia patients without insight into their disease. The study focuses on the right to self-determination for dementia patients and how social workers handle the ethical dilemma regarding the user’s resistance to support despite the need for care interventions. The study is based on th
This chapter explores how Danish animal rights activists challenge the commodification of female bodies, particularly in dairy production, through narratives of motherhood and care. It examines how activists attempt to educate the public—not only by providing information about how dairy is produced but also by offering alternative frameworks from which to think about human-cow relations. Based on
Urban streets are an integral part of the public realm. Streets are commonly planned following normative design principles focused on the connectivity of road networks and urban morphology. Beyond their function as mobility infrastructure, streetscapes’ aesthetic, social, and cultural qualities also have an important impact on the experience of the overall urban environment and human well-being. T
Evaluative practices play an increasingly important role in the management of local government. More than ever, evaluations are seen as a means for stakeholders to garner objective information about the performance of public organizations in order to demand accountability. However, this understanding of evaluative judgments as objective is being challenged by constructivist scholars. They argue th
This study explores how cultural identity and belonging are experienced and negotiated among Turkish-Swedes across generations. Drawing on qualitative interviews with first and second generation participants, the study examines how identity is shaped through everyday practices, family relations, use of language as well as experiences of inclusion and exclusion within Swedish society. Thematic anal
Denna studie undersöker effekterna av social önskvärdhet på emotionell intelligens och dess implikationer för samband och prediktioner i relation till personlighetsfaktorerna i Big Five. Då båda konstrukten ofta uppskattas genom självskattningstest mottagliga för påverkan av social önskvärdhet, ämnar denna studie att undersöka huruvida mätinstrumenten för emotionell intelligens, TEIQue-SF och dela
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