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Title: Defending one's origin ? a musical journey to Transylvania. A journey to the Transylvanian part of Romania was pursued with the intent to investigate the cultural aspects of the historically and politically rooted set of relations between the Hungarian peaking minority and the majority of the population, the Romanian speaking group. Music pedagogical ambitions within the two cultures w
Based on phenomenological hermeneutics and narrative theory the study explored how parents experience and create meaning when the child receives the diagnosis of autistic disorder. Interviews were conducted with eight parents and the analysis concerned both contents and form in their stories. The resulting aspects of the contents is presented in seven areas: stories about the time before the diagn
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
This is an essay about how disabled young people look upon themselves and their handicap. The purpose of the essay was to illustrate how the identy and self-image of young disabled persons is formed during their youth, and also how they experience their handicap during this time in life when you compare yourself with friends and other significant persons. My questions were: 1. In what ways is th
Participation of the people is essential for a democracy's vitality and survival. In this study we focus on the individual as an active participant in the traditional political arena and beyond its sphere into the society as a whole. The first part of the study has a normative aim. Firstly we examine why political participation is essential for democracy, and especially the ideal of representa
I denna uppsats presenterar vi en teori och modell som syftar till att illustrera interaktion utifrån en spelteoretisk ansats som en avvägning mellan relativ vinst, definierad som vinster som görs på motpartens bekostnad, kontra ömsesidig vinst, definierad som vinster som görs i samarbete med motparten. Vi förklarar detta synsätt genom att använda oss av kortfattade exempel och applicerar sedan de
How is the identity of Swedish diplomats affected by living a very international life, regularly moving from one place to another, while their main task is to represent Sweden at all times? How does the national identity relate to the professional and the international identity and what role does the context play in this process? These are the questions asked in this thesis. By interviewing 39 Swe
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
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
The purpose of this study was to examine the work of clinical social workers. More specifically our aim was to perceive the knowledge and competence of clinical social workers using their own description of their work. The main questions that we address in this thesis are: How do the clinical social workers describe their knowledge and competence? What are the opinions of clinical social workers o
English title: Song writing and gender. The purpose of this study has been to find out if there are any differences between women's and men's song writing processes, primarily in the singer/songwriter genre. I have interviewed three female songwriters and three men about their way of writing songs. The result shows mainly that there are not any gender related differences in the way songs a
En grundläggande målsättning i svensk rätt är att barnets bästa ska sättas i främsta rummet och det ska alltid ske utifrån barnets individuella förhållan-den. Umgänge bedöms som utgångspunkt vara bra för barnet. Barn har rätt och behov av att träffa båda sina föräldrar och umgänge ska ske under trygga former. Genom att analysera och kombinera det som anses vara bra för barnet, barnets vilja, barneA basic aim in swedish law is the ”best for the child” always should be giv-en first priority from an individual child perspective. Parental visitation rights are assessed according to what is best for the child. Children have right and also need to see both their parents under safe and secure forms. Through an analysis of what is reasonably good for the child, the child’s own will and need, the b
The purpose of the essay was to study and create an understanding for welfare officers´ work with focus on their preventive work. The study was based on strategic choice of five school welfare officers' experiences with preventive work in the schools and the method used was semi-structured interviews. The study was further more an investigation on how the welfare officers´ experience their wor
This essay is about why people participate in political parties in Sweden. The purpose of this essay is to gain more knowledge of people’s incentives for participation to help the political parties to recruit more members. I will use Panebiancos theory about the displacement of incentives for people to participate in political parties; collective incentives (idealists) such as ideology and social
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) from 1989 is based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In this paper we want to see how Save the Children Sweden relates to the CRC in their work. The material that has been used to compare and investigate Save the Children Sweden's project the Compass (2008) is their annual reports between 2008 and 2011. Reynaerts (et al.) C
Freedom of expression and freedom of assembly are an integral part of a democratic society and of paramount importance to demonstrations and Non-governmental organisations (NGO). Both demonstrations and NGO:s are a very important sort of social capital and are part of horizontal organisations. Russia today is characterized by dominant vertical relations, even if there is a sufficient amount of hor
The aim of this study was to explore how care managers defined their mission and the needs of the elderly. Interviews were carried out with four care managers all working in a public authority in a middle-sized municipality in southern Sweden. The results were analysed using Michael Lipsky's theory of the street-level bureaucrat. The study showed that the care managers are caught between the d
This master thesis investigates how municipalities can use action program for its safety work and how the municipality of Umeå can improve its work with such a program. Information has been gathered through literature studies and case studies involving the municipality of Umeå, four other municipalities and some of the responsible authorities for the area. Conclusions reached out is that an action
