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The aim of this study was to discover how caregivers in a caring home for elderly people work with the social and emotional part of the caregiving. To discover this, the study was based on 4 days of participating observations that took place on a caring home for elderly people in Sweden. The observations were focused on every staff in the caring home, but mostly on the caregivers. Throughout the s

In this research we have decided to investigate the topic child marriage. The purpose of our study is to investigate the legal situation in Sweden when it comes to child marriage. In our research we have chosen to look at the legal perspective of marriage and children. The material we have used is mainly preliminary work and prevailing law. We decided to use Swedish law and regulatory system. When

The consensus throughout history have been that sports have great potential to be a good influence on youths. Both in social development and preventive against antisocial behaviour. Despite this, there have been a small or non-existent interest to incorporate sports in social work with youths in Sweden, especially for those who are socially vulnerable. In this study, we intend to have a closer loo

Trots att tio procent av världens kvinnor lever med endometrios kallas den för ”den tysta sjukdomen”. Kunskapen inom vården är begränsad och väntetiden på diagnos är idag lång. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att belysa kvinnors erfarenheter av att leva med endometrios. Efter sökning i de medicin - och omvårdnadsvetenskapliga databaserna PubMed och CINAHL valdes åtta studier med kvalitativ a

The phenomena of social work in an international commercial volunteering context is common today and steadily growing. This essay focuses on how the recipient of social work, the characteristics of social work and the relation between the recipient of social work and the social worker is portrayed in a commercial social work context. The essay uses a critical discourse analysis inspired by Fairclo

Suzanne Collins’ trilogy The Hunger Games is, thus far, one of the 21st century’s most well known young adult series, and Collins has been praised for challenging things such as gender stereotypes and genre limitations. It has been labelled as a contemporary young adult dystopian novel, and has a strong female protagonist. I explored the idea of The Hunger Games Trilogy being both a dystopian nove

Personer med schizofreni är en patientgrupp som sjuksköterskor och övrig vårdpersonal möter såväl inom den somatiska som den psykiatriska hälso- och sjukvården. Trots symtomgivande fysisk ohälsa söker personer med schizofreni somatisk vård i lägre utsträckning än övrig befolkning. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka vilka barriärer som finns för patienter med schizofreni i kontakt med hälso-

Idrottens rättsliga ställning inom EU och hur EU-rättsliga regler ska appliceras på idrottens område är en fråga som debatterats flitigt i samband med idrottens ökade ekonomiska betydelse. Detta illustreras främst genom fotbollen som har kommit att växa till en mångmiljard industri som engagerar tusentals människor runt om i Europa. I samband med den professionella fotbollens ekonomiska tillväxt hSport's legal status in the EU and how EU law should be applied in sports is an issue that has been debated extensively in connection with the sport growing economic importance. This is illustrated primarily by the footballing market that has come to grow into a multi-billion dollar industry involving thousands of people around Europe. In connection with the professional football's economi

Microcredits have alternately been hailed as the future of developing economics and criticised for becoming a one size fits all-solution to complex issues. This paper is an attempt to add to a growing literature on the impact of microcredits on different stakeholders in the developing world. It investigates the role of microcredit in fostering financial inclusion through a minor field study carrie

Microcredits have alternately been hailed as the future of developing economics and criticised for becoming a one size fits all-solution to complex issues. This paper is an attempt to add to a growing literature on the impact of microcredits on different stakeholders in the developing world. It investigates the role of microcredit in fostering financial inclusion through a minor field study carrie

Author(s): Linnea Östermark & Emma Sjölin Title: “Stress when reporting to social services” –A quantitative study on stress when reporting to social services in the profession school counselors. Supervisor: Dolf Tops Assessor: Lotti Ryberg Welander In Sweden, school counselors and other professions who works with children have an obligation to notify social services if they sense a concern for

Stadsutvecklingen i Storstockholm är avgörande för att staden ska kunna tillgodose alla människors behov såväl nu som på lång sikt. En viktig hållpunkt för att klara av en snabb och fungerande stadsutveckling är begreppet hållbar utveckling, som omfattas av ekologisk, social samt ekonomisk hållbarhet. Inom Svensk stadsbyggnad har hållbarhetsdebatten på senare tid gjort utrymme för ökat fokus på soSustainable development, based on the three dimensions; ecological, economic and social development, is an important concept towards a dedicated and effective development of urban areas. The urban sustainability debate within Sweden have given social problems a wider focus in recent times. The aim of this thesis is to evaluate how the ideas of social sustainability in a newly completed urban area

Author(s): Hanna Kartano & Linnea Johnsson Title: Age is not just a number – a qualitative study about the attitudes that social worker have towards the request from the Migrations office regarding age assasement of unaccompanied children seeking asylum. Supervisor: Roberto Scaramuzzino Assessor: Elizabeth Martinell Barfoed This study explores the attitudes among social workers that are work

In this paper we develop a method for measuring transparency as a factor of document similarities between the executive and operational branches of the Swedish Riksbank. We do this by usage of NLTK within the Python-framework. We also propose a ray of different methods for textual analysis, such that they are able to capture the elements of communication that we are interested in.

Technology and information systems has been instrumental in supporting multiple industries for the past 3 decades. The rapid growth of information and communication technology has led to better understanding to utilize these techs in solving many existing environmental issues. One of these issues is the residential energy consumption which accounts for more than 30% of the total energy consumption

The aim of this study was to examine how contraceptive responsibility is constructed in the interaction between man and woman during casual sexual relations. The analysis was based on two theories; a theory about the world as a social construction and gender theory. The study is based on qualitative interviews with four young adults (two men and two women). The interviews were analysed with a them

This thesis aims to address the similarities and differences between journalism and native advertising. Is native advertising a business model for the media industry or is it simply a new way for journalists to write? The case study is based on a series of native advertising articles from the Swedish news site "Omni". The empirical data was collected both by a quantitative and qualitativ

The term “public interest” is frequently used in discussions regarding media ethics in Sweden. It is also used in the ethical guidelines for journalists, created by the industry itself. But what the term actually means is difficult to grasp, and a comprehensive definition is difficult to find. Therefore, the purpose of this essay is to examine the views of publishers regarding the term “public int