Sustainable Development is a widely acknowledged term in today's society. However, because of its vagueness and varying definitions, it is also a very contested term. This essay will focus on the World Commission on Environment and Development’s (WCED) Brundtland Report of 1987, which is also known as 'Our Common Future'. The report's analysis seeks to examine the underlying ideolo

The overall purpose of this thesis is to examine the motivational factors and causal machanisms behind the Islamist radicalization taking place in Europe among European Muslims. The ontological position is influenced by causal realism, and I have a strategic-relational approach concerning structure and agency. The thesis is divided into three levels of analysis. On the first level of analysis I c

The end of the Cold War marked the ending of an era of a bipolar rivalry, but it also brought about a new set of challenges for policymakers and national intelligence agencies. One of these new challenges is sharing sensitive information with states and actors outside comfortable alliances, whilst countering a myriad of asymmetric, often low-level type of security threats. Implementation of intell

Uppsatsen presenterar resultatet av en egen enkätundersökning genomförd i två ukrainska städer – Lviv och Donetsk. Studien hade som mål att undersöka huruvida det verkligen finns två skilda nationella identiteter i västra och östra Ukraina och formulera de viktigaste aspekterna som ger uttryck för dem. I västra och östra Ukraina valdes två regioner ut mellan vilka den största konflikten anses före

Over the last decades the Swedish disability policy has changed from institutional to individual care. As a part of this transformation the government passed a National Disability Strategy in 2000. The aims of the strategy are: to improve the accessibility for persons with disabilities, to make the disability perspective a part of all sectors of society, and to improve the way persons with disabil

The small car manufacturer Saab has over the past 20 years been incorporated in the MNC GM. GM has until resent years been the biggest car company in the world. The crisis in the American economic system and worldwide, has changed the prerequisite for the complete industry. To avoid bankruptcy GM had to divorce Saab from the parent company. Looking at a pertinent buyer, the Swedish government was

This study aimed to review the mental health of adolescents, their view on their own mental health and their view on the quality of the physical and mental healthcare provided by their school. The basis of this study was a survey of pupils (n = 65) in a high school in Helsingborg. The KASAM theory by Anton Antonvsky was used to analyze the survey answers. This analysis showed that the participatin

The purpose of this Master Thesis was to design an automatic separator, a machine that would separate organic from non-organic waste through a mechanical process. The use of a mechanical process was one of the target specifications given by WTM AB, the company that initiated the project. WTM is a small machine design company located in Ängelholm, Sweden, who designs machines for different kind of

The purpose of this paper was to gain knowledge about how our senior citizens living in institutions manage their everyday life. Do they get a say on what should be done and how? Do they want to make their own decisions and is it possible for them to express needs and wishes? Is there a way to combine this sort of influence on your own way of living with the fact that many of these elderly people

Author: Erika Noaksson Title: Intellectual disability and sexuality – a study about the knowledge and perceptions on it Supervisor: Eva-Malin Antoniusson The purpose of this study is to examine both the degree of knowledge within society, and overall societal perceptions of intellectual disability in relation to sexuality. In addition it also examines what kind of consequences a lack of knowledge

Syftet med denna uppsats har varit att undersöka hur de senaste årens effektivisering inom socialpolitiken förändrat socialtjänsten och dess arbete, med utgångspunkt i Försäkringskassans ändrade regler. Försäkringskassans nya regler som trädde i kraft i juli 2008, har inneburit att sjukpenningen är begränsad till ett år. Regeringen har på så sätt implementerat arbetslinjen i sjukförsäkringen så tiThe purpose of this essay has been to investigate how the latest years of effectiveness in social politics has changed the social services and their work with starting point in the changed rules for social insurance in form of sickness leave. The new rules which emerged in July 2008 have meant that sickness benefits is limited to one year. This occurred in the time when labour market policy become

Objective: To limit the research time by developing a theoretical model, that can predict the lifetime of a wheel with the help of different input values. Apart from a theoretical model, also create a different type of test rig that can decrease the testing time, and still produce an accurate result similar to a real situation. Method: This Master’s Thesis was based on both an investigatory method

The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to study how the social workers understand the sexual exposure adolescents become subject to make themselves subject to on the Internet, as a social problem or a transformation of a sexual behavior. Two methods were used in this study; both a questionnaire and deep interviews with four social workers. The main result of the study shows that social workers, ac

Today, drug assisted treatment of Methadone and Subutex is well established in Swedish society. However, it has since the late 1960´s been differing perceptions of both the pros and cons on drug assisted therapy. The purpose and aim of this study was to explore and describe what kind of ethical attitudes social workers and representatives of the Swedish Drug Users Union (SDUU) usually have around

Abstract Author: Marie Andersson Titel: Who is listening to us? A qualitative study with assistant nurses about their work situation from their point of view. Supervisor: Helena Hansson Assessor: Håkan Johansson When I was practice at a nursing home setting, I noticed that the assistant nurses were faced with different types of ethical dilemmas. The problem with these dilemmas was that they wer

ABSTRACT Author: Oras Jacobs Title: The chameleon in the hospitals - a study based on hospital welfare officers experiences and strategies. Supervisor: Tabitha Wright Nielsen Assessor: Gunilla Lindén The purpose of this paper is to investigate how hospital welfare officers experience their role and the strategies applied to establish themselves. With the aim of answering these questions, six

ABSTRACT Author: Daniel Palm Title: The support from school to children that lost an intimate – A qualitative survey from the perspective of school welfare officers. Supervisor: Anna Angelin Assessor: Maria Bangura Arvidsson The purpose of this essay is to investigate which support the school and school welfare officers can offer to children who have lost an intimate. The study is based on qual

The aim of our study was to examine how concepts of motherhood and fatherhood interact with other determining factors in child custody investigations. Emanating from our own work experience in social work, we began to consider the prevalent values surrounding parenting, in particular, those terms related to motherhood and fatherhood. Thus our central issues of examination are which assessment crit

Author: Ebba Hedström Title: ”You feel useful” – A studie about counsellers work in the school for children with intellectual disabilities [translated title] This study concerns the councellors work with children in special programs for pupils with intellectual disabilities. The purpose was to se how counceller work with the children in special programs for pupils with intellectual disibilities.

More than half of the swedish population is engaged in voluntary work and about 600 million hours are spent each year in various kinds of non-profit work. The purpose of this study is to qualitatively investigate the motives and incitements for commitment to voluntary work. The main question in this essay regards why people are involved in voluntary work. What are the motives and incitements for t