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This master’s thesis focuses on the experiences of retired public librarians in relation to their professional life. The public library as an institution and the librarian profession have to this day gone through many changes, and a high level of research has been conducted regarding this. Yet, there is a lack of perspective from those who have actually lived through and during these changes. Base

The purpose of this thesis is to critically examine the anti-EU party the Swedish demo-crats own political medium SD-Kuriren and its articles regarding the European Parliament elections of 2014. The study aims to analyse how the use of language in SD-Kurirens articles forms the basis for how nationalist and populist discourses are shaped and expressed. The theoretical framework applied in this the

Authors: Emelie Dahlstedt & Nadja Bjärenstam Title: ”…to apply for an adoption for your own child.” - a qualitative study of same-sex parenting and second parent adoption. Supervisor: Frans Oddner Assessor: Tove Harnett The aim of the study was to examine how same-sex parents perceive and construct their parenting in a second parent adoption. The empirical material consisted of six semi-s

The aim of this study is to examine how women have proceeded to end an abusive relationship, the support and help they received and whether there were any difficulties during this procedure. Our study is based on qualitative interviews with six women. All of the women are over 18 years old and have been out of the relationship for more than two years. The data is analyzed based on thematic analysi

The aim of this study was to focus on how municipal social-workers work with honor related abuse (HRA) in a smaller community in Sweden. The purpose of the study was to study if there were any changes in how the municipal social-workers described their work with honor-related abuse today compared to the year of 2012. The theories and the perspectives used for this study include: the gender theory,

The aim of this qualitative study was to investigate and shed light on how care workers perceive their care work and the dilemmas they encounter in the work of adults diagnosed with severe intellectual disabilities. I conducted six semi-structured interviews with care workers working with the study target audience. For my analysis, I have applied the theoretical perspectives ethics of response, pr

Uppsatsen syftar till att med en empirisk utgångspunkt ana-lysera och beskriva organisationens nuvarande ledarskap och det önskade ledarskapet utifrån ett teamledar-, medarbetar- och ledningsperspektiv. Datainsamling har baserats på ett kvalitativt angreppssätt med en fenomenografisk infalls-vinkel i form av semistrukturerade intervjuer, för att fånga respondenternas uppfattning om ledarskap. Team

Denna studie ämnar undersöka samspelet mellan den mediala gestaltningen av en stad samt de strategier som används i försök att påverka densamma. Studien avser därmed öka kunskapen om skapandet och förmedlandet av platsvarumärken samt den strategiska kommunikationens betydelse för denna process. Med en hermene-utisk ansats har kvalitativa intervjuer samt kvantitativ såväl som kvalitativ inne-hållsaThe purpose of this study is to examine the interaction between the media framing of a city, and strategies used in order to influence this framing. The study intends to increase the understanding of the creation and mediation of city brands and the importance of strategic communication during this process. With a hermeneutical approach qualitative interviews and quantitative, as well as qualitati

After the ratification of the UN Convention, Sweden has undertaken to adapt national laws so that they conform to the Convention of the Rights of the Child, CRC. Despite the ratification, the Care of Young Persons Act (LVU) allows young persons to be separated up to 24 hours by the staff at state institutions, even though it is contrary to the CRS’s 37th article. The ombudsman for children has rep

The aim of this study was to examine how school counselors in a middle-sized and a small municipality in southern Sweden experienced bullying as a phenomena and how they worked on preventing the problem. We also wanted to examine how the internal and external cooperation worked in the different municipalities. The study was based on semi-qualitative interviews with school counselors on schools wit

The aim of this study was to write about discretion at the Employment Service. More in detail, to understand how professionals work with the programs they have to choose from and how they recognize their own discretion. We have chosen a qualitative approach; more precisely, interviews in the form of semi-structural interview questions. We got the interviewees through a target selection. There was

The aim of this study was to investigate the social secretaries description of their discretion. The focus was how discretion is described in relation to the Offices of Social Services as an organization. And how the social secretaries professional identity could be understood in relation to the social secretaries descriptions of their discretion. The participants were invited through a goal-orien

Mental illness and stress among young people is an increasing public health problem in Nordic countries such as Sweden and is a relevant subject in social work. The increase is most evident among young people, which is something that today's professions address in their respective journals as problematic, this is the foundation of our thesis. The purpose of this study was to investigate how co

Party-emergence is a somewhat puzzling phenomenon, since it implies substantial risks for those who decide to form the party while rewards are uncertain. A dilemma that is reinforced when the new party emerges from an already established party and therefore has to compete with former allies for public support and votes. Previous research suggests that ”party- entrepreneurs” and their sentiments to

Övervägande del av förundersökningar av brott mot barn läggs ner. När förövaren dessutom är en närstående eller förälder försvåras utredningen avsevärt då det sällan finns vittnen och barnet kanske inte inser att de blivit utsatta för ett brott. Dessa ärenden utreds ibland inte heller av socialnämnden trots att mängden orosanmälan ökar. Barnet har ett speciellt behov av skydd och samhället har ettMost investigations of crimes against children are terminated before being brought to court. The investigations become significantly more complicated when the perpetrator happens to be a family member or parent. Some of the difficulties occur because the child may not realize that they have been victimized and there are rarely witnesses to the acts. Children have a special need for protection and

Syftet med följande studie är att granska hur svensk lagstiftning hanterar nya former av integritetskränkningar som följer av den tekniska utvecklingen. Utredningen tar sikte på bestämmelsen BrB 4 kap. 6a§ om kränkande fotografering och undersöker huruvida dess syfte att skydda individers personliga integritet uppfylls. Begreppet integritet är omdiskuterat och svårdefinierat. För att möjliggöra enThe purpose of the following essay is to examine how the law handles new forms of integrity violations caused by the technological evolution. The study concentrates on Chapter 4, Section 6a, of the Swedish Penal Code concerning indecent photography. Therefore, the intension is to assess whether the regulation fulfills its purpose; to preserve privacy. The term privacy is considered difficult to de

This study aims to examine how support persons at anonymous support chat services describe their role in conversations with children who are abused by relatives and how they use their discretion to fulfil this role. Semistructured interviews were made with five support persons working at different anonymous support chats in Sweden. The analysis of data was guided by an interactionist perspective a