The purpose of this essay was to describe the opinions of different religious and non-religious ideologies and aspects of treatment, concerning use of drugs and drugsaddiction, and with a special focus at Narconon. We also wanted to try to understand the connection between professionalism and ideology in their treatment. Our central questions where; · How does the treatment Narconon's provid

The purpose of this essay is to examine Prostitutionsgruppens ("Prostitution group") concrete operation, its organisation and how the group have changed since sexköpslagens ("sexbuy law") incorporated. Prostitutionsgruppen was founded in 1981 and have been working against prostitution. Their main goal is to reduce the damage of prostitution. Their work consists of treatment an

Arbetet har utvecklats utifrån min nyfikenhet över varför Sveriges utbrändhetsrelaterade sjukfrånvaro är bland den högsta i västvärlden. Det kan ses som att det är av stor vikt för företag liksom för individer att studera varför den utbrändhetsrelaterade sjukfrånvaron är så omfattande, då konsekvenserna av dessa är mycket krävande och kostsamma. Det finns redan mycket forskning på området men likv

Personalkontoret på Lunds tekniska högskola intresserade sig för universitetsadministratörernas speciella situation på sina respektive institutioner. För att undersöka detta fick jag i uppdrag att skriva en uppsats, där syftet blev att beskriva och analysera institutionsadministratörernas uppfattning om sin kompetens och sitt lärande inom LTH. För att finna svar på detta, utförde jag intervjuer me

Kronofogdemyndigheterna i Sverige har reducerats i antal från tjugofem till endast tio. Hög grad av stress och sjukfrånvaro är problem som präglat myndigheterna, enligt klimatundersökningar som Riksskatteverket gjort. Syftet med denna studie är att beskriva arbetsmiljön utifrån KFM:s personal på ett kontor i Malmö, för att se hur den ter sig i nuläget. Frågeställningarna som styr uppsatsen är: Hu

Our purpose with this study was to look at the pawnbrokers role in the Swedish welfare state from the customers perspective. Our purpose was also to see how the customers used the loan. We wondered why people used the pawnbroker's and how the pawnbroker's could be understood as a providing alternative related to the three spheres state, market and family? Above looking at previous science

Purpose/Aim : The aim of this study is to investigate and describe "kontaktmannaskapet" in the Swedish correctional system. I also aim to investigate if there are any differences between how the different actors involved in the correctional system look at this phenomena and how different sociological theories can be applied on "kontaktmannaskapet" in order to make it more compr

Denna uppsats tar sin utgångspunkt i ungdomars identitetsarbete i konsumtionssamhället och hur detta identitetsarbete påverkas av massmedier med fokus på reklambilder och tv program. Massmedier är framträdande till största del under ungdomars fritid. Dessutom fokuserar reklam på att framhäva livsstilar och identiteter som kan sammanbindas med fritidens värden. Mina problem kretsar omkring hur ko

The background for this assignment is based upon a wonder about why the Danish and the Swedish law differ on the subject of prostitution. In relation to this the object of the assignment is to clarify which discurses that are dominating the research on prostitution done in Denmark and Sweden. To conduct a study of this, a thorough examination of a Danisk and a Swedish report of prostitution is don

The purpose of this essay was to investigate which factors the individuals found important in the process of becoming a person with a drug-free life. The framing of the questions we had were to get the experiences, thoughts and wishes of the drug users. The survey was based on thematised qualitative interviews and focused in the personal stories of the interviewees. We interviewed four women and f

Utifrån personer födda på 1970- talet diskuteras vilka faktorer det är som bidrar till att känna arbetstillfredsställelse. Generationstillhörigheten påverkar attityden till arbetet och nya generationers värderingar skiljer sig från tidigare generationers. 70- talisterna är även speciella då deras första möte med arbetsmarknaden var en djup ekonomisk konjunkturnedgång som endas kan jämföras med 20-

In this study the reliability of dominance profiles as a method of establishing a person's learning style was tested. Eight students at Malmö Academy of Music tried three different ways to learn a short melody at the piano. In this way, their preferred way of learning things (either visual, auditive or kinestetic) was established. Five of the students did best when they used a visual cue to le

Sammanfattning Detta arbete handlar om att kritiskt belysa de aspekter av undervisning som är centrala för mig som pedagog. Som lärare vill jag nå fram till eleven, jag vill att eleven ska ha möjligheten att vara kreativ och att få uppleva det tillstånd som kallas flow. Arbetet har utgått från de upplevelser jag fick av musik när jag var yngre, då tänkte jag inte i termer och begrepp utan upplev

In 2010 there will be a political resolution to ensure that the Swedish society is accessible to all citizens including people with disabilities. For this purpose a national action plan for disability policy "From patient to citizen" (Govt. Bill 1999/2000:79) has been set out with the aim of ensuring that the disability perspective will permeate every sector of society and that the appro

High frequency words are easier to recall compared to low frequency words in lists of only one frequency-range. This effect disappears when words of different frequencies are mixed in a list. Word frequency effects have often been assumed to rely on associations between words. The relationship between word frequency and associations was investigated by controlling associations using Latent Semanti

Abstract: The world in which companies are acting today offers challenges in the sense that it is rapidly changing and that a vast amount of information is available. In order to ensure the competitiveness and survival of the company, an effective and efficient environmental scanning is essential to the company. Our aim with this Master's thesis is to investigate what factors constitutes impor

The complexity of a decision environment is determined by a number of factors. These factors include number of options, number of attributes, frequency of purchase and interattribute correlations. A consumer can adapt to complex decision environments in several ways. This study examined how consumers adapt to differences in complexity of the decision environment in the natural decision situation

Based on a minor field study in Azerbaijan, this thesis aims to explain the relation between advancement of information and communication technologies (ICT) and development of democracy in Azerbaijan. Interviews have been conducted with representatives from the governmental and non-governmental sector in Baku. The semi-structured interviews were categorised into topics on ICT and democracy and ana