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This text investigates interpretation of the social body in general and body during child birth in particular. "The Medicalization of Childbirth" as a concept within the natural sciences is being criticized from a feminist perspective. The critique is positioned in a belief that medical and patriarchal perception of the body in birth overrules the woman's culturally embodied competen
Theoretical perspective: Existing theories within anthropology, globalization of McDonald’s and Japanese culture (household etc.) were used as providing explanations of the collected data. Methodology: This research uses McDonald’s as an example of fast food consumption in Japan. The fieldwork includes interviews, observations, and questionnaires. The research has an interpretational approach to
The purpose of this study was to examine experiences of treatment needs of women in drug abuse in social services and in women focus treatment institutions and to which extent the efforts are considered to be adapted to the women´s needs. The reason of this aim is the fact that women in drug abuse rather than men in drug abuse run a larger risk of being exposed to physical, psychical and sexual vi
The purpose of this study was to investigate and describe inter-professional team collaboration inside Swedish family centres. When the idea for this study formed, the impression could be gathered that family centres are depending on the professionals’ collaboration, since they are organisationally divided. One may perceive less positive consequences for the families whom are visiting the family c
Abstract Previous research has shown that welfare officers have gradually left behind what is considered traditional social work in favor of therapy treatments and this is mainly due to the high degree of further educations in psychotherapy amongst them. The purpose of this study is to examine whether this is true within the welfare officer occupation and in particular regarding the psychiatric we
The purpose of this study was to examine the nursing auxiliaries’ experiences before, during and after the implementation of Alsterbromodellen. The implementation of Alsterbromodellen meant that home care staff and residential care staff got consolidated and performed the same tasks. More specifically the aim was to find out how Alsterbromodellen has made an impact on the nursing auxiliaries’ work
This essay studies and compare two different heroines and how they are represented in stories about them. The heroines are Sue Grafton´s Kinsey Millhone and Janet Evanovich´s Stephanie Plum. These two have been chosen because of that they both are strong and independent women. The goal for the essay is to find out if one of these stories are better than the other to work with in a Swedish school c
The aim of this study was to examine how social workers are described by actors of other professions’ who regularly cooperate with social workers. Social work with children is an area that involves several professions. The questions we intended to look at were: How do these actors describe and view the social worker and his or her work? How do other professions look at their collaborations with so
Author: Jessica Johansson Title:” When you had conversations with her, you just wanted to go and take an injection”- a qualitative study on family’s and surroundings influences on young heroin addicts Supervisor: Anders Östnäs Assessor: Carina Tigervall I`ve made a qualitative study based on four interviews with former young heroin addicts, and every one developed a heroin addiction when they wer
The mandatory report legislation under Chapter 14, 1 § Social Services Act, imposes an obligation to report to social services if they suspect child maltreatment. The interest for our thesis topic was brought when we read articles and previous research showing that preschool teachers and well baby nurses do not always notify when they suspect child maltreatment. The aim of this study was to examin
Abstract Authors: Helen Johansson and Charlotta Wikén Title: The cooperation between different professions concerning young offenders Supervisor: Susanna Persson and Maria Bangura Arvidsson Assessor: Håkan Johansson Cooperation between different professions who work with young offenders has become more noticed. The purpose of this essay is to get an insight into the interaction between the differe
Abstract The purpose of this study is to describe and analyze the underlying factors of a youth’s attraction to criminal youth gangs. We have chosen a qualitative approach. The primary sources for our study were interviews with seven people. These interviews were semi structured in their approach. We have used the labeling theory in order to describe and analyze the phenomenon. The result clearly
The aim of this study was to examine the process off collaboration between two human service organizations in Helsingborg. Focus lies on Utredningscentrum and Kompetenscenter Norrehed which both are a part of Utvecklingsnämnden. To study this theme I chose to interview seven employees from various levels of both organizations. I have interviewed one head of unit and two employees from the operativ
During the last couple of years, the media have come to intensify their description of a “football hooligan”. The “football hooligan” is often described as a young man, with an engaging interest for football but who also is provided with an ability and willingness to use physical violence for the sake of defending the favourite football club and its own group. This is a painting picture in various
Syftet med undersökningen var att med hjälp av socialkonstruktionistiska teorier och begrepp, huvudsakligen hämtade från Butler och Foucault, med den heterosexuella matrisen i fokus, analysera kvalitativ empiri bestående av transsexuellas upplevelser av hur det var att genomgå en utredning om könstillhörighet. Fokus låg på de intervjuades upplevelser av sitt kön och könsuttryck och hur dessa relat
The aim of this thesis is to examine how the value co-creation concept can be applied to firms with intermediary roles, exemplified by the Swedish travel agent industry. To accomplish this a perceptual Service-Dominant (S-D logic) framework developed for firms was applied. Qur findings show that intermediaries encounter issues when engaging in value co-creation, since they do not have full control
The purpose of this study is to examine the parental role in their child’s treatment of behavioral problems and we want to look at this from the professional’s point of view. More specific we want to see if and how parents are included in the treatment and how it affected the child’s end result. The main questions that we addressed in this thesis are: How does the organization define parenthood? H
