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- Aronsson, Pia, 1950-
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Det professionella projektets framväxt inom ramen för en forskningscirkel : en manipulativ eller frigörande praktik?
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The thesis looks back on an important transitional period for the municipal social services, a transition between different social models and ideals. During this transi-tional period, in the mid-90s, there was a process of change from the community ideal to market liberalism, the latter being characterized by the client-provider model as a form of governance for the municipal organization. Users of social services were becoming customers and professionals were moving towards increased specialization and centralization of social work. The process of change within the municipal organization is a recurrent theme giving this thesis present timeliness although the process of change presented in the thesis took place almost three decades ago.The overall aim of the thesis was to contribute with in-depth knowledge of the professionals' possibilities to exert influence over a process of change in a politically controlled organization using an empirical example as a starting point. The research approach was based on the action research tradition and primarily towards critical action research.The empirical example, the research circle, where professionals met with the prac-tice of social work and the practice of research for a mutual knowledge formation became a temporary action arena where the “professional project” was developed during the years 1994 to 1996.In the thesis politically adopted policy documents are analyzed, the content of which outlined the direction for the future organization and the content of social work, the "Political Project". The analysis reveals the power relations where the political and administrative domain worked to separate and centralize social work while the professionals worked to maintain a decentralized and integrated individual and family care using new working methods and approaches such as open social counseling, group-oriented social work and city district networks as a basis for social service.The thesis shows that the professionals' influence in the process of change was limited by politically adopted decisions in accordance with the conditions of representative democracy, and that only parts of the professional project, which did not challenge overall organizational structures, could be implemented.Before future reorganizations, it is recommended that those affected by the reorganization should be involved in the process early on in order to expand the decision makers knowledge base by including the professionals' opinions, knowledge and will.The development towards a market-liberal form of organization was a lengthy process but has today become the dominant form of organization within municipal administration.
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- Arvidson, Markus, 1974-, et al.
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Socialpsykologiska experiment : och andra minnesvärda studier
- 2019
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Det finns många tankeväckande studier om människors handlingar och beteenden som är värda att uppmärksamma även om de gjordes för 50, 60 eller 70 år sedan. Studierna om vårt sociala liv väcker olika sorters känslor - ibland skratt, ibland nyfikenhet och ibland förfäran - men de ger alltid nya insikter om människan och mänskligt samspel.I boken presenteras ett urval av de mest kända klassiska socialpsykologiska studierna. Utifrån teman som auktoritet, lydnad, prestationer, strävan efter normalitet och människor i utsatta situationer visar författarna att de klassiska studierna är aktuella även idag. Det finns också tips på filmklipp som läsaren kan titta på genom att rikta sin mobiltelefon mot QR-koderna i boken.SOCIALPSYKOLOGISKA EXPERIMENT OCH ANDRA MINNESVÄRDA STUDIER vänder sig främst till högskolestudenter inom samhälls- och beteendevetenskapliga utbildningsprogram och ämnen, men är även intressant för alla som vill veta mer om hur människor fungerar tillsammans.
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- Bergh, Daniel, 1974-
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Social Relations and Health : How do the associations vary across contexts and subgroups of individuals?
- 2011
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Objectives: The aim of this thesis is to study the association between social relations and health in different social spheres, and to examine possible interaction effects. Material and Methods: In Paper I, the link between measures of the psychosocial neighbourhood environment, the psychosocial working environment, and psychosomatic health is analyzed by using a subset of data from the survey Life and Health 2000. In Paper II, the association between adolescent social relationships in school and psychosomatic health was analyzed by using the survey Young in Värmland. In Paper III, the association between parental monitoring, peer activity frequency, and adolescent alcohol use was studied by using Young in Värmland as the data source. In Paper IV, the links between adolescent perceptions of the psychosocial school climate, activities with parents, and psychosomatic health, were analysed by using Young in Värmland as the data source. Results: The results from Paper I indicate that social relations in the neighbourhood environment, as well as the working environment, are independently related to psychosomatic health. The independent contributions imply that efforts to improve health can be successfully directed to the psychosocial neighbourhood environment, as well as to the psychosocial working environment. The results from Paper II show that the social relations adolescents have in school may differ between subgroups of adolescents. The health effects of teacher contacts were stronger for the theoretically oriented students compared to the non-theoretically oriented students, suggesting that adolescents should be considered a heterogeneous group rather than a homogeneous one with respect to their social relations in school. Efforts to improve equity in health should consider these differences in order to be successful. In Paper III the results imply that even though both parents and the peer group are important in order to understand the alcohol use patterns of adolescents, the importance of parents should not be underestimated. Parental monitoring had a protective effect on adolescent alcohol use, regardless of the frequency of peer activities. In Paper IV, both the psychosocial school climate, and the frequency of activities with parents were related to psychosomatic health. The positive health effects of the psychosocial school climate were, furthermore, reinforced as a function of the frequency of activities with parents. This suggests that efforts to improve health should be directed to the school environment as well as to the family environment in order to be successful. Conclusions: The importance and meaning of social relations differ between different social arenas as well as between sub-groups of individuals.
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- Bergh, Daniel, et al.
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Sociala relationer och ohälsa
- 2005
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Ingår i: I Kalander Blomqvist, M & Janson, S (red), Värmlänningarnas liv och hälsa 2004. - Karlstad : Landstinget i Värmland och Karlstads universitet. ; , s. 118-125
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Bolinder, Margareta, 1962-
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Handlingsutrymmets betydelse för arbetslösas upplevelser, handlingsstrategier och jobbchanser
- 2005
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The main research problem in this thesis is how unemployed individuals experience and handle the situation of unemployment and how their actions are related to their action possibilities. These are determined by factors like level of education, vocational training, age, citizenship, handicap and level of unemployment on the local labour market. A common assumption is that search behaviour of unemployed individuals strongly affects their possibility to find a job. A central question in this thesis is if individuals’ behaviour has been overemphasised at the expense of real employment opportunities. The empirical part of this thesis is based on longitudinal data collected during a period of high unemployment. The sample is a national random sample existing of 3 500 Swedes interviewed by telephone in the beginning of 1996 and in the end of 1997. The results show that the expectations of the unemployed to find a job as well as their actual search behaviour are shaped by the situation they are in. The unemployed have job expectations that co-vary with their action possibilities, but as many as 31.3 per cent overestimate their chances and 10.5 per cent underestimate them. This result is based on questions about expectations to obtain a job related to the actual employment situation nearly two years later. Unemployed individuals’ job expectations co-vary with their experiences of the unemployment situation. Those who believe that their job chances are bad have a low mental sense of well-being, while the opposite is found among those who believe that their job chances are good. The sense of having control over the situation is important for an individual’s mental sense of well-being. Both strategies of activity and adaptation occur among the unemployed. Strategies that are meant to change the situation in an objective are most common, only a minority of the unemployed seem to have adapted to the situation of unemployment.
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- Enokson, Uffe, 1965-
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Tiden i senmodernt vardagsliv : En rollteoretisk analys av hushållens livsformer
- 2006
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Tiden i senmodernt vardagsliv utgör en teoretisk fördjupning av den tidigare utgivna rapporten Tid, pengar och sociala nätverk (2005). Där undersöks klyftorna mellan tidrika och tidfattiga levnadsförhållanden. Kontraster som visar på en obalans i fördelningen av tid, pengar och sociala roller på och utanför arbetsmarknaden i vardagslivet. Syftet i denna rapport är att undersöka teorier om de sociala rollernas betydelse genom att jämföra två konkurrerande teoribildningar och granska deras generaliserbarhet och förklaringsvärde. I huvudsak används teorierna för att analysera tidrika och tidfattiga livsformers levnadsmönster i förhållande till självupplevd tid, multipla roller och stress. Tillsammans utgör de två rapporterna författarens licentiatavhandling.
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