<p>During the past twenty years the immigration to Sweden has changed significantly. Earlier immigration mainly focused at filling the vacancies in the Swedish industry, today immigrants primarily come to Sweden as Refugees. This change of immigration combined with the restructuring of the Swedish industrial sector has resulted in great a deterioration of the chances for immigrants to gain entry to the Swedish labor market.</p><p>This study aims at examining how the cooperation between authorities in the municipal of Hörby in Sweden fosters integration. The study primarily examines how the cooperation between authorities in a integration project can contribute to a better integration to the labor market.</p><p>Through a qualitative study, five persons who occupy important roles in the project have been interviewed. The results of these interviews have been complemented by internal documents as well as extern material to validate the results.</p><p>The most important findings that have been revealed are the importance of language in the process of gaining entrance to the Swedish labor market. Subsequently the education of immigrants receives criticism and the importance of a new and more effective as well as more time saving education for immigrants are being stressed.</p>

This study aims to examine if and how New Public Management have affected trust between citizen and the schooling system in Sweden, and how we can understand New Public Managements effects upon trust. The study uses statistical data from national surveys (SOM-institute) to analyze how trust towards the schooling system has evolved over the years 1986-2000. From the theoretical frameworks of Niklas Luhmann and Bo Rothstein, New Public Management is analyzed as to how it might affect trust. The study shows that New Public Management possibly have had an effect on trust between citizens and the schooling system. Also the study concludes that the reforms contain risk factors that poses a real threat towards the trusting relationship between citizen and state. Although factors have been discerned they fail to explain to a satisfying degree how they might affect the schooling system and more extensive research is required as to how we can understand New Public Managements effects upon trust.

Ett av de mest grundläggande fundamenten för att ett samhälle ska fungera friktionsfritt är att människor känner tillit. För att ett samhälle ska vara välmående behöver människor känna tillit både till samhällets institutioner och tillit till andra människor i allmänhet. Syftet med denna studie var att få en bredare förståelse av mellanmänsklig tillit och att undersöka hur den förhåller sig till olika typer av välfärdsregimer och upplevd kollektiv diskriminering, det vill säga om en upplevt att en tillhör en grupp som i samhället var utsatt för diskriminering. Studien utgår från Bo Rothsteins teori om tillit samt Gøsta Esping-Andersens teori om välfärdsregimer. Båda dessa teorier baseras på ett makroperspektiv vilket innebär att mellanmänsklig tillit studeras från ett strukturellt perspektiv. Studien har hämtat datamaterial från omgång 8 av European Social Survey (ESS) som genomfördes år 2016. ESS samlar in data från ett 30-tal olika länder och frågorna behandlar delvis tillit. För denna studies syfte användes data från länderna Frankrike, Tyskland, Storbritannien, Norge och Sverige. Materialet omfattade ett urval på 25 506, i åldrarna 15 år och uppåt. För att studera mellanmänsklig tillit användes bivariata analyser samt linjär regression som analysmetod. Tillit i olika välfärdsregimer är ett välstuderat ämne men denna studie ämnade även undersöka om upplevd kollektiv diskriminering var en faktor mellan välfärdsregim och mellanmänsklig tillit. Resultatet var att mellanmänsklig tillit skilde sig åt beroende på typ av välfärdsregim och om en människa upplevt sig varit utsatt för kollektiv diskriminering. / <p>Slutversion</p>

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Ett av de grundläggande fundamenten för att ett demokratiskt samhälle ska fungera är att människor känner tillit till varandra. Syftet med den här studien är att få en vidare förståelse för hur den mellanmänskliga tilliten skapas och upprätthålls i det svenska samhället idag. Studien tar avstamp i Robert D. Putnams teori om att samhällsengagemang gynnar den mellanmänskliga tilliten genom en rad mekanismer och undersöker huruvida social klass påverkar sambandet eller ej. Förutom Putnam ingår även Bo Rothsteins teorier om mellanmänsklig tillit i det teoretiska ramverket. Pierre Bourdieus teori om det sociala rummet har legat till grund för att definiera social klass och dess betydelse för människors livsvillkor. Studien har hämtat datamaterial från den nationella SOM-undersökningen år 2021, formulär 6. Materialet omfattade ett nettourval på 3400 personer i åldrarna 16 år och uppåt. Antal svarande på enkäten var 1622 personer och efter att det interna bortfallet uteslöts kvarstod 1060 personer i urvalet. För att studera hur samhälleligt engagemang påverkar mellanmänsklig tillit användes bivariata analyser samt multipel linjär regression som analysmetod. Samhällsengagemang mättes genom att skapa två olika index, ett som mätte antal föreningsmedlemskap och ett som mätte antal aktiviteter (såsom att gå i demonstration eller att kontakta en politiker). Social klass mättes med hjälp av yrkeskategorier som delats in i enligt European Socio-economic Classification (ESeC). Övriga kontrollvariabler var kön, ålder och partisympati. Resultatet av studien visade ett positivit samband mellan samhällsengagemang och tillit då det gällde antal föreningsmedlemskap men inte rörande antal aktiviteter. Social klass visade sig ha en påverkan på sambandet mellan medlemskap och tillit då sambandet blev svagare vid konstanthållning för social klass, och slutsatsen blir att sambandet är starkare för överklassen och medelklassen än för arbetarklassen. Partisympati var ytterligare en kontrollvariabel som hade en relativt stor förklaringsförmåga för sambandet, särskilt för individer tillhörande kategorin överklass.

The purpose of this essay is to describe the organization of the Swedish Animal WelfareAgency during the time it was in operation. The Swedish Animal Welfare Agency was established in 2005 by the government who saw it as necessary in order to strengthen the protection of cruelty to animals in Sweden. However, the agency was shut down already in2007 and its responsibilities as an agency was moved back to the government and the department of agriculture. During its time in operation, the Swedish Animal Welfare Agency, received much criticism, among other things because of its interpretations of the law which were seen as too focused on details and thus “bureaucratic”. In order to describe the organization of the agency the theoretical approach of this study is based on three of Bo Rothstein’s ideal administration models; the legal bureaucratic, thepolitical oriented and the user oriented model. The purpose is to see which one of these ideal administrations the Swedish Animal Welfare Agency was most like, through an organizational perspective. There will also be a comparison over time, from the establishing to the shutting down of the agency in order to see if the organization of the agency had changed over time. The method used for this paper is a qualitative text-based analysis where the central arguments concerning the organization of the agency will be highlighted and interpreted from the different criteria of the administration models. The study showed that the organization of the Swedish Animal Welfare Agency can be described as a legal bureaucratic administration. The comparison over time showed that the organization of the agency did not change, it could be described as legal bureaucratic when it was established as well as when it was shut down. This shows that the criticism of the agency of being too “bureaucratic” might be justified but the legitimacy of the agency’s organization was based on bureaucratic principles.

During the past twenty years the immigration to Sweden has changed significantly. Earlier immigration mainly focused at filling the vacancies in the Swedish industry, today immigrants primarily come to Sweden as Refugees. This change of immigration combined with the restructuring of the Swedish industrial sector has resulted in great a deterioration of the chances for immigrants to gain entry to the Swedish labor market. This study aims at examining how the cooperation between authorities in the municipal of Hörby in Sweden fosters integration. The study primarily examines how the cooperation between authorities in a integration project can contribute to a better integration to the labor market. Through a qualitative study, five persons who occupy important roles in the project have been interviewed. The results of these interviews have been complemented by internal documents as well as extern material to validate the results. The most important findings that have been revealed are the importance of language in the process of gaining entrance to the Swedish labor market. Subsequently the education of immigrants receives criticism and the importance of a new and more effective as well as more time saving education for immigrants are being stressed.

This paper explores the curriculum of the Swedish social science course Samhällskunskap 1 b. This is done by analyzing the curriculum in question combined with semi-structural interviews of five teachers, exploring their experiences in teaching the course. The paper applies theories associated with street-level bureaucracy, originally from Michael Lipsky. The premise of the study is that teachers are bureaucrats who must follow a specific curriculum. The study concludes that the theories of street-level bureaucrats are applicable to the situation of social science teachers in their relation to the curriculum. The study also concludes that the interviewed teachers all interpret the curriculum in slightly different manners. This could in turn be seen as a possibility for the individual teacher to adapt the course to suit a range of students, as well as something that potentially threatens the fundamental reasons of a curriculum.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the lived experiences and treatment of Muslim women in their encounters with the social services. The primal themes for this study was: How does Muslim women experience the treatment of their case in the social services in a situation of need? How can the encounter and experience with the social services affect the clients trust in the social services?  What is the ideal treatment of women with a Muslim identity by the social services? The aim of this study was to investigate and capture the respondents lived perceptions and experiences with the social services, and thus the qualitative interview methodology was implemented to answer the research questions and hypotheses. Seven interviews with Muslim women were conducted in various districts of Stockholm, a city in northern Sweden. Five of the respondents were of ethnic Swedish origin and two were of other ethic origin. The results show that the majority of the respondents experienced a negative response at least once when in contact with the social services. Respondents emphasize that the unsafe and insecure meeting with the social worker was due to a non-verbal body language which they experience as an indication of preconceived notions about Muslim women, which is particularly experienced and described by the respondents with the Islamic headscarf. The trust in the social services decline in connection with the negative reflection of the respondents. However, the lived experiences with the social worker and the social services have not all been of a negative nature. The suggested ideal is also taken from the respondents own lived experiences with the social services.  A pervasive and consistent ideal is that the respondents want to be listened to, understood and respected for who they are as well as empowered rather than suppressed.  Key words: treatment, attitudes, Muslim women, social services, symbolic interactionism, trust, reliance (confidence) ideal, Rothstein, Mead, structural discrimination.   Nyckelord: bemötande, muslimska kvinnor, socialtjänsten, symbolisk interaktionism, tillit, förtroende, ideal, Rothstein, Mead, strukturell diskriminering.