O trabalho teve por objetivo investigar processos formativos inerentes à condição de aluno do professor, em um programa de educação em serviço, da perspectiva do processo de socialização/educação familiar e escolar. Busca analisar as relações entre os ofícios discente e docente quando exercidos de forma simultânea, examinando em que medida viver tal situação favorece processos de formação docente mais significativos, e verificar as implicações dessa formação no trabalho do professor, na escola. A pesquisa é de natureza qualitativa. O trabalho etnográfico envolveu observações em contextos de ensino on-line e off-line durante 18 meses. O referencial empírico foi o PEC Formação Universitária Municípios/São Paulo (2003-2004), caracterizado como um curso presencial com forte apoio de mídias interativas, que teve por finalidade oferecer a licenciatura plena aos docentes que tinham apenas a formação para o magistério em nível médio. Os dados da investigação constituíram-se de documentos oficiais, notas de campo, entrevistas, além de um conjunto de memórias produzidas pelos professores. O referencial teórico fundamenta-se na teoria do habitus de Bourdieu, problematizada por alguns de seus críticos contemporâneos. Os resultados obtidos apontam que os professores, em determinadas ocasiões, recorrerem às artimanhas de alunos para enfrentar as exigências do curso, afastando-se do que formalmente deles se espera quando investidos no ofício discente. Tais comportamentos estão relacionados a diversos fatores que no contexto investigado se mostraram mais associados a determinadas modalidades de ensino, ao habitus escolar e às condições de existência do professor, tal como a escassez de tempo decorrente da dupla ou até tripla jornada de trabalho. Por outro lado, vivenciar tais situações incitou os professores a refletirem sobre o exercício dos ofícios discente e docente, facultando-lhes compreender vários aspectos tanto das condutas quanto dos processos de aprendizagem de seus alunos. Além disso, permitiu-lhes o entendimento de algumas de suas práticas docentes, sobretudo no que diz respeito às atitudes em relação ao aluno e à proposição de certas atividades escolares. Muitas dessas reflexões surgiram a partir de um processo formativo não previsto pelo programa, possibilitado pelo que foi chamado neste trabalho de simetria invertida às avessas. Tendo em vista as relações com o tutor e a experiência de certas atividades, notadamente as avaliações, os alunos-professores observavam, e aprendiam, o que não deveriam fazer em sala de aula, em virtude do baixo ou inadequado potencial formativo de tais situações de aprendizagem, contrariando assim o princípio da simetria invertida, um dos eixos do modelo focalizado. As análises revelaram que o contexto em estudo fez aflorar aspectos latentes da cultura escolar, explicitados especialmente nas tensões entre o ofício de aluno e o de professor, recolocando em pauta o exame sobre as potencialidades e expectativas da formação em serviço. / Considering the perspective of the processes of school and family socialization/education, this work investigates the formative processes inherent to the student situation in which teachers find themselves during an in-service teacher education program. It aims to analyze the relationships between the teacher and the student crafts when carried out simultaneously, examining to what extent such situation promotes more meaningful processes of teacher education, and also to investigate the implications of this formation to the teacher work at school. The research is of a qualitative nature; the ethnographic fieldwork involved systematic observations in contexts of online and offline teaching during 18 months. The empirical framework was given by the PEC Municípios [PEC University Formation Municipalities/São Paulo] (2003-2004), characterized as a presence course with strong support of interactive media, which had as its purpose to offer full licentiateship to teachers who till then had only secondary level teacher training. The data for the investigation consisted of official documents, field notes, interviews and also a set of memoirs created by the teachers during the course. The theoretical framework is based on Bourdieus theory of habitus, problematized by some of his contemporary critics. The results obtained point to the fact that teachers, in some situations, resort to student stratagems to face the demands of the course, deviating from the behavior expected of them when invested of the office of students. Such behavior is related to several factors that, in the context studied here, turned out to be more associated to some modalities of teaching, to the school habitus, and to the conditions of existence of the teacher. On the other hand, going through these situations allowed teachers to reflect upon the exercise of teacher and student crafts, helping them to understand various aspects of pupil conduct and of their learning processes. Additionally, it made them comprehend some of their own teaching practices, particularly in what concerns their attitudes towards the students, and the proposition of some types of school activities. Many of these reflections emerged from a formative process unforeseen by the program, made possible by what was called in this research backward inverted symmetry. Considering the relations with their tutor and the experience of some activities, notably the examinations, the studentteachers observed and learned what they should not do in the classroom due to the low or inadequate formative potential of such learning situations, thereby subverting the principle of inverted symmetry, one of the mainstays of the PEC. The analyses carried out revealed that the context under study brought forward latent aspects of the school culture, made explicit specially by the tensions between the role of student and that of teacher, rekindling the issue of the potentialities and expectations about in-service teacher education.

[pt] Este trabalho envolveu a discussão dos modos pelos quais estão organizadas as práticas pedagógicas desenvolvidas no ensino médico de graduação da Faculdade de Medicina da UFRJ, tendo como contexto as políticas de ensino superior e de saúde da década de 70 ao momento atual. Duas foram as questões que serviram de ponto de partida para a pesquisa: quais foram os efeitos da mudança físico- espacial sobre as concepções de formação médica dos antigos professores da Praia Vermelha; e quais eram e quais são as lógicas ordenadoras prevalentes nos diferentes períodos. Do ponto de vista metodológico, trabalhei com relatos orais na linha da história de vida de 21 professores oriundos da Praia Vermelha, procurando identificar em suas narrativas os significados da mudança a respeito do projeto pedagógico da Escola de Medicina da UFRJ, as posições assumidas por eles diante dos efeitos produzidos pela mudança, através da análise de suas trajetórias. Documentos referentes à educação médica, às políticas de saúde e às políticas de ensino superior constituíram-se em referências indispensáveis para o mapeamento das configurações do ensino médico de graduação em nosso país, em especial a partir da Reforma Universitária de 1968. Para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa, Pierre Bourdieu revelou- se como um dos interlocutores centrais. A potencialidade dos conceitos de habitus, capital e campo permitiu pensar o princípio da ação histórica na relação entre dois estados do social: a história objetivada nas coisas, sob a forma de instituições, e a história encarnada nos corpos sob a forma de disposições duráveis, o habitus (Bourdieu, 1994), no nosso caso, a constituição do habitus docente. Lutas e conflitos em torno de tomadas de posições acerca das concepções da Faculdade de Medicina da UFRJ foram sendo mapeadas e ajudaram a revelar as correlações de força que atravessaram essa instituição desde os anos 60. O trabalho está estruturado em torno dos seguintes eixos: as mudanças da Praia Vermelha para o Fundão e as conseqüências provocadas por esse deslocamento físico- espacial na reconfiguração dos campos de poder no interior da Faculdade de Medicina e em última instância na Universidade; as formas de ingresso na carreira docente no período estudado e os efeitos da reforma universitária sobre essas carreiras, sobre as representações dos saberes e conhecimentos que compõem com o habitus a formação do professor de medicina; a formação profissional promovida pelo curso de Medicina, inscrevendo-a no contexto histórico das práticas pedagógicas descritas na literatura do campo da educação médica, bem como dos efeitos das políticas de saúde, da configuração do mercado de trabalho nessa área. Em que pese o esforço que a Faculdade de Medicina vem realizando, como (i) integrar o currículo a partir de iniciativas interdepartamentais; (ii) aumentar as atividades práticas; (iii) inserir o aluno na rede básica de saúde; (iv) tornar obrigatório o internato médico nas áreas consideradas básicas; (v) discutir a relação médico- paciente via criação de uma disciplina, os resultados sinalizam para a existência de contradições entre a intenção e a efetividade dessas medidas. Assim, tem prevalecido ainda um enfoque predominantemente hospitalar e uma abordagem que privilegia o atendimento especializado de doenças que exigem o uso intensivo de tecnologia, fugindo das recomendações de centrar mais a prática nos aspectos preventivos das doenças. O apelo das especialidades, com maior prestígio e remuneração, a necessidade de dedicação à pesquisa pelos professores como pré-requisito para titulação, e o avanço do conhecimento médico são os fatores apontados para o declínio da propedêutica médica de cunho indiciário, e o sucesso observado na introdução de práticas pedagógicas conside / [en] This paper encompasses the discussion about the forms of organization of pedagogical practices developed in the undergraduate program at the School of Medicine at UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). The study ambiance involves university teaching and health policies that have prevailed in Brazil from the 1970 s until today. The research stemmed from two questions: the effect of physical-spatial change on concepts that underlie the medical formation among former faculty members (at Praia Vermelha building in the neighborhood of Urca); secondly, the guiding logics that prevailed in the two different periods. From a methodological viewpoint, I worked with oral reports that followed the life story of 21 faculty members who had come from Praia Vermelha, attempting to identify the meaning of change related to the pedagogical project at the School of Medicine at UFRJ in their narratives and the attitudes they adopted to cope with the effects produced by such changes in the analysis of their studies and life story. Documents involving medical training, health policies and university teaching issues became essential references for a map of the undergraduate medical education in our country, especially after the University Reform in 1968. Pierre Bourdieu was a central interlocutor for the development of the research. The potential of concepts such as habitus, capital and field allowed us to envisage the principle of historical action within the relationship of two social states: the objective history of things, in the form of institutions, and the history incarnated in bodies in the form of durable dispositions, the habitus (Bourdieu, 1994), in our case the constitution of a teaching habitus. Struggles and conflicts for position take over concerning the concepts at the School of Medicine at UFRJ were gradually mapped and helped reveal the correlation of forces that prevailed in the institution since the 1960 s. The work is structured around three guide lines: the transfer from Praia Vermelha to the premises on Fundão Island and the consequences of that physical-spatial change to the power shift in the recess of the School of Medicine and, ultimately, the University as a whole; the procedures that applied to faculty members during the admission process in the studied period, to mention the effects of the university reform on their professional careers, on the representation of knowledge and scholarship which, together with habitus, make up the education of the Medicine Professor; firstly the professional education offered by the Medical School, which inserts it in the historical context of pedagogical practices described in medical education literature; and secondly the effect health policies had on the labor market structure in that field. The School of Medicine has been making efforts to (i) integrate its curriculum based on interdepartmental initiatives; (ii) increase the number of practical activities; (iii) place the students within the basic net of health services; (iv) enforce compulsory medical internship in essential areas; (v) discuss doctor-patient relationships in a specific discipline. Nevertheless, in spite of those efforts, the results indicate contradictions between their intended effects and their efficacy. So, a largely hospital-oriented focus has prevailed, fostering an approach that privileges specialized treatment of diseases with the intense application of technological resources. This approach opposes recommendations which prescribe medical practices centered on disease prevention. The appeal of medical specialists is that they have more prestige and better rates of pay; therefore the professors need to dedicate time to research as a pre-requisite to conquer titles for their career improvement, and the advance of medical knowledge are the contributing factors that account for the decline of symptom-oriented medical procedures and the success of pedagogical practices that are considered innovative, such as problem-based learning and evidence-based medicine. These factors also contribute to the o

Mêlant approche biographique et enquête ethnographique, et combinant les concepts d'habitus, d'institution et de carrière, nous avons analysé l'ensemble des logiques sociales, biographiques et partisanes qui structurent l'engagement et les carrières des militants verts. Retraçant leurs trajectoires sociales depuis la création du parti en 1984, nous avons découvert la présence prépondérante d'(ex)-catholiques et de plusieurs générations distinctes de soixante-huitards. En ascension sociale et souvent politisés très tôt, il partage les dispositions à l'ascèse et à l'empathie avec les minorités actives qui leur permettent de résister à la dureté du processus d'idéologisation et de socialisation partisane. Forts de la restructuration de leur habitus sur le monde "minoritaire", les militants s'envisagent comme une avant-garde politique et sociale, et entendent se distinguer dans l'espace des (prise de) positions politiques en incarnant un idéal de "politique autrement". Ils forment un collectif toujours renouvelé - mais numériquement constant - de militants intéressés à l'élaboration d'une offre politique autonome et à la compétition électorale. Acquérant ou reconvertissant quelques capitaux, ils entrent en politique, en faisant le plus souvent valoir quelque expertise sectorielle, et élaborent et mettent en œuvre les politiques publiques dont ils ont la charge. Mais rapidement cantonnés dans des "niches" politiques et institutionnelles malgré un apprentissage réussi du métier politique et une capacité à jouer stratégiquement de leurs différents rôles, ils ne parviennent généralement qu'à se maintenir dans le statut coûteux de (semi)professionnels de la politique. / Mixing biographic approach and ethnographical survey, and combining habitus, institution and career, we analysed all the social, biographic and partisan logics which ctructure the commitment and the careers of the green activists. Redrawing their social trajectories since the creation of the party in 1984, we discovered the dominating presence of (ex)-Catholics and of several different generations from participants in the student and workers' protest movement of May 1968. In upward social mobility and often politicized very early, they share capacities in the asceticism and in the empathy with the active minorities which allow them to resist the hardness of the processes of ideologization and the partisan socialization. Forts of the restructuring of their habitus on the "minority" mode, the activists envisage as a political and social avant-garde ans claim to distinguish themselves in the space of the grips of political positions by embodying and ideal of "politics otherwise". They form a collective always renewed - but numerically constant - interested in the elaboration of an autonomous political offer and in the electoral competition. Acquiring or reconverting some ressources, they enter politics, by asserting most of the time some sectorial expertise, and develop and elaborate then the policies they are responsible for. But quickly confined in political and institutional "niches" in spite of a successful learning of the political job and a capacity to strategically play their various roles, they succeed generally only in remaining in the expensive status of (semi) professionals of the politics.

<h2>Sammanfattning</h2><p><strong>S</strong>yftet med denna uppsats var att ge en bild av hur ett antal studie- och karriärvägledare inom universitet/högskola förhåller sig till begreppet breddad rekrytering.</p><p>Uppsatsen ville också visa vad en högskola och ett universitet har för strategier för att bredda sin rekrytering och om man medvetet använder sig av studie- och karriärvägledning för detta ändamål.</p><p>Metoden var kvalitativ och resultaten byggde på intervjuer av tio studievägledare fördelade på en högskola och ett universitet, samt två personer som arbetar övergripande med breddad rekrytering på dessa lärosäten. Det som framkom är att studievägledarna överlag anser att breddad rekrytering är en viktig uppgift som ingår i deras yrkesverksamhet, vidare att vägledningen är mer psykologiskt än socialt inriktad, på så sätt att vägledarna fokuserar mer på psykologiska aspekter som t ex studentens intressen, värderingar och förmågor snarare än den sociala kontext studenten befinner sig i t ex klasstillhörighet eller genus. Det finns inslag av processtänkande men fortfarande mycket av "trait and factor" tänkande.<strong> </strong>Högskolan/ universitetet anser att studievägledning är en viktig verksamhet och använder sig delvis av den för att bredda sin rekrytering, men kunskapen om vad vägledning är och kan användas till känns delvis outvecklad.</p><p>En framtidsvision är att vägledning har mer av samhällsförbättrande karaktär. Vägledaren skulle då vara en person som uppmuntrar till val utanför normen: Gränsöverskridande val.<strong> </strong></p> / <p> </p><h2>Abstract</h2><p>The purpose of this thesis was to give a picture of how a number of student counsellors at the university look on their commission in the perspective of widening recruitment.</p><p>The thesis also showed what strategies the universities have to widen their recruitment and of how to use counselling for this purpose.</p><p>The method was qualitative and the result was founded on interviews with ten student counsellors from two different universities and from two persons who work overall with widening recruitment and diversity. This study shows that student counsellors regard widening recruitment as an important task in their work. It emerged under the interviews that counselling is more psychological than social, which means that the counsellors focus more on factors like interests, values and competence rather than social context with factors like social class and gender. There are elements of trait and factor thinking as well as a great deal of<strong> </strong>process thinking. The university regards student counselling as an important activity and is using it for widening recruitment, but the knowledge of  it and its use is somewhat undeveloped.</p><p>A vision for the future is that the counsellor has more the task of a social reformer. The counsellor would then be the one who encourages the student for choices beyond the norms.</p>

<p>The aim of this paper was to examine the specific experience of being bicultural, what ackulturation strategy the person utilized and what influenced the use of this strategy. The findings were analyzed with the help of Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus and cultural capital. The empirical data was collected through qualitative interviews with four women of Chilean background, who either were born in or had been living in Sweden since childhood. The results of the interviews showed that all the respondents predominantly utilized the integration strategy, meaning that they participated in and felt a connection to both the Swedish and Chilean culture. However three of them had elements of the separation strategy and one had elements of the assimilation strategy. The respondent’s stories revealed that factors like parent’s encouragement and expectations, the Swedish society’s inaccessibility, type of residential area and knowing the Swedish language, had all influenced the use of a specific strategy. By being bicultural, the respondents had experienced the feeling of being an outsider and a pressure to assimilate, but still valued the access to two different cultures as a resource. The results can be interpreted as there being a reciprocal and significant influence between ackulturation strategy and cultural capital/habitus.</p>

<p>Denna uppsats belyser könsstrukturer på universitetsfältet, med syfte att undersöka om och varför detspråkliga begreppet forskare tillskrivs manligt kön av studenter som läser forskningsreferat i kurslitteraturen.Metoden som använts är experimentell och består av en könsneutral provtext, där en refererad forskare enbartnämns vid efternamnet Björk, och ett frågeformulär där 92 studenter har fått tillskriva denna forskare ett kön.Resultatet visar att 71 procent av de studenter som besvarat frågan tror att den refererade forskaren är enman. Det finns även en tendens till att de äldre studenterna har en större benägenhet att tillskriva forskarenmanligt kön än vad de yngre studenterna har.</p><p>Resultatet har utifrån Simone de Beauvoir tolkats som att kvinnan fortfarande betraktas som det Andra iförhållande till mannen, som utgör normen inom akademien. Att begreppet forskare tillskrivs ett visst könhar, utifrån Pierre Bourdieu, tolkats som att studenterna besvarat frågan utifrån föreställningar som finnsinternaliserade i deras habitus, som i sin tur står under stark påverkan från de inre strukturer påuniversitetsfältet som framhäver mannen som det dominerande könet.</p> / <p>This bachelor thesis examines gender structures in the university field. The aim is to study whether, and if sowhy, students attribute male gender to a researcher referred to in the course literature. The researcher is onlymentioned by the last name Björk, in order to be regarded as gender neutral.</p><p>An experimental method was used to test the hypothesis that the conception of “researcher” is male-biased. A gender neutral sample text and a survey were handed out to 92 university students. Therespondents were asked to attribute gender to the researcher Björk. The results confirmed the hypothesis andshowed that 71 percent of the students attributed male gender to the researcher. There was also a tendencythat the older students attributed male gender more often than the younger students did.</p><p>The analysis of the results shows that male gender is viewed as normative in the academy. Thisinterpretation is based on Simone de Beauvoir's theory about women as the Other in relation to men. Thegender specific attribution to a researcher is interpreted, in the words of Pierre Bourdieu, as internalizedconceptions in the student's habitus. The students answer the question about Björk's gender according to theirhabitus, which is based on the internal structures of the university field, where the male gender is seen as thedominant sex.</p>

<p>Avsikten med denna uppsats är att få en förstålelse för varför barn utvecklar för psykisk ohälsa. Fokus kommer att ligga på familjens situation, socialt och ekonomiskt. En annan fråga som kommer att diskuteras är huruvida barns sociala relationer utanför hemmet påverkar den psykiska hälsan. Genom relevanta sociologiska och psyklogiska teorier har jag försökt att analysera, problematisera och förstå vad det är som bidrar till att psykisk ohälsa drabbar barn. För att få en tillförlitlig undersökning använder jag mig av kvantitativa metoder, där jag tagit del av en levnadsnivåundersökning Barn 2000, där 692 barn har fått besvara frågeformulär som visar hur deras psykiska hälsa ser ut. Jag har kompletterat undersökningen med mejl som barn har skrivit in till Bris (Barnens Rätt I Samhället) där barnen med egna ord förklarar varför de mår dåligt. Under studiens gång framkom det att det finns en rad olika anledningar till att barn mår psykiskt dåligt, den främsta anledningen är familjeförhållanden, det vill säga hur anknytningen till föräldrarna ser ut och hur bra barnet kommer överens med båda föräldrarna. Det har även framkommit att negativa relationer kan förvärra ohälsan men att det inte är anledningen till ohälsan. Om barn har bekymmer kan det leda till psykisk ohälsa, men när det sker i samband med familjeförhållanden och sociala relationer. Det vill säga ”negativa” sociala relationer, svåra livssituationer, där barn utsätts för olika former av misshandel i hemmet och/eller utanför hemmet, eller något annat som är psykiskt påfrestande för barn.</p> / <p>The intention with this study is to get greater understanding of why children develop mental illnesses. The focus will be on the situation of the family, both socially and financially. Another issue that will be discussed is wheteher or not children's social relations outside the home, affect their mental illness. I have, through relevant sociological and psychological theories, tried to analyze, question and understand what it is that contributes to the psychic disorder that children are faced with. To get a thrustworthy research, I used quantitative measures. I have taken part of a research of livingstandards (Barn LNU 2000) in which 692 children have answered questionsheets that show how their mental healths are. I have also used e-mails from children who have written to BRIS (Barnens rätt i samhället). They have explained in their own words why they are feeling unhappy. During the study, I discovered a few differerent reasons to why children feel psycologically bad and the number one reason is domestic issues as in the family, that is how their relationship to their parents are and how well the children get along with both their parents. It shows that negative relationships can enhance mental illness but that it is not the reason for it. If children have worries it can lead to menal illness. but only when there is both family issues and socialissues involved. With social issues I mean negative ones such as difficulties in life, both domestic and other kinds of abuse or anyhting else that is psycologically tiring.</p>

<p>The present thesis examines the possible reasons social workers have for entering and eventually graduating from the Social Work Department in Iraklio, Greece. It is a three-phase study, consisting of three distinct but related research parts; each research part is built upon knowledge, issues and questions derived from the preceding part.</p><p>My background in sociology influenced the choice of theoretical perspectives; I was not interested in investigating students’ choice from a psychologically-based perspective. Bourdieu (e.g. 1977; 1987) and the work of others who have drawn on and developed his work (e.g. Hodkinson & Sparkes, 1997; Reay, 1998a) constituted a theoretical framework. In addition, theoretical perspectives which recognise the interplay between individual and structural factors (e.g. Kasimati, 1991) also proved useful. In this work both quantitative and qualitative approaches (grounded theory, narrative analysis) were employed.</p><p>The findings contradict views that stress the degree of free choice people have about work; it is clear that external structural factors limit or contribute to the shaping of this choice. This is not to say, however, that the findings stress the determining influence of solely external factors on students’ choice. Students in this thesis describe actively making decisions; they are players in the field of education. They enter the field with unequal amounts of capital (economic, cultural); thus, although in theory everyone is free to play, not everyone is equal. To the extent that they have different social backgrounds (gender, class), their classed-and-gendered habitus differs as well. In the process of students’ educational choice, their habitus along with the particular educational system (with all its opportunities and restrictions) influence students’ horizons for action, their perceptions of what is available and appropriate for them. The high value placed on higher education (educational fetishism) is another factor influencing students’ horizons for action. In the context of their horizons for action, students employ a variety of strategies in order to enter higher education (e.g. the way they prepare for the exams, their ranking of Schools in preference order etc). The outcome of these strategies is their admission to the Social Work Department, which may have been intended or unintended. After having entered Social Work, additional factors influence students’ educational choice; experiences within the School (e.g. practice tutorials) contribute to their attitude towards social work and their studies, thus to their decision to graduate from the Social Work Department. Students’ decision-making process is made up of patterns of routine experience interspersed with turning points.</p>

Avsikten med denna uppsats är att få en förstålelse för varför barn utvecklar för psykisk ohälsa. Fokus kommer att ligga på familjens situation, socialt och ekonomiskt. En annan fråga som kommer att diskuteras är huruvida barns sociala relationer utanför hemmet påverkar den psykiska hälsan. Genom relevanta sociologiska och psyklogiska teorier har jag försökt att analysera, problematisera och förstå vad det är som bidrar till att psykisk ohälsa drabbar barn. För att få en tillförlitlig undersökning använder jag mig av kvantitativa metoder, där jag tagit del av en levnadsnivåundersökning Barn 2000, där 692 barn har fått besvara frågeformulär som visar hur deras psykiska hälsa ser ut. Jag har kompletterat undersökningen med mejl som barn har skrivit in till Bris (Barnens Rätt I Samhället) där barnen med egna ord förklarar varför de mår dåligt. Under studiens gång framkom det att det finns en rad olika anledningar till att barn mår psykiskt dåligt, den främsta anledningen är familjeförhållanden, det vill säga hur anknytningen till föräldrarna ser ut och hur bra barnet kommer överens med båda föräldrarna. Det har även framkommit att negativa relationer kan förvärra ohälsan men att det inte är anledningen till ohälsan. Om barn har bekymmer kan det leda till psykisk ohälsa, men när det sker i samband med familjeförhållanden och sociala relationer. Det vill säga ”negativa” sociala relationer, svåra livssituationer, där barn utsätts för olika former av misshandel i hemmet och/eller utanför hemmet, eller något annat som är psykiskt påfrestande för barn. / The intention with this study is to get greater understanding of why children develop mental illnesses. The focus will be on the situation of the family, both socially and financially. Another issue that will be discussed is wheteher or not children's social relations outside the home, affect their mental illness. I have, through relevant sociological and psychological theories, tried to analyze, question and understand what it is that contributes to the psychic disorder that children are faced with. To get a thrustworthy research, I used quantitative measures. I have taken part of a research of livingstandards (Barn LNU 2000) in which 692 children have answered questionsheets that show how their mental healths are. I have also used e-mails from children who have written to BRIS (Barnens rätt i samhället). They have explained in their own words why they are feeling unhappy. During the study, I discovered a few differerent reasons to why children feel psycologically bad and the number one reason is domestic issues as in the family, that is how their relationship to their parents are and how well the children get along with both their parents. It shows that negative relationships can enhance mental illness but that it is not the reason for it. If children have worries it can lead to menal illness. but only when there is both family issues and socialissues involved. With social issues I mean negative ones such as difficulties in life, both domestic and other kinds of abuse or anyhting else that is psycologically tiring.

The present thesis examines the possible reasons social workers have for entering and eventually graduating from the Social Work Department in Iraklio, Greece. It is a three-phase study, consisting of three distinct but related research parts; each research part is built upon knowledge, issues and questions derived from the preceding part. My background in sociology influenced the choice of theoretical perspectives; I was not interested in investigating students’ choice from a psychologically-based perspective. Bourdieu (e.g. 1977; 1987) and the work of others who have drawn on and developed his work (e.g. Hodkinson &amp; Sparkes, 1997; Reay, 1998a) constituted a theoretical framework. In addition, theoretical perspectives which recognise the interplay between individual and structural factors (e.g. Kasimati, 1991) also proved useful. In this work both quantitative and qualitative approaches (grounded theory, narrative analysis) were employed. The findings contradict views that stress the degree of free choice people have about work; it is clear that external structural factors limit or contribute to the shaping of this choice. This is not to say, however, that the findings stress the determining influence of solely external factors on students’ choice. Students in this thesis describe actively making decisions; they are players in the field of education. They enter the field with unequal amounts of capital (economic, cultural); thus, although in theory everyone is free to play, not everyone is equal. To the extent that they have different social backgrounds (gender, class), their classed-and-gendered habitus differs as well. In the process of students’ educational choice, their habitus along with the particular educational system (with all its opportunities and restrictions) influence students’ horizons for action, their perceptions of what is available and appropriate for them. The high value placed on higher education (educational fetishism) is another factor influencing students’ horizons for action. In the context of their horizons for action, students employ a variety of strategies in order to enter higher education (e.g. the way they prepare for the exams, their ranking of Schools in preference order etc). The outcome of these strategies is their admission to the Social Work Department, which may have been intended or unintended. After having entered Social Work, additional factors influence students’ educational choice; experiences within the School (e.g. practice tutorials) contribute to their attitude towards social work and their studies, thus to their decision to graduate from the Social Work Department. Students’ decision-making process is made up of patterns of routine experience interspersed with turning points.