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  1. 11. Service i glesbygd : trender och planeringsmöjligheter

    Författare :Ulf Wiberg; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Accessibility; rural planning; sparsely populated areas; urban-place-system; commercial services;

    Sammanfattning : The major aim of the thesis is to study various issues regarding the supply of services in the rural areas of Northern Sweden characterized by sparse population. Localities in these areas represent the lowest hierarchical units in the urban-place-system. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Socialtjänsten och familjen : socialarbetares konstruktion av familj och insatser i familjerelaterad komplexitet

    Författare :Ahmet Gümüscü; Evelyn Khoo; Lennart Nygren; Sven Trygged; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; complex needs; complexity; family-based social work; social services; social workers; Sweden; focus groups; vignettes;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to describe and analyse how social workers in Swedish social services define “family” and handle complexity when they work with families, and especially “families with complex needs” as the target of their interventions. Whereas families with complex needs can be understood to involve one or more family members having two or more simultaneously occurring needs or problems (e. LÄS MER

  4. 13. Attitudes towards the Market and the Welfare State : Incorporating attitudes towards the market into welfare state research

    Författare :Arvid Lindh; Jonas Edlund; Anne Grönlund; Staffan Kumlin; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Market; welfare state; social policy; political attitudes; public opinion; trust; class; marketization; Sociology; sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : Social policy and its associated institutions are central political arenas for societal compromise and conflict. The capacity to attract strong support from a wide constituency of citizens is, therefore, a defining feature of welfare policy legitimacy. LÄS MER

  5. 14. Does Anybody Care? : Public and Private Responsibilities in Swedish Eldercare 1940-2000

    Författare :Helene Brodin; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economic history; eldercare; elder care; elder; elderly; care; informal care; gender; gender division of labour; unpaid labour; housework; domestic work; welfare; welfare state; social policy; discourse; discourse analysis; institutional change; policy change; Ekonomisk historia; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia; ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

    Sammanfattning : Since the 1980s, practically all of the western welfare states have developed social policies, which aim at shifting the responsibilities for welfare services from the state to the family, the civil society or to the market. In Sweden, this political transformation has particularly hit the public eldercare. LÄS MER

  7. 15. Essays on Welfare Dependency and the Privatization of Welfare Services

    Författare :Kajsa Hanspers; Eva Mörk; Anders Forslund; Roope Uusitalo; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : Essay 1: This paper investigates whether mandatory activation programs for welfare recipients have effects on welfare participation, employment and disposable income. In contrast to earlier studies, we are able to capture both entry and exit effects. LÄS MER