 The main purpose of the study was to disclose the control and steering of the citizens that is built into the Swedish social security system.According to Christensen, there was a strong interest on the part of the state to conceal the role that the Job Service played in the system.Furthermore, Christensen meant that the state had an interest in concealing how the behavior-steering and repressive functions of the social security system were inseparably associated with the supportive functions of the system – a fact that contradicted the ideology surrounding the Welfare State.