I barnens och nationens intresse : socialliberal reformpolitik 1903-1930
Sammanfattning: The starting point of this thesis is to be found in the French sociologist J. Donzelot's term "social space", describing a zone between economic life and the family. This zone contains social techniques, ideas, power relations and redefinitions. The purpose is to analyse this zone as it was to be formed during the first three decades of the 20th century in connection with the first modem forms of collective and social responsibility being taken for poor children. Municipal child welfare boards, public central bodies and new tasks for social responsibility were introduced. The motive power behind these reforms was the organization The Swedish Poor Relief and Child Welfare Society (Svenska Fattigvårds- och bamavårdsförbundet), which emerged from the turning century's class bridging movements for education, temperance, cooperation etc. This study follows the reform movement in a three-stage model, from the initial discussions and plans at the beginning of the century through the realization in legislation and institutions, to the administrative discussions at the end of the 1920's. Central concepts are: collective discourse and public assumption of control, redefinitions of social and public problems, and discourses regarding the relationship between institutions, parents and children.
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