Sökning: "social acts"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 323 avhandlingar innehållade orden social acts.

  1. 6. Protecting Our Children : A comparative study of the dynamics of structure, intervention and their interplay in Swedish child welfare and Canadian child protection

    Författare :Evelyn Grace Khoo; Lennart Nygren; Ulf Hyvönen; Gudrun Kristinsdottir; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social service; child welfare; child protection; social services; comparative; cross-national; social work; Socialt arbete; Social work; Socialt arbete;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a case study of how two agencies in Umeå, Sweden and Barrie, Canada protect children found in need of child welfare services. The project's purposes are to describe how children are protected from harm in these two contexts, to illuminate the similarities and differences in the child welfare systems reflected at the local level, and explicate the significance of uncovered similarities and differences. LÄS MER

  2. 7. I viljan att göra det normala : En kritisk studie av genusperspektivet i missbrukarvården

    Författare :Tina Mattsson; Socialhögskolan; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social sciences; Femininity; Masculinity; Drug abuse treatment; Ethnicity; Class; Sexuality; Sex; Gender; Social work; Social changes; theory of social work; Samhällsvetenskaper; Sociala förändringar; teorier om socialt arbete;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to use intersectional analysis to investigate how gender is made in drug abuse treatment and to examine how the formation of gender interplays with the formation of sexuality, class and ethnicity. Central questions are: What gender(s) are to be shaped in druge abuse treatment? What happens to a gender perspective with emancipatory ambitions when it is incorporated into a normalizing practice such as social work? Quantitative methods are used to answer these questions. LÄS MER

  3. 8. Teater och utvecklingsstörning : En studie av Ållateatern

    Författare :Lennart Sauer; Stina Johansson; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social service; Intellectual disabilities; Theatre; Social care; Deviance Normality; Ambivalence; Disability culture; Socialt arbete; Social work; Socialt arbete;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is an inductive, qualitative study of a theatre programme with persons with intellectual disabilities. The aims of the dissertation were: • to explore the experiences had by the actors as expressed through their descriptions, images and narratives, • to explore the context in which these descriptions, images and narratives take place and, • to conceptualise the experiences had by the actors. LÄS MER

  4. 9. Destabilising Citizenship Practices? : Social work and undocumented migrants in Sweden

    Författare :Vanna Nordling; Socialhögskolan; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social work; undocumented migrants; responsibility; acts of citizenship; migration; Socialt arbete; Papperslösa migranter; Ansvarstagande; Medborgarskapshandlingar; Migration;

    Sammanfattning : Globalisation of the economy, as well as movement of people and increasing securitisation of borders, have challenged and to different degrees destabilised forms of national belonging and solidarity. Such developments produce new borders and boundaries, separate citizens from non-citizens and create hierarchies of “deservingness”. LÄS MER

  5. 10. Självskadande handlingar : ungdomars berättelser: kontextualisering av ett medikaliserat socialt fenomen

    Författare :Inger Ekman; Hildur Kalman; Lars Evertsson; Emma Sorbring; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Self-injuring acts; adolescents; narratives; Internet; interaction; social context; arenas of comfort; social work; medicalization; demedicalization;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is twofold; to explore adolescents’ own views on self-injuring acts and to analyse the field of research on self-injuring acts. Together, these two aims comprise the overall aim of the thesis; to increase knowledge on self-injuring acts among adolescents. LÄS MER