Empowerment och paternalism, vad betyder de egentligen? En belysning av begreppen
(2003)School of Social Work
- Abstract
- This study aimed to shed light on the conseption empowerment and paternalism, to show some of the inherent tension that lies within the conceptions. I wanted to see if empowerment and paternalism really could be seen as it´s contrary, as it often is described in litterature. I looked into the conceptions different parts to see if, and which parts, where shared or contradict each other. This is an hermaneutisk and explorative study where I have chosen to focus on litterature, to see what has been written on this subject so I could see what people working in this profession had to obtained. The result of my study showed the difficulties that could appear when empowerment and paternalism are used. That will hopefully help the users to enhance... (More)
- This study aimed to shed light on the conseption empowerment and paternalism, to show some of the inherent tension that lies within the conceptions. I wanted to see if empowerment and paternalism really could be seen as it´s contrary, as it often is described in litterature. I looked into the conceptions different parts to see if, and which parts, where shared or contradict each other. This is an hermaneutisk and explorative study where I have chosen to focus on litterature, to see what has been written on this subject so I could see what people working in this profession had to obtained. The result of my study showed the difficulties that could appear when empowerment and paternalism are used. That will hopefully help the users to enhance his/hers consciousness to the consequences when using empowerment and to handle that with carefullness. Both concepts consists smaller parts for example legal security, democracy and power. All the smaller parts are in it self as hard to define as the empowerment – and paternalism-concept. Both empowerment and pateralism are comparativ and can be interpreted different depending on who´s using it, what he/she needs and in what situations they are. (Less)
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- author
- Nilsson, Sophie
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2003
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Social problems and welfare, national insurance, Sociala problem, social välfärd, socialförsäkring
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1358790
- date added to LUP
- 2004-11-08 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2004-11-08 00:00:00
@misc{1358790, abstract = {{This study aimed to shed light on the conseption empowerment and paternalism, to show some of the inherent tension that lies within the conceptions. I wanted to see if empowerment and paternalism really could be seen as it´s contrary, as it often is described in litterature. I looked into the conceptions different parts to see if, and which parts, where shared or contradict each other. This is an hermaneutisk and explorative study where I have chosen to focus on litterature, to see what has been written on this subject so I could see what people working in this profession had to obtained. The result of my study showed the difficulties that could appear when empowerment and paternalism are used. That will hopefully help the users to enhance his/hers consciousness to the consequences when using empowerment and to handle that with carefullness. Both concepts consists smaller parts for example legal security, democracy and power. All the smaller parts are in it self as hard to define as the empowerment – and paternalism-concept. Both empowerment and pateralism are comparativ and can be interpreted different depending on who´s using it, what he/she needs and in what situations they are.}}, author = {{Nilsson, Sophie}}, language = {{swe}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{Empowerment och paternalism, vad betyder de egentligen? En belysning av begreppen}}, year = {{2003}}, }