När mamma brister är pappa duktig – en studie om bedömningen av föräldraförmåga i socialtjänstens barnavårdsutredningar
(2013) SOPA63 20122School of Social Work
- Abstract
- The purpose of this paper was to understand how gender is done and reproduced in the assessment of parental ability in child maltreatment investigations within social services. Also to what extent norms and ideas of gender and parenting cohort and influence social secretaries´ assessment of parenting skills. The method I have used is a vignette study in six individual interviews combined with a group interview with six social secretaries. The study showed that when understanding gendered questions according to Yvonne Hirdman´s gender theory, gender is done in several parts of social secretaries assessments of parenting skills, where to different demands and expectations is put on parents depending on if it’s a mother or a father. It also... (More)
- The purpose of this paper was to understand how gender is done and reproduced in the assessment of parental ability in child maltreatment investigations within social services. Also to what extent norms and ideas of gender and parenting cohort and influence social secretaries´ assessment of parenting skills. The method I have used is a vignette study in six individual interviews combined with a group interview with six social secretaries. The study showed that when understanding gendered questions according to Yvonne Hirdman´s gender theory, gender is done in several parts of social secretaries assessments of parenting skills, where to different demands and expectations is put on parents depending on if it’s a mother or a father. It also showed that there appears to be a higher tolerance for father´s deficiencies compared to mother´s, initiated by different strains on mothers´ compelling responsibility for their children. In accordance with a somewhat focus on mothering in social services as well as fathers´ absence, fathers´ are less implicated in child investigations. Though when taking responsibility, fathers´ are much noted. These ideas of parenting well-founded in the actions and assessments of social secretaries are much blamed on the public image of gendered differences, the clients´ own conduct as well as social secretaries´ personas and values. The respondents of this study reasoned that it as a social secretary is hard to dissociate oneself from this. Noted in the study is that different treatment and assessments due to gendered notions are also inflicted by perspectives of class and ethnicity, this for a more profound understanding of gendered differences and the part it takes in assessment of parenting skills. (Less)
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- author
- Ottov, Camilla LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SOPA63 20122
- year
- 2013
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Gender, social services., child maltreatment investigation, assessment, intersection, parenting skills
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 3404540
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abstract = {{The purpose of this paper was to understand how gender is done and reproduced in the assessment of parental ability in child maltreatment investigations within social services. Also to what extent norms and ideas of gender and parenting cohort and influence social secretaries´ assessment of parenting skills. The method I have used is a vignette study in six individual interviews combined with a group interview with six social secretaries. The study showed that when understanding gendered questions according to Yvonne Hirdman´s gender theory, gender is done in several parts of social secretaries assessments of parenting skills, where to different demands and expectations is put on parents depending on if it’s a mother or a father. It also showed that there appears to be a higher tolerance for father´s deficiencies compared to mother´s, initiated by different strains on mothers´ compelling responsibility for their children. In accordance with a somewhat focus on mothering in social services as well as fathers´ absence, fathers´ are less implicated in child investigations. Though when taking responsibility, fathers´ are much noted. These ideas of parenting well-founded in the actions and assessments of social secretaries are much blamed on the public image of gendered differences, the clients´ own conduct as well as social secretaries´ personas and values. The respondents of this study reasoned that it as a social secretary is hard to dissociate oneself from this. Noted in the study is that different treatment and assessments due to gendered notions are also inflicted by perspectives of class and ethnicity, this for a more profound understanding of gendered differences and the part it takes in assessment of parenting skills.}},
author = {{Ottov, Camilla}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{När mamma brister är pappa duktig – en studie om bedömningen av föräldraförmåga i socialtjänstens barnavårdsutredningar}},
year = {{2013}},
}