"Man kan väl typ dö" : Ungdomars föreställningar om narkotika
(2005)School of Social Work
- Abstract
- The purpose of this essay was to investigate the opinions of young people, age 14-16, at a school in a middle-sized city in Sweden, concerning narcotics. The questions we asked ourselves were;
-What are young peoples' ideas of narcotics?
-What do young people imagine when they think of a drug addict?
-What reasons do young people give to start using narcotics?
-What gender-related opinions do young people have regarding drug abuse?
-What do young people think about legalization of narcotics?
For this purpose we interviewed six girls and six boys. We interviewed them one at a time, for about an hour each. We used a qualitative method for the interviews.
The young people in our study described narcotics as "dangerous". However, they... (More) - The purpose of this essay was to investigate the opinions of young people, age 14-16, at a school in a middle-sized city in Sweden, concerning narcotics. The questions we asked ourselves were;
-What are young peoples' ideas of narcotics?
-What do young people imagine when they think of a drug addict?
-What reasons do young people give to start using narcotics?
-What gender-related opinions do young people have regarding drug abuse?
-What do young people think about legalization of narcotics?
For this purpose we interviewed six girls and six boys. We interviewed them one at a time, for about an hour each. We used a qualitative method for the interviews.
The young people in our study described narcotics as "dangerous". However, they all stressed their lack of knowledge, practical as well as theoretical, regarding narcotics. The young people in our interviews felt their knowledge about narcotics to be lacking. Although, they did know them to be dangerous. This uncertainty was prevalent throughout the interviews. When we asked the subjects what they imagined when we spoke of a drug addict, many of them answered with a stereotypical image of a dirty person with a strong addiction who lives on the street. Concerning different reasons for starting to use narcotics, the interview subjects talked about peer-pressure. Concerning the opinions about girls and boys using narcotics, we saw two patterns. According to some of the interview subjects it was less appropriate when a girl used narcotics than when a boy did the same thing. According to others it was inappropriate whichever of the two sexes used narcotics. Another main theme in the interviews was the opinion that legalization of narcotics would not be good; interview subjects believed that the usage of narcotics would increase. (Less)
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- author
- Norlin, Sara and Wulff, Emma
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2005
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- ungdomar, narkotika, narkotikamissbruk, attityder, Social problems and welfare, national insurance, Sociala problem, social välfärd, socialförsäkring
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1332124
- date added to LUP
- 2005-06-28 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2005-06-28 00:00:00
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abstract = {{The purpose of this essay was to investigate the opinions of young people, age 14-16, at a school in a middle-sized city in Sweden, concerning narcotics. The questions we asked ourselves were;
-What are young peoples' ideas of narcotics?
-What do young people imagine when they think of a drug addict?
-What reasons do young people give to start using narcotics?
-What gender-related opinions do young people have regarding drug abuse?
-What do young people think about legalization of narcotics?
For this purpose we interviewed six girls and six boys. We interviewed them one at a time, for about an hour each. We used a qualitative method for the interviews.
The young people in our study described narcotics as "dangerous". However, they all stressed their lack of knowledge, practical as well as theoretical, regarding narcotics. The young people in our interviews felt their knowledge about narcotics to be lacking. Although, they did know them to be dangerous. This uncertainty was prevalent throughout the interviews. When we asked the subjects what they imagined when we spoke of a drug addict, many of them answered with a stereotypical image of a dirty person with a strong addiction who lives on the street. Concerning different reasons for starting to use narcotics, the interview subjects talked about peer-pressure. Concerning the opinions about girls and boys using narcotics, we saw two patterns. According to some of the interview subjects it was less appropriate when a girl used narcotics than when a boy did the same thing. According to others it was inappropriate whichever of the two sexes used narcotics. Another main theme in the interviews was the opinion that legalization of narcotics would not be good; interview subjects believed that the usage of narcotics would increase.}},
author = {{Norlin, Sara and Wulff, Emma}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{"Man kan väl typ dö" : Ungdomars föreställningar om narkotika}},
year = {{2005}},
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