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Kulturmöten sökes!

Bonnedal, Hanna (2002)
School of Social Work
Abstract
The object of this essay was to examine the concept of culture and cross culture encounters by studying the group meetings for immigrants at IM, The Swedish Organisation for Individual Relief, in Lund through a cross cultural perspective. The framing questions were: - How can the concept of culture and cross cultural encounters be comprehended and defined? - What does culture and cross cultural encounters signify for the participants of the group meetings. - What impact does culture and cross cultural encounters have on the group meetings. I have tried to outline the discussion on the idea of culture. Through interviews with the participants of the different group meetings on their experiences and views I have found that their perspective... (More)
The object of this essay was to examine the concept of culture and cross culture encounters by studying the group meetings for immigrants at IM, The Swedish Organisation for Individual Relief, in Lund through a cross cultural perspective. The framing questions were: - How can the concept of culture and cross cultural encounters be comprehended and defined? - What does culture and cross cultural encounters signify for the participants of the group meetings. - What impact does culture and cross cultural encounters have on the group meetings. I have tried to outline the discussion on the idea of culture. Through interviews with the participants of the different group meetings on their experiences and views I have found that their perspective in many ways corresponded to what has been said on the subject in the outlined discussion but that culture was not a significant issue at the meetings. Instead the participants emphasised the necessity of learning Swedish and meeting with people regardless of cultural background. (Less)
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author
Bonnedal, Hanna
supervisor
organization
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Social problems and welfare, national insurance, Sociala problem, social välfärd, socialförsäkring
language
Swedish
id
1357689
date added to LUP
2004-11-08 00:00:00
date last changed
2004-11-08 00:00:00
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  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Kulturmöten sökes!}},
  year         = {{2002}},
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