Utbrändhet: kan det förstås ur ett samhällsperspektiv?
(2001)School of Social Work
- Abstract
- The purpose of this essay was to better be able to understand the concepts of neurasthenia and burnout, and also what connections that can be made between these concepts and changes in society. The questions I used was: How can we understand the concept neurasthenia ? How can we understand the concept burnout ? How can these concepts be connected to recent development in modern society ? The method I used was a study of qualitative litterature with supplementing interviews. The persons interviewed where from different fields of knowledge: ideohistorical, sociological, goegraphy of culture and graduates from school of social studies. I discovered that burnout was not a new phenomena. Different concepts have been used through out history to... (More)
- The purpose of this essay was to better be able to understand the concepts of neurasthenia and burnout, and also what connections that can be made between these concepts and changes in society. The questions I used was: How can we understand the concept neurasthenia ? How can we understand the concept burnout ? How can these concepts be connected to recent development in modern society ? The method I used was a study of qualitative litterature with supplementing interviews. The persons interviewed where from different fields of knowledge: ideohistorical, sociological, goegraphy of culture and graduates from school of social studies. I discovered that burnout was not a new phenomena. Different concepts have been used through out history to give expression to the different sympthoms. I choose to concentrate upon neurasthenia. Neurasthenia has comparable sympthoms and equavalent explenations of cause, and arose in the late 19:th and 20:th century. It was confirmed that changes in society does not leave the individual unaffected, and that anguish of existence can arise in modern society. (Less)
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- author
- Borsits, Karolina
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2001
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Social problems and welfare, national insurance, Sociala problem, social välfärd, socialförsäkring
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1357942
- date added to LUP
- 2004-11-08 00:00:00
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- 2004-11-08 00:00:00
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abstract = {{The purpose of this essay was to better be able to understand the concepts of neurasthenia and burnout, and also what connections that can be made between these concepts and changes in society. The questions I used was: How can we understand the concept neurasthenia ? How can we understand the concept burnout ? How can these concepts be connected to recent development in modern society ? The method I used was a study of qualitative litterature with supplementing interviews. The persons interviewed where from different fields of knowledge: ideohistorical, sociological, goegraphy of culture and graduates from school of social studies. I discovered that burnout was not a new phenomena. Different concepts have been used through out history to give expression to the different sympthoms. I choose to concentrate upon neurasthenia. Neurasthenia has comparable sympthoms and equavalent explenations of cause, and arose in the late 19:th and 20:th century. It was confirmed that changes in society does not leave the individual unaffected, and that anguish of existence can arise in modern society.}},
author = {{Borsits, Karolina}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Utbrändhet: kan det förstås ur ett samhällsperspektiv?}},
year = {{2001}},
}