Alkoholisme i danske familier
(2014) SOCK01 20132Sociology
- Abstract
- Previous studies has concentrated around the area of children living with parents who has a alcohol problem, hence less research has focused on the children when they have become adults and moved away from home. I contacted a Danish organization, named Tuba, which provides free therapy to people, in the ages from 14 to 35, where one or both parents have an alcohol problem. In collaboration with Tuba I got in contact with three women all in the mid-twenties, who participated in a personal qualitative ethnographic in-depth interview, with the thematic of family and close relationships. Hence the aim of this research is to examine the emic perspective of adult daughters’ experience of a parent’s alcohol problem, in the context of... (More)
- Previous studies has concentrated around the area of children living with parents who has a alcohol problem, hence less research has focused on the children when they have become adults and moved away from home. I contacted a Danish organization, named Tuba, which provides free therapy to people, in the ages from 14 to 35, where one or both parents have an alcohol problem. In collaboration with Tuba I got in contact with three women all in the mid-twenties, who participated in a personal qualitative ethnographic in-depth interview, with the thematic of family and close relationships. Hence the aim of this research is to examine the emic perspective of adult daughters’ experience of a parent’s alcohol problem, in the context of understanding what difficulties alcohol brings into the family. Because of the volume of the sample this research also includes secondary empirical data, which is collected from other studies within the field and general governmental recommendations for people of the Danish society. This study take a kind of functionalistic and post functionalistic perspective since the main focus is to understand the nuclear family, which is used for the analysis of family in the postmodern society. In Denmark we find an alcohol culture, where alcohol is associated with ‘coziness’ and social interaction, when people does not use alcohol in this context then the individual is by society defined as an alcoholic which is associated with homelessness, low status and dependent on governmental support. This normative understanding of alcohol dependence as a thing not existing in ‘normal’ functional families, forces families with a parent who is alcohol dependent to hide the problem from the public. This also means that beside that alcoholism is defined as a disease in Denmark it isn’t perceived that way. Shame therefore becomes the main emotion for relatives to an alcohol dependent, cause the relatives look at them selves through other people’s judgmental eyes. The shame emotion becomes controlling for the relatives in all of its actions and as a result of that the individual limits its social interaction with people outside the family, except for an intimate relationship or/and close friendship through several of years. (Less)
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- author
- Thomsen, Camilla Uhre LU
- supervisor
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- Magnus Ring LU
- organization
- course
- SOCK01 20132
- year
- 2014
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Social Interaction, Relationship, Family, Alcoholism, Alcohol Culture, Shame
- language
- Danish
- id
- 4317075
- date added to LUP
- 2014-02-24 11:40:52
- date last changed
- 2014-02-24 11:40:52
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abstract = {{Previous studies has concentrated around the area of children living with parents who has a alcohol problem, hence less research has focused on the children when they have become adults and moved away from home. I contacted a Danish organization, named Tuba, which provides free therapy to people, in the ages from 14 to 35, where one or both parents have an alcohol problem. In collaboration with Tuba I got in contact with three women all in the mid-twenties, who participated in a personal qualitative ethnographic in-depth interview, with the thematic of family and close relationships. Hence the aim of this research is to examine the emic perspective of adult daughters’ experience of a parent’s alcohol problem, in the context of understanding what difficulties alcohol brings into the family. Because of the volume of the sample this research also includes secondary empirical data, which is collected from other studies within the field and general governmental recommendations for people of the Danish society. This study take a kind of functionalistic and post functionalistic perspective since the main focus is to understand the nuclear family, which is used for the analysis of family in the postmodern society. In Denmark we find an alcohol culture, where alcohol is associated with ‘coziness’ and social interaction, when people does not use alcohol in this context then the individual is by society defined as an alcoholic which is associated with homelessness, low status and dependent on governmental support. This normative understanding of alcohol dependence as a thing not existing in ‘normal’ functional families, forces families with a parent who is alcohol dependent to hide the problem from the public. This also means that beside that alcoholism is defined as a disease in Denmark it isn’t perceived that way. Shame therefore becomes the main emotion for relatives to an alcohol dependent, cause the relatives look at them selves through other people’s judgmental eyes. The shame emotion becomes controlling for the relatives in all of its actions and as a result of that the individual limits its social interaction with people outside the family, except for an intimate relationship or/and close friendship through several of years.}},
author = {{Thomsen, Camilla Uhre}},
language = {{dan}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Alkoholisme i danske familier}},
year = {{2014}},
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