Min viktigaste uppgift är att lyssna på barnet -en kritisk diskursanalys av barns delaktighet inom socialtjänsten
(2014) SOPA63 20142School of Social Work
- Abstract
- The purpose of this essay was to investigate how child-welfare officer categorize children who have witnessed domestic violence, and their parents, what the consequences of this categorization are on the participation of the children as well as how power is distributed between children, parents and child-welfare officers for the duration of the social service processing. We performed seven semi-structured interviews with child-welfare officers who work specifically with the target group of this research (children who have experienced violence) either during initial assessment, evaluation and/or treatment. In order to analyze our empiricism we chose to use Fairclough's three-dimensional model of discourse. We chose to complement this... (More)
- The purpose of this essay was to investigate how child-welfare officer categorize children who have witnessed domestic violence, and their parents, what the consequences of this categorization are on the participation of the children as well as how power is distributed between children, parents and child-welfare officers for the duration of the social service processing. We performed seven semi-structured interviews with child-welfare officers who work specifically with the target group of this research (children who have experienced violence) either during initial assessment, evaluation and/or treatment. In order to analyze our empiricism we chose to use Fairclough's three-dimensional model of discourse. We chose to complement this particular discourse analysis with categorization and power in order to obtain a more in-depth understanding. Through the discourse analysis we could deduce that child-welfare officers act so as to maintain the discourse of “children as objects”. The categorizations that are generated by the child-welfare officers are the result of this discourse. This puts limits on how child welfare officers regard children who have witnessed violence, and their parents. One interesting find during the analysis was that through their categorization of the parents of children who have witnessed violence, the social security worker was portrayed as the one who, in a nuanced way, was able help the children and who could take over where the parents had failed. (Less)
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- author
- Karlsson, Charlotta LU and Hjärpe, Sandra LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SOPA63 20142
- year
- 2014
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- discourse analysis, children’s participation, child witnessed domestic violence, power, categorization
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 4937501
- date added to LUP
- 2015-01-20 16:20:18
- date last changed
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language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Min viktigaste uppgift är att lyssna på barnet -en kritisk diskursanalys av barns delaktighet inom socialtjänsten}},
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