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Att skapa en familj - surrogatarrangemang i mediebelysning

Karlsson, Amanda LU and Hallberg Hektor, Cecilia LU (2019) SOPA63 20182
School of Social Work
Abstract
Surrogacy arrangements is becoming an increasingly more common way to create a family. Due to this, the method is getting a greater focus in the media where people is questioning the procedures ethics. The aim of this study was to examine how surrogacy arrangements is constructed in Swedish daily press, with focus on normality in the following themes: family formation, motherhood and children’s rights. The method chosen for our study was a qualitative content analysis of thirteen different articles in Swedish daily press. In analyzing our results, we applied social constructionism theory as a framework, and examined the concept of normality by claims-making theory. We found in our study that certain opinions where frequent in the articles,... (More)
Surrogacy arrangements is becoming an increasingly more common way to create a family. Due to this, the method is getting a greater focus in the media where people is questioning the procedures ethics. The aim of this study was to examine how surrogacy arrangements is constructed in Swedish daily press, with focus on normality in the following themes: family formation, motherhood and children’s rights. The method chosen for our study was a qualitative content analysis of thirteen different articles in Swedish daily press. In analyzing our results, we applied social constructionism theory as a framework, and examined the concept of normality by claims-making theory. We found in our study that certain opinions where frequent in the articles, where there was a distinct negative or positive view on the method. The claims that were positive to the arrangements focused on everyone’s right to build a family and often related to LGBT-families and their expanded rights. The negative articles were more focused on the exploitation of financial vulnerable women and the lack of regulations of surrogacy children’s rights. Conclusively, surrogacy arrangements is an ongoing controversial discussion that challenges our views on dignity, ethics and kinship. We believe that our study has contributed to the research about surrogacy arrangements since we illustrated the construction of the phenomenon in daily press. (Less)
Abstract (Swedish)
Surrogatarrangemang blir ett allt vanligare sätt att skapa en familj. På grund av det så får fenomenet ett allt större fokus i media, där människor ifrågasätter förfarandets etiska aspekter. Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur surrogatarrangemang konstruerades i den svenska dagspressen, med fokus på normalitet i följande teman: familjeformationer, moderskap och barns rättigheter. Metoden som valdes för studien var en kvalitativ innehållsanalys bestående av tretton olika artiklar i svensk dagspress. Vid analysen av våra resultat tillämpade vi socialkonstruktivism som teoretiskt ramverk och undersökte konstrueringen av normalitet med hjälp av claims-makingteorin (anspråksformulering). Vi fann i vår studie att en del teman var frekventa... (More)
Surrogatarrangemang blir ett allt vanligare sätt att skapa en familj. På grund av det så får fenomenet ett allt större fokus i media, där människor ifrågasätter förfarandets etiska aspekter. Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur surrogatarrangemang konstruerades i den svenska dagspressen, med fokus på normalitet i följande teman: familjeformationer, moderskap och barns rättigheter. Metoden som valdes för studien var en kvalitativ innehållsanalys bestående av tretton olika artiklar i svensk dagspress. Vid analysen av våra resultat tillämpade vi socialkonstruktivism som teoretiskt ramverk och undersökte konstrueringen av normalitet med hjälp av claims-makingteorin (anspråksformulering). Vi fann i vår studie att en del teman var frekventa i artiklarna, och att det fanns en tydlig negativ eller positiv syn på metoden. De påståenden som var positiva till arrangemanget fokuserade på allas rätt att skapa en familj och relaterade ofta till HBTQ-familjer och deras utökade rättigheter. De negativt laddade citaten fokuserade på utnyttjandet av ekonomiskt utsatta kvinnor och bristen på reglering kring surrogatbarnens rättigheter. Slutligen är surrogatarrangemang en pågående kontroversiell diskussion som utmanar våra uppfattningar om värdighet, etik och släktskap. Den här studien har bidragit till att belysa olika synsätt kring surrogatarrangemang, och hur de har konstruerats i svensk dagspress. Eftersom den här typen av studie inte har genomförts tidigare fyller arbetet en tidigare kunskapslucka. (Less)
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author
Karlsson, Amanda LU and Hallberg Hektor, Cecilia LU
supervisor
organization
course
SOPA63 20182
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Surrogacy arrangements, Family formations, Motherhood, Children's rights, Normality
language
Swedish
id
8967046
date added to LUP
2019-02-06 17:21:02
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2019-02-06 17:21:02
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  note         = {{Student Paper}},
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