Heder - ett känsligt ämne utan språk : En kvalitativ studie av skolkuratorers beskrivningar av att arbeta med hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck
(2020) SOPA63 20192School of Social Work
- Abstract
- Honor: a delicate subject without terminology - School counselors’ constructions of honor related violence
About 10-15 % of the pupils in Swedish schools are estimated to be living under honor related norms in
collectivistic environments. The aim of this study was to explore school counselors’ reasoning when working
with students who are limited or otherwise affected due to honor related norms. The method chosen for this
study was qualitative semi structured interviews conducted with four professional school counselors from four
different schools. I applied Bourdieu’s theory on doxa of the field and Loseke’s theory about claims making of
social problems to explore how honor related violence is constructed, what professional norms... (More) - Honor: a delicate subject without terminology - School counselors’ constructions of honor related violence
About 10-15 % of the pupils in Swedish schools are estimated to be living under honor related norms in
collectivistic environments. The aim of this study was to explore school counselors’ reasoning when working
with students who are limited or otherwise affected due to honor related norms. The method chosen for this
study was qualitative semi structured interviews conducted with four professional school counselors from four
different schools. I applied Bourdieu’s theory on doxa of the field and Loseke’s theory about claims making of
social problems to explore how honor related violence is constructed, what professional norms are expressed,
and what difficulties are described as significant by the counselors. This study found that honor doesn't seem to
be a clearly constructed social problem yet and that handling honor related cases is not a part of the doxa of
school counselors. In fact, the doxa of school counselors seemed to cause problems when wanting to handle
honor related issues. There was an expressed fear of doing wrong and sometimes the counselors weren’t sure if
the problem with honor was to be understood as something related to culture and religion or to human rights.
This paradox made it hard for the school counselors to understand and handle the cases where culture of honor
played a part. Even in those cases where the school counselor had more knowledge on how to handle honor
related cases, they expressed that they weren’t sure that the rest of the welfare system had the knowledge, tools
or language to handle these cases. The findings in this study show a misfit between the current counselor doxa
and the urge and call to combat honor related violence. (Less)
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- author
- Carlson, Cajsa LU
- supervisor
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- Tove Harnett LU
- organization
- course
- SOPA63 20192
- year
- 2020
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- honor related norms, honor related violence, school counselor, collectivism, culture, doxa, heder, hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck, skolkurator, HRV
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9006729
- date added to LUP
- 2020-03-17 08:45:45
- date last changed
- 2020-03-17 08:45:45
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abstract = {{Honor: a delicate subject without terminology - School counselors’ constructions of honor related violence
About 10-15 % of the pupils in Swedish schools are estimated to be living under honor related norms in
collectivistic environments. The aim of this study was to explore school counselors’ reasoning when working
with students who are limited or otherwise affected due to honor related norms. The method chosen for this
study was qualitative semi structured interviews conducted with four professional school counselors from four
different schools. I applied Bourdieu’s theory on doxa of the field and Loseke’s theory about claims making of
social problems to explore how honor related violence is constructed, what professional norms are expressed,
and what difficulties are described as significant by the counselors. This study found that honor doesn't seem to
be a clearly constructed social problem yet and that handling honor related cases is not a part of the doxa of
school counselors. In fact, the doxa of school counselors seemed to cause problems when wanting to handle
honor related issues. There was an expressed fear of doing wrong and sometimes the counselors weren’t sure if
the problem with honor was to be understood as something related to culture and religion or to human rights.
This paradox made it hard for the school counselors to understand and handle the cases where culture of honor
played a part. Even in those cases where the school counselor had more knowledge on how to handle honor
related cases, they expressed that they weren’t sure that the rest of the welfare system had the knowledge, tools
or language to handle these cases. The findings in this study show a misfit between the current counselor doxa
and the urge and call to combat honor related violence.}},
author = {{Carlson, Cajsa}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Heder - ett känsligt ämne utan språk : En kvalitativ studie av skolkuratorers beskrivningar av att arbeta med hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck}},
year = {{2020}},
}