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Föräldranormen, professionaliteten och socialsekreteraren - En kvalitativ analys av socialsekreterares resonemang kring föräldraskapet

Lunga, Sara LU and Karlsson, Beatrice LU (2021) SOPA63 20211
School of Social Work
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to gain understanding of social workers' notions about good parenthood and how they reason about the effect of different sources of knowledge in assessments. This study applied a qualitative method by using semi-structured digital interviews with six social workers working with child protection or family law in five different municipalities in Sweden. In the analysis, Michael Lipsky's theory of street-level bureaucracy and the concept of discourse was applied. The result of the study shows a normative discourse of good parenthood which is gender bias. The discourse shows that good
parenthood is characterized by looking after the child's needs and normative notions about the mother as primary parent and the... (More)
The purpose of this study is to gain understanding of social workers' notions about good parenthood and how they reason about the effect of different sources of knowledge in assessments. This study applied a qualitative method by using semi-structured digital interviews with six social workers working with child protection or family law in five different municipalities in Sweden. In the analysis, Michael Lipsky's theory of street-level bureaucracy and the concept of discourse was applied. The result of the study shows a normative discourse of good parenthood which is gender bias. The discourse shows that good
parenthood is characterized by looking after the child's needs and normative notions about the mother as primary parent and the father as the secondary parent. Furthermore, the study shows that social workers use different sources of knowledge in reasoning about parenthood which results in them taking personal and professional positions. Alienation becomes an expression of the professional position as opposed to perpetuating the myth of altruism which becomes an expression for the personal position. Regardless of whether the social worker takes the personal individual I or the professional collegial we, the discourse becomes
significant in the reasoning about parenthood. (Less)
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author
Lunga, Sara LU and Karlsson, Beatrice LU
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organization
course
SOPA63 20211
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
parenthood, normative notions, street-level bureaucracy, social workers, discretion
language
Swedish
id
9053366
date added to LUP
2021-06-14 09:13:18
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2021-06-14 09:13:18
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  abstract     = {{The purpose of this study is to gain understanding of social workers' notions about good parenthood and how they reason about the effect of different sources of knowledge in assessments. This study applied a qualitative method by using semi-structured digital interviews with six social workers working with child protection or family law in five different municipalities in Sweden. In the analysis, Michael Lipsky's theory of street-level bureaucracy and the concept of discourse was applied. The result of the study shows a normative discourse of good parenthood which is gender bias. The discourse shows that good
parenthood is characterized by looking after the child's needs and normative notions about the mother as primary parent and the father as the secondary parent. Furthermore, the study shows that social workers use different sources of knowledge in reasoning about parenthood which results in them taking personal and professional positions. Alienation becomes an expression of the professional position as opposed to perpetuating the myth of altruism which becomes an expression for the personal position. Regardless of whether the social worker takes the personal individual I or the professional collegial we, the discourse becomes
significant in the reasoning about parenthood.}},
  author       = {{Lunga, Sara and Karlsson, Beatrice}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Föräldranormen, professionaliteten och socialsekreteraren - En kvalitativ analys av socialsekreterares resonemang kring föräldraskapet}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}