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- Ekholm, David
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Sport as a Means of Responding to Social Problems : Rationales of Government, Welfare and Social Change
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Sport has been increasingly recognized in social policy as a means of steering social change and as a method for responding to diverse social problems. The present study examines how rationales of social change are formed through ‘sport as a means of responding to social problems’. Four research questions are posed: (1) How is it that sport can be thought of and articulated as a means of responding to social problems? (2) How are sport practices assumed to operate as a means of responding to social problems? (3) How are social problems represented when sport is promoted as a means of response? (4) What conduct, subjectivity and citizen competences are shaped within this regime of practice? The study focuses on the government of subjects’ conduct, the formation of community and delineation of domains subjected to social change. The gradual shifts in the governmental rationality of the Swedish welfare state provide a framework for the study. Two kinds of empirical material are investigated. Initially, scientific knowledge is analysed; after this, a sport-based intervention, conducted in cooperation between a social entrepreneur, municipality and local sport clubs, is examined. In relation to scientific discourse, research on sport for social objectives would benefit from more theoretically driven constructionist perspectives related to welfare state transformations. In scientific discourse, rationales of social change in sport are conceived of as individual attainment of skills, competences and powers that are presumably transferable to other social spheres. Such discourse represents problems as individual problems. With respect to the sport-based intervention, individual change is promoted by representatives of the social entrepreneur in terms of providing subjects with motivational powers, which are shaped by role models and applied in “choosing the right track”. By representing problems as risks, avoidance is formed as an individual opportunity. This positions subjects as being responsible for their own welfare and inclusion. Municipal policy makers view the intervention as a way to form community and social cohesion in response to tensions in society. They present sport (and the social entrepreneur) as a way to mobilize and activate civil society – which is associated with the potency of voluntarism, authentic leadership and personal relations based on common identity. Consequently, responsibility for responding to social problems is spread and elements of de-professionalized social work are imposed. To conclude, sport is conceptualized as a means of responding to social problems because sport practices are associated with individual agency and with an active civil society and moral community. The technologies and rationality of social change point out ‘the self’, ‘the community’ and ‘the place’ as locations where social change is possible, rather than the whole of society. For instance, the technologies of social change are based on activation and responsibilization of ‘the self’ and of ‘the community’. These rationales of social change are based on a critique of welfarist governmentality and of the idea of governing from ‘the social’ point of view. Arguably, such discourse obscures more profound social reform. The study provides some empirical explorations illustrating how a range of tendencies and mutations in the governmental rationality of the welfare state and of social work are manifested in ‘sport as a means of responding to social problems’.
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- Backe-Hansen, Elisabeth, et al.
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Out of home care in Norway and Sweden – similar and different
- 2013
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Ingår i: Psychosocial Intervention. - : Colegio Oficial de Psicologos de Madrid. - 1132-0559 .- 2173-4712. ; 22:3, s. 193-202
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- An overview of the current situation in the out-of-home care in Norway and Sweden is presented in this article; also the development in later years is described and discussed. Socially, politically and culturally there are few differences between Norway and Sweden. Child protection and out-of-home placement of children and young people are integrated parts in the welfare state that are shared by the Nordic countries. It is a model that builds on principles of universalism and decommodification of social rights. The welfare model presupposes high public legitimacy for a high level of social expenditure. However the idea of marketization and privatization has also affected the welfare model in Sweden and Norway. Although there are more similarities than differences between the two countries' child protection systems, the article discusses some differences, for example the after care services, new groups of children and young people in the out-of-home care, like young unaccompanied asylum seekers. There are also some differences when it comes to privatization, the introduction of evidence-based methods in the child protection system and the tension between general and residual services for children and young people in the child protection system.
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- Becevic, Zulmir, et al.
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Samhällsvård mellan svek och tillit
- 2018
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Ingår i: Manifest - för ett socialt arbete i tiden. - : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144125688 ; , s. 185-197
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Socialt arbete, samhällsvård, barn och unga
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- Höjer, Ingrid, 1953, et al.
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Voices of 65 Young People Leaving Care in Sweden: "There Is So Much I Need to Know!"
- 2014
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Ingår i: Australian Social Work. - 0312-407X .- 1447-0748. ; 67:1, s. 71-87
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this study is to examine young care leavers’ experiences of supportive and nonsupportive factors after leaving care. Telephone interviews were conducted with 65 young people, between 18 and 26 years old, who had left care in Sweden within the previous 3 months to 3 years. The care-leaving process was in many cases described by the young people as badly planned and compressed. Some interviewees received support from the formal network (social services, foster carers, residential homes, contact persons) for housing (37) and financial matters (36), but few received support from the formal network concerning employment (14) and education (11). Emotional support was mainly provided by partners and friends. Altogether, the results suggest that access to support is a helpful factor for young people leaving care, but also that many of our interviewees had no such access, from neither formal nor informal networks.
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- Johansson, Helena, 1962, et al.
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The Role of Agency in Finding Pathways From Care to Work of Former Care Leavers: A Cross-National Study
- 2018
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Ingår i: 15 th EUSARF Conference, Porto, 2-5 October. - : EUSARF conference in Porto 2018.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The overall aim of this study is to explore the concept of agency in relation to work in understanding the experience of young people who previously have been in care and their inclusion into the work life. The research-project “Pathways from care to work” is part of an international research project including five countries; Ireland, Spain Belgium, Sweden and Czechoslovakia. It seeks to explore the work related experiences for young people who previously have been in care and who now are in their mid-twenties. The starting point of the study is that work and employment is a key element for care leavers regarding their social integration as adults in society. The project is based on national case studies with comparative reviews. Interviews have been performed with former care leavers that have left placements in care at least five years ago. Cases have been collected from the five countries participating in the study. During the interviews, themes like work trajectories since first job and what has affected these work trajectories since leaving care, are explored from the young adult’s perspective. The sample is based on the young people’s successful experiences and good outcomes in relation to work. The objective that will be studied in relation to this proposed abstract is the pathways to work for former care leavers and how these interconnect with the notion of agency. How do work experiences of former care leavers contribute to their agency and how does agency contribute to work for former care leavers? What promotes and inhibits agency for former care leavers in the world of work? Focusing on former care leavers that are now currently working can help us to better understand what has helped these young people to find and stay in jobs and integrate themselves in the work life. The result will reveal different trajectories to work and how they are connected to the possibility of gaining and using agency related to the work experiences for this group of former care leavers. It will also give us knowledge on the processes that promotes and inhibits agency. These results will give important messages to policy and practice in current work with care leavers. It is important for practice and policy to learn from the young people’s own narratives of their trajectories and of their experiences of entering and staying in the work life.
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- Andersson, Gunvor, et al.
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Social barnavård och barns utsatthet
- 2012. - 1
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Ingår i: När samhället träder in. - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144067445 ; , s. 13-28
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Höjer, Ingrid, 1953, et al.
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Procedures when young people leave care : Views of 111 swedish social services mangers
- 2011
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Ingår i: Children and youth services review. - : Elsevier BV. - 0190-7409 .- 1873-7765. ; 33:12, s. 2452-2460:33, s. 2452-2460
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In western societies, there is a general tendency towards a protracted transition to adulthood for young people, who thereby may become increasingly dependent on support from family. Young people leaving a placement in out-of-home care often lack such support, and will thus have a disadvantageous position compared to their peers. With the purpose of looking into the procedures when young people leave a placement in out-of-home care, telephone interviews were performed with 111 managers of social service units in two Swedish regions (West Sweden, and Stockholm Region), using a structured interview schedule. Answering rate was 99.1%. Only 6% of the managers had information of the young people's whereabouts once they had left care. 86-88% had general support programmes for all young people concerning housing, employment etc. but only 2-4% had specific programmes for young people leaving care. A majority of the managers were attentive of the difficulties the young people leaving care may encounter, but displayed little awareness of the consequences of a prolonged transition to adulthood, and the need for continued support after leaving care. Several managers referred to the general support of the Swedish welfare state, meaning that young people leaving care had the same access to support as all other young people in Sweden. Consequently, young people leaving care are at risk of being invisible in the welfare system and facing a compressed transition to adulthood.
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- Andersson, Gunvor, et al.
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Om yngre barn i socialt arbete
- 2012
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Ingår i: När samhället träder in : barn, föräldrar och social barnavård. - 9789144067445 ; , s. 91-117
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Andersson, Gunvor, et al.
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Om yngre barn i socialt arbete
- 2019. - Andra omarbetade upplagan
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Ingår i: När samhället träder in. Barn, föräldrar och social barnavård.. - 9789144123363 ; , s. 105-132
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- I detta kapitel är syftet att ha fokus på yngre barn, det vill säga 0-12-åringar. I uppgiften att förstå sig på yngre barn ingår att ta i beaktande skillnader i utvecklingsnivå och behov hos spädbarn, förskolebarn och yngre skolbarn. Teoretiska perspektiv från utvecklingspsykologi, barndomssociologi, utvecklingspsykopatologi och utvecklingsekologi är användbara i detta sammanhang. Att se individen i familjen står inte i motsättning till att se familjen i sin omvärld.
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