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Hyvönen, Ulf, 1955-
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Om barns fadersbild
1993
Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt) abstract
The aim of this study is to describe and to interpret how fathers are concieved by their children. Various aspects of the male parent and the relationship between the child and his or her father are beeing investigated from the childs point of view. Forming an understanding of the fathers significance from the childs perspective is of particular importance for the study. This perspective is being formulated from a position that looks upon the childs socialization and the identityshaping processes as primarily a matter of "what children do with what is done to children".The empirical data in the study was obtained by interviewing one hundred children, seven and ten year old girls and boys, partly from Umeå and partly from some small villages a few swedish miles away from the town. The semistructured interviews were made with children from five different schools and from eighteen different school-classes.Data show that a vast majority describe a fairly close relationship to a father with clearly anti-patriarchal characteristics. The middle-class father is seen as a more family-oriented parent, more equal to his spouse than the working-class father who is more likely of beeing described in traditional terms. Some gender-related patterns are shown that concerns different orientations towards the father. While the boys tend to view their fathers in direct relation to themselves - him and me - the girls are more likely to describe their male parents as familyfathers and from a perspective that sees him as a partner to the mother.From the characterization the children made of their fathers from the family-drawings, four different cateogories, representing various perspectives on the father, were identified: The Positive, the Ambigous, the Disappointed and the Neutral.The symbolic interactionism, based on the works of George H. Mead, is argued to be a fruitful theoretical framework for understanding the socializationprocess in which the childs concepts of its father are being shaped. From a perspective on the cultural modernization and its impacts on parenting and the relationship between fathers and children, it is also claimed that there are reasons to beleive that the tendencies of release from a traditional determination not only put new burdons on parents and children in modern society, but also provide a widening of possibilities and a powerful potential for forming more "normalized", non-authoritarian and non-oppressive, interaction-based relations betweenchildren and their fathers.
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Hägg, Kerstin, 1937-
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Kvinnor och män i Kiruna : om kön och vardag i förändring i ett modernt gruvsamhälle 1900-1990
1993
Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt) abstract
This is a study of sex/gender relations and everyday life in Kiruna - a mining town in the north of Sweden where people began to settle around 1900.The focus is on various aspects of the situation for young women and men and on analyses of changes in the concepts of femininity and masculinity, the social construction of sexuality and the norm system that regulates sex/gender relations.The study has a qualitative approach. Different types of empirical data are used but the essential material consists of interviews. The thesis is structured in five parts with a prologue and an epilogue. Theoretical starting-points, aims, methods and empirical material are presented in part I. Descriptions and analysis of various periods are dealt with in the three following parts. Changes in sex/gender relations are summarized and analysed in part V.The contribution of women was very important in the building up of Kiruna during the settlement period. The roles of the sexes were clearly defined regarding work responsibilities and moral rules and remained so until the middle of the century.The bounderies between what were considered women's and men's spheres became less rigid during the fifties. Young women were less stricly supervised but the norm system concerning sexual relations was still very strict. This is an ongoing process that manifests itself in changes in the norm system and in sex/gender relations. These bounderies between women's and men's worlds, between femininity and masculinity, are more varied and open but in some respects more diffuse and contradictory. The divison of labour is obvious both in the labour market and in education after comprehensive school. Among young people this does not seem to affect the ideal of equal opportunity - the generally accepted ideology - as it is mainly connected with the divison of labour in the family. Central to the negotiations between the sexes are matters concerning accessibility for the needs of others, the use of time, and ongoing changes in the traditional division between men's dependence on and women's responsibility for care and attention.
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Lindgren, Sven-Åke, 1951
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Den hotfulla njutningen. Att etablera drogbruk som samhällsproblem 1890-1970
1993
Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt) abstract
Vad har format problembestämningen av narkotika och formeringen av den narkotikapolitik som fastlades under slutet av 1960-talet? I fokus för DEN HOTFULLA NJUTNINGEN står de förlopp varigenom vissa fenomen institutionaliseras som samhällsproblem, dvs , bli föremål för politiskt beslutade åtgärdsprogram. Det problematiserade bruket av nervgifter (morfin och kokain) och njutningsmedel (kaffe och tobak) under perioden 1890-1930 samt narkotika under perioden 1954 -1968 tillhör dessa processer, och Sven-Åke Lindgren visar i sin bok hur dessa företeelser definierats av olika aktörsgrupper och hur konceptualiseringarna bildat grund för utformandet av olika åtgärdsprogram. Processerna redovisas och analyseras genom historiskt komparativa fallstudier, och visar hur problemdefinitioner och bekämpningsstrategier från decenniern~ kring sekelskiftet format en senare tids problembestämning., Författaren visar vidare hur en framgångsrik etableringsprocess - "anspråksformering" - leder till institutionaliseringen: en specifik problembestämning: en kollektiv representation av den uppmärksammade företeelsen. "Anspråksformeringen" betonas som en dynamisk process varigenom människor tolkar och definierar sin omvärld, omvandlar sina föreställningar och förändrar sin sociala kontext; den är en handlingsnivå där den sociala företeelsen i en dynamisk växelverkan sammansmälter med symboliska kategorier. Sven-Åke Lindgren är forskare och lärare vid Sociologiska institutionen, Göteborgs universitet.
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