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1.	Andersson Malmros, Robin (författare) Municipal Policy Responses to Violent Extremism: An Institutional Theory Perspective 2023 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - 1892-2783. ; 14:1 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This paper explores and explains municipal policy responses to the grand challenge of violent extremism. Drawing on a content analysis of 60 Scandinavian municipal policies and using concepts from new institutional theory, the findings reveal that municipalities mainly translate and edit a variety of practices originally developed for purposes other than countering violent extremism, which result in an unfocused response with the risk of unintended and problematic consequences. Taken together, the results illustrate the downside of pressuring and rushing municipalities into co-producing efforts to counter or prevent the emergence or consequences of grand challenges without offering appropriate support or considering the specific objectives and limitations of municipal operations.
2.	Aslan, Pinar, 1986-, et al. (författare) What works? Family Influences on Occupational Aspirations among Descendants of Middle Eastern Immigrants on the Swedish Labour Market 2019 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 1892-2783. ; 9, s. 134-160 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract In this article, we examine family influences on occupational aspirations among employed descendants of Middle Eastern immigrants. Using a qualitative approach, we conducted 21 semi-structured interviews with native-born descendants of Middle Eastern immigrants. We present and analyse their interpretations of their parents’ experiences and living conditions before, during and after migration and demonstrate how these interpretations shaped their own occupational aspirations. We discuss parents’ high expectations of their children in relation to ethnic-community valuations of educational and occupational achievements. These high expectations may increase the chances of social mobility but can also become a negative pressure, especially if parents set high standards but cannot help their children to meet those expectations. In these cases, older siblings who possess valuable knowledge of the educational system and labour market can function as important transferrers of resources.
3.	Axelsson, Thom (författare) Intelligence testing, ethnicity, and construction of the deviant child : Foucault and special education in Sweden 2016 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - : Lillehammer University College. - 1892-2783. ; 7:special issue Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract In this article, I discuss how Foucault may help us to reach a different understanding of special education. This article primarily draws on two analytical tools from Foucault’s ‘toolbox’: genealogy and governmentality. These tools are used to analyse three different cases of intelligence testing from the debate concerning the Swedish school organization in the early twentieth century. It is possible to see intelligence-quotient (IQ) testing as an overarching tool for controlling social behaviour. Intelligence-quotient testing was an important tool of power, with the aim of establishing certain regimes of truth on a societal as well as on an individual level. This article shows through a Foucauldian analysis that we should be careful in interpreting this entirely as an expression of state power from above or as different experts’ intentions. Rather, by using a genealogical approach, we can attempt to (re)write the history of interpretations, or problematizations, and then we can utilize a perspective of governmentality that focuses on the techniques and their effects.
4.	Blom, Björn, 1965-, et al. (författare) Analysing written narratives : considerations on the ‘code-totality problems’ 2010 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - Lillehammer : The Centre for Public Policy Innovation, Lillehammer University College (HiL). - 1892-2783. ; 1:1, s. 1-20 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article describes and discusses a number of fundamental aspects of analysing short written narratives. Of particular interest are the code-totality problems that arise during the transformation of several individual stories into a collective narrative. This article starts with a brief introduction to our previous narrative research on Swedish social-work students, which is followed by a description of textual interpretation according to Paul Ricoeur’s theory of interpretation, and a discussion and elaboration on the different concepts of meaning within his theory. The core of this article is an account of four models for analysing narrative data from several informants. This is followed by a concrete example of the implications that follow from the implementation of these models. We conclude that the degree of heterogeneity in the narrative material affects the choice of the mode of textual analysis and the code compilation.
5.	Blom, Björn, 1965-, et al. (författare) Evaluation of quality in social-work practice 2012 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - Lillehammer, Norge : The Centre for Innovation in Services (CIS). - 1892-2783. ; 3, s. 1-17 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This theoretical article describes and discusses the concept of quality in relation to the evaluation of social-work practice. Of particular interest are the difference between quality of services and quality of life and the importance of balancing the stakeholders’ different interests in order to make a sound judgement of quality in social work possible. This article begins with presenting some basic perspectives on quality as well as the transference of the concept of quality from manufacturing industry to social-work practice. Thereafter the two main issues are discussed: the concepts of quality of service and of quality of life and the importance of balancing different stakeholders’ perspectives in the evaluation of quality in social-work practice. This article concludes that: 1) it is crucial to be aware of and to consider the distinction between quality of service and quality of life; 2) clients’ perspective on quality of life is an aspect of outcome that currently receives insufficient attention; 3) clients’ subjective experiences of welfare of well-being deserve greater attention for ethical as well as methodological reasons; and 4) judgement of quality in social work are inevitably dependent on different stakeholders’ perspectives.
6.	Ede, Lena, 1949-, et al. (författare) Enhancing credibility : A qualitative study of being on sick leave with a stress-related psychiatric diagnosis 2021 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - : Scandinavian University Press. - 1892-2783. ; 12:1, s. 181-200 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract In the Western world mental health problems are increasing and in Sweden these problems are the most common reason for sick leave. Diagnoses of adjustment disorders and reactions to severe stress are increasing the fastest out of all mental health problems. The aim of this study is to contribute new insights into employees’ experiences and management of being on sick leave with a stress-related psychiatric diagnosis. The empirical material consisted of individual interviews with 26 employees who were on sick leave from at least part-time employment because of a stress-related diagnosis. The grounded theory method was used to analyse the results. In the generated model, we propose that sick-listed employees engage in enhancing credibility in relation to themselves and others, here attempting to come across as credible and, thus, avoiding disbelief and the negative attributions of being on sick leave with a psychiatric diagnosis. The interviewees shared the general concern that being perceived as either healthier or sicker than the case may be, as well as greater sensitivity to what others might think, which was manifested as being on guard and controlling their behaviour and emotional display. To return to work, the sick-listed employees tended to re-evaluate their previous performance at work and saw the illness as self-inflicted and as the result of not having been capable of drawing the line between work and leisure.
7.	Ede, Lena, 1949-, et al. (författare) Unresolved conflicts and shaming processes: risk factors for long-term sick leave for mental-health reasons 2014 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - 1892-2783. ; 5, s. 39-54 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Mental illness is the most common diagnosis resulting in long-term sick leave in Sweden today, especially stress-related syndromes and mood disorders. The aim of this article is to analyse the relational and emotional processes in the workplace that may contribute to the understanding of long-term sick leave for mental-health reasons. We conducted interviews with twenty-six people who were on sick-leave because of diagnoses of mental ill-health. The empirical material was analysed using Classic Grounded Theory. We suggest that the risk of being afflicted with mental illness, and forced into long-term sick leave, increases when there are conflicts at work that remain unresolved and which lead to malignant shaming processes that jeopardize personal dignity. In their struggle to maintain self-esteem, the afflicted escalate their work efforts by increasing work intensity, putting in overtime, and working when ill. Eventually, this behaviour affects their health and results in sick-listing. The strengths and weaknesses of the study are discussed along with the need for further research.
8.	Giritly Nygren, Katarina, et al. (författare) (Re)assembling the ‘Normal’ in Neoliberal Policy Discourses : Tracing Gender Relations in the Age of Risk 2015 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 1892-2783. ; 6, s. 24-43 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The purpose of this article is to explore through a reading of an official Swedish policy document what questions and challenges such a document poses for feminist theory by the way the 'normal' is (re)assembled in accordance with what others have called the risk politics of advanced liberalism. The intensified focus on risk in neoliberalism has seen responsibility move from the state to individuals, and old divisions between society and market as well as between civil society and state are being refigured. The argument put forward here is that current modes of governance tend to neglect the complexities of present-day life courses when using a gender-'neutral' approach to social policy that is in fact the work of a gender regime.
9.	Glasdam, Stinne, et al. (författare) Placed in homecare: Living an everyday life restricted by dependence and monitoring 2013 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - 1892-2783. ; 4:1, s. 83-99 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Through a sociological case study this article analyses how, seen from a relational perspective, everyday life for elderly people receiving care in their own homes is lived with dependence on health-care professionals. The healthcare professionals’ time and tasks are assigned and allocated in advance so that the elderly people are neither allowed nor able to vary their response in relation to the situation they encounter. The life of the client is also treated as though it were a solid, structured everyday life with minimal private time. Work in the home, for example, household chores and personal care, resembles a disciplining strategy. The client lives under conditions of monitoring and control comparable to conditions of imprisonment. The client is subject to the will of and social intercourse with other people in his own home; he both knows it is necessary and offers resistance to the conditions. In short, the authors argue that the homecare service acts as a disciplining practice in modern society.
10.	Gruber, Sabine, 1958- (författare) Cultural comptence in institutional care for youths: experts with ambivalens positions 2015 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - 1892-2783 .- 1892-2783. ; , s. 1-13 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract In Sweden, cultural competence if often singled out as both a strategy and solution for managing differences attributed to migrants, but few studies have critically investigated the idea of cultural competence. This article is an empirical contribution, based on an ethnographic study, and analyses talk and actions in the everyday practice in special residential homes for boys and young men. It examines when, how and in relation to what and whom cultural competence is made relevant, with special focus on how notions about cultural competence positions the staff in the studied institutions; organisationally, in relation to different work tasks and in narratives about the care and treatment provided. The analysis shows that cultural competence is almost exclusively attributed to staff who have a migrant background, and that the position as cultural competent is ambiguous. On the one hand a position as expert, on the other hand surrounded by a suspicion not to be professional. Staff who are ascribed cultural competence are made into representatives of cultural difference and locked into culturalised and ethnified positions. Thus, cultural competence rather emerges as a tool to master and control the boys who are placed in the studied institutions than as a tool to affect a change process in support of multiculturalism.
11.	Hansson, Jonas, 1971-, et al. (författare) Coercive measures against minors in the Swedish asylum process : legal uncertainty, ambivalence and experiences of intrusiveness 2023 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - : Universitetsforlaget. - 1892-2783. ; 14:1, s. 1-21 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Asylum-seeking minors are viewed as particularly vulnerable but are still exposed to coercive measures permitted by law. This study analyses Swedish Police Authority and Swedish Migration Agency officials’ perceptions of coercive measures towards minors in the asylum process in light of the Swedish law, and raises minors’ own voices on their experiences of coercive measures. Qualitative interviews were performed with 1) officials at the Swedish Police Authority and Swedish Migration Agency who manage and use coercive actions against minors and 2) former minors with experiences of being subjected to coercive measures. Based on a thematic analysis, the results illustrate how the officials’ perceptions about coercive measures are characterized by uncertainty and ambivalence. The minors expressed the importance of how they were treated during the asylum process rather than the coercive measure as such. Swedish law regulating coercive measures needs clarifications to give sufficient guidance for practice.
12.	Hjelte, Jan, 1965-, et al. (författare) At the Interplay Between Needs and Expectations : Regional Perspectives on Being an Intermediary Support Structure in Knowledge Governance 2022 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - : Universitetsforlaget. - 1892-2783. ; 13:2, s. 1-15 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Introduction: During the last decade, structures for ‘knowledge governance’ as a means of strengthening the quality of social services has been used by the Swedish government and national authorities. In this process, regional collaboration and support structures (RCSSs) have been identified as a key asset as an intermediary link between national and local actors. The aim of this study was to explore the perspectives of these regional actors on expectations associated with being an intermediary support structure in knowledge governance processes in social services in Sweden. Methods: The study uses an abductive, qualitative approach, mainly with open questions in an empirical-driven manner (inductively) and partly in a theory-driven manner (deductively). Interviews with representatives from the RCSSs were used for data collection. Conventional content analysis with elements of directed content analysis of the data material was used. Results: A variety of expectations on RCSSs was reported from the national and local levels. According to the respondents, the feeling of inadequacy in relation to the perceived expectations was recurrent because the expectations were hard to meet. They also experienced role ambiguity and that their mission was unclear. Conclusions: The findings show that RCSSs seem to handle the situation by considering, assessing, and prioritising different actors’ needs and expectations in relation to their own perception of the intermediary mission. The findings also indicate a lack of a collective sense-making process with other key actors on different levels in the knowledge governance system. To reach the core purpose of knowledge governance, it is necessary to establish a common understanding of the relationship between expectations and prerequisites for facilitation between national, regional, and local actors.
13.	Hjelte, Jan, 1965-, et al. (författare) The story of a knowledge-based and learning organization 2014 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - : Høgskolen i Innlandet. - 1892-2783. ; 5, s. 1-20 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Knowledge is generally viewed as one of the most important organizational resources, and this view is also held in relation to municipal elderly-care organizations. However, the concept of a knowledge-based organization has seldom been addressed in elderly-care research. The aim of the present study was to analyse how political and professional groups involved in elderly care conceive of the idea of a knowledge-based organization, and how these conceptions relate to their expectations in relation to the future of elderly care. This issue is important because these conceptions are intertwined with actions conducted by organizational members. Participants were selected for the study on the basis of organizational level and engagement in the development of different kinds of care in an elderly-care organization in a large municipality. A narrative approach was used for data analysis. The study indicates that the interpretations of a knowledge-based organization bring stability and meaning to participants by linking elderly care, as it is in the present, to an image of its future. Furthermore, the narratives are adjusted depending on what kind of problems that organization is expected to solve. However, the participants do not view the economic resources of the organization as something they can influence and develop, in either the present or the future. The study also shows that there are multiple perspectives in regard to the meaning of a knowledge-based organization and, accordingly, multiple perspectives on what will need to be done in the future. This is a potential problem for elderly care because it can hinder the coordination of organizational activities and the ability to handle the challenges of the future. Therefore the results point to the importance of creating within the organization a shared meaning of its main problems, and to the contribution a knowledge-based organization can make in solving these problems.
14.	Jakobsson, Niklas, et al. (författare) Informal Eldercare and Care for Disabled Children in the Nordic Countries : prevalence and relation to employment 2013 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - Lillehammer : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 1892-2783. ; 4, s. 1-30 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract In an international comparison, the Nordic countries are generous care spenders and a relatively large proportion of the populations receive formal care services. However, in respect of service provision, the Nordic countries are less similar today than they were some decades ago. Using survey data from three Nordic countries, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, we first document the differences in informal care between the countries, and then we assess its impact on the relationship between informal caregiving and formal employment. We find that informal care is most common in Denmark and least common in Sweden. However, those who provide care in Sweden provide care more often than people in both Norway and Denmark. There is a negative correlation between being a caregiver and the probability of being employed in Norway and Denmark, but not in Sweden. With specific regard to parental care, there is no general relation between the provision of parental care and employment, but those providing substantial care are clearly less likely to work than others. Caring for a disabled child is less common than caring for a parent, but the negative effects on employment are even stronger.
15.	Jernbro, Carolina, et al. (författare) Young adult's personal views on childabuse 2010 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - 1892-2783. ; 1, s. 1-16 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
16.	Knutagård, Marcus, et al. (författare) Scaling Up Housing First Pilots – Drivers and Barriers 2019 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 1892-2783. ; 10:1, s. 1-23 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
17.	Lagerlöf, Hélène, 1973-, et al. (författare) School as a context for youth intimate partner violence : young voices on educational sabotage 2022 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 1892-2783. ; 13:2, s. 1-15 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article focuses on the role of the school environment as a context of youth intimate partner violence. Results, derived from interviews and a survey, show that physical closeness to the abuser, control over victims’ appearance and behaviour, ostracism by peers, non-attendance, and lack of focus negatively affect academic achievement and well-being at school. Youths did not consider the school environment a sanctuary from violence but described how violence played out in school, even after the relationship ended. Furthermore, although respondents emphasised school as a suitable arena for violence prevention, few confided in school staff. The results support the need for school safety, violence prevention and cooperation with social services.
18.	Lundberg, Lisa, 1977-, et al. (författare) A matter of choice—professionals’ views on the incorporation of practical work with intimate partner violence into Swedish personal social services 2019 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 1892-2783. ; 10:1, s. 48-65 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract During the last decades, efforts have been made to increase local support provided to victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) in Sweden. As with other social problems, responsibility to address IPV falls on the municipal personal social services. The present article draws upon data obtained via structured telephone interviews with designated personal social services staff members from a sample of 99 municipalities, focusing on aspects of potential progress in social work with IPV. The results show that successful incorporation of IPV into personal social services largely seems to depend upon the commitment and dedication of individual actors within the organisations. Furthermore, the data indicate that competence in this field depends on personal inclination, with attention to IPV appearing as ‘a matter of choice’. The results are analysed using neo-institutional theory as well as concepts related to social movement studies, with focus on individual agency in organisational change and the potential relevance of IPV as an issue related to gender inequality to gender inequality. The analysis suggests that while IPV social work may challenge institutionalised practises within social services, change may go both ways with IPV being reframed to fit within the established framework of social services.
19.	Maravelias, Christian, 1967- (författare) Occupational Health Services and the Socialization of the post-Fordist Employee 2012 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 1892-2783. ; 3, s. 1-19 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract There is a heightened interest in the health of employees among scholars, employers, legislators, and employees themselves. The concern for employees’ health is not a new phenomenon. It has held a central position in political and economic discourses throughout most of the twentieth century. The central argument of this article, however, is that the economic and political changes of the last three decades – the neo-liberal turn – have played a part in altering the very notion of health so that the healthy individual is now a person who not merely passes bio-medical tests, but a person who also leads a particular life and possesses particular skills, namely, those of the active, positive, and self-governing individual. By means of a qualitative study of the sector for occupational health services (OHSs) in Sweden, this article will show how an active lifestyle has become a defining criterion of health. Furthermore, it will describe how health thereby becomes a question of choice and responsibility and how the healthy employee comes across as morally superior to the unhealthy employee. In this connection, this article shows how health experts such as therapists, health coaches, physicians, and so on become important points of authority in the fashioning of the new healthy, active employee
20.	Markström, Ann-Marie, 1956-, et al. (författare) The decision whether to report on children exposed to domestic violence : perceptions andexperiences of teachers and school health staff 2018 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1892-2783. ; 8:1, s. 22-35 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The law requires staff at Swedish preschools and schools to report suspected or known child abuse to the child protection services (CPS). In this qualitative study, focus group and individual interviews with teachers and staff in the school health teams (SHTs) were conducted to examine their experiences and strategies when they decide to make or not make a legislative report to the CPS when they suspect or know that a child has been witnessing domestic violence. What affect professionals at preschool and school when they decide whether to make a report to the CPS? What arguments do the professionals at preschool and school use when they talk about what affects them in their decisions on whether to make a report to the CPS? What prevents or promotes such a decision? The data is analysed from a social constructionist perspective and the concept emotional work. The results indicate that the professionals seem to be very insecure and emotionally governed in such situations. It is explained as a result of a lack of knowledge and support at the institutional level for their complex emotional and practical work in making decisions and acting in relation to children affected by exposure to domestic violence (EDV). In addition, their relations with the CPS are an important factor in how they respond to children that are affected by EDV. The study also reveals some good examples and strategies that professionals use to live up to their mandatory duty to report children that are exposed to domestic violence.
21.	Mattsson, Christer (författare) The lock pickers, the gatekeepers, and the non-grievables: a case study of youth workers’ roles in preventing violent extremism 2023 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - 1892-2783. ; 13:2, s. 306-317 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract In the prevention of violent extremism (PVE), various so-called soft interventions have been introduced, suggesting that teachers, social workers, and youth workers play key roles in detecting and responding to early signs of radicalization leading to violent extremism. Research has been conducted on how these interventions are being implemented and whether or not they may contribute to the securitization of welfare work. In this case study, eleven youth workers and their three managers were interviewed about their experiences of engaging in PVE work. They all worked in a neighbourhood in Gothenburg, Sweden, which was one of the earliest and most affected areas in Europe for recruitment to what was to become the so-called Islamic State (IS). The study focuses on their recollection of how they were informed about the on-going radicalization to violent extremism at the time, what actions they took, and how they were prepared for conducting PVE work. Some of the youth workers noticed signs of radicalization to violent extremism early in 2013, but they worked on short-term contracts and were not in a position to pass on the information to higher authorities. A better organized Gothenburg city could have started its PVE work two years earlier, rather than in 2015.
22.	Münger, Ann- Charlotte, 1962-, et al. (författare) `The Needs of the Child Have Been Met´ : Preliminary Assessments regarding Domestic Violence in Swedish Child Protections Services 2020 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - Elverum, Norway : Nordic Journal of Social Research. - 1892-2783 .- 2156-857X. ; 10:2, s. 100-113 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The Swedish Child Protection Services (CPS) are responsible for providing support and protection to children experiencing domestic violence, but in a high proportion of cases where there is a suspicion that children are experiencing violence, no investigation is opened.The aim of this article is to explore on what grounds decisions were made not to open an investigation in cases initiated due to concerns that a child might have been experiencing domestic violence.The analysis is based on qualitative data consisting of 116 preliminary assessments that resulted in the cases being closed without further action. The analysis uses a theoretical model in which the CPS sorting process is understood as a way of describing a case in such a way that it fits into the organisation’s problem categories, rules and procedures.The analysis shows that a set of institutional assumptions and presuppositions affect the decision to screen out cases involving this form of child abuse. The legal requirement for voluntary parental cooperation has a profound impact on the outcome of a case. Cases are also screened out when the case workers find that parental cooperation is limited. Nor are there procedures for dealing with (psychological) violence that is not aimed directly at the child, but occurs between the parents. The outcome in these cases is that the parents’ interpretation is given precedence, while the needs of the child are seen as of less importance and become deprioritised.
23.	Osanami Törngren, Sayaka (författare) Understanding Race in Sweden 2022 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - : Universitetsforlaget. - 1892-2783. ; 13:1, s. 51-66 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Mixed populations are becoming increasingly visible in Swedish society, although they are not always recognised as such. In a colour-blind Swedish society, mixed Swedes fall into the dichotomised binary of ‘Swedes’ and ‘immigrants’. The experiences of twenty-one interviewees with multiethnic and multiracial Swedes can be broadly categorised into three types: those who feel that they are not discriminated against or racialised, those who feel that they are not discriminated against but are racialised, and those who feel that they are both discriminated against and racialised. The analysis illustrates interviewed mixed Swedes’ unique position in the racial hierarchy in Sweden and how fluid their racial experiences are. Their different experiences also show how understandings of white and non-white racial groups are formed through the processes of racialisation and deracialisation in Sweden.
24.	Panican, Alexandru, et al. (författare) Navigating the market of welfare services: The choice of upper secondary school in Sweden 2014 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - : Høgskolen i Innlandet. - 1892-2783. ; 5, s. 55-79 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Due to increased market orientation and deregulation, welfare services in Sweden have taken on the form of market-based services. The body of research on deregulation and privatization is quite substantial regarding the implications of this kind of development. However, studies of the actual process of how choices are made are less common. This article discusses the implications of greater freedom of choice for Swedish citizens in diverse socioeconomic situations, focusing on factors that limit opportunities for choice. Deregulation and the increasing number of alternatives affect the relationship between the citizen and the welfare state in several ways. The Swedish school system is used here as an example of an empirical field. The analytical focus of the article consists of two different kinds of restrictions on choice: structure-based and agencybased. One conclusion is that both affluent and underprivileged citizens have limited choices. Another conclusion is that social citizenship, when freedom of choice is stimulated, can reproduce and even increase social and ethnic segregation. An additional potential consequence is that, when we consider social rights in their tangible form, the development of greater freedom of choice is focused increasingly on the consumer’s range of choices and less on the quality of the service offered.
25.	Samén, Anna, et al. (författare) Disembodied care: Articulations of care in municipal policy regarding welfare technologies in eldercare 2024 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - : Universitetsforlaget. - 1892-2783. ; 15:1, s. 1-14 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The increasing size of the elderly population has been described as a major challenge for Western eldercare. In light of such demographic changes, welfare technology has been presented as a solution. It has been claimed, in both international and Swedish government policy, that digital technologies can improve how care is given and received. However, there is limited knowledge about what happens to articulations of care when national goals filter down to municipal local level where the actual care is practised. The aim of this article is to analyse how care and welfare technology are described in municipal strategy documents, and to discuss potential consequences of such articulations for everyday eldercare. A critical policy analysis, building on theories about articulation, was conducted on a selection of 19 policy documents (N = 19) from 18 municipalities. The key analytical results show that care tends to be articulated as an organizational matter and that care is transferred into the future of older people’s lives, through self-care and prevention. Interdependence, frailty and alternatives when welfare technology fails to create independence, are not brought up in the documents. Overall, such rearticulations of care indicate a more disembodied eldercare in the future.
26.	Shanks, Emelie, 1977-, et al. (författare) Social workers in private sector employment : The case of Sweden 2023 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - 1892-2783. ; 14:1 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article explores the expansion of the private sector labour market for social workers in Sweden and analyses social workers’ motives for choosing work as temporary agency social workers. The study draws on quantitative data from official registers and qualitative interviews with social workers who have left the social services for careers as temporary agency social workers.The findings indicate that the vast majority of Swedish social workers continue to work in the public sector, but due to significant changes in welfare production, more social workers are finding employment in the private sector labour market. Both pull factors associated with the conditions of private sector employment and push factors linked to working conditions in the social services appear to be at play when Swedish social workers choose private alternatives.Previous studies have revealed adverse working conditions, high turnover rates and recruitment problems in the social services. The results of this article explore the most significant push factors for opting out of social services in Sweden. Several of these factors are associated with the organisational climate and management, suggesting that they could be addressed by ensuring adequate social support and supervision. Other push factors relate to stress and overload, which are known issues in social services. All of these factors require further attention if the social services are to be competitive in the broadened labour market of social work.
27.	Snellman, Fredrik, 1975-, et al. (författare) Conceptions and tendencies of age discrimination and attitudes towards older people in selected regions in Finland and Sweden 2013 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - 1892-2783. ; 4, s. 115-138 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This study aims to access and explore tendencies in the conceptualization of age discrimination and the perceived attitudes towards older people in regions of Finland and Sweden. The analysis draws on GERDA survey data (GErontological Regional DAtabase), a repeated cross-sectional study in which data was collected in 2005 and 2010. The results indicate that the conceptions of age discrimination are changing in a positive direction, which is contrary to results shown in the Eurobarometer. On the basis of balance coefficients we show that conceived attitudes towards older people are changing as well, except for individuals in some sub-groups. We discuss the role of political rhetoric in relation to ageing awareness, the (non)individualization of society and the negotiation of age relations as tentative interpretations that strongly challenge the observed empirical tendencies.
28.	Steigen, Anne Mari, et al. (författare) Young Adults in Nature-Based Services in Norway : In-Group and Between-Group Variations Related to Mental Health Problems 2018 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - 1892-2783. ; 9, s. 110-133 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Young adults with mental health problems who do not attend school or work constitute a significant welfare challenge in Norway. The welfare services available to these individuals include nature-based services, which are primarily located on farms and integrate the natural and agricultural environment into their daily activities. The aim of this study is to examine young adults (16–30 years old) not attending school or work who participated in nature-based services in Norway. In particular, the study analyses mental health problems among the participants and in-group variations regarding their symptoms of mental health problems using the Hopkins Symptoms Checklist (HSCL-10). This paper compares symptoms of mental health problems among participants in nature-based services with those of a sample from the general population and a sample of those receiving clinical in-patient mental healthcare. A questionnaire was developed for the study and was completed by 93 participants in nature-based services. The majority of these participants were recruited from the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV), local mental health services, and school authorities. Results indicate that just more than half of the respondents exhibited symptoms of mental health problems based on their HSCL-10 scores. In general, they reported fewer symptoms than the clinical in-patient sample (18–30 years old) and more symptoms than the general population sample (18–19 years old). Among the participants in nature-based services, those recruited through NAV and local mental health services exhibited no differences in symptoms. Half of the participants older than 23 years in nature-based services had not completed upper secondary school. The participants, including those with symptoms of mental health problems and low expectations at the outset of their participation, generally expressed high satisfaction with the services.
29.	Stjernswärd, Sigrid, et al. (författare) The complexity of multiple trauma understandings across disciplines – the COVID-19 pandemic as a ‘case’ 2023 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - 1892-2783. ; 14:1, s. 1-14 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Trauma is a highly topical subject of growing relevance in different contexts and scientific traditions that deal with societal challenges and transformation. At the same time, knowledge on different understandings of trauma is still scarce and scattered across disciplines. Against this background, we present and discuss the complexity of trauma understandings from five selected disciplinary perspectives and its significance at individual, group, and societal level, using COVID-19 as an illustrative case. The article shows how trauma is understood from multiple perspectives by referring to different conditions and phenomena. At the same time, there are certain similarities across all disciplinary angles. Trauma refers to first-hand individual or collective experiences of a crisis and/or a sense of external and internal disruption. Trauma often has severe consequences, but it simultaneously entails the possibility of transformation. The latter does not only relate to the individual, it can also involve groups, systems, and society at large. The COVID-19 case illuminates the complexity of trauma understandings and associated transformation, pointing to trauma as a floating signifier, which is largely open to different attributions of meaning depending on discipline and perspective. We conclude with a call for more integrated and nuanced inter- and transdisciplinary understandings of trauma to account for the concept’s complexity and its significance at individual, collective, intergenerational, and global levels.
30.	Wörlén, Marie, 1978- (författare) Politicians' priorities and the determinants of priorities in the Swedish social services 2012 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - Bergen : Bergen Open Access Publishing. - 1892-2783. ; 3, s. 1-15 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The setting of priorities is an integrated part of social-work politics in Sweden as well as internationally. This article explores Swedish social services and how politicians on the political boards wish to make priorities and what these priorities involve. The use of regression analyses also reveals which circumstances are of importance for allocative precedence and the impact different distributive principles have. It is hard to detect clear-cut patterns of circumstances that guide the judgements in any one direction. The results show that political affiliation overall is not a determining factor for attitudes towards how priorities are made. Another result is a manifest area bias, suggesting that respondents tend to see to the interests of their own professional domain, a result most visible among the politicians involved with Care for the Elderly and Disabled (CED). Yet, with regard to allocative principles, political colour seems to matter. Conservative politicians, as expected, agree with the principles of economy and of capacity to benefit, while the socialist block, less expectedly, seems to embrace the principle of deservingness.
31.	Örestig, Johan, 1979- (författare) Ageing towards meaningful work? : Age, labour market change and attitudes to work in the Swedish work force, 1979–2003 2014 Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Social Research. - 1892-2783. ; 5:1, s. 161-189 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract A central finding in earlier research is that attitudes to work generally are more positive among older workers than among younger workers. This result has been interpreted in two different ways, by the cultural and the structural hypotheses. The cultural hypothesis sees age differences as outcomes of generational differences. We would expect that different cohorts should hold different work attitudes and that the work values of an age group at an earlier point in time should be different from the work values of the same age group at a later point in time. The structural hypothesis sees age differences as expressions of labour market inequality between older and younger workers. This point of view leads us to expect that age differences in work attitudes will follow changes in the job structure and in working conditions.Drawing on data from the Swedish survey of living conditions (ULF), attitude change within the Swedish work force during the period 1979–2003 was examined. Three sub-periods, 1986/1987, 1994 through 1996 and 2001 through 2003 were compared to 1979, the year of reference. The main results showed that a consistently lower share of the work force held extrinsic work values in the subsequent periods and this applied to all age groups. The results did not support the assumption that broader cultural differences between generations are central explanations of differences in work values. Older workers held extrinsic work values to a lesser degree than younger workers regardless of period. Most strikingly the gap between the youngest group on the labour market (aged 16–29) and the older ones widened during the period. Furthermore, class differences in the distribution of the extrinsic attitude were intact throughout the study period; manual employees were consistently more likely to hold an extrinsic attitude than were service class employees. This implies that differences in the probability of extrinsic work attitudes have been identifiable regardless of period, but that their prevalence has decreased since jobs involving features related to extrinsic work values have decreased since 1979.

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