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- Basic, Goran, 1972-, et al.
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Etnifierad övervakning och social kontroll på ungdomsvårdsinstitutioner
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In: Den sorterande ordningsmakten. - Malmö : Bokbox Förlag. - 9789186980603 ; , s. 177-200, s. 177-200
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In an evaluation of a juvenile-care project sponsored by the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care, ethnicity was identified as an important factor in treatment, staff practices, and relationships between juveniles. This study examined ethnic monitoring and social control in 15 Swedish juvenile institutions. I analysed notes from interviews and field observations. Discriminatory behaviours and practices were described or made evident by juveniles with non-Swedish ethnicities. In specific examples, a juvenile’s ethnicity was highlighted by drawing attention to the staff’s monitoring and control practices. These examples elucidated the victimhood that non-Swedish juveniles experienced in relation to the staff and/or Swedish juveniles. Thomas Hylland Eriksen (1993) described ethnicity as an ongoing relationship-building process between participants. The present study showed that the ’establishment’ of ethnicity was intimately associated with juvenile descriptions of discrimination and their moral criticism of juvenile care practices. When juveniles of non-Swedish ethnicity described institutional ethnic monitoring and social control, they generally distanced themselves from staff behaviour and portrayed a victim identity. In constructing their identity, juveniles sometimes used their ethnic background rhetorically when describing everyday situations in the institution. The juveniles portrayed a humiliated self through dissociation from the staff and through the perception that they were treated differently than Swedish juveniles.
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- Basic, Goran, 1972-
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Samverkan blir kamp : En sociologisk analys av ett projekt i ungdomsvården
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- In this dissertation a collaboration project in Swedish youth care is analysed. The aim of the project was to enhance coordination between the Social Services and the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care in order to make the efforts more efficient. The project also employed a number of coordinators. The overall purpose of this dissertation is to analyse conflicts, alliances and comparisons identifiable in interviews and observations. The analytic findings are put into an overall “collaboration context” represented by earlier research on the social phenomenon of “collaboration”. In this way the dissertation tries to contribute to a sociological understanding of a contemporary widespread phenomenon. The empirical materials of the study consist of recorded conversational interviews with 147 project participants (youngsters, parents and various professional categories) as well as observations of meetings, informal get-togethers and visits to institutions, Social Services offices, the head office of the National Board of Institutional Care and coordinators. The material was analysed using the analytic perspectives of Georg Simmel (1950/1964), Theodore Caplow (1968) and Erving Goffman (1959/2004). The analysis shows that the project manifested and led to struggles between organizations involving representatives from the Social Services, the National Board of Institutional Care and the project, as well as to several interpersonal conflicts between representatives from various categories of involved professionals, and the youngsters and their parents. The study also shows that the client, in such human service organizations, faces a significant risk of being marginalized. Professionals who appreciated the collaboration often drew their conclusions based on their interaction with other professionals, but the collaboration did not guarantee a successful treatment of the client. Conflicts concerning the roles of the coordinators and their written documents (“the agreements”) emerged and were actualized through the creation of the project. The coordinators and their “agreements” can be seen as the project’s most visible representatives and symbols, which during the project become both themes for conflict and actualize already established conflict patterns. The youngsters and their parents appreciated the projects’ coordinators who appeared as personally involved and able to make concrete changes. However, many of youngsters and their parents criticized the coordinators and even portrayed a victim identity in relation to the project. The coordinator’s relationship with the youngsters and their parents was mostly characterized by passivity. This is clearly apparent in the analysis of the administrative and/or passive coordinator. Different alliance constellations became visible in these presentations. When the coordinator roles were altered in the description, the alliance constellations change. It is a common strategy for clients in human service organizations to try to enter into alliances with professionals involved in their cases and, in so doing, try to alter the situation to their own advantage. The fact that these alliances are often sought by the client indicates, among other things, the client’s will to fight against the situation in which he/she finds him/herself. I believe that this can be seen as something productive rather than problematic.
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- Burcar, Veronika, 1976-, et al.
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Balancing Contradictory Identities : Performing Masculinity in Victim Narratives
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In: Sociological perspectives. - Berkeley : University of California Press. - 0731-1214 .- 1533-8673. ; 54:1, s. 103-124
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Modern sociological identity analysis argues that people perform a preferred identity, rather than revealing an essential self. But what if a given situation necessitates performance of apparently incompatible identities? Earlier research seems to suggest that people will resist one identity and foreground another. Here, the authors present another strategy of delicately balancing the performance of conflicting identities. Their interviews of Swedish young men who were victims of violence reveal that this identity balance occurs through emphasizing and defending the threatened but seemingly preferred identity, with reference to the other identity in more subtle terms. As they elaborated on their experiences, these men did not reject a victim identity altogether but subtly or implicitly modified it. They discursively positioned themselves as both "masculine men" and "victims," combining seemingly mismatched identities. They achieve the identity work by describing initiative and defense, accounting for non-resistance, and describing injuries, fear, and sympathy from others. © 2011 by Pacific Sociological Association. All rights reserved.
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Den sorterande ordningsmakten - Studier av etnicitet och polisiär kontroll
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Polisforskare talar idag om ”den utökade polisfamiljen”. Den traditionella polisen kompletteras av kommunala, privata och frivilliga organisationer eller grupperingar. Samtidigt står etniska minoriteter alltmer i centrum för samhällets kontrollapparat. Etnicitet har blivit en delikat fråga för myndigheter. Den här antologin uppmärksammar skärningspunkten mellan dessa två processer. På vilka sätt är personers etnicitet föremål för övervakning och polisiär kontroll från polis, vaktbolag, trygghetsarbetare och andra? Vad innebär etnicitet i ett samhälle präglat av en mångfald av polisiära åtgärder, så kallad plural policing? Via olika empiriska undersökningar diskuteras såväl de kontrollerade som kontrollörerna. Ibland utövar ungdomar kontroll i relation till poliser eller ungdomsvårdare, ibland uppfattar sig poliser från etniska minoriteter som övervakade av sina kolleger. Även forskare kan uppfatta sig som kontrollerade i sitt sätt att undersöka och skriva om etnicitet. Antologins författare argumenterar för vikten av inkludera vidare och mera diffusa former av social kontroll än vad som är gängse i samhällsvetenskaplig forskning. Först då kan vi förstå hur idéer om etniska skillnader understöder samhällets strafftänkande och kriminalrättspraktiker.
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- Jacobsson, Katarina, et al.
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Interviewees with an agenda – Learning from a 'failed' interview
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In: Qualitative Research. - : SAGE Publications. - 1741-3109 .- 1468-7941. ; 13:6, s. 717-734
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Social constructionists consider interviews as mutually co-constructing meaning. But what if the interlocutors do not seem to agree on what they construct? What if the interviewee has a particularly strong agenda, far from the intended research topic? Are these ‘failed’ interviews? We address this issue using a ‘deviant’ interview in a study of ‘being a neighbour’. First, we add to the discussion of interviewees’ category representativeness by acknowledging a situation when the interviewee insists on representing a category not intended by the researcher. Second, we address the notion of asymmetries of power, where it is often assumed that the interviewer has the upper hand. Through this case, we argue that the opposite may well be true. Finally, we argue that cases where the interviewee pursues a strong agenda may suggest new research areas. After all, strong efforts of resistance may indicate deeper cultural concerns.
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- Peterson, Abby, 1949, et al.
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Introduction to the Special Issue “Policing Ethnicity: Between the Rhetoric of Inclusion and the Policies and Practices of Exclusion”
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In: Social Inclusion. - 2183-2803. ; 2:3, s. 1-4
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- On the one hand European countries talk the humanitarian and cosmopolitan politics of inclusion of ethnic minorities with a battery of integration policies, on the other hand these same societies practice the policies and practices of exclusion. In this special issue we address this disjuncture and what we refer to as the European moral dilemma, in much the same way that Gunnar Myrdahl, in his influential study from 1944—The American Dilemma—pointed out that the oppression of Black people living in the US was at odds with the country’s moral grounds, its founding creed that all men are created equal and are endowed “with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” (Declaration of Independence). This special issue does not only include articles from European contexts, however the majority are analyses of European ethnic minority policies and practices. Nonetheless, all of the articles address in different ways how the rhetoric of inclusion is all too often at odds with the practices and policies of exclusion and control. In focus is what we call the policing of ethnicity, that is, the governance of inclusion and exclusion along ethnic lines.
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