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- Carpholt, Camilla, 1972-, et al.
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Stigmatization Processes in Social Work : a comparative study of social workers in the social services in Sweden and the United States
- 2021
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Background: This paper investigates how social workers within the social services, in different welfare regimes, comprehend social stigma. This is important since stigmatized social workers can affect clients and the social work negatively, i.e. poorer quality of interventions and poorer quality of results.Theory and method: Two types of theory was used: social stigma, and Esping-Andersen’s typology of welfare regimes. Sweden and the United States was studied, since they represent opposite types of welfare regimes: Social Democratic (Sweden) and US (Liberal). Comparison of social stigma among social workers in two welfare regimes enabled us to study how values, social policies and institutions influenced stigmatization processes.Data was collected through focus group interviews: three in Sweden and three in the United States. Data were analyzed with a conventional content analysis.Findings: Results show significant differences between Sweden and US regarding: 1) how social workers experience that society views social work, 2) what society’s view of social work mean for social workers’ self-perception, 3) how social workers experience that society views the social service clients, 4) what society’s view of clients mean for social workers’ client work. Differences are mainly due to dissimilarities between the various welfare regimes, where stigma is an inherent part of the liberal welfare regime.Conclusion: For social workers to be able to promote dignity and worth of people, they themselves must experience dignity and worth in their professional role. A fundamental prerequisite for this is welfare systems’ recognition of the importance of trusting human relationships.
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- Blom, Björn, 1965-, et al.
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Analysing written narratives : considerations on the ‘code-totality problems’
- 2010
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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
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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.
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- Krull, Ivy, et al.
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Stigma for social workers in Sweden and U.S.
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper investigates how social workers within the social services, in different welfare regimes, comprehend social stigma. This is important since stigmatized social workers can affect clients and the social work negatively, i.e. poorer quality of interventions and poorer quality of results. Two types of theory was used: social stigma, and Esping-Andersen’s typology of welfare regimes. Sweden and the United States was studied, since they represent opposite types of welfare regimes: Social Democratic (Sweden) and US (Liberal). Comparison of social stigma among social workers in two welfare regimes enabled us to study how values, social policies and institutions influenced stigmatization processes. Data was collected through focus group interviews: three in Sweden and three in the United States. Data were analyzed with a conventional content analysis.Results show significant differences between Sweden and US regarding: 1) how social workers experience that society views social work, 2) what society’s view of social work mean for social workers’ self-perception, 3) how social workers experience that society views the social service clients, 4) what society’s view of clients mean for social workers’ client work. Differences are mainly due to dissimilarities between the various welfare regimes, where stigma is an inherent part of the liberal welfare regime.For social workers to be able to promote dignity and worth of people, they themselves must experience dignity and worth in their professional role. A fundamental prerequisite for this is welfare systems’ recognition of the importance of trusting human relationships.
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- Morén, Stefan, 1948-, et al.
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Organizing social work in public sector – a domain theory
- 2013
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Abstract Social Work in Sweden is conducted largely in the context of policy-driven public organizations. It applies e.g. to social services, the health sector and schools. Such organizations are typically described and understood as "administrations", and they are often portrayed in organizational charts with varying sets of formal roles, positions and functions that are coordinated to achieve the administration's goals. This traditional understanding of organizations for social work is in fact very limited: 1) it is static in that it is about structure rather than process, 2) the political level is involved to a small extent, 3) the professional component is diffuse, and 4) the impact from the outside world is often not considered at all. It is logical from this perspective that social workers, when they enter into this type of organization, risk to be merged in their role and position in the administration, that they will be "handlers of cases" rather than independent professional practitioners.The central element of the discussion is the relationship between politics, administration and profession, which in turn develops into a domain theory for the organization of social work. We note that these public arenas for social work are constituted of three domains with different functions and logics, yet interconnected and interdependent: the policy domain, the administration domain and the profession's domain. The single local organizations – constituted of these domains with their respective logics – are in turn conditioned by a fourth domain: the domain of institutional conditions. This latter domain is about control ideals, norms, views of knowledge and technologies that exist in society, legitimized and disseminated by central institutions, and that govern in important respects how the single local organizations work. The purpose is to contribute to the development of a domain theory for the organization of social work in the public sector.
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- Perlinski, Marek, 1955-, et al.
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The dialectics between specialization and integration : politicians' and managers' views on forms of organization in the Swedish social services
- 2011
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Ingår i: Administration in Social Work. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0364-3107 .- 1544-4376. ; 35:1, s. 60-87
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study is based on interviews with politicians and managers responsible for the personal social services (PSS) in Swedish municipalities with three different organizational models (specialized, integrated, or combined). The aim was to understand the factors that influence organizational processes within the PSS, and how different organizational models affect social workers' interventions. The main results are summarized in a heuristic model that presents a number of fundamental intra-organizational factors that influence the organizing of the personal social services.
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- Blom, Björn, 1965-, et al.
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European social and caring professions in transition
- 2017
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Ingår i: Social and caring professions in European welfare states. - Bristol : Policy Press. - 9781447327196 - 9781447336518 ; , s. 1-17
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