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- Hübner, Lena, 1958-
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Narkotika och alkohol i den allmänna opinionen
- 2001
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The aim of the thesis is to study public opinion on social problems, with focus on the problems of alcohol- and drug abuse. Public opin-ion is studied through a sur-vey, distributed to a cross-sectional, ran-domised and represen-tative sample of the Swedish population, aged 18 to 69 years. The survey was distributed in spring 1995 (N=3 000). Apart from background questions, the survey contains questions on how respondents perceive different aspect of alcohol- and drug prob-lems and what should be done about them.The theoretical perspective treats social problems as the result of collective de-fi-tio-nal processes, through which alcohol- and drug problems have been given diffe-rent cognitive and moral connotations. As a result, the problems have acquired objec-tive facticity. According to this perspective, reality is a social construction and reali-ty and soci-ety have a dual character of objective facticity and subjective mean-ing.The term "public opinion" is discussed in the thesis. The conclu-sion drawn is that there is mainly two ways of understanding public opinion. In the first case, public conversation and debate is seen as a prereq-uisite to public opinion, which is comprehended as a group-based discur-sive phenomenon. In the second case, public opinion is equated with the results of opinion polls.The results show that alcohol- and drug problems are perceived as serious social problems, though drug abuse is seen as more serious. Concerning drugs, the public perceptions are, to a large extent, unanimous. Drugs are dependency-generating, dangerous and should be forbidden. The punishment for drug-re-lated crimes should be more severe than today. Large parts of the respondents agree on all of this. Concerning alcohol, the results show greater differences between different groups of respondents. A majority of the women are less positive to alcohol than the men, and more in favour of alcohol re-strictions. The same goes for older people compared to younger. One central conclu-sion concerns the unamity in the percep-tion of drugs, while the perception of alcohol is much more varied. The low visibil-ity of groups expressing different views on the drug problem in public debate seems to be reflected in the results of the survey. The respon-dents’ perception of drugs is thus very much in line with official dis-course.
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- Hübner, Lena, 1958-
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The Role of Social Science in Behavior Addiction
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In: Handbook of Social Sciences and Global Public Health. - : Springer. - 9783030967789
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This chapter starts with a short review of the medical perspective regarding addictions, more specifically alcoholism. The split between behavior addiction, like gambling or gaming on the one hand and addictions related to substance use on the other is not clear-cut, and it is argued that heavy drinking is a behavior even if it often is characterized as a substance use disorder. Alcoholism is a prototype of addictions and a classic example of it, and since it has historical roots, a lot of research has been conducted on alcohol consumption and heavy drinking which is why it is focused on initially. Some more general contributions of the social sciences in the field of alcohol research are presented since it broadens the view on addictive behavior. Research on social and cultural factors of significance for addiction has yielded insights into the understanding of what addiction is. Finally, three perspectives from the social sciences on addictions generally are presented. They have a specific feature in common and that is that they all use a general frame of action on addictions implying that addictive processes are natural, not pathological.
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- Sörmark, Mira, et al.
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Professional understandings of men's violence against women
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In: European Journal of Social Work. - 1369-1457 .- 1468-2664. ; 27:2, s. 413-426
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In Sweden, the social services have recently been given legal responsibility to act so that men who are violent against women in intimate relationships change their behaviour. However, research on how professionals in the social services understand intimate partner violence and the violent acts of men is still scarce. By drawing on interviews with 16 social workers who are practicing treatment for male perpetrators of violence, this article aims to explore the professionals’ understandings of the roots of men’s violence against women, what they perceive as the most effective way to help their clients to change their behaviour and what the end goal of the treatment is. The social workers describe the causes of their client’s violence as based in childhood trauma and that the men have severe problems regulating their emotions. It is believed that these difficulties are best treated through the establishment of a therapeutic alliance, allowing for an enhancement of their ability for empathy. Using professional theory, we interpret these results as an expression of a psychotherapeutic knowledge system. Finally, we discuss how a psychotherapeutic understanding has come to dominate work with men’s violence and what the consequences of this understanding are.
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