Bakgrund: Antalet personer som lever med hiv ökar såväl i Sverige som globalt. Hiv är en sjukdom som associeras med ett socialt oacceptabelt beteende och är brett stigmatiserad. Hiv-relaterat stigma och diskriminering är påtagligt i hela världen och skapar hinder för prevention, god vård, behandling och stöd. Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats var att undersöka hiv-positivas upplevelser av stigma och stigmatisering inom sjukvården. Metod: En litteraturstudie baserad på åtta kvalitativa och tre kvantitativa studier utfördes. Artikelsökningar gjordes i databaserna PubMed, Cinahl och PsychInfo. Ett granskningsprotokoll användes för att bedöma kvalitén på studierna. Som teoretisk referensram användes Goffmans teori om stigma. Resultat: Resultatet visade att stigmatisering av hiv-positiva inom sjukvården manifesterades på olika sätt. Fyra teman kunde urskiljas: brist på konfidentialitet, bemötande, bristande vård och moraliska attityder. Exempel på dessa beskrevs av hiv-positiva som avslöjande av hiv-status, subtila tecken på ogillande, försämrad eller nekande till vård, skuldbeläggning och fördömande attityder. Slutsats: Genom att uppmärksamma vad den hiv-positiva upplever som stigmatiserande kan sjuksköterskan bli mer medveten om hur hon/han inte bör bete sig och göra vården och omvårdnaden bättre för dessa patienter. / Background: The number of people living with hiv is increasing in Sweden and world wide. Hiv is a disease associated with a socially unaccepted behavior and is widely stigmatized. Hiv-related stigma and discrimination is manifested all over the world and constitute barriers for prevention, health care, treatment and support. Aim: The purpose of this literature review was to examine hiv-positive person’s experience of stigma and stigmatization within health care. Method: A literature review based on eight qualitative and three quantitative studies were carried out. The article search was carried out through the databases PubMed, Cinahl and PsychInfo. A review protocol was used to estimate the quality of the studies. As a theoretic frame of reference Goffmans theory on stigma was used. Result: Findings showed that hiv-stigma within health care were manifested in different ways. Four themes were distinguished: breaches of confidentiality, approach, insufficient care and moralizing attitudes. Examples of these themes was described by hiv-positive persons as disclosure, subtle signs of disapproval, substandard or denied care, blaming and judging attitudes. Conclusion: By acknowledge what hiv-positive persons perceive as stigmatization the nurse can be more aware of how to avoid this kind of behavior and improve the nursing care for these patients.

Self-disclosure is a commonly used therapeutic technique with people who stutter to facilitate self-acceptance and reduce the effects that the stigmatizing views and stereotypes held by the public can have on their communicative interactions. Although there are data on the benefits of self-disclosure from the perspective of the listener, there are no data on the value of self-disclosure form the perspective of the person who stutters. The purpose of this study was to investigate the benefit of self-disclosure from the perspective of the person who stutters in a conversational interaction using a Map task with a normally fluent speaker. The cognitive-affective variables under investigation were self-perception of stuttering severity, comfort, cognitive effort, anxiety, and benefit in a disclosed and non-disclosed condition. The speech variables under consideration in the disclosed and non-disclosed conditions were total syllables, percent syllables stuttered, and total word count. In order to measure level of stigma, the Self-Stigma of Stuttering Scale (4S) (Boyle, 2012) was used. Participants were 25 adults (18-73 years of age) recruited from the La Salle University Speech-Language-Hearing Clinics, National Stuttering Association support groups in Philadelphia and New Jersey, and through social media. The results of the investigation revealed that the participants were equivocal about the benefit of self-disclosure, and that there were non-significant differences for the cognitive-affective variables across conditions. Some positive effects on the speech variables were noted in the non-disclosed state only. All participants demonstrated overall self-stigma based on their 4S scores, but stigma was not acting as a moderating variable for the cognitive-affective or speech variables. It was concluded that from the perspective of the person who stutters, neither self-disclosure nor overall level of self-stigma are playing a decisive role during the communicative interaction with a normally fluent speaker. The implications of these findings are discussed. / Communication Sciences

In the present study, I analyze adolescent girls’ smoking through a unique combination of a quantitative survey of impressions and a theoretical analysis based on new elaborations of Bourdieu’s concept symbolic capital. The method of the study is three-fold. First, focus-group interviews elicit relevant impressions of adolescents in the eyes of peers. Second, a questionnaire survey distributed to adolescent peers quantitatively investigates how impressions of a girl on a picture differ depending on whether or not she has a cigarette. Third, a theoretical analysis based on elaborations of Bourdieu’s theories scrutinizes the results of the questionnaire survey. The results of the questionnaire survey indicate that smoking adolescent girls generate impressions of being significantly less likable, more popular, more conceited, less kind, less shy, more liable to bully, less funny, more deceitful, and less compassionate than non-smoking adolescent girls. In the elaborations of Bourdieu’s theories, I introduce a division of symbolic capital into two forms: symbolic virtue capital, generated through impressions of virtues, and symbolic power capital, generated through intimidating impressions of destructive power. According to the theoretical analysis of the results, smoking adolescent girls have relatively much symbolic power capital but relatively little symbolic virtue capital compared to adolescent girls that do not smoke.

This study aims to explain the demarcations regarding which crimes that are seen as “acceptable” to commit as an police officer, and those who categorizes as “not acceptable”. The study is based on a qualitative, narrative method of semi-structured interviews. Antecedent research shows the strong subculture in the police force and the approach of seeing the police profession as a lifestyle. This study uses Erving Goffmans dramaturgic perspective on society by applying “Team”, “Front Stage and “Back Stage” to explain why the demarcations is the way it is. By studying “Front Stage” as police officers in front of the public and “Back Stage” as a closed space for the police officers, the essay intends to see how police officers, seen as a team, deal with wrongful acts made by an police officer. By using an constructed sorting model the study separated the data from ten interviewed police officers by categorizing into ways of legitimizing crimes commited by an police officer. The study aims to show understanding in why unethic and unlegal deeds by police officers are not reported, and therefore legitimized by the subculture. The conclusion of this essay is that there are two ways to legitimize wrongful acts of police officers. These two ways are by the norms “Us versus them” and the silence code. We created two concepts in combination with the use of the theories of Goffman. This paper will show how the two concepts, ”team offset” and ”team censoring”, can legitimize crimes as a part of the subculture. To be able to legitimize a wrongful act, the police officer needs to use his team. If the team can not legitimize the crime, it categorizes as “not acceptable”.

The purpose of this study is to contribute knowledge about how a few pedagogues apprehend playing’s opportunities to create social relationships between children. The purpose is also to contribute knowledge about how a few pedagogues apprehend their role in children’s relationship work in playing. To obtain empirical material to our study we have completed qualitative interviews with eight pedagogues who work in extended school in four different schools. The theoretical framework we have used to analyze the empirical data is symbolic interactionism, in particular concepts from Erving Goffman’s The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959). According to the pedagogues, playing create social relationships between children by their fantasy, creativity and by their own initiative. According to the pedagogues, playing clarifies children how to work together and how to behave towards other children. To include and prevent children from being excluded the pedagogues use different tools to support them in entering social relationships with other children. The pedagogues use free play to get children to learn how to take responsibility and in an independently way create new social relationships with other children. The pedagogues use adult- conducted play to get children to interact in play, to enter community and create social relationships. The pedagogues feel they are in children´s free play depending on how the children act for example if there is a problem regarding children´s language or behavior in playing. In adult-conducted play the pedagogues apprehend their role to be an explicit and determined leader and be the one who always controls children’s play. The pedagogues also apprehend their role in adult-conducted play to break up subgroups and lead the children away from evil playing. / Syftet med studien är att bidra med kunskap om hur ett antal pedagoger uppfattar lekens möjligheter för barn att skapa sociala relationer. Syftet är även att bidra med kunskap om hur ett antal pedagoger uppfattar sin roll i barns relationsarbete i leken. För att samla in empiriskt material till vår studie har vi genomfört kvalitativa intervjuer med åtta pedagoger som arbetar på fritidshem på fyra olika skolor. För att analysera det empiriska materialet använder vi oss av symbolisk interaktionism i form av ett antal begrepp från Erving Goffmans Jaget och maskerna: En studie i vardagslivets dramatik (1959). Pedagogerna uppfattar att leken skapar sociala relationer mellan barnen via deras fantasi, kreativitet, egna initiativ. Pedagogerna uppfattar att i leken får barnen lära sig att samarbeta och hur man ske bete sig mot andra barn. För att inkludera och motverka att barn är exkluderade uppfattar pedagogerna att de använder sig av olika verktyg för att stötta dem att ingå i sociala relationer med andra barn. Pedagogerna uppfattar att fri lek används för att barnen ska lära sig att ta ansvar och på ett självständigt sätt skapa nya sociala relationer med andra barn. Pedagogerna uppfattar att de använder styrd lek för att barnen ska få interagera i lek, ingå i gemenskap och skapa sociala relationer. Pedagogerna uppfattar att de intar olika roller i barnens fria lek beroende på hur barnen agerar i leken. Bland annat om det är problem angående barnens språkbruk eller beteende i leken. I den styrda leken uppfattar pedagogerna att sin roll är att vara en tydlig och bestämd ledare och hela tiden vara den som styr barnens lek. Pedagogerna uppfattar även att sin roll i den styrda leken är att bryta upp subgrupper och leda barnen bort från ondskefulla lekar.

<p>Social theory by Goffman in the 60’s can still be applied to our society, especially to the new social form of Facebook. ”What precautions do Facebook members take when they publish content (text, photos, video) to avoid problems caused by the collapse of different social arenas? What do they think of their own self-presentation on the social website?” Data was collected trough an online survey, available for my Facebook friends in April-May 2010, and personal interviews with seven of the respondents. The results show that 126/128 respondents state they are their “true self” in their daily life, and not Facebook. Simultaneously, 75 respondents claim they have never had problems being themselves on Facebook. 65 people don’t recognize the presentation of people they know on Facebook, but 124 people say they have never received comments stating this. The norms and rules of social interaction on this social site are not yet set, and Facebook members respond to this by strict control of what they publish. It is evident that Facebook members enjoy peeking behind the self-presentation of people they know. Further research could show that this is one of the reasons why Facebook is so popular.</p> / <p>Goffmans sosialteori fra 60-tallet kan fortsatt appliseres på vårt samfunn, spesielt på den nye sosiale formen; Facebook. ”Hvilke forhåndsregler tar Facebooks medlemmer når de publiserer innhold (tekst, bilder, video) for å unngå problemer som følge av sammenslåingen av ulike sosiale arenaer? Hva tenker de om sin egen selvpresentasjon på det sosiale nettstedet?” Data ble samlet inn gjennom en webbasert spørreundersøkelse, tilgjengelig for mine Facebook venner i April-Mai 2010, og personlige intervjuer med seks av respondentene. Resultatene viser at 126/128 respondenter påstår at de er sitt ”sanne selv” i dagliglivet, og ikke på Facebook. Samtidig uttaler 75 respondenter at de aldri har hatt problemer med å være seg selv på Facebook. 65 personer kjenner ikke igjen presentasjonen av personer de kjenner på Facebook, men 124 personer sier de aldri selv har mottatt kommentarer som tilsier dette. Normene og reglene for sosial interaksjon på denne sosiale nettsiden er ikke satt enda, og Facebooks medlemmer reagerer med å ha streng kontroll over det de publiserer. Det er tydelig at Facebooks medlemmer nyter å kikke bak selvpresentasjonen til personer de kjenner. Framtidig forskning kan vise om dette er en av grunnene til at Facebook er så populært.</p>

Social theory by Goffman in the 60’s can still be applied to our society, especially to the new social form of Facebook. ”What precautions do Facebook members take when they publish content (text, photos, video) to avoid problems caused by the collapse of different social arenas? What do they think of their own self-presentation on the social website?” Data was collected trough an online survey, available for my Facebook friends in April-May 2010, and personal interviews with seven of the respondents. The results show that 126/128 respondents state they are their “true self” in their daily life, and not Facebook. Simultaneously, 75 respondents claim they have never had problems being themselves on Facebook. 65 people don’t recognize the presentation of people they know on Facebook, but 124 people say they have never received comments stating this. The norms and rules of social interaction on this social site are not yet set, and Facebook members respond to this by strict control of what they publish. It is evident that Facebook members enjoy peeking behind the self-presentation of people they know. Further research could show that this is one of the reasons why Facebook is so popular. / Goffmans sosialteori fra 60-tallet kan fortsatt appliseres på vårt samfunn, spesielt på den nye sosiale formen; Facebook. ”Hvilke forhåndsregler tar Facebooks medlemmer når de publiserer innhold (tekst, bilder, video) for å unngå problemer som følge av sammenslåingen av ulike sosiale arenaer? Hva tenker de om sin egen selvpresentasjon på det sosiale nettstedet?” Data ble samlet inn gjennom en webbasert spørreundersøkelse, tilgjengelig for mine Facebook venner i April-Mai 2010, og personlige intervjuer med seks av respondentene. Resultatene viser at 126/128 respondenter påstår at de er sitt ”sanne selv” i dagliglivet, og ikke på Facebook. Samtidig uttaler 75 respondenter at de aldri har hatt problemer med å være seg selv på Facebook. 65 personer kjenner ikke igjen presentasjonen av personer de kjenner på Facebook, men 124 personer sier de aldri selv har mottatt kommentarer som tilsier dette. Normene og reglene for sosial interaksjon på denne sosiale nettsiden er ikke satt enda, og Facebooks medlemmer reagerer med å ha streng kontroll over det de publiserer. Det er tydelig at Facebooks medlemmer nyter å kikke bak selvpresentasjonen til personer de kjenner. Framtidig forskning kan vise om dette er en av grunnene til at Facebook er så populært.

The aim of this essay is to study how internationally adopted people of colours’ national identifications are created in interaction with other people outside of their closest social networks of people, and how this can affect their feelings of social belonging and exclusion. This is accomplished by examining qualitative ethnographic interviews through social constructivist theories and concepts such as Erving Goffman’s symbolic interactionism and theories behind national identifications. The essay explores how the internationally adopted participants are met by other people and how these social situations are constructed. The question “where are you from?” is central in this study. The essay studies how the participants identify themselves and how they express these self-identifications. Results show that the informants relate to a Swedish national identity one way or another and that they express this to others with the help of different symbols, behaviours and actions. The study material shows that the internationally adopted participants get stigmatised in Sweden both for being adopted and for being non-white, and thus risk getting feelings of exclusion from a Swedish national identity. Although there are some social interactions which make them feel connected to and included in certain communities of people which often include other adopted individuals or people of colour.

Das vorliegende Buch gibt in zehn Einzelbeiträgen eine Einführung in das Gesamtwerk von Erving Goffman. Dabei wird gebrochen mit einer Sichtweise, die Goffman nur als einen "soziologischen Belletristen" kennt, der die Sozialwissenschaften mit einer Vielzahl von Begriffen bereichert hat. Vielmehr wird aufgezeigt, daß sich sein Werk durch ein eigenständiges Therieprogramm auszeichnet, das sich keinem anderen theoretischen Ansatz einverleiben läßt und Goffman in den Rang eine "Klassikers der zweiten Generation" erhebt. Die Beiträge der ersten Abteilung befassen sich mit dem Theorieprogramm von Goffman, indem das Forschungsprogramm der "interaction order" und die Grundlagen der Rahmen-Analyse beschrieben werden. In den anschließenden Beiträgen wird das Werk von Goffman im Vergleich mit soziologischen Theorien (Ethnomethodologie; phänomenologische Soziologie, Strukturalismus und Symbolischer Interaktionismus) diskutiert, mit denen es oftmals in Verbindung gebracht wird. Die Beiträge des dritten Teils befassen sich aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven mit der Reichweite des Theorieprogramms von Goffman. Vervollständigt wird dieser Teil durch eine umfangreiche Bibliographie.

Title: Behaviour towards and treatment of children and adolescents diagnosed with ADHD: In residential care. This bachelor thesis studies the tension between an institution focused on a form of residential care of children and adolescents, which is called HVB- home and the opportunity to individualize the treatment and behaviour towards the child or adolescent. The study has especially targeted children and adolescents with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) living in HVB- homes in Sweden. The thesis has a qualitative study design and uses semi structured interviews. Six employees from HVB- homes working directly with the children answered questions and spoke freely to the authors of the study. Five themes were used to analyse the results. The authors explain the results with Michel Foucault power theories and Erving Goffman's "On the Characteristics of Total Institutions". It was found that the education level of the employees affected the care, treatment and behaviour towards children with ADHD. A majority of the interviewees lack a college degree. Employees with lower formal education expressed those colleagues with informal competence were prone to easier fit in the HVB- home environment. Most of the interviewees expressed frustration over Swedish laws, guidelines and rules which only allow treatment of socially unacceptable behaviour and prohibit care and treatment of diagnoses like ADHD. The majority of the interviewees favoured what's best for the group instead of adapting treatment and behaviour towards the individual.