Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, School of Social Services Administration, June 1999. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

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Syftet med studien är att utforska hur socialsekreterare uppfattar sin maktposition i arbetet inom missbruksvården och att analysera maktpositionen med stöd av Michel Foucaults maktperspektiv. Metoden för studien har varit en kvalitativ intervjustudie med tematisk analys. Resultatet har synliggjort socialsekreterares förhållningssätt till makten i myndighetsutövningen och i mötet med klienter inom missbruksvården. Utöver det har det framkommit flera maktaspekter som är av relevans för myndighetsutövning inom missbruksvården. / The purpose of this study is to explore how social service workers perceive their position of power in their work in substance abuse care and analyze the power relations with support from Michel Foucault’s power perspective. The method of the study has been a qualitative interview study with thematic analysis. The result has made visible social service workers approach to power in exercise of authority and in meetings with clients in the substance abuse care. Beyond that it has shown several power aspects which are of importance for the exercise of authority within substance abuse care.

This thesis deals with problems of financing social service and with using care allowance as an instrument of social policy. The need for affordable and quality social services for the elderly results from prognosis of the demographic trends of aging population and it is always of interest to social policy that tincludes new tools in addressing social protection to people who depend on additional care. Determination of the public policy problem is based on a study and an analysis of available data, referring to the finding that the care allowance is not (as opposed to the intention of the law), used sufficiently as one of the sources of financing social service providers. My thesis is based on findings, which brings a theory of social inclusions as the prevention of a social exclusion of people because of a reduced self-sufficiency and a theory of a quality of life under which is necessary to ensure individual's everyday needs; later it focuses on a concept of a social protection of people in important public policy documents. The research deals with fundamental changes in the concept of the care allowance under the law No. 108/2006 Coll. on social services and the impact of these changes on the recipients of care, informal care providers and institutional social services. It analyzes public records and...