Löve, C. Socionomlegitimation. En kvalitativ studie om socionomers syn på legitimering av yrkesgruppen. Examensarbete i socialt arbete 15 högskolepoäng. Malmöuniversitet: Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle, institutionen för socialt arbete, 2020. Socionomlegitimation har diskuterats och föreslagits under cirka femtio års tid. Studien undersöker yrkesverksamma socionomers inställning till en potentiell yrkeslegitimation. Fackförbundet SSR har flest anslutna socionomer i sitt förbund och initierade arbetet mot en socionomlegitimation på 1970-talet. Årligen skrivs motioner till regeringen med motivation till en yrkeslegitimation för socionomer, men det har ännu inte blivit aktuellt. Forskning påvisar flera effekter av en yrkeslegitimation såsom en starkare status i relation till andra yrkesgrupper men även att det ger effekter för den hierarkiska strukturen inom yrkesgruppen. Studien tittar närmre på vilka processer som krävs för att förflytta en yrkesgrupps status, vilket professionsforskningen påvisar som essentiellt för att ett yrke skall etablera sig för en legitimation. Resultatet påvisar att yrkesverksamma socionomer ser flera vinster med yrkeslegitimering. Informanternas mening sammanfaller med forskningens vinster av yrkeslegitimering. / Löve, C. Professional certification for social workers. A qualitative study on social workers view on a potential professional certification of the profession. Degree project in Social work 15 credits. Malmö University: Faculty of Health and Society, Department of Social Work, 2020.The discussion about a professional certification for social workers has been going on for about fifty years. This study examines professional social workers attitude to a potential professional certification. The largest union for social workers in Sweden is SSR and they initiated the work towards a professional certification in the 70-ies. Motions to the government is written yearly, but there hasn´t been any changes yet. Professional certifications bring effects as enhanced status in relation to other professions, but it also creates a stronger hierarchy within the profession, this is showed by professional research. As to be read in profession research a profession needs to improve its status in order to move towards a process of a professional certification. In this study I´ll try to visualise these processes in order to improve the knowledge of some underlying factors. The result of this study shows that social workers agrees on the fact that a professional certification is beneficial on many levels. The most obvious correlation between this study and earlier research is the effect that a professional certification would have on social workers status.

<p>Denna rapport handlar om män i minoritet i ett kvinnoyrke, närmare bestämt socionomyrket. Rapporten bygger på enkäter ställda till män examinerade från socionomutbildningen i Lund under två perioder, början av 1980-talet och 1990-talet, samt intervjuer med män från sistnämnda grupp. Det framkommer att männens karriärer skiljer sig åt mellan de olika utbildningsgenerationerna. Medan de män som har examen längst bakom sig ofta gjort en vertikal karriär och blivit chefer väljer männen som examinerats under 1990-talet i stället en horisontell karriär. De hittar sin nisch i socionomyrket inom områden med hög intern status där de kan arbeta fritt och självständigt.</p> / <p>This dissertation is about men as a minority in a female profession, that of uni-versity-trained social worker. The aim is to illuminate the relationship between work and gender on the basis of career, minority, and masculinity in the profes-sion of social work. By means of questionnaires sent to all the men who trained as social workers in Lund 1980–1985 (the 1980s generation) and 1993–2003 (the 1990s generation) I have charted their careers. Eighteen of the 1990s generation who completed the questionnaire were interviewed to eliciting their own point of view. The results of the questionnaire study show that the men who took degrees in social work in both the educational generations to a large extent started their career in the social services but did not often continue their career there or en-tered this field after the first few years of their career. From the interviews it was found that the parts of the social services to which the men are most negative are those which involve the exercise of authority and the control of people. Those who qualified in the 1980s pursued a career which largely corresponds to the pre-vailing image of the male social worker’s career - many of these men had em-barked on a vertical management career or had left the profession. The 1990s generation displayed a different career development. Whereas the traditional male social worker career goes in a vertical direction and is a matter of formal power and superiority, the modern career goes in a horizontal direction and is a matter of creating an autonomous niche. The niche is not just an expression of a new ca-reer pattern; through the niche it is also possible to preserve a traditional mascu-linity. At the same time, the interviewed men present an alternative masculinity through their choice of profession and their way of reasoning about it. The male social workers can thereby be seen as representatives of a masculinity in a time of change.</p>

Denna rapport handlar om män i minoritet i ett kvinnoyrke, närmare bestämt socionomyrket. Rapporten bygger på enkäter ställda till män examinerade från socionomutbildningen i Lund under två perioder, början av 1980-talet och 1990-talet, samt intervjuer med män från sistnämnda grupp. Det framkommer att männens karriärer skiljer sig åt mellan de olika utbildningsgenerationerna. Medan de män som har examen längst bakom sig ofta gjort en vertikal karriär och blivit chefer väljer männen som examinerats under 1990-talet i stället en horisontell karriär. De hittar sin nisch i socionomyrket inom områden med hög intern status där de kan arbeta fritt och självständigt. / This dissertation is about men as a minority in a female profession, that of uni-versity-trained social worker. The aim is to illuminate the relationship between work and gender on the basis of career, minority, and masculinity in the profes-sion of social work. By means of questionnaires sent to all the men who trained as social workers in Lund 1980–1985 (the 1980s generation) and 1993–2003 (the 1990s generation) I have charted their careers. Eighteen of the 1990s generation who completed the questionnaire were interviewed to eliciting their own point of view. The results of the questionnaire study show that the men who took degrees in social work in both the educational generations to a large extent started their career in the social services but did not often continue their career there or en-tered this field after the first few years of their career. From the interviews it was found that the parts of the social services to which the men are most negative are those which involve the exercise of authority and the control of people. Those who qualified in the 1980s pursued a career which largely corresponds to the pre-vailing image of the male social worker’s career - many of these men had em-barked on a vertical management career or had left the profession. The 1990s generation displayed a different career development. Whereas the traditional male social worker career goes in a vertical direction and is a matter of formal power and superiority, the modern career goes in a horizontal direction and is a matter of creating an autonomous niche. The niche is not just an expression of a new ca-reer pattern; through the niche it is also possible to preserve a traditional mascu-linity. At the same time, the interviewed men present an alternative masculinity through their choice of profession and their way of reasoning about it. The male social workers can thereby be seen as representatives of a masculinity in a time of change.