In this study, we have examined whether an eventual class discourse can affect the decision to put children in mandatory care. With the help of Faircloughs critical discourse analysis, both as our method and our theoretical framework, we have read and analysed thirty judicial decisions to put children in mandatory care. The thirty judicial decision concern LVU 2 § and are randomly chosen, with the only condition that they are recent. To identify and discuss class in these decisions, we have used Bourdieus theory about capital. Our main result show that you can identify an underlying class discourse in the judicial decisions, particularly around the expectation that parents should be active in their parenthood to be seen as good enough parents. Our result also shows that the parents ability is tightly connected to their circumstances. The underlying class discourse favours middle class families over working class families.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-80191 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Berndtsson, Erica, Zackrisson, Emma |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA), Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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