Skiljer sig arbetsupplevelserna för socionomer beroende på om de arbetar inom socialtjänsten i storstäderna eller ute på landsbygden? Det var frågor som denna som inledde uppsatsskrivandet. Detta mynnade slutligen ut i syftet att undersöka socionomers beskrivningar av sina klienter och om dessa har någon koppling till organisationens struktur. De socionomer vars berättelser studerats har arbetat med myndighetsutövning i kommunal socialtjänst. Två ämnen var av särskilt intresse för min studie; skillnader och likheter i socionomernas berättelser kopplat till större och mindre kommuner, sett till kommunernas folkmängd, samt om socionomerna uttryckte huruvida de kunde arbeta holistiskt med sina klienter. Studien utfördes med hjälp av åtta kvalitativa, semistrukturerade intervjuer i sex olika kommuner med varierande kommunstorlek. Materialet analyserades sedan utifrån konstruktivistiskt grundad teori med inspiration av en socialpsykologisk teori om trygga sociala band. Utifrån analysen av resultatet genererades begreppet jaget som verktyg. Studien visar att jaget som verktyg användes i större utsträckning av socionomer i de kommuner som var mindre till storleken jämfört med socionomer som arbetade inom socialtjänster i större kommuner. Nyinstitutionell teori användes för en vidare analys av resultatet och dess innebörd för socialt arbete. Studien visar att det finns ett glapp mellan vad socionomer lärt sig via sin utbildning och vad för typ av arbete de förväntas utföra i kommunal socialtjänst. / Is there a difference in work experience for social workers if they work for the social services in the city or in the countryside? Problems such as these seeded the idea behind the thesis, and was narrowed down to the following research question; to study social workers description of how they work with their clients and if there were any differences in their descriptions depending on organizational structure. The social workers interviewed throughout this thesis were employed within the municipalities social service and worked with decision making concerning social be nefits. Two aspects were of particular interest; differences and similarities of the social workers descriptions related to population size of the municipalities and if the social workers expressed that they could work in a holistic manner with their clients. This study was conducted with the help of eight semistructured qualitative interviews in six municipalities of varying sizes. The material was later analyzed with the help of constructive grounded theory with inspiration taken from social psychological theories about safe social bonds. The result of the analysis was generating the term the self as a tool and the study showed that the generated term was more prevalent in the descriptions from social workers that were employed in smaller municipalities compared to the social services in larger municipalities. Institutional theory was used to further analyze the results and their implicaitons for social work. The study showed that there is some discrepancy between what social workers are taught during their education and what they are expected to do when employed by the municipality social services.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kau-92644 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Vestin, Stina |
| Publisher | Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för sociala och psykologiska studier (from 2013) |
| 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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