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Barns strategier och ekonomisk utsatthet: knappa resurser som utgångspunkt för en förhandling av positionerna i familjen
Uppsala universitet, Humanistisk-samhällsvetenskapliga vetenskapsområdet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Sociologiska institutionen.
2012 (svensk)Inngår i: Sociologisk forskning, ISSN 0038-0342, E-ISSN 2002-066X, Vol. 49, nr 3, s. 173-188Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Published
Abstract [en]

The aim of this article is to discuss how children and adolescents experience everyday life in economic hardship and how a negotiation of the family positions can be linked to these experiences. The article takes its theoretical starting point in childhood sociology, and is based on an interview study involving 17 children between the ages of 6-18 in families living on or below the limit for receiving welfare benefits. The purpose of these interviews is to explore how these children experience economic hardship at home and among friends, focusing their own strategies and agency. I argue that the financial situation in these families do indeed challenge the way that the child position is traditionally understood, which also has implications for the children's identity work. Including children as participants in research therefore becomes crucial in order to fully understand the ramifications of child poverty.

sted, utgiver, år, opplag, sider
2012. Vol. 49, nr 3, s. 173-188
Emneord [sv]
Fattigom, barn, familj, strategi, ansvar
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-184677ISI: 000209156000002OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-184677DiVA, id: diva2:567261
Merknad

Web of Science title: Economic hardship and children's strategies - scarce resources as a starting point for negotiating family positions

Tilgjengelig fra: 2012-11-12 Laget: 2012-11-12 Sist oppdatert: 2022-05-10bibliografisk kontrollert
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2013 (svensk)Doktoravhandling, med artikler (Annet vitenskapelig)
Abstract [en]

In the context of the Swedish welfare state, the issue of child poverty has over the past decade become increasingly prominent within the political agenda. Most research on child poverty has been based on statistics and research on children’s everyday life and their experiences in situations of economic hardship has been in demand in international as well as Swedish research. The aim of this thesis is to explore and analyze children’s experiences of living within economic hardship as part of their identity work. In addition, it highlights how their agency can be understood as a way of dealing with their situation, as well as how child poverty – and the child position in a welfare state setting -  is understood and conceptualized by the society they live in.  The analysis was based on an interview study involving seventeen children between the ages of 6–18 in families living on or below the limit for receiving welfare benefits. The purpose of the interviews was to explore how these children experience economic hardship at home and among same-aged children, focusing their own strategies and agency.

The thesis uses the field of childhood sociology as a theoretical starting point, and the empirical findings are analyzed with an interactionist approach which highlights the meaning of interaction and agency in relation to identity work. The strategies deployed by the children in this study was interpreted in the context of the limited space for agency that the child position entails as well as how their positioning as children, by themselves and others, creates a new understanding of the way poverty is managed by them. This thesis seeks to problematize the issue of child poverty in Sweden by stressing its complexities.  The thesis also emphasizes that it would be a simplification to label these children as merely stigmatized since the status of poverty as a stigma for children can be questioned.

sted, utgiver, år, opplag, sider
Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2013. s. 94
Serie
Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Social Sciences, ISSN 1652-9030 ; 85
Emneord
childhood sociology, child position, poverty, welfare state, financial aid, identity, interaction, agency, strategy, stigma, qualitative interviews, participation
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Forskningsprogram
Sociologi
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urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-185346 (URN)978-91-554-8550-4 (ISBN)
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2013-02-01, Universitetshuset sal IX, Uppsala, 10:15 (svensk)
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Tilgjengelig fra: 2013-01-09 Laget: 2012-11-22 Sist oppdatert: 2013-03-25bibliografisk kontrollert

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