Kön och missbruk i sociala utredningar
GenusMissbrukStereotyperTonåringarSocial problems and welfareNational insuranceSociala problemSocial välfärdSocialförsäkringLaw and Political Science
I have done a qualitative literature study, in which the data consisted of descriptions of drug abuse in ten social inquiry text documents (that also are applications for institutional care) concerning teenagers. Social welfare secretaries representing two social welfare offices in Malmö, has written the text documents. The purpose of this essay was to examine thedescriptions and, if possible, try to make out and describe stereotyped themes and patterns depending on gender. To obtain the purpose of this essay I searched for answers of the following three central questions:- What appears to be the social welfare secretary's purpose in describing the teenager's drug abuse?- How is the parameter gender related to the descriptions of drug abuse in the social inquiry text documents?- How are other possible gender-stereotyped descriptions of the teenager related to the descriptions of drug abuse?In the analysis of the descriptions, which where the foundation of the study, I found patterns in describing drug abuse depending on gender. I put those in relation to theories of stereotyped-gender contract and gender system and found out that there are genderstereotyped descriptions of teenagers drug abuse in the investigated empirical information.