Alexandru Panican
Associate professor | Senior lecturer | PhD in Social Work
Rättighet och Rättvisa : Användbarhet av rättighet och rättvisa i sociala projekt
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Summary, in English
The aim of this dissertation has been to analyse what rights and justice, as central discursive units in a repeated thought model, can entail for the potential to achieve the goal/the improved state in social projects.
The dissertation is characterized by exposition of concepts and problematization of different ways of thinking. I have used a philosophical and a social-science perspective. The methodological design is textual analysis.
My analysis shows that rights and justice have a structure made up of two components: a supra-individual meaning which comprises transhistorical basic assumptions and a negotiable meaning which is established through normative discussions. It is the unit's own built-in basic assumptions that I have pinpointed in order to find out what these can bring out in social projects. I have analysed the type of rights and justice that occur in the projects to which I refer: civil rights and social justice.
The conclusion is that rights and justice bring effective opportunities but can also impede and even counteract the reformer's aim even before the project starts. Rights and justice rest on basic assumptions which generate precisely the kind of problems that social projects are intended to overcome. One can happen to bring out what one wants to get rid of, regardless of one's own working method and irrespective of organizational, political, and economic circumstances. The practical usefulness of the results have been discussed primarily in relation to the practice of social work.
Department/s
- School of Social Work
Publishing year
2007
Language
Swedish
Full text
Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
School of Social Work, Lund University
Topic
- Social Work
Keywords
- Social sciences
- tvångsvård
- feminism
- fattigdomsfrågan
- narkotikafrågan
- kvinnofrågan
- socialt arbete
- sociala projekt
- rättvisa
- rättighet
- Samhällsvetenskaper
Status
Published
Supervisor
- Sune Sunesson
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 978-91-89604-32-2
Defence date
22 February 2007
Defence time
10:15
Defence place
Edens hörsal, paradisgatan 5, hus H
Opponent
- Peter Høilund (Professor)