Revealing the Ideas in the Swedish Social Services Act Regarding Support to Individuals with Disabilities

Kent Ehliasson; Urban Markström

doi:10.16993/sjdr.720

Revealing the Ideas in the Swedish Social Services Act Regarding Support to Individuals with Disabilities

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

Volume 22 (2020): Issue 1

By: Kent Ehliasson and Urban Markström

Open Access

|Dec 2020

Abstract

A disability policy defines the relationship between the state and the disabled and is generally based on ideas in different legislation. These ideas have an impact on decision makers and the disabled’s everyday life and are under current pressure for change; therefore, it is important to thoroughly scrutinise the ideas, make them conscious and visible. The purpose of this study is to reveal the ideas expressed in the Swedish Social Services Act (SoL), which supports people with disabilities, and to compare the results with ideas expressed in the Swedish Disability Act (LSS). A text analysis of SoL identified the following ideas, that is, conceptions of reality and values: (1) the social contract and justice, (2) the collective and integration/normalisation, (3) the individual and autonomy and (4) decentralisation and the shift of power. There are great similarities between the ideas in the legislation, but there are also few but significant differences.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/sjdr.720 | Journal eISSN: 1745-3011

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Language: English

Page range: 393 - 402

Submitted on: Mar 8, 2020

Accepted on: Nov 26, 2020

Published on: Dec 28, 2020

Published by: Stockholm University Press

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

Disabilities,

Swedish Social Services Act,

ideas,

conception of reality,

values

© 2020 Kent Ehliasson, Urban Markström, published by Stockholm University Press
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