Kön eller Kultur? : en kritisk diskursanalys av den svenska debatten om sexualbrott efter nyårsnatten i Köln 2016
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Summary, in English
The sexual assaults in Köln on New Year’s Eve 2016 and similar events in Sweden started a debate in Swedish articles and editorials regarding the explanations to these assaults. Through a critical discourse analysis, the aim of this study is to examine how specific world views are upheld by focusing on how the writers argue reasons for the assaults’ occurrence. Furthermore, the study aims to examine what values relate to each explanation. Theories of gender, culture and feminist intersectionality are included in the study in order to strengthen the analysis. As some of the articles argue the significance of gender others argue the importance of culture. Furthermore, a less prominent alternative view includes more factors to the occurrence of the assaults and emphasizes the perpetrators socio-economic situation. Although each discourses relate to values in presented theoretical perspectives, several important differences occur. The alternative discourse shares values presented in intersectional theory as it aims to portray a more complex worldview where several different factors cooperate. However, both the discourses of gender and culture present world views that are less flexible than the theories regarding the same topics.
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Publishing year
2016
Language
Swedish
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Document type
Student publication for Bachelor's degree
Topic
- Social Sciences
Keywords
- editorials
- Swedish debate
- sexual assaults
- critical discourse analysis
- articles
- gender
- culture
Supervisor
- Agnes Malmgren