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Helena Blomberg

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ID277206
NOMEHelena Blomberg
PRENOMESHelena
SOBRENOMEBlomberg
ASSINATURABLOMBERG H
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Helsinki
ORCID0000-0002-6227-4408
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS29
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES107
TOTAL COMO AUTOR29
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1996
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H6
  • Exploring claims in disinformation – The shared story of ‘the Swedish child welfare services’ kidnapping migrant children’

    Open Access•Emmie Wahlström, Helena Blomberg et al.•ARTICLE•Children and Youth Services Review•2026

    Explores the shared story ’the Swedish CWS kidnapping migrant children’. • Tellers claim that families are victims, children suffer, and families fear CWS. • Details, time, and emotional appeals are used to build credibility and legitimacy. • Social media (re)constructs social realities through emotionally charged narratives. In the early 2020s, the Swedish child welfare services (CWS) were accused in social media of kidnapping and placing migran…

  • You Should Be Yourself’—Secondary Students’ Descriptions of Social Gender Demands

    Open Access•Karin Bergman, Helena Blomberg et al.•ARTICLE•Children•2025

    Background/Objectives: Swedish schools are mandated to counteract gender norms that restrict students' life opportunities. School personnel also bear the responsibility of fostering students' democratic responsibilities and healthy behaviors, which is crucial not only for their mental wellbeing but also for their academic performance, as stressed by the European Commission. Aim: The purpose of the present study is to explore adolescents' performa…

  • Poor Children in Our School? Child Poverty‐Related Beliefs and Practices Among Primary School‐Based Professionals in Finland

    Open Access•Christa Järvinen, Helena Blomberg et al.•ARTICLE•Children & Society•2025

    Despite being viewed as highly equal welfare societies, child poverty remains an unsolved problem in the Nordic countries. This article investigates the various types of institutionalised, underlying beliefs about child poverty held by professionals working within the Finnish primary school system, and how these assumptions shape school practices related to equality issues. Based on focus group interviews with 34 school‐based professionals, the s…

  • Protocol for a Qualitative Study on Household Economic Discourses

    Open Access•Pernilla Liedgren, Marie Eriksson et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2025•Citada por: 1•Referências: 42

    Intimate partner violence (IPV) constitutes a global societal challenge. Interventions against IPV have been implemented worldwide. However, the problem still prevails and takes new forms. Despite conceptual developments and a growing body of knowledge on economic abuse (EA) in recent years, there remains a significant lack of qualitative research on experiences of economic abuse . The study aims to expose and examine discourse s on household eco…

  • Wind of change? Social work students’ policy engagement and career preferences in Finland

    Open Access•Johanna Kallio, Johanna Marketta Kallio et al.•ARTICLE•Social Work Education•2024

    Although a general mission of social workers is to advance social justice, it has been claimed that many social workers, including those studying to become social workers, have a rather weak commitment to policy engagement (PE). It has been a common assumption that Nordic social workers lack a tradition of PE due to their primary role as public employees in the comprehensive Nordic welfare state. We address these topics by empirically analyzing F…

  • What works? Researching participants’ experiences of a social policy RCT through qualitative interviews

    Open Access•Helena Blomberg, Christian Kroll et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of European Social Policy•2024•Referências: 9

    Increasingly, evidence-based policymaking, in the form of randomized control trials (RCTs) in particular, are advocated as a means for studying the effects of planned social policy measures. Additionally, a Finnish basic income experiment was conducted in 2017–2018 as an RCT as a means of exploring alternative policy solutions, which gained widespread national and international political, media and scholarly attention. Despite the popularity of R…

  • Findings from a European, cross-national project study on service user participation

    Open Access•Jim Campbell, Simon Donnelly et al.•ARTICLE•International Social Work•2024•Referências: 3

    This article reports on a European project that sought to explore the relationships between social work and service user participation, using a five-country (Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland and Portugal) case study approach. It revealed areas of comparison and contrast depending upon respective histories of social work development, organisation, education and research that determined forms of service user participation. It is argued tha…

  • Poverty constructions and discursive strategies employed by participants in the Finnish Basic Income Experiment

    Open Access•Laura Tarkiainen, Helena Blomberg et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse & Society•2024•Citada por: 1•Referências: 2

    In this article, we examine how eighty-one participants in the Finnish Basic Income Experiment discursively construct and make sense of their own and others’ poverty in face-to-face interviews. Using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), we identified three discursive strategies the interviewees use to engage with and challenge culturally dominant poverty discourses. First, poverty was constructed as a tragic experience attributed to external causes…

  • Reflexive professionalisation in social work practice development, research, and education

    Laura Van Beveren, Nele Feryn et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social Work•2023•Referências: 13

    This paper examines how the renewed critical emphasis on reflexiveprofessionalisation in thefield of social work can take into account thechallenges regarding the politics of democratic participation of serviceusers as citizens while working towards social justice. Our contributionis based on thefindings of a collaborative European research projectinvolving researchers, students, public service organisations, service userorganisations, and educat…

  • Developing welfare technology to increase children’s participation in child welfare assessments

    Open Access•Gunnel Östlund, Philip Rautell Lindstedt et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social Work•2023•Referências: 10

    The purpose of the article is to describe and problematise the practice-initiated idea of developing a digital tool for children in child welfare investigations and whether and how this welfare technology is useful for social workers. The results include interview data and descriptions of the research process. The social workers are of the opinion that the digital application increases the possibilities for children’s participation in child inves…

  • The establishing of subject positions in Swedish news media discourses during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open Access•Annica Lövenmark, Jonas Stier et al.•ARTICLE•Media Culture & Society•2023•Referências: 27

    The COVID-19 pandemic has dominated the global media since 2020. To a large extent, it is via the news media that the public has learned about the risks, levels of danger, governmental regulations and mandatory actions. This article highlights the subject positions constructed by the Swedish news media from January 2020 to February 2021 in reports about the pandemic. The result shows that citizens can be active-passive or solitary solidarity, the…

  • Children helping to co-construct a digital tool that is designed to increase children’s participation in child welfare investigations in Sweden

    Open Access•Helena Blomberg, Gunnel Östlund et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Social Work•2022

    How do children (aged 6–12 years) understand and make use of a digital tool that is under development? This article builds on an ongoing interdisciplinary research project in which children, social workers (the inventers of this social innovation) and researchers together develop an interactive digital tool (application) to strengthen children’s participation during the planning and process of welfare assessments. Departing from social constructi…

  • Experimenting with Unconditional Basic Income

    Open Access•Helena Blomberg, Katja Mäkkylä et al.•BOOK•Experimenting with Unconditional…•2021

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  • Flashback as a Rhetorical Online Battleground

    Open Access•Helena Blomberg, Jonas Stier•ARTICLE•Social Media + Society•2019•Citada por: 1•Referências: 18

    The right-wing Swedish Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) is increasingly active on social media. Using discursive psychology, this text explores the rhetorical organization of text and rhetorical resources used on the Swedish online forum Flashback. The aim is to reveal and problematize truth claims about NRM made by antagonists and protagonists. Questions are (1) how and what do NRM antagonists and protagonists convey in Flashback posts about NRM…

  • On the changing frontline of welfare delivery

    Helena Blomberg, Christian Kroll et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Poverty and Social…•2018

    Frontline workers often use discretion when implementing rules. Thus, their own views can be expected to influence client treatment and decisions. We investigate how different groups of frontline workers, with different degrees and types of professional training and within different institutional settings, perceive social assistance and social assistance recipients, focusing on workers’ (N=2124) views on overuse, laziness, shame and underuse. The…

  • The perceived legitimacy of a basic income among Finnish food aid recipients

    Open Access•Suvi Linnanvirta, Christian Kroll et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2018•Citada por: 4•Referências: 5

    Discussions on the pros and cons of a basic income (BI) have remained mainly at the ‘systemic level’. Based on survey and interview data, this study provides a ‘bottom‐up’ perspective on the legitimacy of the idea of a basic income among people queuing in breadlines in Helsinki in late 2016, who are assumed to be affected positively by this benefit. While general support for the idea is high, not everyone supports an unconditional BI. Despite the…

  • Nurses’ blogs as part of a political process – Professional identity as a rhetorical resource for negotiating responsibility and blame

    Open Access•Helena Blomberg•ARTICLE•Discourse Context & Media•2016•Referências: 10

  • Minimal and Massive! Politicians’ Views on the Media’s Political Agenda-Setting Power Revisited

    Open Access•Juho Vesa, Helena Blomberg et al.•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•2015•Citada por: 4•Referências: 23

    Different methods have yielded different results regarding the media’s political agenda-setting power: Time-series studies comparing agendas in the media and politics have pointed to a minimal and surveys of politicians to massive media influence. Inspired by these findings and the suggested explanations for them, this article studies in detail politicians’ views on the media’s political agenda-setting power: How do politicians assess media’s pow…

  • What explains frontline workers' views on poverty? A comparison of three types of welfare sector institutions

    Open Access•Helena Blomberg, Johanna Kallio et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2015•Citada por: 3•Referências: 13

    The study analysed views on poverty among F innish frontline workers in three welfare sector institutions. Two different institutional logics, universal and selective, and two sectors, the public and the voluntary, were represented. A nationwide survey among social security officials, municipal social workers and diaconal workers was utilised (N = 2,124). The methods applied included factor analysis, the examination of means and multivariate anal…

  • Job Stress among Social Workers

    Helena Blomberg, Johanna Kallio et al.•ARTICLE•The British Journal of Social Work•2015•Citada por: 11•Referências: 35

    Little is known about social workers' job stress in a comparative sense, and whether job stress might negatively affect their views of clients within the welfare system. We examine these issues on the basis of cross-sectional survey data collected from professional social workers in four Nordic countries that have similar welfare systems and where workers engage in similar tasks. Job stress is measured using two indicators: workload and role conf…

  • Lanseringen och etableringen av ett socialt problem

    Open Access•Helena Blomberg, Jonas Stier•ARTICLE•Sociologisk Forskning•2015

    The launching and establishment of a social problem: An analysis of the debate on Swedish national level gymnastics in Dagens Nyheter 2012-2013In 2012 Sweden’s largest daily newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, published a number of articles on the state of affairs in Swedish national level gymnastics. In these articles, ex-gymnasts, coaches, parents and physicians stepped forward and testified about recurrent wrongdoings and abuse against young (particula…

  • Active patients in rural African health care

    Open Access•Helena Blomberg, K L Leonard et al.•ARTICLE•Health Policy and Planning•2014•Citada por: 8•Referências: 37

    We introduce the 'active patient' model, which we claim is a better way to describe health-seeking behaviour in low-income countries. Active patients do not automatically seek health care at the closest or lowest cost provider, but rather seek high-quality care (even at higher cost) when they estimate that such care will significantly improves outcomes. We show how the active patient can improve his or her health even when access to adequate qual…

  • The chronological I

    Helena Blomberg, Mats Börjesson•ARTICLE•Narrative Inquiry•2013•Citada por: 8•Referências: 10

    The aim of the article is to problematise and discuss the usefulness of the chronological I as a new analytical approach for studying the doing of identity in storytelling. The chronological I can be both a rhetorical resource for narrators and a new analytical tool for studying the process of doing identity. The article suggests that the chronological I adds a new analytical dimension to different types of narrative analysis. The article takes i…

  • Social workers’ perceptions of the causes of poverty in the Nordic countries

    Open Access•Helena Blomberg, Christian Kroll et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of European Social Policy•2013•Citada por: 26•Referências: 13

    Street-level bureaucrats have been given an increasing role in the implementation of policies aimed at the poor. The article analyses: (1) how social workers in the Nordic countries explain the causes of poverty and whether there are variations between countries in social workers’ perceptions; and (2) the nature of the impact, if any, of various individual- and municipal-level factors on social workers’ perceptions of the causes of poverty. Surve…

  • Social workers' attitudes towards the unemployed in the Nordic countries

    Open Access•Johanna Kallio, Helena Blomberg et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2012•Citada por: 6•Referências: 14

    Kallio J, Blomberg H, Kroll C. Social workers' attitudes towards the unemployed in the Nordic countries In recent decades, municipal social workers have become the implementers of new types of social policy measures aimed at activating the unemployed. These policies put a greater emphasis on the individual's own responsibility for being unemployed. Little is known, however, about how social workers view the unemployed – one factor that might infl…

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  • Do Structural Contexts Matter? Macro-sociological Factors and Popular Attitudes towards Public Welfare Services

    Open Access•Helena Blomberg, Christian Kroll Helena Blomberg et al.•ARTICLE•Acta Sociologica•1999•Citada por: 29•Referências: 27

    In various earlier studies focusing on support for the welfare state, attitudinal differences have been explained by factors linked to individual social characteristics of respondents. This study focuses mainly on how macro-sociological variables influence attitudes towards the public service system in Finland. An attempt is made to investigate whether differences between municipalities in public-policy measures, political climate and the economi…

  • Social workers’ perceptions of the causes of poverty in the Nordic countries

    Open Access•Helena Blomberg, Christian Kroll et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of European Social Policy•2013•Citada por: 26•Referências: 13

    Street-level bureaucrats have been given an increasing role in the implementation of policies aimed at the poor. The article analyses: (1) how social workers in the Nordic countries explain the causes of poverty and whether there are variations between countries in social workers’ perceptions; and (2) the nature of the impact, if any, of various individual- and municipal-level factors on social workers’ perceptions of the causes of poverty. Surve…

  • Job Stress among Social Workers

    Helena Blomberg, Johanna Kallio et al.•ARTICLE•The British Journal of Social Work•2015•Citada por: 11•Referências: 35

    Little is known about social workers' job stress in a comparative sense, and whether job stress might negatively affect their views of clients within the welfare system. We examine these issues on the basis of cross-sectional survey data collected from professional social workers in four Nordic countries that have similar welfare systems and where workers engage in similar tasks. Job stress is measured using two indicators: workload and role conf…

  • Active patients in rural African health care

    Open Access•Helena Blomberg, K L Leonard et al.•ARTICLE•Health Policy and Planning•2014•Citada por: 8•Referências: 37

    We introduce the 'active patient' model, which we claim is a better way to describe health-seeking behaviour in low-income countries. Active patients do not automatically seek health care at the closest or lowest cost provider, but rather seek high-quality care (even at higher cost) when they estimate that such care will significantly improves outcomes. We show how the active patient can improve his or her health even when access to adequate qual…

  • The chronological I

    Helena Blomberg, Mats Börjesson•ARTICLE•Narrative Inquiry•2013•Citada por: 8•Referências: 10

    The aim of the article is to problematise and discuss the usefulness of the chronological I as a new analytical approach for studying the doing of identity in storytelling. The chronological I can be both a rhetorical resource for narrators and a new analytical tool for studying the process of doing identity. The article suggests that the chronological I adds a new analytical dimension to different types of narrative analysis. The article takes i…

  • Social workers' attitudes towards the unemployed in the Nordic countries

    Open Access•Johanna Kallio, Helena Blomberg et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2012•Citada por: 6•Referências: 14

    Kallio J, Blomberg H, Kroll C. Social workers' attitudes towards the unemployed in the Nordic countries In recent decades, municipal social workers have become the implementers of new types of social policy measures aimed at activating the unemployed. These policies put a greater emphasis on the individual's own responsibility for being unemployed. Little is known, however, about how social workers view the unemployed – one factor that might infl…

  • The perceived legitimacy of a basic income among Finnish food aid recipients

    Open Access•Suvi Linnanvirta, Christian Kroll et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2018•Citada por: 4•Referências: 5

    Discussions on the pros and cons of a basic income (BI) have remained mainly at the ‘systemic level’. Based on survey and interview data, this study provides a ‘bottom‐up’ perspective on the legitimacy of the idea of a basic income among people queuing in breadlines in Helsinki in late 2016, who are assumed to be affected positively by this benefit. While general support for the idea is high, not everyone supports an unconditional BI. Despite the…

  • Minimal and Massive! Politicians’ Views on the Media’s Political Agenda-Setting Power Revisited

    Open Access•Juho Vesa, Helena Blomberg et al.•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•2015•Citada por: 4•Referências: 23

    Different methods have yielded different results regarding the media’s political agenda-setting power: Time-series studies comparing agendas in the media and politics have pointed to a minimal and surveys of politicians to massive media influence. Inspired by these findings and the suggested explanations for them, this article studies in detail politicians’ views on the media’s political agenda-setting power: How do politicians assess media’s pow…

  • What explains frontline workers' views on poverty? A comparison of three types of welfare sector institutions

    Open Access•Helena Blomberg, Johanna Kallio et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2015•Citada por: 3•Referências: 13

    The study analysed views on poverty among F innish frontline workers in three welfare sector institutions. Two different institutional logics, universal and selective, and two sectors, the public and the voluntary, were represented. A nationwide survey among social security officials, municipal social workers and diaconal workers was utilised (N = 2,124). The methods applied included factor analysis, the examination of means and multivariate anal…

  • Nordic social workers' assessments of child welfare problems and interventions

    Helena Blomberg, Christian Kroll et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social Work•2012•Citada por: 2•Referências: 3

    In international comparison, the Nordic countries are characterised by similar policy goals and institutional contexts in child welfare. But is it also possible to talk about a common Nordic model in child welfare at the level of social work practices? And if so, to what extent do the results match the ideal model of ‘preventive and family service oriented Nordic child welfare’? This article investigates similarities and variations in Nordic soci…

  • Do cutbacks pay off? Perceived changes in the standard of municipal services and attitudes towards services among citizens and municipal decision makers in Finland

    Open Access•Helena Blomberg•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•1999•Citada por: 2

    One common aim in the Nordic countries during the last decade has been to lessen state control over municipal affairs and to increase the local community’s influence over the development of (welfare) services. These reforms happened to coincide with the economic depression of the 1990s, which especially hit Finland and Sweden, and enforced extensive cutbacks that negatively influenced the standard of services in a number of ways. However, accordi…

  • Protocol for a Qualitative Study on Household Economic Discourses

    Open Access•Pernilla Liedgren, Marie Eriksson et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2025•Citada por: 1•Referências: 42

    Intimate partner violence (IPV) constitutes a global societal challenge. Interventions against IPV have been implemented worldwide. However, the problem still prevails and takes new forms. Despite conceptual developments and a growing body of knowledge on economic abuse (EA) in recent years, there remains a significant lack of qualitative research on experiences of economic abuse . The study aims to expose and examine discourse s on household eco…

  • Poverty constructions and discursive strategies employed by participants in the Finnish Basic Income Experiment

    Open Access•Laura Tarkiainen, Helena Blomberg et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse & Society•2024•Citada por: 1•Referências: 2

    In this article, we examine how eighty-one participants in the Finnish Basic Income Experiment discursively construct and make sense of their own and others’ poverty in face-to-face interviews. Using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), we identified three discursive strategies the interviewees use to engage with and challenge culturally dominant poverty discourses. First, poverty was constructed as a tragic experience attributed to external causes…

  • Flashback as a Rhetorical Online Battleground

    Open Access•Helena Blomberg, Jonas Stier•ARTICLE•Social Media + Society•2019•Citada por: 1•Referências: 18

    The right-wing Swedish Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) is increasingly active on social media. Using discursive psychology, this text explores the rhetorical organization of text and rhetorical resources used on the Swedish online forum Flashback. The aim is to reveal and problematize truth claims about NRM made by antagonists and protagonists. Questions are (1) how and what do NRM antagonists and protagonists convey in Flashback posts about NRM…

  • Socialklass och attityderna till nedskärningar i välfärdssystemet i Finland

    Open Access•Helena Blomberg, Christian Kroll et al.•ARTICLE•Sociologisk Forskning•1996•Citada por: 1

    Social class and attitude towards cuts in the welfare system in FinlandIn various earlier studies focusing on the expansion of the welfare state social class has proven to be of great significance in explaining attitudinal cleavages among citizens. This study focuses mainly on how social class influences attitudes towards cuts in three main types of welfare programmes in Finland, namely eamings-related and universal cash benefits and also univers…

  • Socialklass och attityderna till nedskärningar i välfärdssystemet i Finland

    Open Access•Helena Blomberg, Christian Kroll et al.•ARTICLE•Sociologisk Forskning•1996•Citada por: 1

    Social class and attitude towards cuts in the welfare system in FinlandIn various earlier studies focusing on the expansion of the welfare state social class has proven to be of great significance in explaining attitudinal cleavages among citizens. This study focuses mainly on how social class influences attitudes towards cuts in three main types of welfare programmes in Finland, namely eamings-related and universal cash benefits and also univers…

  • Do cutbacks pay off? Perceived changes in the standard of municipal services and attitudes towards services among citizens and municipal decision makers in Finland

    Open Access•Helena Blomberg•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•1999•Citada por: 2

    One common aim in the Nordic countries during the last decade has been to lessen state control over municipal affairs and to increase the local community’s influence over the development of (welfare) services. These reforms happened to coincide with the economic depression of the 1990s, which especially hit Finland and Sweden, and enforced extensive cutbacks that negatively influenced the standard of services in a number of ways. However, accordi…

  • Do Structural Contexts Matter? Macro-sociological Factors and Popular Attitudes towards Public Welfare Services

    Open Access•Helena Blomberg, Christian Kroll Helena Blomberg et al.•ARTICLE•Acta Sociologica•1999•Citada por: 29•Referências: 27

    In various earlier studies focusing on support for the welfare state, attitudinal differences have been explained by factors linked to individual social characteristics of respondents. This study focuses mainly on how macro-sociological variables influence attitudes towards the public service system in Finland. An attempt is made to investigate whether differences between municipalities in public-policy measures, political climate and the economi…

  • Social workers' attitudes towards the unemployed in the Nordic countries

    Open Access•Johanna Kallio, Helena Blomberg et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2012•Citada por: 6•Referências: 14

    Kallio J, Blomberg H, Kroll C. Social workers' attitudes towards the unemployed in the Nordic countries In recent decades, municipal social workers have become the implementers of new types of social policy measures aimed at activating the unemployed. These policies put a greater emphasis on the individual's own responsibility for being unemployed. Little is known, however, about how social workers view the unemployed – one factor that might infl…

  • Nordic social workers' assessments of child welfare problems and interventions

    Helena Blomberg, Christian Kroll et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social Work•2012•Citada por: 2•Referências: 3

    In international comparison, the Nordic countries are characterised by similar policy goals and institutional contexts in child welfare. But is it also possible to talk about a common Nordic model in child welfare at the level of social work practices? And if so, to what extent do the results match the ideal model of ‘preventive and family service oriented Nordic child welfare’? This article investigates similarities and variations in Nordic soci…

  • The chronological I

    Helena Blomberg, Mats Börjesson•ARTICLE•Narrative Inquiry•2013•Citada por: 8•Referências: 10

    The aim of the article is to problematise and discuss the usefulness of the chronological I as a new analytical approach for studying the doing of identity in storytelling. The chronological I can be both a rhetorical resource for narrators and a new analytical tool for studying the process of doing identity. The article suggests that the chronological I adds a new analytical dimension to different types of narrative analysis. The article takes i…

  • Social workers’ perceptions of the causes of poverty in the Nordic countries

    Open Access•Helena Blomberg, Christian Kroll et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of European Social Policy•2013•Citada por: 26•Referências: 13

    Street-level bureaucrats have been given an increasing role in the implementation of policies aimed at the poor. The article analyses: (1) how social workers in the Nordic countries explain the causes of poverty and whether there are variations between countries in social workers’ perceptions; and (2) the nature of the impact, if any, of various individual- and municipal-level factors on social workers’ perceptions of the causes of poverty. Surve…

  • Active patients in rural African health care

    Open Access•Helena Blomberg, K L Leonard et al.•ARTICLE•Health Policy and Planning•2014•Citada por: 8•Referências: 37

    We introduce the 'active patient' model, which we claim is a better way to describe health-seeking behaviour in low-income countries. Active patients do not automatically seek health care at the closest or lowest cost provider, but rather seek high-quality care (even at higher cost) when they estimate that such care will significantly improves outcomes. We show how the active patient can improve his or her health even when access to adequate qual…

  • Minimal and Massive! Politicians’ Views on the Media’s Political Agenda-Setting Power Revisited

    Open Access•Juho Vesa, Helena Blomberg et al.•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•2015•Citada por: 4•Referências: 23

    Different methods have yielded different results regarding the media’s political agenda-setting power: Time-series studies comparing agendas in the media and politics have pointed to a minimal and surveys of politicians to massive media influence. Inspired by these findings and the suggested explanations for them, this article studies in detail politicians’ views on the media’s political agenda-setting power: How do politicians assess media’s pow…

  • What explains frontline workers' views on poverty? A comparison of three types of welfare sector institutions

    Open Access•Helena Blomberg, Johanna Kallio et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2015•Citada por: 3•Referências: 13

    The study analysed views on poverty among F innish frontline workers in three welfare sector institutions. Two different institutional logics, universal and selective, and two sectors, the public and the voluntary, were represented. A nationwide survey among social security officials, municipal social workers and diaconal workers was utilised (N = 2,124). The methods applied included factor analysis, the examination of means and multivariate anal…

  • Job Stress among Social Workers

    Helena Blomberg, Johanna Kallio et al.•ARTICLE•The British Journal of Social Work•2015•Citada por: 11•Referências: 35

    Little is known about social workers' job stress in a comparative sense, and whether job stress might negatively affect their views of clients within the welfare system. We examine these issues on the basis of cross-sectional survey data collected from professional social workers in four Nordic countries that have similar welfare systems and where workers engage in similar tasks. Job stress is measured using two indicators: workload and role conf…

  • Lanseringen och etableringen av ett socialt problem

    Open Access•Helena Blomberg, Jonas Stier•ARTICLE•Sociologisk Forskning•2015

    The launching and establishment of a social problem: An analysis of the debate on Swedish national level gymnastics in Dagens Nyheter 2012-2013In 2012 Sweden’s largest daily newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, published a number of articles on the state of affairs in Swedish national level gymnastics. In these articles, ex-gymnasts, coaches, parents and physicians stepped forward and testified about recurrent wrongdoings and abuse against young (particula…

  • Nurses’ blogs as part of a political process – Professional identity as a rhetorical resource for negotiating responsibility and blame

    Open Access•Helena Blomberg•ARTICLE•Discourse Context & Media•2016•Referências: 10

  • On the changing frontline of welfare delivery

    Helena Blomberg, Christian Kroll et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Poverty and Social…•2018

    Frontline workers often use discretion when implementing rules. Thus, their own views can be expected to influence client treatment and decisions. We investigate how different groups of frontline workers, with different degrees and types of professional training and within different institutional settings, perceive social assistance and social assistance recipients, focusing on workers’ (N=2124) views on overuse, laziness, shame and underuse. The…

  • The perceived legitimacy of a basic income among Finnish food aid recipients

    Open Access•Suvi Linnanvirta, Christian Kroll et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2018•Citada por: 4•Referências: 5

    Discussions on the pros and cons of a basic income (BI) have remained mainly at the ‘systemic level’. Based on survey and interview data, this study provides a ‘bottom‐up’ perspective on the legitimacy of the idea of a basic income among people queuing in breadlines in Helsinki in late 2016, who are assumed to be affected positively by this benefit. While general support for the idea is high, not everyone supports an unconditional BI. Despite the…

  • Flashback as a Rhetorical Online Battleground

    Open Access•Helena Blomberg, Jonas Stier•ARTICLE•Social Media + Society•2019•Citada por: 1•Referências: 18

    The right-wing Swedish Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) is increasingly active on social media. Using discursive psychology, this text explores the rhetorical organization of text and rhetorical resources used on the Swedish online forum Flashback. The aim is to reveal and problematize truth claims about NRM made by antagonists and protagonists. Questions are (1) how and what do NRM antagonists and protagonists convey in Flashback posts about NRM…

  • Experimenting with Unconditional Basic Income

    Open Access•Helena Blomberg, Katja Mäkkylä et al.•BOOK•Experimenting with Unconditional…•2021

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  • Children helping to co-construct a digital tool that is designed to increase children’s participation in child welfare investigations in Sweden

    Open Access•Helena Blomberg, Gunnel Östlund et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Social Work•2022

    How do children (aged 6–12 years) understand and make use of a digital tool that is under development? This article builds on an ongoing interdisciplinary research project in which children, social workers (the inventers of this social innovation) and researchers together develop an interactive digital tool (application) to strengthen children’s participation during the planning and process of welfare assessments. Departing from social constructi…

  • Reflexive professionalisation in social work practice development, research, and education

    Laura Van Beveren, Nele Feryn et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social Work•2023•Referências: 13

    This paper examines how the renewed critical emphasis on reflexiveprofessionalisation in thefield of social work can take into account thechallenges regarding the politics of democratic participation of serviceusers as citizens while working towards social justice. Our contributionis based on thefindings of a collaborative European research projectinvolving researchers, students, public service organisations, service userorganisations, and educat…

  • Developing welfare technology to increase children’s participation in child welfare assessments

    Open Access•Gunnel Östlund, Philip Rautell Lindstedt et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social Work•2023•Referências: 10

    The purpose of the article is to describe and problematise the practice-initiated idea of developing a digital tool for children in child welfare investigations and whether and how this welfare technology is useful for social workers. The results include interview data and descriptions of the research process. The social workers are of the opinion that the digital application increases the possibilities for children’s participation in child inves…

  • The establishing of subject positions in Swedish news media discourses during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open Access•Annica Lövenmark, Jonas Stier et al.•ARTICLE•Media Culture & Society•2023•Referências: 27

    The COVID-19 pandemic has dominated the global media since 2020. To a large extent, it is via the news media that the public has learned about the risks, levels of danger, governmental regulations and mandatory actions. This article highlights the subject positions constructed by the Swedish news media from January 2020 to February 2021 in reports about the pandemic. The result shows that citizens can be active-passive or solitary solidarity, the…

  • Wind of change? Social work students’ policy engagement and career preferences in Finland

    Open Access•Johanna Kallio, Johanna Marketta Kallio et al.•ARTICLE•Social Work Education•2024

    Although a general mission of social workers is to advance social justice, it has been claimed that many social workers, including those studying to become social workers, have a rather weak commitment to policy engagement (PE). It has been a common assumption that Nordic social workers lack a tradition of PE due to their primary role as public employees in the comprehensive Nordic welfare state. We address these topics by empirically analyzing F…

  • What works? Researching participants’ experiences of a social policy RCT through qualitative interviews

    Open Access•Helena Blomberg, Christian Kroll et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of European Social Policy•2024•Referências: 9

    Increasingly, evidence-based policymaking, in the form of randomized control trials (RCTs) in particular, are advocated as a means for studying the effects of planned social policy measures. Additionally, a Finnish basic income experiment was conducted in 2017–2018 as an RCT as a means of exploring alternative policy solutions, which gained widespread national and international political, media and scholarly attention. Despite the popularity of R…

  • Findings from a European, cross-national project study on service user participation

    Open Access•Jim Campbell, Simon Donnelly et al.•ARTICLE•International Social Work•2024•Referências: 3

    This article reports on a European project that sought to explore the relationships between social work and service user participation, using a five-country (Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland and Portugal) case study approach. It revealed areas of comparison and contrast depending upon respective histories of social work development, organisation, education and research that determined forms of service user participation. It is argued tha…

  • Poverty constructions and discursive strategies employed by participants in the Finnish Basic Income Experiment

    Open Access•Laura Tarkiainen, Helena Blomberg et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse & Society•2024•Citada por: 1•Referências: 2

    In this article, we examine how eighty-one participants in the Finnish Basic Income Experiment discursively construct and make sense of their own and others’ poverty in face-to-face interviews. Using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), we identified three discursive strategies the interviewees use to engage with and challenge culturally dominant poverty discourses. First, poverty was constructed as a tragic experience attributed to external causes…

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