Planned maintenance
A system upgrade is planned for 24/9-2024, at 12:00-14:00. During this time DiVA will be unavailable.
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Framing sex work in scandinavian media: A comparative study of prostitution in swedish and danish media
University West, Department of Economics and IT, Divison of Law, Economics, Statistics and Politics.
University West, Department of Economics and IT, Divison of Law, Economics, Statistics and Politics.
2015 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

This thesis intends to describe and compare how prostitution has been framed in Swedish and Danish newspapers. Since the two countries have similar welfare systems and share a border, yet have different prostitution policies it is interesting to find out whether they view prostitution differently. The theory is based on social constructivism and how the sociology of sex work literature has divided prostitution policies in four different categories, this is then concentrated into an analytical framework which is used to analyze articles of opinion in the newspapers. These articles were then analyzed in order to describe how prostitution has been framed according to the analytical framework. The research findings showed that even though some articles share the same frames, the main theme of the articles in Sweden framed prostitution as a social plague. Whereas Danish newspapers mainly circle around framing prostitution as something that may or may not be good for all parties involved, and thereby either adopting the Swedish model of criminalizing the buyer and not the seller in order to protect the freedom of choice for the prostitutes. The study has also shown that the policy courses taken by Sweden and Denmark are reflected in the definition of prostitution.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2015. , p. 47
Keywords [en]
Prostitution, framing. prostitution policy, scandinavia, sweden, denmark
National Category
Political Science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-8771Local ID: EIS501OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-8771DiVA, id: diva2:885846
Subject / course
Political science
Educational program
IPPE
Supervisors
Examiners
Available from: 2015-12-22 Created: 2015-12-08 Last updated: 2015-12-22Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

By organisation
Divison of Law, Economics, Statistics and Politics
Political Science

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

urn-nbn

Altmetric score

urn-nbn
Total: 640 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf