Abstract
Hanafi, S. (2024). Toward a dialogical sociology: Presidential address – XX ISA World Congress of Sociology 2023. International Sociology, 39(1), 3-26. https://doi.org/10.1177/02685809231199678
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“Family in multiple forms is an inherent part of the conception of justice that society should take into account as part of the social changes of our late modernity. Alas, I come from a region where the plurality of forms is still neither socially nor legally fully accepted. Yet many scholars have argued that family authority is being eroded by both the liberal state and the forces of neoliberal and emotional capitalism. For a while, both attempted to facilitate cheap mobile labor through undemanding family as a salient social structure. Later on, countries like Sweden, Denmark, Canada, and Australia became known for removing kids from specific aboriginal and migrant families and placing them in culturally advanced families. Beyond this historical argument, current research and human right reports showed how much families in Sweden are alienated from the bureaucratic power of the Swedish Board of Health and Welfare in Sweden, which has been acting without due legal process. In Sweden, in 2020, 3,486 children and adolescents were taken from their families and rehomed in the care sector without the consent of their family, what is called compulsory care under the Act on Care of Young People (LVU) 1 ”.