"Alkohol kan skada din hälsa" : Barnperspektivet i svensk alkohollagstiftning - en studie influerad av kritisk diskursanalys

Sammanfattning: The purpose of the study was to understand which perspective is reflected in the Swedish alcohol legislation. The study's research questions was how the children's perspective is set against the perspective of the adult world, as well as how children's perspectives are taken into account in these documents. The empirical material consists of the alcohol law investigation (SOU 2009:22), the alcohol law (SFS 2010:1622), the alcohol ordinance (SFS 2010:1636) and How Swedish legislation and practice comply with the rights in the Convention on the Rights of the child – a survey (Ministry of Social Affair ́s 2011:37). The study's theoretical starting point was social constructionism. Critical discourse analysis was used as theory and method. The terms age power system and childism were used to explain the parts of the discourse that is not of a linguistic nature. The study showed that the order of power between children and adults results in a restriction of children's right to have a say in Swedish alcohol legislation. These results are important as they show that children's right to be heard is not met and that children are discriminated on the basis of age in Swedish alcohol legislation, which has consequences for how alcohol legislation meets children's right to the best possible health.