How does higher education prepare students for work under neoliberal forms of control? These and other questions are scrutinized by Carola Aili, together with Lars-Erik Nilsson, in their new publication “Preparing higher education students for the new landscape of governance”. Abstract:Studies have demonstrated that neoliberal governance dismantles professionals’ will to critique, counteracting ef

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/aili-preparing-higher-education-students-new-landscape-governance - 2025-08-23

Olle Frödin is the author of the article ”Modernization, neo-liberal globalization, or variegated development: the Indian food system transformation in comparative perspective” that has been published in Routledge’s Sustainable Development Goals collection. Learn the “Sustainable Development Goals collection” on tandfonline.com.Olle Frödin’s personal page 

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/frodin-routledges-sustainable-development-goals-collection - 2025-08-23

Our researchers Sara Eldén and Terese Anving are two of the members in the project ”Significant others – informal social networks between policy and everyday life” that gained 441 000 SEK from Vetenskapsrådet. Project description:The primary objective of the workshop series is to bring together Nordic researchers in the field of family and personal relations across countries and disciplines, and t

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/research-money-vetenskapsradet - 2025-08-23

Department of Sociology at Lund University and Department of Sociology at Peking University have received funding from STINT (The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education) to develop a double degree master programme in anthropology and sociology. Kjell Nilsson and Magnus Karlsson from our department are coordinating this project. 

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/funding-develop-master-programme - 2025-08-23

Can adult education help students to see themselves as valuable, given that many students in adult education have often gone through experiences of failure, both at school and in the job market? Fredrik Sandberg has published an article on “Recognition and adult education: an incongruent opportunity” in the journal Studies in Continuing Education.Abstract:Building on narratives of students in adul

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sandberg-recognition-and-adult-education - 2025-08-23

Christofer Edling has, together with Jens Rydgren, edited a special issue on social mechanisms for American Behavioral Scientist. Apart from the editors introductory article, the issue contains six articles that applies the social mechanism approach to explain different social phenomena. The authors include Mary Brinton (Harvard), Kate Stovel (U Washington), and P-O Wikström (Cambridge).The specia

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/edling-social-mechanisms-empirical-sociology - 2025-08-23

What do scholars in the different human sciences assume with regard to human interests? How can we bridge the disciplinary divide between different human science approaches? These and more questions are addressed in Mikael Klintman’s new book “Human Sciences and Human Interests. Integrating the Social, Economic, and Evolutionary Sciences”. About the book:Within the disciplines of social, economic,

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/klintman-human-sciences-and-human-interests - 2025-08-23

The repeated sniffing by presidential candidate Donald Trump in the first presidential debate on 25th September 2016, lead to a Twitter-storm and intensive media interest regarding his health. Lisa Flower, PhD candidate in sociology at the Department of Sociology at Lund University, however provides an alternative explanation:- My research shows that sniffing can be a way of marking a switch by th

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/what-donald-trump-really-revealing-trumpsniffles - 2025-08-23

Three of our projects got funding from FORTE of almost 10,5 million Swedish kronor (SEK). Henriette Esholdt, with a project as junior researcher on “The appeal of violence-promoting Islamic extremism. An investigation of masculinity and femininity”Shai Mulinari, with a project on “What can be learnt from the new pharmaceutical industry payment disclosures? A network and policy analysis of ties bet

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/almost-105-million-sek-funding - 2025-08-23

Lisa Flower’s article ”The (Un)emotional Law Student” which discusses the ”emotional sniff” received media attention in Sweden following Donald Trump’s sniffing in the first presidential candidate debate and has now been used by Forbes Magazine to analyse the second debate. Forbes Magazine concludes that Trump’s sniffing was noticeable when he threatened presidential candidate Hillary Clinton with

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/flower-usa-media - 2025-08-23

Carl-Göran Heidegren has just received a substantial research grant from ”The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences” (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond) for his comparative project on philosophy in Nordic welfare societies. From our Department, also Klas Gustavsson will be working on the project.Learn more on anslag.rj.seCarl-Göran Heidegren’s personal pageKlas Gustavsson’s personal page 

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/research-money-project-nordic-welfare-societies - 2025-08-23

How do media in different countries discuss climate change? Christofer Edling is part of a large international research network who analyse this question in the recently published article “Conflicting Climate Change Frames in a Global Field of Media Discourse”. Abstract: Reducing global emissions will require a global cosmopolitan culture built from detailed attention to conflicting national clima

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/climate-change-media-discourse-17-countries - 2025-08-23

Malin Åkerström received, together with Katarina Jacobsson, a research grant from the Swedish Research Council with their project “An administrative Eigendynamik in the interaction of meetings and documents”. The project will run for three years. Abstract:An increasing proportion of people's working hours are devoted to administrative tasks, in which meetings and documents are particularly accentu

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/3-millon-sek-research-project - 2025-08-23

The primarily biomedical definition of ADHD has been questioned and criticized in various ways. Mattias Nilsson Sjöberg adopts the Baradian perspective of agential realism in his article ”(Un)becoming dysfunctional: ADHD and how matter comes to matter” in International Journal of Inclusive Education. Abstract:Various neuropsychiatric disorders are a common feature today, not least in educational c

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/nilsson-sjoberg-adhd-perspective-agential-realism - 2025-08-23

What are the feeling rules, and how do they emerge, regarding victim offender mediation? Anna Rypi investigates this “emotion culture” in her recent article “The feeling rules of victim offender mediation” in the journal International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion. Abstract:This paper is based on an ethnographic study conducted in Sweden and focuses on the emotional aspect, both its rhe

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/rypi-about-feeling-rules-victim-offender-mediation - 2025-08-23

Antoinette Hetzler is invited as one of the main speakers to the third International Symposium on Bullying that will be held in Tokyo Japan, December 4, 2016. Antoinette Hetzler will, together with Mitsuru Taki (NIER), discuss issues of bullying in less violent crime societies.Results are from a longitudinal comparative survey (2013-2015) between Sweden and Japan. Both countries are described as c

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hetzler-one-main-speakers-symposium-bullying - 2025-08-23

How is theatre used for social integration? Hanna Wittrock has in her recent article ”Integration of culture, culture as integration. The praxis and politics of multicultural theatre and drama” looked at multicultural theatre projects in Sweden. Abstract:Theatre is one of the artistic tools most often employed in Sweden to promote social integration. The aim of this article is to illustrate recurr

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/wittrock-praxis-and-politics-multicultural-theatre-and-drama - 2025-08-23

What are “failed states” and how can we conceptualize them? Olle Frödin has a chapter out on ”Failed States” in the newly updated Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Learn more on sociologyencyclopedia.comOlle Frödin’s personal page 

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/frodin-failed-states-blackwell-encyclopedia-sociology - 2025-08-23

How do different societies deal with bullying and degrading behavior at schools? Antoinette Hetzler and Colm Flaherty investigate this by examining the ways in which Sweden and the US attempt to guarantee the social rights of students at school. Their article has just appeared in the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology.Abstract:Although the United States and Sweden are different i

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hetzler-and-flaherty-guaranteeing-social-rights-students-us-and-swedish-schools - 2025-08-23

How is authenticity enacted in Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia? Which role do local and global (sub)cultures play in these enactments? Erik Hannerz has contributed a book chapter on “Emplacing Punk: Subcultural Boundary Work and Space in Indonesia” to the book edited by Julian Ch Lee and Marco Ferrarese. Description of book:Authenticity is much sought after; being described as inauthentic is an i

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hannerz-punks-monks-and-politics - 2025-08-23