By moa [dot] bejersten [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se (Moa Bejersten) - published 23 June 2025 External Reviewer Susanne Wallman Lundåsen, Linköping University and Alexander Saaranen. Photo: Linnéa Saaranen Why do some people believe that most others can be trusted, while others don’t? And how does trust change over time? In his recently defended doctoral thesis, Alexander Saaranen studies social trus

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/alexander-saaranens-thesis-uncovers-what-makes-us-trust - 2025-07-09

Published 2 March 2015 The study on pharmaceutical industry self-regulation that Shai Mulinari and co-authors recently published in PLOS Medicine has received considerable attention internationally. The study has recently been discussed in The British Medical Journal (published by the British Medical Association), The Pharmaceutical Journal (published by the UK Royal Pharmaceutical Society) and Th

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/international-coverage-mulinaris-study-pharmaceutical-industry - 2025-07-09

Published 20 November 2014 Abdulhadi Khalaf of the Sociology Department has together with co-editors just published the book "Transit States: Labour, Migration and Citizenship in the Gulf". The states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar) form the largest destination for labour migration in the global South. In all of these states, ho

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Published 16 December 2014 The Department of Sociology held their annual PhD Research Day Friday 12th December, which provided an opportunity for PhDs candidates from Education, Social Anthropology and Sociology to present their ongoing doctors thesis. A total of 13 PhD candidates presented their work which ranged from the emotion work and impression management of loyalty used by defense lawyers,

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/inspiring-research-day-science-mapping-rwandan-farming - 2025-07-09

Published 13 March 2015 Ann-Mari Sellerberg and Vesa Leppänen have published a new article: "The contradictory role of the sales assistant: superordination and subordination" Int. J. Work Organisation and Emotion, 2015. More information.  

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/contradictory-role-sales-assistant - 2025-07-09

Published 23 September 2014 The Department of Sociology hosted an international migration workshop on the theme “Queer Migrations and Mobilities: Sexuality, Gender, Citizenship, and Intimacy from a European Perspective” on the 11th and 12th of September. The workshop, funded by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Societies (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond), brought together 25 researchers, scholar

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/many-researchers-and-activists-queer-migrant-groups-brought-together-international-workshop - 2025-07-09

Published 6 March 2014 The successful candidate will conduct sociological research and teach sociology at the BA, MA, and PhD levels. The position includes 50 percent research and 50 percent teaching and administration. Associated Senior Lecturer in SociologyBiträdande lektor (Sw), Assistant Professor (US) In addition to conducting high-quality research and teaching insociology, the successful can

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Published 10 April 2015 Erik Hannerz’ book Performing Punk has just been published with Palgrave Macmillan. See more details here.  Summary of bookArguing against the presumption that subcultural meaning constitutes a single set of meaning, Hannerz addresses how punks draw upon plural definitions of the mainstream and notions of subcultural authenticity.Drawing from an exceptionally rich fieldwork

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/punk-identity-sweden-and-indonesia - 2025-07-09

Published 3 June 2015 Max Jerneck defended his dissertation in sociology "Sunrise of an Industry: Solar Energy under Financial and Industrial Capitalism in the U.S. and Japan, 1973 - 2005" today at one o'clock in Hörsal 128, Stora Algatan 4, Lunds University. External reviewer: Professor William Lazonick, University of Massachusetts Lowell.Sunrise of an Industry Max Jerneck

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/max-jerneck-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-07-09

Published 4 June 2015 Shai Mulinari has published a co-authored article on “Does Maternal Country of Birth Matter for Understanding Offspring’s Birthweight?  A Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity in Sweden” in PLOS ONE.More information at journals.plos.org AbstractBackgroundMany public health and epidemiological studies have found differences between populations (e.g. maternal countrie

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Published 5 June 2015 The Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Uppsala has awarded Thomas Brante this year's prize for the best cross-disciplinary contribution of distinguished quality. The prize is awarded every second year and is worth up to 100,000 SEK. In his research, the Prize Committee states, Thomas Brante shows "how science and practice are unified in the modern knowledge society. In a f

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/brantes-cross-disciplinary-research-receives-royal-prize - 2025-07-09

Published 25 June 2015 Victimhood, Forgiveness and Reconciliation: in Stories of Bosnian War Survivors and Stories of Sexualized War Violence after the Bosnian war Basic, Goran (2015) ”Victimhood, Forgiveness and Reconciliation: in Stories of Bosnian War Survivors”. In Eugene L. Olsen (Ed.). Forgiveness: Social Significance, Health Impact and Psychological Effects (Chapter 6). Hauppauge: Nova Scie

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/goran-basic-has-published-two-book-chapters-about-bosnian-war - 2025-07-09

Published 3 July 2015 The articles concern first the Zelmid case, the first SSRI antidepressant in the journal Social Science & Medicine, second the use of broad migrant categories and third the question if maternal country of birth can be used to understand birthweight. Divergence and convergence of commercial and scientific priorities in drug development: the case of Zelmid, the first SSRI antid

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/shai-mulinari-has-published-three-journal-articles-drugs-and-public-health - 2025-07-09

Published 5 August 2015 Goran Basic has just published ”Constructing 'Ideal Victim' Stories of Bosnian War Survivors” in the peer-reviewed open access journal Social Inclusion. Abstract:Previous research on victimhood during and after the Bosnian war has emphasized the importance of narratives but has not focused on narratives about victimhood or analyzed post-war interviews as a competition for v

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/victimhood-analysed-basics-article-survivors-bosnian-war - 2025-07-09

Published 5 August 2015 One of the department’s master students, Matilda Mettälä, has published an article with her thesis results on how emotional and aesthetical elements can be applied in a learning context. The article A Case Study Illustrating the Importance of Educating the Whole Person by Using the Arts as a Supplementary Training Tool in Workplace Learning is published in the on-line multi

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/arts-add-workplace-learning - 2025-07-09

Published 31 August 2015 Carola Aili has published a co-authored article on "Dual learning – a challenge for higher education in the new landscape of governance” in the journal Tertiary Education and Management (online publication August 18, 2015, together with Lars-Erik Nilsson). The article is aimed at those who are interested in how higher education can deal with the radical changes in professi

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/how-does-governance-affect-higher-education - 2025-07-09

Published 4 September 2015 Lotta Johansson has published her article “Post-qualitative line of flight and the confabulative conversation: a methodological ethnography“ in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (online first, 2015). The article can be downloaded at tandonline.com Abstract:This paper is a methodological ethnography aiming to highlight the difficulties in using

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/post-qualitative-research-encourages-new-concepts-and-methods - 2025-07-09

Published 4 September 2015 Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson, PhD in Sociology at the University of Copenhagen, will be working as a visiting researcher at the Department of Sociology for three months this autumn. Her main research areas are qualitative methods, crime, social work, risk-taking, and youth studies. – In my research I focus on youth, crime and social work. I’m currently working on my postdoc

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/visiting-researcher-looks-vulnerable-young-peoples-risk-taking - 2025-07-09

Published 4 September 2015 Veronika Burcar has published a co-authored article (together with Louise Hellgren and Hanna Andersson) in the journal Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift 1 (2015): '"Du kan ju inte bli slagen av en tjej liksom" - en studie av män som utsatts för våld i nära relationer’. Veronika Burcar“You can’t be beaten by a girl, you know” – a study of men who have been subjected to domesti

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/study-domestic-violence-against-men - 2025-07-09

Published 10 September 2015 Anders Persson has published an article in Vetenskapssocietetens årsbok 2015 titled: "Online chess and chat interaction – game and gaming conditions in face to face and online chess”. The article aims to answer if, how and why the game of chess changes when played online on the Internet.The author distinguishes between chess played face to face (f2f) and the role assume

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