Karl Hedman defended his dissertation ”Managing Medical Emergency Calls” on June 3 at 10:00 in Edens Hörsal, Paradisgatan 5h, Lund. External reviewer: Professor Jakob Cromdal, Linköping University, SwedenSupervisors: Vesa Leppänen, the Department of Sociology, Lund University. Examining committee:Docent David Wästerfors, Lunds universitet, Sociologiska institutionenProfessor emerita Viveka Adelswä

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Agneta Mallén has just published the article “Stirring up virtual punishment: a case of citizen journalism, authenticity and shaming” in the Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention. Abstract:Film clips and still pictures captured by civilians are increasingly used as evidence to prove specific accounts of events. This kind of visual data are not without problems, howeve

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Johan Sandberg has just been awarded the Early Career Researchers Prize for his article “Evidence-based Policymaking? Revisiting the ‘Known', the Assumed and the Promoted in New Social Development Policy” in the Journal of Poverty Alleviation and International Development 6, 2 (2015). Learn more on Institute for poverty alleviation and international development’s websiteJohan Sandberg’s personal p

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Chris Swader has the forthcoming chapter "Fraudulent Values. Materialistic Bosses and the Support for Bribery and Tax Evasion" in Whyte & Wiegratz (Eds.) Neoliberalism and the Moral Economy of Fraud. Routledge. Abstract:Are capitalists more likely than others to justify ‘immoral’ acts such as bribery or tax evasion? This chapter investigates the conditions under which this is the case. While quali

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Malin Åkerström has, together with Erika Andersson Cederholm, published the article ”With a little help from my friends: relational work in leisure-related enterprising” in ”The Sociological Review” on Swedish lifestyle entrepreneurs, analyzing the indistinct boundaries between formal and informal economic exchanges. AbstractThe present article analyses the indistinct boundaries between formal and

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/malin-akerstrom-swedish-lifestyle-entrepreneurs - 2025-08-29

What does a defense lawyer actually do in court when performing loyalty towards her/his clients? Lisa Flower has just published a new article on courtroom work of defense lawyers in the “Journal of Contemporary Ethnography”. AbstractThe courtroom work of defense lawyers has received surprisingly little sociological attention. What does a defense lawyer actually do in court? How do defense lawyers

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/performing-drama-courtroom - 2025-08-29

How were work time issues framed in Sweden in 1975? Mikael Ottosson and Calle Rosengren scrutinize how the Swedish Employers’ Confederation debated the values of ‘workfare’ in their new article ” ‘What the hell is a high standard?’ The Swedish Employers’ Confederation and the six-hour workday debate in the mid 1970s” in Time & Society. Abstract:A concept that lies at the heart of political rhetori

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/six-hour-work-day-debate-mid-1970s-sweden - 2025-08-29

Barbara Schulte has received SEK 650,000 from the Crafoord Foundation for her project “Nation state versus ethnicity: Educating ethnic minorities in Southwest China”, to be conducted between 2016 and 2018. The project critically investigates discourse, policies and practices of Chinese multiculturalism in Yunnan Province and Chongqing.Wei Wang, doctoral student at the Department, will also be work

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/new-project-ethnic-minorities-southwest-china - 2025-08-29

Shai Mulinari investigates the current state of pharmaceutical marketing vis-à-vis ethical and legal standards in his new “viewpoint" article ”Unhealthy marketing of pharmaceutical products: An international public health concern” that has just been published in the Journal of Public Health Policy. Abstract:I consider the current state of pharmaceutical marketing vis-à-vis ethical and legal standa

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/mulinari-unhealthy-marketing-pharmaceutical-products - 2025-08-29

Agneta Mallén and her research on citizen journalism and cyber bullying has been featured in a news release on AlphaGalileo. ”In recent years, citizen journalism has become a widely known phenomenon. It involves ordinary citizens witnessing events, documenting them on their mobile phones and sharing them on social media. It has become an increasingly important news source that often sets the tone

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Steven Sampson has published the article ”The Right Way: Moral Capitalism and the Emergence of the Corporate Ethics and Compliance Officer” in the Journal of Business Anthropology. Steven Sampson investigates how the moralization of firms has led to the emergence of a new corporate function: the ethics and compliance officer.The article can be found on ej.lib.cbs.dkSteven Sampson has also co-autho

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sampson-business-ethics-and-moral-capitalism - 2025-08-29

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 - 2025-08-29

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 

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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

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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. 

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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

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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

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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 - 2025-08-29

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

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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

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