Published 5 September 2016 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 Wiks

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Published 16 September 2016 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 disc

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Published 30 September 2016 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 w

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Published 7 October 2016 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 po

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Published 12 October 2016 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 cand

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Published 24 October 2016 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 Gu

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Published 31 October 2016 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

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Published 9 November 2016 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 document

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Published 14 November 2016 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,

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Published 21 November 2016 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 emo

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Published 1 December 2016 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 co

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Published 11 December 2016 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 arti

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Published 15 December 2016 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 

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Published 16 December 2016 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

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hetzler-and-flaherty-guaranteeing-social-rights-students-us-and-swedish-schools - 2025-05-09

Published 22 December 2016 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 descr

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Published 4 January 2017 What constitutes the subcultural? In Erik Hannerz’s recent contribution to the Journal Educare (no. 2, 2016), he refines subcultural theory by drawing on examples from the Indonesian and Swedish punk scene. Abstract:Arguing against the previous research’s presump on that the subcultural constitutes a single set of meaning, this article addresses the simple question of what

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Published 10 January 2017 Why did Trump win? Or more precisely, how did Hillary lose? Why were so many experts so wrong about Trump’s support? How will Trump’s victory affect the lives of ordinary Americans? Steven Sampson discusses this in his recent piece “Angry white males as suffering subjects” published in Focaal blog.Learn more on focaalblog.comSteven Sampson’s personal page 

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Published 3 February 2017 Priscilla Solano defended her dissertation ”Assisting in the Shadows. Humanitarianism, Shelters and Transit Migration Politics” today at 10:15 in Kulturens Hörsal, Lund. External reviewer: Professor Julia O'Connell Davidson, University of BristolAssisting in the Shadows: Humanitarianism, Shelters and Transit Migration PoliticsPriscilla Solano's personal page  

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Published 17 February 2017 How is population control embedded in bio-political rationales that affect women’s social, physical, and psychological wellbeing? Lisa Eklund, together with Navtej Purewal, investigates these complex dynamics in the article “The Bio-Politics of Population Control and Sex Selective Abortion in China and India”, Feminism and Psychology. Read the article at journals.sagepub

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Published 19 May 2017 Elin Ennerberg defended her thesis "Destination employment? Contradictions and ambiguities in Swedish labour market policy for newly arrived migrants" today at 13:15 in the auditorium at St Algatan 4, Lund. Discussant Professor Sven Hort, Linnéuniversitet.Elin Ennerberg's personal page.

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