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EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH: Chinese private schools may come across as a contradictory phenomenon: An authoritarian and officially socialist government needs to rely on education as an instrument of national unification and ideological control. So why would they allow for private schools and profit-making in the educational sector? However, far-reaching privatisation processes have been shaping the Chin

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/contradictions-private-schools-china - 2025-11-19

MARRIAGE AS A NORM AMONG YOUNG ADULTS IN CHINA: Lisa Eklund has published the chapter "The sex ratio question and the unfolding of a moral panic? Notions of power, choice and self in mate selection among women and men in higher education in China" in the book Scarce women and surplus men in China and India. The study investigates how sex ratio imbalance influences mate selection among young adults

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/fear-being-left-over-turning-moral-panic - 2025-11-19

SOCIOLOGIDAGARNA 2018: The Swedish Sociological Association's bi-annual conference titled "Sociology in a Polarized World" took place in Lund last week and was hosted by the Department of Sociology. This year's conference, March 7-9, was among the largest in the history of the association, with a peak of 268 delegates attending on International Women’s Day, March 8th. It was also among the first o

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hundreds-sociologists-came-lund-discuss-divided-world - 2025-11-19

Senior lecturer in Sociology Erik Hannerz will co-coordinate a Pufendorf-project about urban creativity together with Peter Bengtsen at the Division of Art History and Visual Studies. It was recently announced that the 2018-2019 thematic projects at the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies at Lund University will include a project focused on urban creativity.Urban creativity is an umbrella ter

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/new-collaboration-project-urban-creativity - 2025-11-19

Johan Sandberg's article "Beyond Granted Asylum-Labor Market Integration Challenges in Sweden" has been published in the latest issue of SAIS Review, on migration and its consequences. The article analyses recent changes to Sweden’s immigration policy and draws upon statistical data to show the effect of the new immigration regime.It discusses the structural economic challenge of integrating immig

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/radical-shift-swedish-migration-policy-analysed - 2025-11-19

SWEDISH PARENTING SUPPORT: Lisa Eklund and Åsa Lundqvist, at the Department of Sociology, have published an article in the Journal of Family Studies (12/6). The article Children’s Rights and Gender Equality in Swedish Parenting Support: Policy and Practice aims to explore how ‘children's rights’ and ‘gender equality’ are articulated in parenting support policies in Sweden, and how these policies a

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/child-rights-gender-equality - 2025-11-19

Priscilla Solano has received a three-year grant from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet VR) for a research project that will study ”a second side to the refugee crisis” - how civil society organisations filled the gaps left by EU national policies and fulfilled refugees’ and migrants’ basic needs: food, a place to stay and legal assistance. Priscilla Solano’s International postdoc-proj

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/funding-project-second-side-refugee-crisis - 2025-11-19

Anna Rypi, Veronika Burcar Alm and Malin Åkerström have published an article about young male crime victims with an immigrant background in the journal Nordic Social Work Research. Interactions between the police and young people with an immigrant background are well researched internationally and are often discussed in the context of discrimination. Such interactions may explain, at least in part

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/young-men-refrain-reporting-crimes - 2025-11-19

Mikael Klintman has written a chapter looking at political consumerism in the toy sector in The Oxford Handbook of Political Consumerism. The chapter looks at political consumerism in the toy sector, offering a brief history of consumer concerns and distinguishing among four strands of political consumerist research in this sector.Manufacturers cannot assume that parents and other carers do their

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/challenges-making-toy-dreams-come-true - 2025-11-19

Gökhan Kaya at the Department of Sociology defended his doctoral thesis in sociology ”Aspirations, capital and identity: four studies on the determinants of life chances for young Swedes with an immigrant background”, on 12th September at 14:00 in Stora Algatan's auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Associate Professor Susanne Urban, Institutet för Bostads- och urbanforskning, UppsalaMain supervisor an

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/gokhan-kaya-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-11-19

Erik Hannerz at the Department of Sociology and Peter Bengtsen at the Division of Art History and Visual Studies recently attended the annual Street Art & Urban Creativity Conference in Lisbon, Portual. Here they presented their plans for the upcoming Pufendorf research theme on Urban Creativity. The theme will run 1 October 2018 - 31 May 2019. During this period, an interdisciplinary group of eig

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/urban-creativity-kicks-presentation-lisbon - 2025-11-19

Anders Hylmö at the Department of Sociology has defended his doctoral thesis in sociology ”Disciplined Reasoning. The mainstream-heterodoxy divide and styles of reasoning in Swedish economics” today, 28th September at 10:00 in Eden's auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Associate Professor Elizabeth Popp Berman, Sociology Department, University at AlbanyChair person of the defence: Professor Mats Benne

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/anders-hylmo-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-11-19

This article explores conservative Christian transnational advocacy, which defends what its leaders and supporters understand as the “natural family” against the perceived dangers of “gender ideology,” with a view to save Western civilization from imminent demise. We focus on the World Congress of Families (WCF) and investigate how it is organized transnationally. We draw on international relation

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sara-kalm-and-anna-meeuwisse-explore-transnational-anti-gender-networking-promoting-natural-family - 2025-11-19

Interest groups and political parties are the primary organizational carriers of citizens’ preferences into executive and legislative political institutions. Their combined effect for citizen representation has only recently come into focus. We address this gap via an original cross-national survey of interest groups, which includes the self-placement of groups on the Left-Right and Gal-Tan dimens

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jonathan-polk-and-co-authors-examine-positions-european-interest-groups-and-political-parties-two - 2025-11-19

Professor Ian Manners presents on ‘The External Dimensions of the European Union’s Autocracy Crisis’ to the Swedish EU Presidency Conference on 'The Rule of Law in the EU: Crisis and Solutions', Stockholm, 17 April. The conference is co-organized by the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies; the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies; the Centre for European Research and the School of

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/professor-ian-manners-presents-external-dimensions-european-unions-autocracy-crisis-swedish-eu - 2025-11-19

Plastics and other petrochemicals are rapidly expanding. Academic and political attention has focused on the consumption of plastics, but in a new Open Access article with the journal Global Environmental Change, Jakob Skovgaard and his co-authors explore the financing of petrochemical production. A key finding is that public finance plays an important role in expanding petrochemical production gl

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-and-co-authors-explore-financing-petrochemical-production - 2025-11-19

In their just published book, ‘Coalition Agreements as Control Devices - Coalition Governance in Western and Eastern Europe’, Heike Klüver, Hanna Bäck, and Svenja Krauss provide the first comprehensive content analysis of coalition agreements across a range of parliamentary democracies in Western and Eastern Europe. They show that coalition parties systematically use coalition agreements to contro

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kluver-back-krauss-new-book-coalition-agreements-control-devices - 2025-11-19

In the article “Global Norm-Maker as China’s New Brand? An Analysis of the Responsible Cobalt Initiative”, Hyeyoon Park explores China’s normative role in global governance for sustainable mineral extractions. China became a key actor in the global supply chain of extractive resources (e.g., cobalt and lithium) - crucial part of green transition worldwide. Hyeyoon Park examines China’s role in glo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hyeyoon-park-explores-chinas-norm-making-role-global-extractives-governance - 2025-11-19

Karin Aggestam and Jacqui True have co-authored the chapter ”The rise of feminist governance in foreign policy” in the ”Handbook of feminist governance”, edited by Sawer, M., Bananszak, A., True, J., Kantola, J.     Read more about Handbook of Feminist Governance here on Edward Elgar Publishing's site. To Karin Aggestam's personal page.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-true-feminist-governance-foreign-policy - 2025-11-19

Catarina Kinnvall and co-author Pasko Kisić-Merino have recently published their article ‘Deglobalization and the Political Psychology of White Supremacy’ in Theory & Psychology, vol. 33, issue 2. Abstract This article is concerned with the psychological dimensions of deglobalization and white supremacy as related to fantasies of “whiteness.” The (re)construction of narratives and myths are contes

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-and-kisic-merino-deglobalization-and-political-psychology-white-supremacy - 2025-11-19