Webbläsaren som du använder stöds inte av denna webbplats. Alla versioner av Internet Explorer stöds inte längre, av oss eller Microsoft (läs mer här: * https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/end-of-ie-support).

Var god och använd en modern webbläsare för att ta del av denna webbplats, som t.ex. nyaste versioner av Edge, Chrome, Firefox eller Safari osv.

Christofer Edling

Christofer Edling

Professor

Christofer Edling

"In Sweden we shake hands" - but are we really?

Författare

  • Anton Andersson
  • Christofer Edling
  • Jens Rydgren

Summary, in English

Motivated by a recent controversy over handshaking, a survey of the personal networks of young Swedes (n=2244) is used to describe greeting practices across social class, gender, immigrant background, and geographic location. While greeting practices in the sample are fairly uniform, there are also important differences. Handshaking is predominantly used by respondents with an immigrant background, men and women distinguish between greetings depending on the gender of the person they are greeting, and greeting practices differ between northern and southern Sweden as well as between rural and urban areas.

Avdelning/ar

  • Sociologi

Publiceringsår

2017-12

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

377-381

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Sociologisk Forskning

Volym

54

Issue

4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Sveriges Sociologförbund

Ämne

  • Sociology

Nyckelord

  • greeting practice
  • friendship networks
  • gender

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0038-0342