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Christofer Edling

Christofer Edling

Professor

Christofer Edling

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

Author

  • 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.

Department/s

  • Sociology

Publishing year

2017-12

Language

English

Pages

377-381

Publication/Series

Sociologisk Forskning

Volume

54

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Sveriges Sociologförbund

Topic

  • Sociology

Keywords

  • greeting practice
  • friendship networks
  • gender

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0038-0342