PhD Student
Sociology
Main Research Areas
- Collective Action
- Identity
- Communities
Current Research:
The aim of my dissertation project is to understand and analyze how individuals join, construct, and reconstruct stigmatized political communities. I am specifically interested in the accomplishment of collective political action, and in exploring this process through a social worlds perspective, based in pragmatist and interactionist thought. Through an ethnographic study of the extra-parliamentary left in Southern Sweden (sometimes referred to as a radical left-libertarian movement), I show both how stigma is managed in this social world and how attempts to build community play a vital role in influencing the actions of this political group.
Current Working Title: Radical Political Communities: Stigma, Meaning, and Identity in the Extra-Parliamentary Left
Teaching:
My teaching largely covers the areas of quantitative methods, social psychology and cultural sociology.
Publications
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A Politics of Community: Identity, Stigma, and Meaning in the Extra-Parliamentary Left
Colm Flaherty
(2022)
DissertationAlfred Schütz- fenomenologisk sociologi
Colm Flaherty
(2022) Sociologins klassiker : Upptäckter och återupptäckter , p.353-368
Book chapterCreating Free Spaces: Self-Segregation in the Radical Left
Colm Flaherty
(2022)
Conference paper: abstractSeparating the Future: Socialism, Valuation, and Conflict
Colm Flaherty
(2021)
Conference paper: abstractVad händer med kvinnodominerade yrken? : Utsatthet inom läraryrket och socionomyrket
Antoinette Hetzler, Colm Flaherty, Patrik Andersson
(2018)
BookGuaranteeing Social Rights and Regulating the Public Sector
Antoinette Hetzler, Colm Flaherty
(2017) European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 4 p.25-51
Journal articleNorms in Action: The Individual Student in the School Climate
Colm Flaherty, Patrik Andersson
(2017)
Conference paper: abstract
Background
I have a BA in Sociology from Boston College in the United States, and obtained my Master’s in Welfare Policies and Management with a major in Sociology from Lund University.