Jan Mewes
Docent and Associate Senior Lecturer
Jan Mewes is docent and associate senior lecturer in sociology. He holds a doctorate in social sciences (defended in 2009) from the University of Bremen, Germany. Before joining the Department of Sociology at Lund University in 2018, Jan was postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bremen (2009-2011), forskarassistent at Örebro University (2015), and postdoctoral/senior researcher at Umeå University (2011-2013, 2016-2018).
Jan’s research interests include social trust, welfare states, migration and public opinion. Currently, he is leading the international research project ”Three Worlds of Trust: A Longitudinal Study of Welfare States, Life-Course Risks, and Social Trust”, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfonds: The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (NHS14-2035:1).
His teaching covers the subject areas social policy, development, welfare states, welfare administration, and quantitative methods.
For an overview about Jan's publications, please check his Google Scholar profile.
Publications
Retrieved from Lund University's publications database
Publications
- 2020
- Trust, happiness and mortality: Findings from a prospective US population-based survey
(2020) Social Science & Medicine
Journal article
- Trust, happiness and mortality: Findings from a prospective US population-based survey
- 2019
- Trust and all-cause mortality: a multilevel study of US General Social Survey data (1978–2010)
(2019) Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
Journal article
- Trust and all-cause mortality: a multilevel study of US General Social Survey data (1978–2010)
- 2017
- Self-rated health, generalized trust, and the Affordable Care Act : A US panel study, 2006–2014
(2017) Social Science and Medicine
Journal article
- Self-rated health, generalized trust, and the Affordable Care Act : A US panel study, 2006–2014
- 2014
- Gen(d)eralized trust : Women, work, and trust in strangers
(2014) European Sociological Review
Journal article
- Gen(d)eralized trust : Women, work, and trust in strangers
- 2013
- Globalization, socio-economic status and welfare chauvinism : European perspectives on attitudes toward the exclusion of immigrants
(2013) International Journal of Comparative Sociology
Journal article - Horizontal Europeanization and identification with Europe
(2013) Post-identity? : Culture and European Integration
Book chapter
- Globalization, socio-economic status and welfare chauvinism : European perspectives on attitudes toward the exclusion of immigrants
- 2012
- Horizontal Europeanisation in Contextual Perspective : What drives cross-border activities within the European Union?
(2012) European Societies
Journal article - What determines subjective socio-economic insecurity? Context and class in comparative perspective
(2012) Socio-Economic Review
Journal article
- Horizontal Europeanisation in Contextual Perspective : What drives cross-border activities within the European Union?
- 2011
- Die Produktion sozialer Sicherheit Beschäftigungssicherheit, Einkommenssicherung und gesundheitliche Versorgung in ländervergleichender Perspektive
(2011) Berliner Journal fur Soziologie
Journal article
- Die Produktion sozialer Sicherheit Beschäftigungssicherheit, Einkommenssicherung und gesundheitliche Versorgung in ländervergleichender Perspektive
- 2009
- Class divides within transnationalisation - The German population and its cross-border practices
(2009) Mobilities and Inequality
Book chapter
- Class divides within transnationalisation - The German population and its cross-border practices
- 2008
- Cosmopolitan attitudes through transnational social practices?
(2008) Global Networks
Journal article
- Cosmopolitan attitudes through transnational social practices?
- 2007
- Transnationale Soziale Beziehungen. Eine Kartographie der Deutschen Bevölkerung
(2007) Soziale Welt
Journal article
- Transnationale Soziale Beziehungen. Eine Kartographie der Deutschen Bevölkerung
