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12 Feb 2021
Competent parents steered by peers
SWEDISH PARENTING SUPPORT: Lisa Eklund and Åsa Lundqvist at the Department of Sociology in Lund have published the article "Governing as peers : Reluctant experts and competent par...
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10 Nov 2020
Sociologist examines the Swedish IB-scandal of 1973
Alexandra Franzén, doctoral student of sociology, has published the article “But ÖB Bengt Gustafsson took me by the hand and thanked me. A comparison between Jan Guillou's and Pete...
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5 Nov 2020
How do politics impact on access to information about Covid-19?
The impact party politics has on the circulation of information about COVID-19 is the topic of a new article in the Canadian Journal of Political Science.
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4 Nov 2020
Is more cleanliness deepening social gaps?
Sociologist Tullia Jack's paper questions whether changes meant to increase life quality and provide basic human rights, are actually contributing to deepening social stratificatio...
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28 Sep 2020
Governing sex work. New way of categorizing prostitution policy may be the standard for years to come
Social anthropologist Petra Östergren’s research rethinks prostitution policies and receives international response and praise. Her chapter "From zero-tolerance to full integration...
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22 Sep 2020
Let's pretend this is not a meeting!
Meetings are common in contemporary working life, but they are often overlooked in academic studies and sometimes defined as empty or boring by employees. Three researchers of soci...
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10 Aug 2020
Teaching and learning in interaction
Veronika Burcar Alm, a teacher at the Department of Sociology, has this year been named Qualified Teaching Practitioner by the Faculty of Social Sciences' Teaching Academy.
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8 Jul 2020
Women hesitate when revealing domestic abuse
Swedish women talk about the shame, threats and fear that went into telling someone about being abused by their partner in this new article "Revealing hidden realities: disclosing ...
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29 Jun 2020
Pharmaceutical industry’s funding of patient organisations in Sweden
Many patient organisations collaborate with drug companies, resulting in concerns about commercial agendas influencing patient advocacy.
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10 Jun 2020
Fighting with your sibling is ok, right?
Although violence in close relationships also includes violence in sibling relationships, this is a form of violence that is rarely acknowledged. The sibling relationship is associ...
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19 May 2020
How northern European welfare states exercise bureaucratic violence on asylum seekers
Three researchers within the Social Science Faculty at Lund University have compiled an anthology challenging the notion of the refugee crisis of 2015. The book also investigates h...
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27 Apr 2020
Ethnic minority youths’ experiences of the police
Veronika Burcar Alm has co-authored the article ”Suspected or protected? Perceptions of procedural justice in ethnic minority youth's descriptions of police relations” published in...
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15 Apr 2020
Survival advantages for people who trust strangers
People who trust others are less likely to die than those who are distrusting, conclude sociologist Jan Mewes and colleagues in “Trust, happiness and mortality: Findings from a pro...
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24 Mar 2020
Antoinette Hetzler Featured in International Anthology on Violence Prevention in School
Professor Antoinette Hetzler has contributed to the anthology Feeling Safe in School: Bullying and Violence Prevention Around the World, published by Harvard Education Press.
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17 Mar 2020
Uncovering the obscure emotional labour of law practitioners
In a new book, sociologist Lisa Flower shows how lawyers manage their emotions in the courtroom, where emotional displays traditionally are unwelcomed.
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19 Feb 2020
Folk methods to deal with inaccessibility
Declarations and policies drafted by the UN, EU and individual nations basically promise accessibility for people with disabilities. But rhetoric is one thing, practice another. Di...
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14 Jan 2020
Marriage-squeezed men in China suffer social discrimination
Lisa Eklund has co-authored the article ”Reacting to social discrimination? Men's individual and social risk behaviors in the context of a male marriage squeeze in rural China”, pu...
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20 Dec 2019
Focusing on the seduction of crime, deviance, and control
With only a few weeks remaining of its first semester, the maiden voyage of the Master’s program in Cultural Criminology at Lund University is ending. How does this unique criminol...
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16 Dec 2019
Henrik Möller defends his doctoral thesis
It could have been a Friday the 13th disaster, but Henrik Möller managed to dodge all bad luck and successfully defended his doctoral thesis ”SPECTRAL MATTER: Materiality, Economy,...
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4 Oct 2019
Anna Berglund successfully defends her doctoral thesis
Anna Berglund at the Department of Sociology defended her doctoral thesis in social anthropology ”Ambiguous hopes: an ethnographic study of agricultural modernisation in a Rwandan ...