Lotta Granbom defended her doctoral dissertation in Social Anthropology ”The Second Wave: The Urak Lawoi after the Tsunami in Thailand” today at 10 o'clock in Kulturens Hörsal, Lund. The external reviewer was Professor Peter Ian Crawford of the School of Culture and Society at Århus University and the chairperson at the defence was Professor Christer Lindberg from the Department of Sociology at Lu

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lotta-granbom-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-08-25

Maria Gómez defended her doctoral dissertation in Educational studies ”Teachers' Assessment and gradings Practices in upper secondary Science Classrooms in Sweden. The Teachers' and Students' Perspectives” today at 10 o'clock in Eden's auditorium in Lund. The external reviewer was Professor Per Andersson, at the Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning at Linköping University and the chairp

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/maria-gomez-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-08-25

A grant of nearly 5 million SEK from Riksbankens jubileumsfond has been awarded to Doctor in Sociology Lisa Eklund, together with Kristina Göransson at the School of Social Work, for the project Parenting strategies around children’s education in urban China, Singapore and South Korea: A comparative ethnographic study. Abstract:This comparative ethnographic project addresses parents’ educational c

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PUBLICATION: PhD Candidate Henrik Möller has published the chapter "Potentials of Feicui: Indeterminacy and Determination in Human-Jade interactions in Southwest China" in the book Emptiness and Fullness. Ethnographies of lack and desire in contemporary China. Henrik Möller’s doctoral thesis examines intersections of material, economic and cultural aspects of carving, trade, and consumption of the

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/many-people-china-believe-jade-stimulates-life-energy - 2025-08-25

PUBLICATION: Sociology researcher Shai Mulinari investigates, together with Andreas Vilhelmsson, how members of Denmark's pandemic planning committee experienced lobbying efforts by the manufacturer of Tamiflu, the antiviral that was stockpiled before the pandemic of 2009. Shai Mulinari and Andreas Vilhelmsson have published the article “Pharmaceutical lobbying and pandemic stockpiling of Tamiflu:

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/how-do-pharmaceutical-companies-lobby-authorities - 2025-08-25

Sociology Professor Christofer Edling has, together with nine other researchers in sociology, political science, and social work, received a grant of 35 million SEK from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for the project “Civil society elites? Comparing elite composition, reproduction, integration and contestation in European civil societies”. Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) is an independent foundation wit

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/35-million-sek-project-elites-civil-society - 2025-08-25

PUBLICATION: Doctor of Sociology Terese Anving has published the article “Struggling to Make Ends Meet: Lone Mothers and Intergenerational Support in Sweden” in the journal Studies in the Maternal. Read or download the article at mamsie.bbk.ac.ukAbstractEconomic divisions have deepened in Sweden in recent years, and lone mothers are one group where the poverty rate has increased most (Salonen 2014

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lone-mothers-struggling-make-ends-meet - 2025-08-25

Katrine Tinning at the Department of Sociology defended her doctoral dissertation in Educational studies ”The Ambivalent Potentiality of Vulnerability. Museum Pedagogy in Exhibitions on Difficult Matters and its Ethical Implications” today at 1 pm in Stora Algatan's auditorium in Lund. The external reviewer was Associate Professor of Education Johan Dahlbeck at the Faculty of Education and Society

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/katrine-tinning-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-08-25

Åsa Lundqvist, Professor at the Department of Sociology has just published a book about how the activation of women into paid work was accomplished. It looks at the ideational grounds and the concrete measures that created the conditions for increasing the employment ratio of women, and thus also a farewell to male breadwinning. Learn more about the book Transformations of family and gender relati

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/creating-conditions-more-women-paid-work - 2025-08-25

Liv Sunnercrantz at the Department of Sociology defended her doctoral dissertation in sociology ”Hegemony and the Intellectual Function: Medialised Public Discourse on Privatisation in Sweden 1988-1993” today, 19th December, at 10:15 in Kulturens auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Associate Professor Emilia Palonen, Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki.Main supervisor:

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/liv-sunnercrantz-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-08-25

RESEARCH GRANT: Olle Frödin, Johan Sandberg and Axel Fredholm at the Sociology Department in Lund and Shahamak Rezaei at Roskilde University have been awarded 4 million SEK for the project "Migration, Integration and Development: The Role of Transnational Immigrant Organizations in Sweden". The research project focuses on the role of immigrant organizations for labour market integration, and will

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/4-million-study-role-immigrant-organizations-integration - 2025-08-25

Lisa Flower analyses the emotional regime in the White House in The Conversation: “Donald Trump, loyalty and the ‘emotional regime’ in the White House”. “But what exactly is loyalty? And why did Comey put on his poker face when asked for it?“Read the whole article on theconversation.comLisa Flower’s personal page here on our website About The ConversationLund University is a member of the UK editi

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/what-do-trumps-demands-loyalty-white-house-mean - 2025-08-25

Social anthropologist Tova Höjdestrand writes about the so-called Parents' Movement is a Russia in the chapter “Nationalism and Civicness in Contemporary Russia: Grassroots Mobilization in Defense of Traditional Family Values” published in the book Rebellious Parents: Parental Movements in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia. The so-called Parents' Movement is a Russian conservative grassroots mobil

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/rebellious-russian-parents-defense-traditional-family-values - 2025-08-25

NEW PROJECT investigates promises of accessibility for persons with disabilities. Associate Professor David Wästerfors has together with Kristofer Hansson at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences and Hanna Egard at Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society, received a research grant from FORTE for a project on Accessibility and its Resistance. Everyday deviations from spatial and soci

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/society-reachable-all - 2025-08-25

HETZLER GIVES TALK IN GOTHENBURG ON WAR AT WORK. Professor Antoinette Hetzler is invited to the Working life/Welfare seminar at the University of Gothenburg on 6 February 2018. Antoinette Hetzler will be presenting a chapter from a forthcoming book called The Transformation of Work in Welfare State Organizations.The chapter looks at how 569 primary school employees in Sweden, women and men, betwee

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/primary-school-teachers-illness-caused-work - 2025-08-25

Åsa Lundqvist, Professor at the Department of Sociology has, together with Ilona Ostner, published a comparative study on parental support ‘Parenting and parenting support in Germany and Sweden: Convergence and persistent dissimilarities’, in the Journal of Family Research. The researchers' abstract:Parenting support constitutes a long-established part of both the Swedish and the German portfolio

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/comparing-parental-support-sweden-and-germany - 2025-08-25

EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH: Chinese private schools may come across as a contradictory phenomenon: An authoritarian and officially socialist government needs to rely on education as an instrument of national unification and ideological control. So why would they allow for private schools and profit-making in the educational sector? However, far-reaching privatisation processes have been shaping the Chin

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/contradictions-private-schools-china - 2025-08-25

MARRIAGE AS A NORM AMONG YOUNG ADULTS IN CHINA: Lisa Eklund has published the chapter "The sex ratio question and the unfolding of a moral panic? Notions of power, choice and self in mate selection among women and men in higher education in China" in the book Scarce women and surplus men in China and India. The study investigates how sex ratio imbalance influences mate selection among young adults

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/fear-being-left-over-turning-moral-panic - 2025-08-25

Uzma Kazi captures feedback from the group discussions at the pre-conference PhD mingle. Also in focus Hanna Sahlin (PhD student), Katarina Jacobsson (Chairperson of the Sociological Association) and Tora Holmberg (Outgoing Chairp.). Photo: Laura Kollmann SOCIOLOGIDAGARNA 2018: The Swedish Sociological Association's bi-annual conference titled "Sociology in a Polarized World" took place in Lund la

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Senior lecturer in Sociology Erik Hannerz will co-coordinate a Pufendorf-project about urban creativity together with Peter Bengtsen at the Division of Art History and Visual Studies. It was recently announced that the 2018-2019 thematic projects at the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies at Lund University will include a project focused on urban creativity.Urban creativity is an umbrella ter

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/new-collaboration-project-urban-creativity - 2025-08-25