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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How were work time issues framed in Sweden in 1975? Mikael Ottosson and Calle Rosengren scrutinize how the Swedish Employers’ Confederation debated the values of ‘workfare’ in their new article ” ‘What the hell is a high standard?’ The Swedish Employers’ Confederation and the six-hour workday debate in the mid 1970s”

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/six-hour-work-day-debate-mid-1970s-sweden - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Barbara Schulte has received SEK 650,000 from the Crafoord Foundation for her project “Nation state versus ethnicity: Educating ethnic minorities in Southwest China”, to be conducted between 2016 and 2018. The project critically investigates discourse, policies and practices of Chinese multiculturalism in Yunnan Provi

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/new-project-ethnic-minorities-southwest-china - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Shai Mulinari investigates the current state of pharmaceutical marketing vis-à-vis ethical and legal standards in his new “viewpoint" article ”Unhealthy marketing of pharmaceutical products: An international public health concern” that has just been published in the Journal of Public Health Policy. Abstract:I consider

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/mulinari-unhealthy-marketing-pharmaceutical-products - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Agneta Mallén and her research on citizen journalism and cyber bullying has been featured in a news release on AlphaGalileo. ”In recent years, citizen journalism has become a widely known phenomenon. It involves ordinary citizens witnessing events, documenting them on their mobile phones and sharing them on social med

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/mallen-citizen-journalism - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Steven Sampson has published the article ”The Right Way: Moral Capitalism and the Emergence of the Corporate Ethics and Compliance Officer” in the Journal of Business Anthropology. Steven Sampson investigates how the moralization of firms has led to the emergence of a new corporate function: the ethics and compliance

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sampson-business-ethics-and-moral-capitalism - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How does higher education prepare students for work under neoliberal forms of control? These and other questions are scrutinized by Carola Aili, together with Lars-Erik Nilsson, in their new publication “Preparing higher education students for the new landscape of governance”. Abstract:Studies have demonstrated that n

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/aili-preparing-higher-education-students-new-landscape-governance - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Olle Frödin is the author of the article ”Modernization, neo-liberal globalization, or variegated development: the Indian food system transformation in comparative perspective” that has been published in Routledge’s Sustainable Development Goals collection. Learn the “Sustainable Development Goals collection” on tandf

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/frodin-routledges-sustainable-development-goals-collection - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Our researchers Sara Eldén and Terese Anving are two of the members in the project ”Significant others – informal social networks between policy and everyday life” that gained 441 000 SEK from Vetenskapsrådet. Project description:The primary objective of the workshop series is to bring together Nordic researchers in t

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/research-money-vetenskapsradet - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Department of Sociology at Lund University and Department of Sociology at Peking University have received funding from STINT (The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education) to develop a double degree master programme in anthropology and sociology. Kjell Nilsson and Magnus Karlss

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/funding-develop-master-programme - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Can adult education help students to see themselves as valuable, given that many students in adult education have often gone through experiences of failure, both at school and in the job market? Fredrik Sandberg has published an article on “Recognition and adult education: an incongruent opportunity” in the journal St

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sandberg-recognition-and-adult-education - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Christofer Edling has, together with Jens Rydgren, edited a special issue on social mechanisms for American Behavioral Scientist. Apart from the editors introductory article, the issue contains six articles that applies the social mechanism approach to explain different social phenomena. The authors include Mary Brint

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/edling-social-mechanisms-empirical-sociology - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. What do scholars in the different human sciences assume with regard to human interests? How can we bridge the disciplinary divide between different human science approaches? These and more questions are addressed in Mikael Klintman’s new book “Human Sciences and Human Interests. Integrating the Social, Economic, and E

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/klintman-human-sciences-and-human-interests - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The repeated sniffing by presidential candidate Donald Trump in the first presidential debate on 25th September 2016, lead to a Twitter-storm and intensive media interest regarding his health. Lisa Flower, PhD candidate in sociology at the Department of Sociology at Lund University, however provides an alternative exp

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/what-donald-trump-really-revealing-trumpsniffles - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Three of our projects got funding from FORTE of almost 10,5 million Swedish kronor (SEK). Henriette Esholdt, with a project as junior researcher on “The appeal of violence-promoting Islamic extremism. An investigation of masculinity and femininity”Shai Mulinari, with a project on “What can be learnt from the new pharm

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/almost-105-million-sek-funding - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lisa Flower’s article ”The (Un)emotional Law Student” which discusses the ”emotional sniff” received media attention in Sweden following Donald Trump’s sniffing in the first presidential candidate debate and has now been used by Forbes Magazine to analyse the second debate. Forbes Magazine concludes that Trump’s sniff

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/flower-usa-media - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Carl-Göran Heidegren has just received a substantial research grant from ”The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences” (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond) for his comparative project on philosophy in Nordic welfare societies. From our Department, also Klas Gustavsson will be working on the project.Learn more on

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/research-money-project-nordic-welfare-societies - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How do media in different countries discuss climate change? Christofer Edling is part of a large international research network who analyse this question in the recently published article “Conflicting Climate Change Frames in a Global Field of Media Discourse”. Abstract: Reducing global emissions will require a global

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/climate-change-media-discourse-17-countries - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Malin Åkerström received, together with Katarina Jacobsson, a research grant from the Swedish Research Council with their project “An administrative Eigendynamik in the interaction of meetings and documents”. The project will run for three years. Abstract:An increasing proportion of people's working hours are devoted

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/3-millon-sek-research-project - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The primarily biomedical definition of ADHD has been questioned and criticized in various ways. Mattias Nilsson Sjöberg adopts the Baradian perspective of agential realism in his article ”(Un)becoming dysfunctional: ADHD and how matter comes to matter” in International Journal of Inclusive Education. Abstract:Various

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/nilsson-sjoberg-adhd-perspective-agential-realism - 2026-06-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. What are the feeling rules, and how do they emerge, regarding victim offender mediation? Anna Rypi investigates this “emotion culture” in her recent article “The feeling rules of victim offender mediation” in the journal International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion. Abstract:This paper is based on an ethnogr

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/rypi-about-feeling-rules-victim-offender-mediation - 2026-06-27