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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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 - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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 - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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 - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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 - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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 - 2026-07-23

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 - 2026-07-23

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 - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Antoinette Hetzler is invited as one of the main speakers to the third International Symposium on Bullying that will be held in Tokyo Japan, December 4, 2016. Antoinette Hetzler will, together with Mitsuru Taki (NIER), discuss issues of bullying in less violent crime societies.Results are from a longitudinal comparati

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hetzler-one-main-speakers-symposium-bullying - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How is theatre used for social integration? Hanna Wittrock has in her recent article ”Integration of culture, culture as integration. The praxis and politics of multicultural theatre and drama” looked at multicultural theatre projects in Sweden. Abstract:Theatre is one of the artistic tools most often employed in Swed

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/wittrock-praxis-and-politics-multicultural-theatre-and-drama - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. What are “failed states” and how can we conceptualize them? Olle Frödin has a chapter out on ”Failed States” in the newly updated Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Learn more on sociologyencyclopedia.comOlle Frödin’s personal page 

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/frodin-failed-states-blackwell-encyclopedia-sociology - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How do different societies deal with bullying and degrading behavior at schools? Antoinette Hetzler and Colm Flaherty investigate this by examining the ways in which Sweden and the US attempt to guarantee the social rights of students at school. Their article has just appeared in the European Journal of Cultural and P

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hetzler-and-flaherty-guaranteeing-social-rights-students-us-and-swedish-schools - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How is authenticity enacted in Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia? Which role do local and global (sub)cultures play in these enactments? Erik Hannerz has contributed a book chapter on “Emplacing Punk: Subcultural Boundary Work and Space in Indonesia” to the book edited by Julian Ch Lee and Marco Ferrarese. Description

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hannerz-punks-monks-and-politics - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. What constitutes the subcultural? In Erik Hannerz’s recent contribution to the Journal Educare (no. 2, 2016), he refines subcultural theory by drawing on examples from the Indonesian and Swedish punk scene. Abstract:Arguing against the previous research’s presump on that the subcultural constitutes a single set of mea

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hannerz-two-articles-subcultural-and-using-instagram-researching-graffiti - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Why did Trump win? Or more precisely, how did Hillary lose? Why were so many experts so wrong about Trump’s support? How will Trump’s victory affect the lives of ordinary Americans? Steven Sampson discusses this in his recent piece “Angry white males as suffering subjects” published in Focaal blog.Learn more on focaal

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sampson-angry-white-males - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Priscilla Solano defended her dissertation ”Assisting in the Shadows. Humanitarianism, Shelters and Transit Migration Politics” today at 10:15 in Kulturens Hörsal, Lund. External reviewer: Professor Julia O'Connell Davidson, University of BristolAssisting in the Shadows: Humanitarianism, Shelters and Transit Migration

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/priscilla-solano-has-defended-her-thesis - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How is population control embedded in bio-political rationales that affect women’s social, physical, and psychological wellbeing? Lisa Eklund, together with Navtej Purewal, investigates these complex dynamics in the article “The Bio-Politics of Population Control and Sex Selective Abortion in China and India”, Feminis

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lisa-eklund-bio-politics-population-control - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Elin Ennerberg defended her thesis "Destination employment? Contradictions and ambiguities in Swedish labour market policy for newly arrived migrants" today at 13:15 in the auditorium at St Algatan 4, Lund. Discussant Professor Sven Hort, Linnéuniversitet.Elin Ennerberg's personal page.

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/elin-ennerberg-has-defended-her-thesis - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Anders Kjellberg has written a chapter in the recently published anthology "Festskrift till Ann Numhauser-Henning". Read the textAnders Kjellberg's personal page

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/anders-kjellberg-self-regulation-versus-state-regulation-swedish-industrial-relations - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lisa Eklund, together with Navtej Purewal, investigates the contours of how sex-selective abortion and ‘gendercide’ have been problematically combined within contemporary debates on abortion in Europe. Their article "Gendercide’, abortion policy, and the disciplining of prenatal sex-selection in neoliberal Europe" was

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lisa-eklund-disciplining-prenatal-sex-selection-neoliberal-europe - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How can we look at gaming among young people with disabilities beyond a perspective that is mainly interested in these people’s exercise and improvement? In their recently published article, David Wästerfors and Kristofer Hansson look at how videos and computer games are used by these people within a private frame: “T

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/david-wasterfors-gaming-and-disability - 2026-07-23