Published 4 March 2016 Malin Åkerström and David Wästerfors have together with Katarina Jacobsson published the new article “Struggling for One’s Name: Defense Narratives by those Accused of Small-Time Corruption” in "Sociological Focus". Abstract:Under scrutiny (what we term a “bribery gaze”), many interpersonal exchanges in work contexts are perceived as bribes rather than gifts, tokens of appre

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/new-article-about-people-who-have-been-accused-bribery - 2025-04-17

Published 10 March 2016 Johan Sandberg has just published a new co-authored article (with Moira Nelson) "From Perspectives to Policy Contingencies: Conditional cash transfers as social investments" in Global Social Policy. AbstractDespite the popularity of social investment, there remain ambiguities regarding how to design an effective social investment approach. We review evaluations of condition

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sandberg-new-publication - 2025-04-17

Published 3 June 2016 Karl Hedman defended his dissertation ”Managing Medical Emergency Calls” on June 3 at 10:00 in Edens Hörsal, Paradisgatan 5h, Lund. External reviewer: Professor Jakob Cromdal, Linköping University, SwedenSupervisors: Vesa Leppänen, the Department of Sociology, Lund University. Examining committee:Docent David Wästerfors, Lunds universitet, Sociologiska institutionenProfessor

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/karl-hedman-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-04-17

Published 3 April 2016 Agneta Mallén has just published the article “Stirring up virtual punishment: a case of citizen journalism, authenticity and shaming” in the Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention. Abstract:Film clips and still pictures captured by civilians are increasingly used as evidence to prove specific accounts of events. This kind of visual data are not w

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/mallen-new-publication - 2025-04-17

Published 7 April 2016 Johan Sandberg has just been awarded the Early Career Researchers Prize for his article “Evidence-based Policymaking? Revisiting the ‘Known', the Assumed and the Promoted in New Social Development Policy” in the Journal of Poverty Alleviation and International Development 6, 2 (2015). Learn more on Institute for poverty alleviation and international development’s websiteJoha

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sandberg-awarded-early-career-researchers-prize - 2025-04-17

Published 8 April 2016 Chris Swader has the forthcoming chapter "Fraudulent Values. Materialistic Bosses and the Support for Bribery and Tax Evasion" in Whyte & Wiegratz (Eds.) Neoliberalism and the Moral Economy of Fraud. Routledge. Abstract:Are capitalists more likely than others to justify ‘immoral’ acts such as bribery or tax evasion? This chapter investigates the conditions under which this i

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/swader-new-forthcoming-publication - 2025-04-17

Published 3 May 2016 Malin Åkerström has, together with Erika Andersson Cederholm, published the article ”With a little help from my friends: relational work in leisure-related enterprising” in ”The Sociological Review” on Swedish lifestyle entrepreneurs, analyzing the indistinct boundaries between formal and informal economic exchanges. AbstractThe present article analyses the indistinct boundari

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/malin-akerstrom-swedish-lifestyle-entrepreneurs - 2025-04-17

Published 13 May 2016 What does a defense lawyer actually do in court when performing loyalty towards her/his clients? Lisa Flower has just published a new article on courtroom work of defense lawyers in the “Journal of Contemporary Ethnography”. AbstractThe courtroom work of defense lawyers has received surprisingly little sociological attention. What does a defense lawyer actually do in court? H

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/performing-drama-courtroom - 2025-04-17

Published 17 May 2016 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” in Time & Society. Abstract:A concept that lies at the hear

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/six-hour-work-day-debate-mid-1970s-sweden - 2025-04-17

Published 8 June 2016 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 Province and Chongqing.Wei Wang, doctoral student at the Departm

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/new-project-ethnic-minorities-southwest-china - 2025-04-17

Published 15 June 2016 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 the current state of pharmaceutical marketing vis-à-vis e

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/mulinari-unhealthy-marketing-pharmaceutical-products - 2025-04-17

Published 16 June 2016 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 media. It has become an increasingly important news source th

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/mallen-citizen-journalism - 2025-04-17

Published 27 June 2016 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 officer.The article can be found on ej.lib.cbs.dkSteven Sa

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sampson-business-ethics-and-moral-capitalism - 2025-04-17

Published 12 July 2016 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 neoliberal governance dismantles professionals’ will to cri

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/aili-preparing-higher-education-students-new-landscape-governance - 2025-04-17

Published 25 August 2016 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 tandfonline.com.Olle Frödin’s personal page 

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/frodin-routledges-sustainable-development-goals-collection - 2025-04-17

Published 26 August 2016 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 the field of family and personal relations across countri

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/research-money-vetenskapsradet - 2025-04-17

Published 29 August 2016 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 Karlsson from our department are coordinating this project. 

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/funding-develop-master-programme - 2025-04-17

Published 31 August 2016 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 Studies in Continuing Education.Abstract:Building on narra

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sandberg-recognition-and-adult-education - 2025-04-17

Published 5 September 2016 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 Brinton (Harvard), Kate Stovel (U Washington), and P-O Wiks

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/edling-social-mechanisms-empirical-sociology - 2025-04-17

Published 16 September 2016 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 Evolutionary Sciences”. About the book:Within the disc

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/klintman-human-sciences-and-human-interests - 2025-04-17