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- Andræ, Carl Göran
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Popular movements in Sweden : Report on a mass-data research project
- 1969
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Ingår i: Social Science Information. - : SAGE Publications. - 0539-0184 .- 1461-7412. ; 8:1, s. 65-75
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A research project on popular movements in class society was initiated by the Department of History (Historiska Institutionen) of the University of Uppsala in 1965. Its aim was to study the role of popular movements in the process of democratization in Sweden.
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- Bildtgård, Torbjörn, 1970-
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Trust in food in modern and late-modern societies
- 2008
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Ingår i: Social Science Information. - : SAGE Publications. - 0539-0184 .- 1461-7412. ; 47:1, s. 99-128
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article investigates how mainstream social theories of trust can help us understand how trust in food is produced and maintained in modern and late or postmodern societies. In the first part of the article three theoretical bases for trust in food are identified and discussed – emotional, habitual and reflexive trust. Special focus is given to habitual trust and four different bases for habitual trust – community, rational organisation, policy and systems of knowledge – are explored and their importance for trust in food is discussed. In the second part of the article the author discusses how these bases come together in producing trust in food in traditional, modern and late or postmodern societies respectively. Finally he argues that certification schemes can be perceived of as a technique for producing trust in food particularly well suited for late modern or postmodern societies.
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- Bildtgård, Torbjörn
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Where is food 'good to think'? : Rationalities of food and place in Sweden and France
- 2013
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Ingår i: Social Science Information. - : SAGE Publications. - 0539-0184 .- 1461-7412. ; 52:1, s. 159-178
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Where is food 'good to think'? This comparative study describes the mental foodscapes of Swedish and French people by asking them to say where, in time and space, they would go to in order to eat well. Both the Swedish and French respondents say they would avoid the US and fast-food establishments in order to eat well, but while the French in general point inward, toward the countryside of their region a couple of decades ago, the Swedes, in their choices, want to go far away, to the Mediterranean region, South-east Asia or an abstract wilderness. The article argues that the reason for these differences is that consumers in these two countries use different dominant rationalities to judge the food of different places - a nutritional rationality in Sweden and a rationality of origin in France - and it proceeds to identify the politico-historical roots of these rationalities. Finally, it argues that while each rationality makes a certain set of food and place qualities cognizable and judgeable, others, such as exotic foods in France and conviviality in Sweden, are left non-cognizable and difficult to judge.
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- Brighenti, Andrea Mubi, et al.
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Morphogenesis and animistic moments : On social formation and territorial production
- 2018
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Ingår i: Social Science Information. - : SAGE Publications. - 0539-0184 .- 1461-7412. ; 57:2, s. 249-272
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the issue of morphogenesis and metamorphosis in socio-spatial formations. The specific key is what we propose to call the ‘animistic moment’ in form-taking processes. We believe that a conceptualisation of animistic moments might help us to focus better not simply on the coming about of new forms, but also on the power forms are endowed with. The general social-theoretical horizon for the essay is an approach to social collectives as forms of territorialisation and territorial stabilisation. We suggest that an inquiry into the genesis and the transformation of forms through animistic moments might also be employed in the study of an array of processes of social territorialisation. In this article, we look in particular at two examples of the materialisation and animation of social-territorial boundaries: the first relates to the architectural construction of brick arches and walls, while the second relates to urban warfare and the demolition of urban walls.
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- Bursell, Moa
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The scope and limits of implicit bias training : An experimental study with Swedish social workers
- 2024
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Ingår i: Social Science Information. - : SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. - 0539-0184 .- 1461-7412.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Implicit bias reduction has become an increasingly popular feature of so-called 'diversity training' in both public and private organizations. It remains popular, despite a lack of robust evidence suggesting that it is possible to accomplish lasting changes to individual implicit bias. In addition, previous research relies almost entirely on laboratory experiments; almost nothing is known about the scope of these findings. The present study aims to engage theoretically and empirically in this debate. An implicit bias reduction intervention developed by psychologist Patricia Devine will be tested and approached from a sociological perspective. The study is based on an experiment setting with social workers at 13 Swedish social assistance units. Beyond testing the scope of this particular intervention, the study highlights some of the methodological problems that come with the unrealistic standards of exact replication within the social sciences. The results show that the intervention increased the participants' awareness of prejudice and implicit bias, but it did not reduce the participants' implicit biases. The scientific and social policy consequences of these findings are discussed.
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- Elzinga, Aant
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The science-society contract in historical transformation : with special reference to "Epistemic drift"
- 1997
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Ingår i: Social Science Information. - : SAGE Publications. - 0539-0184 .- 1461-7412. ; 36:3, s. 411-445
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper locates the discussion around the finalization thesis in a broader science policy context, linking it to the recent discourse on a changing science-society contract. It is argued that the broadening of the Kuhnian concept of the paradigm, making it amenable to science policy studies, was an important move. Further development of this notion, however, standed on the prongs of critique coming from both the worlds of politics and science. At the same time, advances in the cognitive sociology of science undermined the internalist/externalist distinction. Today, with certain changes in the conditions of research due to the introduction of the concept of “strategic research”, politicians are more apt to accept certain points of the thesis; scientific communities, on the other hand, perceive new threats to their autonomy. This paper tries to make sense of this new situation by translating the question of interplay between internal and external dynamics of research into one involving boundary management and epistemic criteria. The notion of “epistemic drift” is introduced and the internalist/externalist distinction refurbished in neo-institutionalist terms, making use of the concept of interfoliating credibility cycles.
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- Engwall, Lars, 1942-, et al.
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Who is to blame? : Evaluations in Academia Spreading through Relationships among Multiple Actor Types
- 2022
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Ingår i: Social Science Information. - : Sage Publications. - 0539-0184 .- 1461-7412. ; 61:4, s. 439-456
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We draw on a general model of the governance of organizations to analyze the dynamics among various actor types given the present ubiquity of evaluations in and around universities. Regulators demand evaluations to assess the return on taxpayers’ money. Market actors, particularly publishers of academic journals, promote different metrics, including citation scores and impact factors. Scrutinizers, such as media companies, professions, auditors, and nongovernmental organizations, create further evaluations by developing university rankings, accounting systems, and investigative reports. There are also initiatives for evaluations inside universities: vice chancellors, department heads, and other academic leaders launch voluntary internal assessments, and researchers assist regulators, market actors, and scrutinizers throughout their evaluations. We conclude that multiple actors are responsible for the current evaluation regime in academia, and that none of them is responsible alone. Rather, it is in the dynamic relationships among actors at different levels that we find the strongest processes driving a seemingly ever-increasing number of evaluations in contemporary academia.
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