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- Jacobsson, Katarina, et al.
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Introduktion i boken "Från klarhet till klarhet. Lysande texter för sociologisk forskning"
- 2013
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Ingår i: Från klarhet till klarhet. Lysande texter för sociologisk forskning. ; , s. 7-28
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Samhällsvetenskaplig forskning äger vanligen rum ytterst stillsamt, bland högar av papper och böcker, vid datorskärmar och på seminarier. Men ibland händer det något. En dag kan man få tag i en text som hjälper en att skärpa blicken, få ordning på intrycken och energi nog att börja argumentera. Materialet faller på plats och forskningen går faktiskt framåt. Det handlar om teoretiska händelser – ett slags radikala betraktelseomkastningar – som kan lotsa den forskare som dag efter dag, vecka efter vecka, månad efter månad bemödar sig med att få grepp om sin empiri. Denna bok har samlat elva sådana händelser, det vill säga artiklar och bokkapitel från internationellt namnkunniga samhällsvetenskapliga forskare, som var och en erbjuder inspiration och nytänkande. Samtliga texter är översatta till svenska. Genom att grunna över det egna materialet i relation till dessa texter kan läsaren på ett lättare och friare sätt våga teoretisera sitt material – och därmed ta språnget till ny kunskap. Boken har sin upprinnelse i en hyllning till lundaprofessorn och sociologen Malin Åkerströms forskargärning och därför sammanfaller de utvalda texterna med teman i hennes verk: social kontroll, kulturanalys, sociologisk kriminologi och kvalitativ metodologi. Den riktar sig till forskare, lärare och doktorander i samhällsvetenskapliga ämnen samt uppsatsskrivande studenter men också till andra vetgiriga medborgare som inför ett socialt fenomen ställer sig frågan ”hur ska man tolka det här?”
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- Wästerfors, David, et al.
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Analytiska knep
- 2008
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Ingår i: Uppdrag forskning. - 9789147087280 ; , s. 66-84
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Wästerfors, David, et al.
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Världens enklaste kulspetspenna. Om korruptionens kontraster i en säljares berättelser
- 2023
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Ingår i: Den empiriska glädjen : En vänbok till Malin Åkerström - En vänbok till Malin Åkerström.
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Världens enklaste kulspetspenna dyker upp tidigt i min intervju med den pensionerade och ytterst erfarne – för att inte säga slipade – försäljaren Rolf. Under hela sitt yrkesliv var han verksam i ett konsultbolag med uppdrag över hela världen. Han arbetade med att sälja tjänster till företag och offentliga institutioner i olika länder, framför allt i Mellanöstern men även i Öst- och Sydeuropa. I det här kapitlet ska jag återbesöka den här intervjun för att bena ut några nyanser i Rolfs utläggningar som jag inte hann med i min avhandling. Exemplet med världens enklaste penna är centralt men jag ska också uppehålla mig vid andra exempel för att kontextualisera pennan. I min diskussion har jag två texter som följeslagare: Steven Chibnall and Peter Saunders (1977) artikel om en korruptionsskandal i 1970-talets Storbritannien och Fran Osreckis (2017) historik över sociologiska perspektiv på korruption från 1950- talet och framåt. Det rör sig om två mycket olika exempel på korruptionsforskning.
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- Lundström, Lina, 1979-
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Att göra vänskap : En kultursociologisk analys av högstadieelevers sociala relationer
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This doctoral thesis explores how secondary school students perform friendship in a Swedish school. The thesis aims to describe and explain how cultural elements, such as an audience of peers, stages for friendship performances (e.g. classrooms), time, cultural norms and ideals, interact in the production of meaning that are part in the drawing of social boundaries. Processes that make certain performances of friendship possible and others challenging. Video recordings, interviews and field observations are utilised in order to analyse how friendships are performed in an educational setting where the cultural ideal is to have (many) friends. The thesis applies a cultural sociological perspective– spanning from Alexander’s theory on cultural pragmatics, Lamont and Molnàr’s work on boundaries in social life, to Goffman’s micro analysis of social interaction. The results illuminate the importance of understanding friendship as cultural performances and that these performances often require hard work. Such performances are affected by the way students ascribe meaning to the cultural elements. This means that the outcome of a performance is not decided beforehand but is dependent on when, where, with and in front of whom, friendship is performed. The performances of friendship are a process, and therefore it possible to study which cultural elements that come into play, how they affect and are affected by the performances and how dimensions of social power, for instance, inclusion and exclusion processes, are part of the performances of friendship. The thesis identifies two main empirical results. Firstly, it shows how students’ performances of friendship are dependent on the school as a physical, organisational and cultural stage. The cultural ideal is that friends should be freely chosen. However, school is not voluntary, which creates a duality that challenges the ideal of voluntary friendship. Students spend the majority of their time together on the same stage where they form memories of friendship and expectations of future relational work, such as how an authentic friendship ought to be performed. Time and stage are thus cultural elements that intertwine in the deciding where social boundaries for friendship are drawn, namely, which students that can be friends. The social boundaries can also be strengthened by referring to a collective background representation containing e.g. gender norms and ideals for friendship. Ideals that are reproduced as far back as Aristotle. Yet, since cultural elements and their ascribed meaning also are apt for change, unexpected friendship performances become possible. Secondly, cultural ideals of friendship, such as loyalty and generosity, work to draw boundaries within and around friendship constellations, working in inclusionary and exclusionary ways. There is a strong cultural force in the relational dynamics of the doings of friendship. The self-worth and cultural value of being part of a specific “us” comes through in the students’ relational work. Further, when an established way of performing friendship is threatened due to minor changes, such as new unexpected friendships, the students use disloyalty and stinginess. Thus, they use the opposite of the friendship ideals to draw boundaries. In this sense, the thesis illuminates how a constructed cultural ideal can have real consequences and influence the doing of friendship, through both inclusion and exclusion.
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- Åkerström, Malin, et al.
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Reanalysis of Earlier Collected Material
- 2004
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Ingår i: Qualitative research practice. - 0761947760 ; , s. 902-942
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Data from finished projects may stay in a researcher’s mind for many reasons: a fascination for a field, members’ charm, odd circumstances in the collecting process, analytical frustration etc. Yet the possibility of bringing back one’s attention to these data in order to understand them in new conceptual contexts is rarely as valued as the opposite: a quest for new data to be put in one’s familiar conceptual contexts. In this article we discuss the methodological aspects of “recycling” one’s own data, pointing out obstacles and rewards as well as the linkages between the process of reinterpretation and researchers’ biographies. Against worries about data getting “old,” we argue that analytical creativity is not necessarily tied to a specific research project and its limited time span. If cultivating a methodological open-mindedness and an interest in the phenomena, data can be used again and again by looking at them through different analytical lenses. In that sense, data never get old. Two empirical illustrations are used. One concerns a woman in prison, interviewed almost twenty years ago in a study on violence and threats in prison. An original naturalistic approach, employed to identify common traits in the local prison culture, made this particular interview difficult to place. The woman’s storytelling did not fit into the overall picture. She was mostly concerned with life ouside prison, wheras the other interviewees kindly kept themselves to researcher's choosen topic. Furthermore, she presented herself in a way more aking to some of the male prisoners, than did the other women. Subsequently, as qualitative research gained insights in narrative perspectives, tools appeared that made it possible to interpret what originally seemed puzzling. The other illustration relates to ethnographic data from a study of parents and professionals involved in education and care of deaf children. Whereas an original interactionist approach seemed sufficient to discern and interpret all patterns and variations, a later analysis of practically the same material, now in accordance with Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogical view of language, shed a new light on the field. Thus, the idea of recycling data involves potentials not only to revisit and ruminate old riddles but also to generate new riddles in data once considered to be entirely squeezed. As Georg Simmel wrote, animating the quality he saw in empirical materials: “there’s more within me.”
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Accessibility Denied : Understanding Inaccessibility and Everyday Resistance to Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities
- 2022
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This book explores the societal resistance to accessibility for persons with disabilities, and tries to set an example of how to study exclusion in a time when numerous policies promise inclusion. With 12 chapters organised in three parts, the book takes a comprehensive approach to accessibility, covering transport and communication, knowledge and education, law and organisation. Topics within a wide cross-disciplinary field are covered, including disability studies, social work, sociology, ethnology, social anthropology, and history. The main example is Sweden, with its implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities within the context of the Nordic welfare state. By identifying and discussing persistent social and cultural conditions as well as recurring situations and interactions that nurture resistance to advancing accessibility, despite various strong laws promoting it, the book’s conclusions are widely transferable. It argues for the value of alternating between methods, theoretical perspectives, and datasets to explore how new arenas, resources and technologies cause new accessibility concerns — and possibilities — for persons living with impairments. We need to be able to follow actors closely to uncover how they feel, act, and argue, but also to connect to wider discursive and institutional patterns and systems. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of disability studies, social work, sociology, ethnology, social anthropology, political science, and organisation studies.
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- Andersson Cederholm, Erika, et al.
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Bindestrecksvänner i den relationella ekonomin
- 2023
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Ingår i: Den empiriska glädjen. En vänbok till Malin Åkerström. - 9789172674769 - 9789172674776 ; , s. 187-197
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Bahner, Julia, et al.
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Access to sexuality : Disabled people's experiences of multiple barriers
- 2021
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Ingår i: Accessibility Denied : Understanding Inaccessibility and Everyday Resistance to Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities - Understanding Inaccessibility and Everyday Resistance to Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities. - 9781003120452 ; , s. 123-139
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter concerns disabled people’s experiences of barriers to accessing sexuality. It draws on an analysis of materials produced in ten projects by civil society organisations, including self-advocacy organisations, sexual rights organisations and organisations working on behalf of disabled people. These materials comprise books, handbooks, videos, websites and other online materials, and are based on the lived experiences of people with intellectual disability and mobility impairments. The projects mainly focus on providing information about sexuality and relationships, sexual and gender identity issues, and experiences of disability services in relation to sexuality. The analysis identifies the following types of sexual access barriers: (1) inadequate information, (2) psycho-emotional barriers, (3) relational barriers, (4) support-related barriers, and (5) policy barriers. These barriers to sexual access are often related to general disabling barriers and ableist norms. This intersection of barriers at personal, social, organisational and policy levels greatly impacts on disabled people’s opportunities in their sexual lives specifically, and as equal citizens generally.
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- Basic, Goran, 1972-
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Samverkan blir kamp : En sociologisk analys av ett projekt i ungdomsvården
- 2012
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this dissertation a collaboration project in Swedish youth care is analysed. The aim of the project was to enhance coordination between the Social Services and the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care in order to make the efforts more efficient. The project also employed a number of coordinators. The overall purpose of this dissertation is to analyse conflicts, alliances and comparisons identifiable in interviews and observations. The analytic findings are put into an overall “collaboration context” represented by earlier research on the social phenomenon of “collaboration”. In this way the dissertation tries to contribute to a sociological understanding of a contemporary widespread phenomenon. The empirical materials of the study consist of recorded conversational interviews with 147 project participants (youngsters, parents and various professional categories) as well as observations of meetings, informal get-togethers and visits to institutions, Social Services offices, the head office of the National Board of Institutional Care and coordinators. The material was analysed using the analytic perspectives of Georg Simmel (1950/1964), Theodore Caplow (1968) and Erving Goffman (1959/2004). The analysis shows that the project manifested and led to struggles between organizations involving representatives from the Social Services, the National Board of Institutional Care and the project, as well as to several interpersonal conflicts between representatives from various categories of involved professionals, and the youngsters and their parents. The study also shows that the client, in such human service organizations, faces a significant risk of being marginalized. Professionals who appreciated the collaboration often drew their conclusions based on their interaction with other professionals, but the collaboration did not guarantee a successful treatment of the client. Conflicts concerning the roles of the coordinators and their written documents (“the agreements”) emerged and were actualized through the creation of the project. The coordinators and their “agreements” can be seen as the project’s most visible representatives and symbols, which during the project become both themes for conflict and actualize already established conflict patterns. The youngsters and their parents appreciated the projects’ coordinators who appeared as personally involved and able to make concrete changes. However, many of youngsters and their parents criticized the coordinators and even portrayed a victim identity in relation to the project. The coordinator’s relationship with the youngsters and their parents was mostly characterized by passivity. This is clearly apparent in the analysis of the administrative and/or passive coordinator. Different alliance constellations became visible in these presentations. When the coordinator roles were altered in the description, the alliance constellations change. It is a common strategy for clients in human service organizations to try to enter into alliances with professionals involved in their cases and, in so doing, try to alter the situation to their own advantage. The fact that these alliances are often sought by the client indicates, among other things, the client’s will to fight against the situation in which he/she finds him/herself. I believe that this can be seen as something productive rather than problematic.
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- Basic, Goran, 1972-, et al.
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School as a protection factor : An analysis of achievements, obstacles, collaboration, and identities in senior high school work with students who use alcohol and drugs
- 2017
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Ingår i: Book of Abstracts. - Zagreb : Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Zagreb. ; , s. 107-108
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Ethnography is a research method in which the researcher (1) engages in a social environment for a long period of time, (2) conducts regular observations of how the participants in this environment behave, (3) listens to and participates in the conversation, (4) interviews informants about phenomena that cannot be observed directly and about which the ethnographer is unclear, (5) collects documentary sources related to this group, (6) develops an understanding of the group’s culture and of human behaviour in the context of this culture, and (7) formulates a detailed account of this environment (Bryman 2016). This study is inspired by ethnographic methodology, where researchers reside within the environments, situations, and interactions they want to learn about. By observing what happens, listening to what is said, asking questions and collecting documents in the practice, the researcher can come to an understanding of the participantsʼ experiences. Adolescence is a unique period in which there is a high potential to influence and change both issues at school and drug abuse problems. However, it may require productive collaboration between professional in the social services and treatment centres and school staff. The environment at school can help create stability in a drug-abusing youths’ life, and the combination of education and treatment is a key factor necessary for these students to build independence. Much remains unknown about improving schooling for students with alcohol and drug problems and the factors involved should therefore be investigated. This study aims to identify and analyse (1) factors in practical and organizational work at senior high schools that are obstructive and promotive to students with alcohol and drug problems; (2) the circumstances teachers and other professional actors in the Swedish school system need to promote the success of students with alcohol and drug problems; (3) implications of school attendance for inclusion, learning, and change in these youths; and (4) implications for the identity construction of these young people related to school situations. By examining the details of the work done by professionals, the results from this study will provide missing knowledge about how to improve schooling for young people with alcohol and drug problems and how this contributes to their inclusion and participation in society. Our hope is that the study will identify conditions and opportunities needed to support young people with alcohol and drug problems in senior high school. Additionally, the information obtained will be used to develop a model for improved collaboration between schools, social services, and various treatment services to improve graduation rates for young people in the target group. In this specific target group, studies are lacking that identify factors that promote or obstruct such cooperation.
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