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- Aspers, Patrik
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Order in Garment Markets
- 2008
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Ingår i: Acta Sociologica. - : SAGE Publications. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; :3, s. 187-202
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this theoretical article is to analyse the social construction of order in two connected markets in the production flow of the global garment industry. The consumer market is identified as a status market, while the production market is defined as a `standard' market. In a `status' market, order is maintained because the identities of actors on both sides of the market are ranked according to status, which is a more entrenched social construction than the commodity traded in the market. In a market characterized by `standard', the situation is the reverse: the commodity is a more entrenched social construction than the identity rankings of actors in the market. The study ties together consumption and production of garments through several markets.
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- Axelsson, Ann-Sofie, 1967, et al.
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Making it Open and Keeping it Safe: e-Enabled Data-Sharing in Sweden
- 2009
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Ingår i: Acta Sociologica. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; 52:2, s. 213-226
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article focuses on data-sharing – a central aspect of an ambitious e-Science programme recently embarked on in Sweden. Data-sharing has become a powerful and promising direction in e-Science in general, even though fraughtwith difficulties. Sweden has a unique position in relation to data-sharing: a worldunique set of social science and medical data collections, a well-established tradition of regulations concerning data protection, a widely used form of personal identification that allows integration of databases, and a population that generally trusts researchers and the Swedish state with personal data. The aim of this study was to find out how Swedish database owners/managers and database users – key actorsin the Swedish e-Science enterprise – anticipate the way that databases will be built up, managed and used in the future, and how this will influence e-Science. For thispurpose, these actors were interviewed and official documents on the topic were studied. It is concluded that openness and the integrity of personal data are particularly critical elements for the success of a range of future e-Science endeavours in Sweden and elsewhere.
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- Benner, Mats
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The Scandinavian challenge - The future of advanced welfare states in the knowledge economy
- 2003
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Ingår i: Acta Sociologica. - : SAGE Publications. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; 46:2, s. 132-149
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Scandinavian countries - Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland - have developed a particular model of welfare, employment and economic governance. It is based on universal access to tax-financed social services and social insurance, full employment secured by expansive macro-economic policies and active labour market policies, highly organized labour markets, corporatist interest mediation, and so on. This article surveys the response of the Scandinavian socio-economic model to the challenges of economic globalization and the rise of a knowledge-based economy. It has repeatedly been stated that this changing economic model 'requires' labour market deregulations, tax cuts and privatizations of public services. The experience of the Scandinavian countries in the 1990s indicates that it is possible to retain traditional commitments to employment and social security by developing active policies for industrial renewal and support of innovation systems, technological development, scientific infrastructures and regional concentrations of industrial competence.
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- Bihagen, Erik
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Rosemary Crompton: Class and Stratification
- 2009
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Ingår i: Acta Sociologica. - : SAGE Publications. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; 52:2, s. 176-191
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Borell, Klas
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Terrorism and Everyday Life in Beirut 2005 : Mental Re-Constructions, Precautions and Normalization
- 2008
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Ingår i: Acta Sociologica. - : SAGE Publications. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; 51:1, s. 55-70
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although the psychological stress created by terror has beenextensively researched, little has been written about the subjectiveexperience of living with terror. How do people perceive riskand how do they adjust their daily lives? The Lebanese capitalBeirut suffered from a wave of bomb attacks following the assassinationof Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on 14 February2005. In order to examine people's reactions and ways of copingwith these events, 14 focus group interviews (n = 77) were conductedin targeted areas. The findings suggest that Beirutis couldno longer rely on the taken-for-granted routines of daily life.By changing their routes to school or work and avoiding publicplaces, they restricted their daily activities. However, thedata also suggest that targeted people attempted to normalizetheir everyday lives. Two strategies were employed. The firstcan be described as bracketing in time and space, which meansthat people tried to benefit from periods they perceived asmoments of reprieve, and that they defined business and privatespace as safe havens. Bracketing can also be described as re-normalization,i.e. as an attempt to return to the previous state of `normality'.The other strategy can be described as crisis normalizationand means that the new evaluations of the risks and new patternsof action adopted, which originally deviated from people's establishedroutines, themselves became routinized.
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- Carleheden, Mikael, 1958-
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John Sitton: Habermas and contemporary society
- 2006
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Ingår i: Acta Sociologica. - : Sage Publications. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; 49:1, s. 113-114
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- Dribe, Martin, et al.
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Intermarriage and Immigrant Integration in Sweden An Exploratory Analysis
- 2008
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Ingår i: Acta Sociologica. - : SAGE Publications. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; 51:4, s. 329-354
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, we explore marital exogamy ( especially intermarriage between immigrants and natives) among 39 different immigrant groups using cross-sectional registry data for the total immigrant populations in Sweden in 2003. Immigrants who are better educated, who spend a longer time in Sweden before marriage and live outside the bigger cities are more likely to be married to natives. Controlling for age at immigration, education, time between immigration and marriage, settlement size and the relative size of the immigrant group of the opposite sex, immigrants from Western Europe ( excluding Finland) and the United States are more likely to be married to natives than are other immigrants. We also analyse the link between intermarriage and economic integration, with the results indicating a strong association between intermarriage and economic integration in terms of employment and income. Immigrants married to natives are more likely to be employed, and also to have higher individual and household income.
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- Edlund, Jonas, 1963-
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The influence of the class situations of husbands and wives on class identity, party preference and attitudes towards redistribution : Sweden, Germany and the United States
- 2003
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Ingår i: Acta Sociologica. - : SAGE Publications. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; 46:3, s. 195-214
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The influences of female employment on working couples' class-based identities, preferences towards government redistribution, and choice of political party in Sweden, Germany, and the US are analysed in this article. Two issues are of interest. The first is the unit of class composition: families (conventional approach) versus individuals (individual approach). The results indicate that the conventional approach explains more of the variation in the dependent variables than does the individual approach. However, in many cases the inclusion of female employment within the class schema increases the explanatory power of social class significantly. The second issue is cross-country variation. Based on assumptions about the post-industrial economy, a hypothesis concerning cross-country variation in class-gender patterns is tested. In contrast to the hypothesis, the data show that female employment influences are greatest in Germany, closely followed by Sweden. In the US, influences of female employment on working couples' socio-political orientations are negligible.
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- Edlund, Jonas
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Trust in the capability of the welfare state and general welfare state support: Sweden 1997-2002
- 2006
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Ingår i: Acta Sociologica. - : SAGE Publications. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; 49:4, s. 395-417
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A central component of institutional trust is related to perceptions of state capacity. Claims have been made that if citizens’ experiences with the state tell them that the government is efficacious, fair and trustworthy, then the odds for supporting publicly financed welfare policies are higher compared to a situation when their experiences with government feed feelings of inefficiency, corruption, unfairness and arbitrary discretion. The general question guiding the empirical analysis is the following: Is distrust in institutional capability an important prerequisite for general welfare state support withdrawal? Relying on Swedish nationally representative survey data, this issue is examined using Latent Class Analysis (LCA). Empirical evidence suggests that distrust in the institutional capability of the welfare state has not translated into widespread anti-welfare state sentiments. For some citizens, distrust in the capability of the welfare state is an issue of insufficient resources and they are willing to increase social spending in order to improve social services and benefits. For other citizens, distrust is closely connected with anti-welfare state sentiments. The article discusses the implications of the results for arguments about institutional trust and welfare state support.
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- Eliaeson, Sven
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Gunnar Myrdal : A Theorist of Modernity
- 2000
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Ingår i: Acta Sociologica. - London : Sage. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; 43:4, s. 331-342
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Gunnar Myrdal's contribution to social science could be encapsulated in the following key words: secularization, intellectual migration and trans-Atlantic reciprocity, objectivity and value-intrusion (-bias), the role of philanthropy, Protestant reform creed, social engineering, and national styles of research. Myrdal's central role in the history of social thought is his part in facilitating the diffusion of Weberian value-orientation, despite differences in nuances between Myrdal and his neo-Kantian predecessors. His oeuvre is multi-disciplinary and he could himself be characterized in terms of a number of antinomies, such as the parochial cosmopolitan, the patriotic internationalist, the compassionate 'nihilist'. the elitist egalitarian, the social Darwinist anti-racist, the male chauvinist feminist, the ahistorical 'historicist', the conservative socialist, etc. He never hesitated to take a controversial position. Essentially he is a theorist of modernity, combining ambiguity and antinomies with anti-metaphysics (anti-natural law, instrumental means-end-analyses).
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- Ferlander, Sara
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The importance of different forms of social capital for health
- 2007
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Ingår i: Acta Sociologica. - : SAGE Publications. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; 50:2, s. 115-128
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the concept of social capital and to distinguish its different forms, focusing on their potential effects on health. According to many scholars, social capital comprises social networks, norms of reciprocity or social support and social trust. In this article the core element, the social network, has been further distinguished by the direction of ties and levels of formality, strength and diversity. In the past few years there has been increased interest in social capital in the health field and a great deal of research has suggested that social capital is generally positively related to health. However, little research has been conducted into how different forms of social capital or social networks influence health. What is the difference, for instance, between bonding and bridging social capital in terms of health outcomes? It is important to distinguish the different forms because they imply different resources, support and obligations. More research needs to be conducted into the different forms of social capital and their effects on health. A special focus should be placed on the health impacts of cross-cutting - or bridging and linking - forms of social capital.
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- Forsberg [Gottzén], Lucas, 1977-
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Managing Time and Childcare in Dual-Earner Families Unforeseen Consequences of Household Strategies
- 2009
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Ingår i: Acta Sociologica. - : SAGE Publications. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; 52:2, s. 162-175
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article documents how dual-earner families employ different household strategies when managing time and childcare in everyday life. In particular, the focus is the unforeseen consequences of household strategies, that is, novel emerging problems, cultural ideals and subjectivities. In this ethnographic study of eight middle-class couples in Sweden, I analyse three household strategies: delegating, alternating and multitasking. While parents apparently use these strategies to juggle the multiple demands of everyday life in a time-efficient way, they also comply with a norm of involved parenthood. Thus, when employing household strategies, the parents balance between enacting themselves as involved parents and running the risk of being understood as uninvolved.
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- Hansen, Peo
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Book Review: Keith Banting and Will Kymlicka (eds) Multiculturalism and the Welfare State: Recognition and Redistribution in Contemporary Democracies Oxford: Oxford University Press
- 2008
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Ingår i: Acta Sociologica. - : SAGE Publications. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; 51, s. 375-377
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- Until a few years ago, our chosen multicultural approach allowed some cultural and religious groups to pursue an aggressive strategy against our values. The targets of this ill-conceived ‘attack’ were individual rights, equality of gender, respect for women and monogamy. We have to combat this dangerous attitude, which can destroy the fabric of our societies, and we have to work hard to build up and pursue a positive integration approach (Frattini, 2007). While this ill-concealed Muslim-baiting statement could have been issued from within any one of the national political establishments in today’s Europe, the enunciator in the particular case before us is no one less than ‘Europe’ herself; that is, the European Commission as represented by its vice-president and Commissioner responsible for Justice, Freedom and Security, Franco Frattini. But as seen, the statement, which was made at the Lisbon High-level Conference on migration in 2007, does not only depict European culture as verging on the edge of being annihilated by an aggressive Muslim ‘enemy within’. It also identifies the original cause of this emergency: multiculturalism.
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- Heidegren, Carl-Göran
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Recognition and Social Theory
- 2004
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Ingår i: Acta Sociologica. - : SAGE Publications. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; 47, s. 365-373
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- A review essay discussing the debate between Axel Honneth and Nancy Fraser on recognition and redistribution, the topic of recognition in relation to the sociology of work, and recognition-research in the Nordic countries.
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- Hjerm, Mikael, 1969-
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Anti-Immigrant Attitudes and Cross-Municipal Variation in the Proportion of Immigrants
- 2009
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Ingår i: Acta Sociologica. - : SAGE. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; 52:1, s. 47-62
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, I set out to test a specific case of group threat theory, namely the size of the minority population. My general aim is to test whether the proportion of immigrants in Swedish municipalities has any effect on anti-immigrant attitudes. More specifically, I examine whether visibility of immigrants matters, via country of origin, as well as whether different contexts intensify the relation between size of the minority population and anti-immigrant attitudes. I conclude that the proportion of the foreign-born population has no effect on anti-immigrant attitudes, whereas people have fewer anti-immigrant attitudes in municipalities with a high proportion of the most visible groups of immigrants. A recent influx of immigrants to the municipality does not matter for levels of anti-immigrant attitudes. However, the economic context matters in that anti-immigrant attitudes of people are strongest in poor municipalities with a large share of immigrants. The political context, on the other hand, does not matter.
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- Jacobsson, Kerstin, et al.
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A sociology of scandal and moral transgression : the Swedish ’ Nannygate ’ scandal
- 2008
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Ingår i: Acta Sociologica. - : SAGE. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; 51:3, s. 203-216
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, we use the case of a government scandal in Sweden to develop a theoretical perspective by which to understand the moral nature of political scandals. We draw on insights from Durkheim's sociology of morality and point, inter alia, to the ritual character of scandals. However, in contrast to most Durkheimian readings, the perspective presented does not presume the existence of a moral consensus. The scandal is understood as a confrontation between various systems of norms. Rather than confirming a given moral order, scandals provoke moral positioning and help in clarifying — and dramatizing — lines of difference or conflict. The empirical case studied is a government scandal in Sweden in 2006 (Nannygate) that forced two government ministers to resign after less than 10 days in office when it was revealed that they had not paid their TV licence and, moreover, had bought `black' (untaxed) services. This transgression provoked a massive public reaction at the time.
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- Johansson, Mats, 1959, et al.
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Wage differentials and gender discrimination - Changes in Sweden 1981-98
- 2005
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Ingår i: ACTA SOCIOLOGICA. - London : SAGE Publications. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; 48:4, s. 341-364
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this article is to follow the development of the Swedish gender earnings gap through the 1980s and 1990s. We follow the changes in the wage gap and in factors to which it can be related year-by-year by analysing crosssectional data from Statistics Sweden (HEK) for the years 1981 and 1983–98. The results show that the unadjusted wage gap varied between 12 and 15 per cent of the average male wage up to 1989, when the differentials began to increase. During the 1990s the size of the gap was around 14–18 per cent. In a decomposition analysis we find that the measured differences in jobs and qualifications between women and men can account only for between two-fifths and three-fifths of the gender wage gap, if they are assumed to be rewarded according to the male wage function. If the female wage function is applied, even less of the differentials are explained. Differences in the educational requirements for jobs have contributed considerably to gender earnings inequality. The impact has decreased over the period studied, however, and is about half as large in the 1990s as it was in the 1980s.
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- Johansson Sevä, Ingemar
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Local contexts, social risks and social spending preferences : a multi-level approach
- 2009
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Ingår i: Acta Sociologica. - : SAGE Publications. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; 52:3, s. 249-262
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, I analyse the relationship between local context and individuals´ social spending preferences in Sweden. The contextual unit studied is the municipality and the analyses are based on both individual-level survey data (n = 5,324) and municipal-level data. Multi-level modelling is used to handle data at both levels simultaneously. It is suggested that the presence of social risks in the local community affects whether individuals are willing to support high social spending. It is argued that the interdependent nature of certa in social risks, such as local unemployment rates, depopulation and labour market structure, is an important factor explaining contextual influence on social spending preferences. The results indicate that the prevalence of social risks in a municipality affect the willingness of local inhabitants to support high social spending. Support for high social spending tends to be greater, taking individual-level determinants into account, in municipalities suffering from unemployment, ill health, depopulation, a low tax base and an industry sector dominated by agriculture and manufacturing. This finding also indicates that contextual influence on olitical attitudes might not be restricted to interpersonal interaction, as often suggested in past research.
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- Mood, Carina
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Social Influence Effects on Social Assistance Recipiency
- 2004
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Ingår i: Acta Sociologica. - : SAGE Publications. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; 47:3, s. 235-251
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A potential self-reinforcing component in the dynamics of social assistance (SA) is analyzed in this paper. The core hypothesis is that the SA recipiency of others can assert a positive influence on an individual's propensity to apply for SA. The mechanisms through which such influence may operate are discussed and a set of hypotheses linking individual action and macro-level SA are proposed and tested by means of pooled cross-sections time-series analysis. Data on all individuals aged 20-25 in the Stockholm region who received SA in the years 1990-9 are used for the analyses. Results indicate that the level of SA in one year has a positive effect on the next year's inflow of new SA recipients and a negative effect on the outflow, even when other relevant factors are controlled for. This lends support to the hypothesis of a self-reinforcing process.
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- Moors, Guy, et al.
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Splitting up or getting married? : Competing Risk Analysis of Transitions Among Cohabiting Couples in Sweden
- 2009
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Ingår i: Acta Sociologica. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; 52:3, s. 227-247
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article we investigate which ideational variables influence the propensity of cohabiting couples to transform their union into marriage, separation or continued cohabitation. The question is particularly relevant in the Swedish context of considerable social acceptance of unmarried cohabitation even among parents. A two-wave panel study including 705 never-married respondents cohabiting at the time of the first survey shows that ideational factors influence subsequent behaviour, even when different sets of control variables are included in the model. Familistic attitudes, work-related values and reflections about the quality of the relationship prove to be predictors of the transition to either marriage or separation, even when intentions are taken into account.
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- Nordenmark, Mikael
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Multiple social roles and well-being : a longitudinal test of the role stress theory and the role expansion theory
- 2004
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Ingår i: Acta Sociologica. - : SAGE Publications. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; 47:2, s. 115-126
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In general, Western societies believe that people should engage in a multitude of social activities and develop multiple social roles. The assumption is that having multiple roles is beneficial to the individual. However, it also means that life is more complex and that people have to handle sometimes conflicting demands. Earlier research on the effects of multiple roles on individual well-being has not provided a clear picture, some results supporting the role stress theory and some the role expansion theory. This article tests empirically the relevance of the role stress theory and the role expansion theory by analysing whether having multiple social roles in general decreases or increases individual well-being. The results are based on a panel study of nearly 9000 randomly selected Swedes. The conclusion is that both number of social roles and any increase in social roles are negatively correlated with the risk of suffering from insomnia and a lingering illness, and the risk of being on regular medication for a lingering illness. These findings indicate that having multiple social roles increases individual well-being; the results therefore support the role expansion theory.
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- Olsson, Elin
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The Role of Relations : Do Disadvantaged Adolescents Benefit More from High-Quality Social Relations?
- 2009
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Ingår i: Acta Sociologica. - : SAGE Publications. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; 52:3, s. 263-286
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- The article interrogates whether the social background of adolescents affects (1) the quality of their relations with parents and teachers, and (2) the potentially beneficial effects of these relations on school-related and psychological outcomes. Previous studies suggest that social background does affect the quality of social relations, although weakly, and that these in turn affect various outcomes. However, the results are inconclusive as to whether the quality of social relations of different importance for adolescents from different social backgrounds, and such an interaction effect could be predicted from different perspectives. The data are based on a nationally representative sample of Swedish adolescents between 10 and 18 years of age (n = 2,645) and include several aspects of social background, social relations and outcomes. The data are ideally suited to this question, in that information about social relations and outcomes is child-reported, while information on social background is parent-reported and based on register data. The results confirm that social relations are conducive to various outcomes, and show that disadvantaged adolescents have weaker relations with parents and teachers. Furthermore, they imply that relations with teachers are of particular importance for disadvantaged adolescents’ school and psychological outcomes, while parental relations are equally important for both advantaged and disadvantaged adolescents.
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- Rauch, Dietmar
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Is there really a Scandinavian social service model? : A comparison of childcare and elderlycare in six european countries
- 2007
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Ingår i: Acta Sociologica. - : Scandinavian Sociological Association. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; 50:3, s. 249-269
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Scandinavian countries are often assumed to constitute a coherent and unique social service model characterized by a comparatively high level of universalism and a strong capacity to defamilialize care responsibilities. In examining whether we really can identify such a model when comparing current social service systems, social services in the Scandinavian countries are contrasted with their counterparts in three continental European countries. The resulting data indicate that only Denmark complies with the image of the Scandinavian social service model. Both Norway and Sweden deviate significantly. Norwegian childcare services and Swedish elderlycare services do not stand out as particularly universalistic or defamilializing compared with those of other Western European countries. Given these findings, it may be questioned whether it is reasonable to speak of a `Scandinavian social service model'.
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- Sandell, Kerstin, 1963-
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Ingunn Brita Moser. Road traffic accidents
- 2005
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Ingår i: Acta Sociologica. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; 48:3, s. 263-265
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- Sellerberg, Ann-Mari
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Review of Using the bodies of the dead: Legal, ethical and organisational dimensions of organ transplantation
- 2000
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Ingår i: Acta Sociologica. - : SAGE Publications. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; 43:1, s. 90-92
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Recension (refereegranskat)abstract
- Reviews the book, Using the Bodies of the Dead: Legal, Ethical and Organisational Dimensions of Organ Transplantation by Nora Machado (1998). Machado's book is important for impressing this fact on the reader. Machado describes the strains that arise when an individual is reduced from being someone's next of kin, the focus of a private and above all family-oriented situation, to being a body, and thus the object of health care policies and legislation. Many borders are crossed in this process, not only the physiological, but also the cultural, legal and ethical. The alchemical translation from dead body to collection of living organs occurs. then, within the organ transplantation system. Machado shows that with new technology and the need for organs comes an intermediate position: the living dead. The duality inherent in the system provides a fertile soil for horror stories. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
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- Trondman, Mats, 1955-
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Jeffrey C. Alexander The Civil Sphere
- 2009
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Ingår i: Acta Sociologica. - : Sage Publications. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; 52:2, s. 190-191
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- Wahlström, Mattias, 1978, et al.
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Between the State and the Market: Expanding the Concept of 'Political Opportunity Structure'
- 2006
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Ingår i: Acta Sociologica. - : SAGE Publications. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; 49:4, s. 363-377
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- This article brings together two research traditions: social movement theory and theories of corporate social responsibility. The study is an attempt to widen the perspective on the relationship between a business/business sector and its external stakeholders in order to include social movements. We depart from a three-part model of political opportunity structures, including state, cultural and economic opportunity structures. In order to illustrate our model, the article is centred on the case of the Swedish animal rights movements' political pressure on domestic fur-farming. The animal rights movement has had considerable success by engaging with a relatively open cultural opportunity structure, winning a framing war in regard to the moral issues raised. Despite the fur industry's attempts to counter-mobilize, the animal rights movement has found a hearing in formal political channels and has achieved considerable success. However, since the movement is faced with an economic opportunity structure that is not vulnerable to the demands of stakeholders, and where there is great inconsistency between the interests of the industry and the demands of the stakeholders, it is not surprising that the farmers have been non-compliant.
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- Westberg, Annika, 1972-, et al.
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Youth Problems: What's the Problem? : A Longitudinal Study of Incomes and Economic Hardship Among Swedish Youth
- 2006
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Ingår i: Acta Sociologica. - : Sage Publications. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; 49:1, s. 83-102
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The questions addressed in this study are: first, what factors determine the economic situation among the young, and, second, what aspects in youth have a long-term impact on their economic situation as adults? The empirical analysis builds on a three-wave panel covering a period of 16 years. Growth curve modelling is used to estimate changes over time. The main results are: Young people's incomes say little about their current standard of living or future earnings ability. Economic deprivation during youth is unrelated to the development of deprivation over time. Hence, the finding that young people in general face economic difficulties does not mean a problem with lasting implications. Labour market situation and household characteristics during youth are relativelyl unrelated to development later in life. However, long-term unemployment hampers young people's economy in the long run. Most importantly, the results of this analysis emphasize the importance of the reproduction of class and gender relations. It is these two fundamental aspects, more than anything else, that affect young people on their way into adulthood and in their future life as adults.
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