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- Ahrne, Göran
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Vad hände på åttiotalet?
- 1997
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 34:1-2, s. 269-282
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- Alvesson, Mats, et al.
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Att synliggöra organisation eller ”Arne Weise har fan inte sålt nånting”. Löpsedelsmöte på Aftonpressen
- 1995
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 32:3, s. 3-42
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article aims to illuminate certain cultural aspects of the work of an evening newspaper (working style, ways of thinking, assumptions about the business, its objectives, perceptions of the readership) as well as how communication in group situations contributes to the social construction of organizations in terms of objectives, meaning and style. The paper will also address the issues of play, emotions and pleasure on work. It is argued that a situational focus, when studying organizations and other social phenomena, provides a less constrained understanding of the object than predominant systemic approaches. The situation, as studied and discussed here, is a monthly meeting between managers and news bill editors of an evening newspaper where sales and the content of news bills are evaluated. It is concluded that, while the premise for the meeting (the casual relation between sales and news bill layout) guides the conversation, the meeting primarily operates as an emotional arena where excitement and pleasure are produced under game-like circumstances. This allows the participants to address, in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, questions such as:Who are we? How do we look upon ourselves? Who are our customers? What ’needs’ shall we satisify? What is important and good? What is central? How do we work? How do we think about certain things?While some answers are provided and reinforced, the main outcome of the meeting is the possibility, however restricted, to pose these questions and play with them. Thus, the participants manage to establish a zone with considerable degrees of freedom; free from committments but not free from remainders of who they are or ought to be.
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- Anttila, Clint A
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Paradigmkrig och fred: om argumentationsanalysen som integrerande grund inom socialvetenskap
- 1995
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 32:4, s. 58-85
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Paradigm war and peace: argumentation analysis as a basis for integrationThis article shows that argumentation theory can serve as a fruitful methodological basis for empirical research in social science. Choosing this methodological perspective makes it possible to integrate criticism and methods, deriving from opposing positions in the so called paradigm wars, into a rational discourse. This is illustrated by means of an example of social work research concerning traumatic experiences and distinct phases in the process of recovery.
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- Anttila, Sten T
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Att förhålla sig till tidigare forskning: ett argumentationsanalytiskt perspektiv
- 1998
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 35:1, s. 31-55
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The problem of how to relate to previous research in the research process is severe when normal science has not been established, e.g. as in the case of sociology and as in certain fields of inter-disciplinary research. Yet, this problem has been more or less neglected in methodological textbooks. Under non-normal circumstances the reasoning is often very complex and it may be difficult to determine which literature is relevant to relate to and how this should be done. Thus, an explicit and systematic strategy is needed to make the problem more comprehensible. It is argued that argument analysis (cf. critical thinking) can serve this purpose. In addition, a hypothesis concerning the importance of the cognitive dimension in soft sciences is outlined.
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- Arvidsson, Adam
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Från hemmafru till autentisk människa : Kärlek och reklam i Vecko Revyn 1942-94
- 1996
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 33:4, s. 16-35
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article is based on a study of advertising and material covering ”existential issues”, such as love, sexuality and the body in a Swedish young women’s magazine ”Vecko Revyn”. The period studied runs from 1942-94.It’s main argument is that the representation of female identity has gone through three distinct phases: During the 1940-50’s, the subject of these discourses was represented as a ’type’ who was attributed needs for commodities as well as romantic emotions with reference to expectations contained in a certain social role. During the 1960-70:s she was represented as an individual who’s primary concern was to express her own individuality. During the 1980-90:s, finally, she became an authentic ”person” concerned not only with expressing, but also with finding her own subjectivity.A similar development has been a core assumption of some recent sociological theories particularlyemployed within the field of youth research. There it has been argued that individual identity has become to a lesser extent determined by social structure and to an increasing extent the product of a ”reflexive” process of identity formation, leading to an overriding concern with subjective authenticity. Although the observations presented indeed seem to give some additional credibility to such an assumption, it is argued that these changes - at least as far as advertising goes, might be better explained by innovations in the techniques of representation employed by the advertising industry.
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- Aspelin, Jonas
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Thomas J Scheffs socialpsykologi. En introduktion
- 1996
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 33:1, s. 71-86
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This articel is an introduction to the socialpsychology of Thomas J Scheff. Scheff is a Professor emeritus at University of California, Santa Barbara. His work has not been introduced for a Swedish audience before, and therefore the article concentrates on some general aspects of the theory. It begins with a part where some characteristic aspects of Scheffs theory is outlined in relation to a more conventional socialpsychology. The text continues with a treatment of the central concepts of the theory. Social bond is the most important concept. Social bonds are the forces that keeps people together. In Scheffs view the buildning of bonds is the most fundamental human motive. The status of the social bond can be discovered in different ways. The method Scheff uses includes description, interpretation and analysis of communication, both in the verbal and the non-verbal sence. Scheff argues that strong bonds are built through communication that follows specific forms. The concept attunement is apt to describe these forms. The status of the bond is also dependent on the degree of differentiation in the relation. Secure bonds follows from optimal differentiation. Broken or damaged bonds can be characterized in terms of alienation. Scheff speaks of two main forms of alienation; engulfinent and isolation. A third factor that is important for the status of the bond is the kinds of emotions that operate in its maintenance. Shame and pride is according to this theory the master-emotions in human existence. They play a primary role in human conduct by giving the actors instinctive indications of the status of the bond. The last part of the article deals with what the theory has to say about social relationships in the modem society.
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- Aspers, Patrik
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Om vetenskaplig realism
- 1997
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 34:4, s. 73-80
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- Bertilsson, Margareta
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Till kritiken av den kvalitativa metoden
- 1995
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 32:4, s. 18-31
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Towards a critique of the "qualitative method"This article is based on a plenary speech (Sw. Sociological Association) in which several critical remarks were directed against the frequent and popular use of ’qualitative methods’ in contemporary sociology. The various types of remarks were: (1) Is the qualitative method anti-positivistic (2) Does it draw upon a different form of rationality than the quantitative method (3) Is the qualitative method more suitable for women than for men, and finally (4) Is the qualitative method ”deconstructivist” and/or ”postmodern”? The article ends with a critical discussion of which the possible consequences may be for the sociological discipline as such, when the qualitative method (or for that matter, women) come to dominate.
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- Blomberg, Helena, et al.
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Socialklass och attityderna till nedskärningar i välfärdssystemet i Finland
- 1996
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 33:4, s. 57-78
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Social class and attitude towards cuts in the welfare system in FinlandIn various earlier studies focusing on the expansion of the welfare state social class has proven to be of great significance in explaining attitudinal cleavages among citizens. This study focuses mainly on how social class influences attitudes towards cuts in three main types of welfare programmes in Finland, namely eamings-related and universal cash benefits and also universal social services and, further, to look for possible attitude differences within the classes. In addition to class, explanatory variables both mainly related to the individual's self-interest and to socialisation were included in the analysis. The study is based on data concerning respondents active in working life (N=1178) included in a Finnish nationwide survey. Results show that the attitudinal differences between social classes vary depending on the type of benefit. The greatest differences between social classes are to be found in the case of eamings-related benefits and the smallest in the case of universal cash benefits. Attitudes within the social classes vary the most among lower white-collar employees, whose attitudes are differentiated by many different explanatory variables. When it comes to variables mainly related to socialisation, the social class of the father is most important in explaining variations in attitudes; respondents with blue-collar worker fathers more often resist cuts than do respondents of the same class whose fathers are farmers or whitecollar employees. These differences are greatest among higher professionals. This finding suggests that analyses of welfare attitudes might gain from including other than only the traditional, mainly self-interest based explanatory variables. Comparing with the results from previous studies, gender seems to be of greater importance when explaining attitudes towards cuts in the welfare system; women more often resist cuts than men do. Hence, the study shows that attitudes towards cuts in the welfare system might be partially influenced by different factors than attitudes towards an expansion of the welfare system.
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- Borell, Klas
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När Michels oligarkilag kom till Sverige : Debatten om partiliv och demokratisering
- 1997
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 43:1/2, s. 149-176
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- During his work on Zur Soziologie des Parteiwesens in der Modernen Demokratie (1911) Robert Michels was exposed to the rival influences of Weber and Italian theories of elites. At the same time, he moved from an emphasis on a syndicalistic critique of democracy in the labour movement to a determinedly sceptical attitude to democracy. The inconsistencies in Michels' magnum opus resulted in a complex political as well as scientific reception of the Iron Law of Oligarchy in Sweden between 1911 and 1920. For the conservative and nationalistic Young Right, Michels' book illustrated the nature of parliamentary government and the party system as simply veiled oligarchy. The Young Right, thereby, seized on the aspects in Michels' work dealing with the theory of elites, though the differences between Michels and the Young Right are at the same time crucial. For Michels party oligarchies were a problem of democracy, whereas for the Young Right they were a national question; modern party politics hides and distracts from the interests of the nation. Dispite these differentb points of departure, Michels and the Young Right develop a similar discussion about how the "quantitative" feature of democracy can be replaced by a more "qualitative" form of government. For the Young Right the nation could be saved by an authoritarian, corporative form of government, and in time Michels found in fascism an alternative to a "hypocritical" and "ineffective" democracy. The Left within the Social Democratic Party also seized in Michels' work. However, the Left did not seek a general theory in it but rather a diagnosis of the condition of the labour movement. Under the general concept of oligarchy the left was able to collect its criticism of the Social Democratic Party's methods of exploiting the new parliamentary opportunities that arose in this period. As the opposition between the left and right wings of the party intensified, the Left moved closer to the sceptical attitudes to democracy contained in Zur Soziologie des Partewesens. Gustaf Steffen, a sociologist, and during the first part of the decade a Social Democratic senator, tried, in a polemic against both the Left and Michels, to provide a 'scientific basis' for the Social Democratic Party position. Steffen's contribution strongly emphasised the importance of the right of freedom of action for elected representatives, a tendency which was strengthened when Steffen became pro-German, as did the Young Right, during the First World War. Steffen's sociology was subordinated to both the desire to revise the doctrines of the Social Democratic Party and a critique of the entente powers.
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- Brante, Thomas
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kausal realism och sociologi
- 1997
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 34:1-2, s. 311-335
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- Brante, Thomas
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Replik: Om kausal realism
- 1997
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 34:4, s. 81-91
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- Bäck-Wiklund, Margareta, et al.
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Moderna fäder mellan tradition och relation
- 1996
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 33:1, s. 48-70
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Modern fathers - between tradition and relationResearch on families simultaneously shows change and instability and duration and stability. Research on men as fathers bears the same contradiction, showing a man, who has got both traditional and more family and relation oriented characteristics. By asking men and women to tell about their life plans, their experiences of family life, gender and equality, we have tried to get hold of changes between ideal and gender identity, within the family context. The results show that the family with the focus on the children dominates the life plan of men and of women. We also find great similarities between the sexes in what they tell as about their family project. Differences appear, however, in what men and women tell us about what they do in their everyday family praxis. In the conflict between traditional roles, equality and every day praxis, men and women create routines which are effective, but also producing ambivalence in the conception of one self as parent, sex partner and equal partner of a married couple.
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- Cassegård, Carl
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Livsvärldens rationalisering och studiet av partikularism
- 1997
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 34:3, s. 59-78
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- Particularism and the reationalization of the lifeworldA phenomenon that has attracted increasing attention during the last decades is particularism (e.g. ethnic identification, nationalism). I belive that Habermas’ theory of the rationalization of the lifeworld can be made fruitful for the study of this phenomenon. The concept of the ”rationalization of the lifeworld”, however,needs to be differentiated in order to grasp the ambivalent character of modern particularism, which is both rational and irrational. It is rational in the sense that it is often supported by conscious reasons; it is irrational in the sense that these reasons do not claim validity outside of the particular group. I therefore propose that the concept of ”the rationalization of the lifeworld” be divided in two: critical rationalization and generalization. Critical rationalization means an increase in people's ability to critizice beliefs and that justifications therefore have to be made more explicit. Generalization means that justifications are made more generally acceptable. These two kinds of rationalization are not always parallell. They are separate processes, and modern particularism is, I believe, the result of a divergence of critical rationalization and generalization. This differentiation of the conceptof rationalization is therefore a necessary first step in order to turn Habermas’ theory into a theory of particularism. It also has the advantage of more clearly bringing into light some features of his view of reification.
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- Cigéhn, Göran
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Klassidentitet vid seklets slut
- 1999
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 35:1, s. 121-139
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Class identity at the end of the centuryThere has been a long term decline in working class identity in Sweden since the fifties, but now, in the late nineties, there has been a strong shift upwards. This can be seen in two Swedish survey data sets from 1993 and 1997. Data also show a widening gap between classes regarding class identity and other class related beliefs and opinions. These findings can be interpreted as an increasing class polarization concerning ideological orientations. Former strong associations between class and such orientations have become even stronger. Class voting has weakened in absolute terms (i.e. using the Alford index) when comparing the working and middle classes. However, if you control for class identity there is a remarkably strong class voting tendency when using odds ratios as a measure of relative class voting. Class voting is also highly dependent on class origin. Workers with working class origin and working class identity have a very pronounced tendency to support socialist parties compared to their middle class opposites. Such a comparison gives an unusually high score on the Alford index. The idea of ”the death of class” can find no support in these findings, on the contrary the class society seems to hold a real firm grasp of its citizens.
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- Dahlström, Edmund
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Agnostiska tankar om döende och död
- 1996
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 33:4, s. 5-15
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Some agnostic thoughts about dying and deathI take my point of departure in an agnostic and liberal view. People should be offered such forms of dying and death that fit their cosmology and views of the good life and death. Not believing in a life after corporal death means emphasising everyday life and social networks. The paper has four themes: 1) The tendency to conceal and deny death as an existential condition of life needs to be analysed and questioned. 2) Dying and death are sequestrated in modem society and should be brought together with everyday life. 3) The medical control and steering of the dying process is based on some evaluative presumption that needs to be elucidated and discussed. 4) Human sciences should give more attention to the social consequences of death and the shaping of such institutional rites of passage from living to dead that consoles, reliefs, confirms, reconciles, reintegrates and supports the immediately involved.
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- Dahlström, Edmund
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Manuel Castells tankar om informationsåldern
- 1999
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 36:4, s. 114-124
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- Dahlström, Edmund
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Sociologi och samhälleliga värderingar. En självbiografisk illustration
- 1997
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 34:3, s. 7-24
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- Sociology and social values. an autobiographical illustrationThis paper gives a self-biographical illustration of how prevailing ideas and social structures have influenced the directions, presumptions and interpretations of the author’s research and research-results during the post-war period with its radical social changes. The science-, planning- and development-optimistic ideas of the late 1940’s and 1950’s made the author inclined towards a positivistic kind of sociology. The radical critical ideas of the 1960’s and 1970’s influenced the author towards a socialistic optimistic type of sociology focusing on welfare reforms, equality and democracy. The crisis period of the 1980s and 1990s made the author sceptical towards ”fundamentalistic” sociology, characterized by too many presumptions and evaluations. The age of uncertainty requires the invention of a more careful and sensitive critical sociology and new forms of politics beyond the Left and Right that can cope with today’s social problems concerning environmental destruction, global market-processes and global economic crises, ethnic and gender conflicts and the crises of the national welfare state.
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- Diaz, Jose Alberto
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Debatt
- 1995
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 32:3, s. 89-92
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- Diaz, Jose Alberto
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”Flyktingvännerna” - altruism, attitydkonsistens och sociala profil
- 1995
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 32:1, s. 56-73
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- Friends of refugees - On refugee altruism, attitude inconsistency and sociological derminantsThis article presents an analysis of attitudes towards immigrants within the Swedish population based on a national representative sample of 1030 people (originally collected by the Swedish Institute for Opinion Research, SIFO, in 1993). The analysis focuses on sociological dimensions and profiles on the category of people who are generally positive towards refugees and immigrants. This is tentatively defines here as ”refugee alturism”. Frequencies of the two survey items used to operationalize this term show that its social dimensionis quite limited. The analysis reports several manifestations of ”attitude inconsistency” within this category, for instance 1) many people who would like Sweden to take in more immigrants demand at the same tame that the immigration rules should be more restrictive, or do not believe that immigrations entails benefits for the country; 2) people who believe that immigration implies benefits for the country want more restrictive immigration rules. Another unexpected finding concerns the low level of social interaction between refugee-altruistic Swedes and immigrants. Many respondents who answer that immigration is good for the country, or who want Sweden to let in more foreigners do not interact themselves much with foreigners. Finally, a multivariate analysis tests the relevance of three sets of explanatory variables. Gender, age and ethnicity show a weak single impact on attitudes when all the effects are controlled. Variables such as education, white-collar position and employment in the public sector, as well as social resources (people who have partners and children) are important in predicting positive attitudes towards immigrants.
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- Djurfeldt, Göran
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Familjebrukets sociologi. Porträtt av den svenske bonden före EU-inträdet
- 1998
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 35:1, s. 5-30
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- The sociology of family farming: Portrait of the Swedish farmer before the EU entryWith the starting point in an ideal-typical definition of the notional family farm, and building on survey data from three parts of Sweden, in this article a portrait of the Swedish farmer is drawn. Family farming is central, both as a goal for European agricultural policy and as a motivating force for the life and work of the farmers. The author argues that family farming should be the focal point also for the sociology of agriculture. The article builds upon a typology of farms developed in earlier works. It is used to analyse the life and work situation of Swedish farmer households before the entry into EU which is analysed in view of the contingent autonomy taken as characteristic of family farming. The analysis demonstrates the price which Swedish farming households are forced to pay for what they tend to call their ”freedom”. Swedish farmers, especially the men, have uniquely high levels of political mobilisation, and they are also much engaged in their own co-operative organisations. Finally, the author shows how farmers’ images of the future reflect the basic predicament of family farming, i.e. on the one hand its contingent autonomy and on the other its importance as a motivating force. A scenario developed on the basis of farmers” future planning shows, on the one hand a likely high ”mortality” for all types of farms; on the other hand, it also signals the reproduction of a differentiated agrarian structure, with the notional family farms as a shrinking minority.
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- Economou, Konstantin, 1962-, et al.
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Bourdieus moraliska panik
- 1998
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - Uppsala : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 35:3-4, s. 195-210
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- Eide, Martin
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Det journalistiske mistaket
- 1998
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 35:3-4, s. 123-141
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- The journalistic fallacyAn expansion of ”media logic” and media strategies in private and public sectors of society is the point of departure for this paper. The power of journalism is a force drawn upon by a wide range of social agents. The question is whether what appears as a victory of journalistic formats and frames of understanding simultaneously is a journalistic defeat. The paper identifies and discusses current aspects of journalistic practice and ideology which might constitute a journalistic fallacy. Among these aspects is the role of the journalist as an impressario of public issues and possible populistic interpretations of this role. Another related aspect is a restricted and vulgar understanding of power involved in a current conception of journalism as ideology. The expansionof a certain service ideology within the mass media and in other domains of public life is also discussed. The journalistic fallacy can be conducted as well by other social agents as by journalists. Implications of this sour victory of journalism is discussed with reference to the Norwegian social philosopher Hans Skjervheim’s writings, especially on the problems of instrumentalism in social life.
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- Ekecrantz, Jan
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Modernitet, globalisering och medier
- 1998
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 35:3-4, s. 33-60
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- Modernity, globalisation and mediaConceptions of time and space lie at the heart of many prevalent discourses on modernity and globalization. These conceptions are variably based on ideas of modern media of communication having developed as part of technological and other transformations throughout the modern era. One major aim of the article is to scrutinize some of the literature that claims to establish historical links between modernity, globalization and the media. For one thing, it is asserted here that globalization is not simply a logical outcome of modernity. Depending on the chosen historical perspective, the relationship might be the contrary one - global interdependencies appearing prior to both early and late modernity. There is also a criticism of the spatialization turn in social and cultural theory. It does not capture the subtle dialectics of time and space as these dimensions are reconstituted by the media, not least on the global level. In this context and as an exposé of continuity vs. change arguments the author considers the critiques of media imperialism and postjournalism
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- Ekenstam, Claes
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Kroppen, viljan & skräcken för att falla: ur den manliga självbehärskningens historia
- 1996
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 33:2-3, s. 25-50
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- The body, the will and falling-anxiety: from the history of male self-controlThis article discusses the historical origin of some problematic traits of character in modem man, such as emotional numbness and incapability of intimate relations. In contemporary public debate these traits of character have often been attributed to the modem male in particular. In the long-term perspective of western disciplination and civilisation (M. Foucault, N. Elias), and also considering the changes of attitudes toward masculinity (P. N. Steams) the issue is discussed with the help of two case-studies. One of the cases concerns a schizoid patient treated by the psychoterapist A. Lowen and the other deals with the Swedish seventeenth-century priest Jacob Boethius. Furthermore aristocratic ideal of manliness is briefly discussed.
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- Ekström, Mats
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Attraktionens tv-journalistik
- 1998
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 35:3-4, s. 143-170
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- TV-journalism of attractionThe contemporary media society is characterized by an overabundance of information, messages and images, but a shortage of attention. The competition for the attention of potential audiences, and the problem of audience appeal, has become an increasingly important aspect of journalism and media production. Journalism that does not succeed in this competition is a dead journalism. This article presents a conceptual framework for studies of TV journalism as communication, including different intentions, strategies applied to appeal to viewers, processes of production, bases for audience involvement, roles and relations. I differentiate three modes of communication: information, story-telling and attractions. The article devotes most attention to the concept of attraction as it is the most theoretically innovative of the three. The concept TV journalism of attraction is introduced and elaborated as an important concept in media and journalism studies.
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- Ekström, Mats
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Förord
- 1998
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 35:3-4, s. 5-6
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- Eriksson, Björn
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Handlingar och utfall. En diskussion om samhandlingslogiker
- 1998
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 35:1, s. 57-90
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- Actions and outcomes. A discussion of two logics of co-actionThe article takes its point of departure from the three answers Other may give to Ego’s acts. Other may receive Ego’s act, and by that continue to accept Ego as an actor in the system. Or Other can demand an alternative act, which includes an acceptance of Ego as a continuous actor. Or, Other can reject the act of Ego, and by that also Ego as an actor. Ego is supposed to prefer Other’s reception of his act to a demand of an alternative and prefer the demand of an alternative to rejection. In systems of co-action these three answers can be constituted as two different logics of action outcome. The first logic can be looked upon as ”profit maximizing” , the second as ”cost minimizing” - even if these metaphors rather conceals the different social characteristics of the logics. A profit maximizing logic only accepts the reception of acts and equates demands for alternative acts with rejection of acts and actors. A cost minimizing logic avoids the rejection of acts and actors and equates by that the reception of acts with demands for alternative acts. The article concludes with some discussion of the analytical strength of these logics as theoretical instruments.
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- Estrada, Felipe, 1968-
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Ungdomsvåld: upptäckten av ett samhällsproblem. Ungdomsbrottslighet i svensk dagspress 1950-1994
- 1997
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 34:4, s. 51-72
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- Youth Violence: The Discovery of a Social ProblemYouth crime in Swedish editorials 1950-1994 This article offers an analysis of how juvenile delinquency has been treated in editorials in Swedish newspapers between 1950-1994. It shows that the focus has shifted from property offences to violence. The shift is discussed from two perspectives; the objectivist and the constructionist. It is argued that the diminishing interest of the press in juvenile property offences since the beginning of the 1970´s corresponds to the pattern of recorded crime trends. From 1986 onwards, however, youth violence became a major topic in Sweden. Yet this cannot easily be explained by the objectivist approach alone. The constructionist approach seems to be a useful complement. The paper ends with a suggestion that a re-evualation of some parts of the crime statistics is needed. The emergence of youth violence as a social problem after 1986 has probably led to a higher propensity to report such acts. Therefore, statistics that are not dependent upon public reporting should be used when analysing the development of youth violence in Sweden.
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- Eyerman, Ron
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Sociala rörelsers kulturella praxis
- 1996
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 33:1, s. 32-47
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- This article is a shortened version of presentation made at the Second Annual Theory, Culture and Society Conference in Berlin, August 1995 and will appear in its entirety in a forthcoming volume of proceedings. Tracing the history of the song ”We Shall Overcome” from its origins in the experiences of African American slaves to its current status as social movement song par excellence is offered as an illustration of what the paper identifies as the cultural praxis of social movements. The recent cultural turn in social movement research is pushed further and deeper as it is suggested that current research has neglected the historical dimension. Tradition and ritual, it is suggested, which link current mobilizations to the past and a collective memory, should be analyzed as central elements in the making of social movements.
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- Forstorp, Per-Anders, et al.
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”Bourdieus moraliska panik”
- 1999
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 3:4
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- Franzén, Mats
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Våldet och staden : En kritisk granskning av svensk kriminologisk forskning
- 1997
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 34:4, s. 24-50
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- Violence and the city. A critical assessment of Swedish criminologyViolence and urban life, particularly street violence, is currently a prominent public issue, of rising importance to various social sciences. Disciplinary, however, there is, traditionally, a double starting point here, one rooted in criminology, the other in urban sociology. Departing in a specific understanding of the urban order as a liminal space subjugated to several forms of social control, this article is aimed at a critical assessment of Swedish criminology, particularly the work of P-O Wikström. Two instances of this empiricist discourse are scrutinised. First a general model relating level of crime to level of urbanisation, the essence of which is shown to be the so called routine activity approach, is examined step by step. Second, the dimensions of violent crime in terms of place and social relations is discussed critically.
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- Ganetz, Hillevi
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Medier och (populär) kultur
- 1998
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 35:3-4, s. 101-122
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- Media and (popular) cultureThis article is a discussion of media in relation to culture and popular culture. Internationally as well as in Sweden, there has been a ‘cultural turn’ in media research, where theories and methods have been increasingly influenced by cultural studies. Of particular importance is the cultural studies’ concepts of culture as lived experience or as practices through which meaning is produced and shared between people. Meaning is expressed through different symbolic forms that in our society to a high extent are carried by media. An example is rock lyrics, a genre of mediated communication, i.e. symbolic expressions mediated by media like phonograms, radio, television or video. They are also elements of popular music, which is a part of popular culture - a phenomenon closely connected to the rise of modernity. Popular culture is defined as massproduced cultural products which are used and spread among large groups of the population and which are generally classified by the dominant taste as having little value. The article ends with an analysis inspired by cultural studies of a mediated symbolic expression: two rock texts by the famous Swedish rock artist Eva Dahlgren. The author claims that it is possible to reveal crucial traits and tendencies of the cultural context through such an analysis of the unique mediated text.
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- Gustafsson, Rolf Å
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Valfrihet och konkurrens som medel att förbättra den offentliga sektom
- 1995
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 32:3, s. 43-60
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- Competition and freedom of choice - a conceptual clarification and critiqueThis article begins with an illustration of the rhetorical use of the concept of competition in the ongoing restructuring of the Swedish welfare state. It is shown that competition has two differing connotations: From the perspective of an ordinary citizen, the concept makes sense as a contest between two (or several) competing actors in which ”the best may win”. This everyday life interpretation functions as a legitimising force for market-oriented reforms by nurturing expectations that the customer/client may reap benefits from competition. Conceptualising competitive acts as instances of para-action (in contrast to social inter-action) highlights some important features of competition: Para-action concerning positional goods (Hirsch) has a tendency to run out of control. No one benefits, but at the same time the para-action continues to feed itself. This action-oriented interpretation of competition serves as a source of legitimation, only as long as the concept remains analytically vague and the possible social consequences of competitive acts are mystified. A fundamentally different meaning of the concept originates from neo-classic economics, where perfect competition is inherent to a stable state of the economic system. In mainstream analysis this means that no competitive acts are necessary or possible. This restricts the practical relevance of economic analysis, which is underscored by the fact that when it comes to the effects of real or imperfect competition economics is imprecise. Hirschman’s critique of the hope for a taut economy - envisioned by mainstream economics as a competitive market system with no organisational slacks - is also discussed. In conclusion there is little clear-cut scientific support for the implementation of competition into the institutional structures of the welfare state.
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- Gähler, Michael
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Att skiljas är att dö en smula... : Skilsmässa och psykisk ohälsa hos svenska kvinnor och män
- 1999
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 36:4, s. 4-39
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- In this paper data from the 1981 and 1991 Swedish Level of Living Surveys is used to analyze any impact of divorce on the individual’s psychological wellbeing. The longitudinal structure of the data set makes it possible to follow respondents, and any change in their civil status, over time. Respondents are categorized into three family types: 1) Intact couple (those who continued living with the same partner during the period 1981-1991), 2) Remarried (those who divorced or separated and were living with a new partner in 1991), and 3) Divorced (the divorced and separated who were living alone in 1991). The results do, in fact, reveal that divorcees, both female and male, reported a lower psychological well-being in 1991 than their married and cohabiting counterparts. This is only to a very limited extent due to divorcees having a lower well-being already before the divorce (in 1981) and the difference in well-being cannot be entirely explained by other factors (such as income or access to social support) either.
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- Hansen, Lars
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Inledning
- 1997
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 34:1-2, s. 13-27
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- Heidegren, Carl-Göran
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Omvänd ändamålsrationalitet. Urmänniska och upplevelsesamhälle
- 1995
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 32:1, s. 24-30
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- Inverted goal-rationality. Umensch and Erlebnis-societyThe article takes its point of departure in a recent attempt at a synthesis in the sociology of culture by Gerhard Schulze. It focuses on the concept of Erlebnis-rationality, i.e. acting aimed at bringing about an intended change of one’s inner subjective state. This concept is related to a fundamental category in Arnold Gehlens anthropology and theory of action: Umkehr der Antriebsrichtung, that I choose to call ”inverted goal-rationality”. Gehlen traces this kind of action - in the form of orgiastic and ascetic ecstasies - back to the beginnings of mankind. Inverted goal-rationality is today a central and wide-spread orientation in the life of Western man - e.g. in the form of consumption for the purpose of having a certain positive Erlebnis. Finally, the article poses the question what it means for a society that an inverted goal-rationality has attained such a central position.
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- Henrekson, Magnus
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Sveriges ekonomiska tillväxt och samhällsforskarnas objektivitet
- 1999
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 36:3, s. 68-79
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- The economic growth of Sweden and the objectivity of social scientistsIn an article in Sociologisk Forskning (2/98) Walter Korpi maintains that the claim by Swedish academic economists that Sweden’s economic growth has been slow compared to other rich countries is at odds with the empirical facts. Consequently, unless Sweden has grown slowly, an often cited basis for questioning the Swedish model is invalidated. Korpi also asserts that the discussion reveals a severe objectivity problem among Swedish academic economists. In this article Magnus Henrekson rebuts Korpi's allegations. The available facts show that Sweden was lagging behind relative to a broad aggregate ofother industrialized countries up to 1990, and this tendency is further reinforced if the 1990s is included in the comparison. As a corallary, it is an important task for future research to examine the factors that can potentially explain this unfavorable development. One hypothesis worthy of additional exploration is whether the Swedish model with its large public sector and strongly redistributive policies provides part of the explanation. As regards the objectivity problem in social science research in Sweden, Henrekson argues that, if anything, the discussion of Sweden’s growth problem shows that Walter Korpi is the one who has been lacking in scientific objectivity in this particular instance.
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