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- Alfonsson, Johan, 1985-
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Arv, miljö eller både och? : En kritisk realistisk kritik av heritabilitetsmetodiken
- 2022
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - Huddinge : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 59:1-2, s. 127-148
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Heredity, environment, or both? A critical realistic critique of the heritability methodologyWith heritability methodology researchers using twin studies, and during recent year also DNA studies, have claimed that heredity plays a crucial role in explaining social outcomes. Explaining what causes social outcomes is a strive to explain how reality is constituted, and is thus an ontological question. The purpose of this article is to examine the unspoken ontological assumptions in heritability studies from a critical realistic perspective. First I’ll explain the basics of the heritability methodology, the twin methodology and DNA studies that measure heritability, then I’ll describe the previous criticism of these studies. Thereafter I’ll argue that the heritability studies do not examine the actual causes of social events, but rather that the measures are driven by other underlying mechanisms, which thus are the ones possessing the generative power to influence social outcomes. Against this background, I argue that the studies commit the fallacy of misplaced concreteness and the epistemic fallacy. In conclusion, I argue that concrete social phenomena should be understood as an interplay between different generative mechanisms.
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- Danielsson, Erna, 1954-, et al.
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Sociologiska perspektiv på coronakrisen : Fyra sociologer om samhällets reaktion på covid-19
- 2020
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - Annelöv : Sveriges sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 57:1, s. 67-76
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Sociologisk Forskning bad fyra sociologer i Sverige att svara på några korta frågor om coronapandemin och vårt samhälles hantering av den.Deras tidigare forskning har på olika sätt berört olika frågor såsom socialmedicin och medicinsk kunskapsproduktion, sociala nätverks betydelse för smittspridning, samhällets hantering av kriser och risker, genusaspekter av samhällskriser samt dynamiken mellan expertis, politiker och medborgare i beslutsfattande och debatter kring frågor där expertkunskap är centralt. Utifrån svaren på frågorna redigerade tidskriftens redaktörer en sammanhängande text, som de fyra forskarna sedan kunde ändra och göra tillägg i. Resultatet är en gemensam text som påminner om ett samtal. Den slutliga texten färdigställdes den 8 april 2020 .De fyra medverkande forskarna är Erna Danielsson, docent i sociologi vid Mittuni-versitetet och föreståndare för Risk and Crisis Research Centre (RCR), som forskar om samhällets krishantering vid såväl vardagskriser som större händelser och specifikt genus och krishantering; Fredrik Liljeros, professor i sociologi vid Stockholms universitet, som genomförde sitt postdoktorprojekt på dåvarande Smittskyddsinstitutet tillsammans med nuvarande statsepidemiologen Anders Tegnell och i dag bedriver forskning om hur människors kontaktnätverk påverkar spridningsdynamik; Shai Mulinari, docent i sociologi vid Lunds universitet, som bedriver forskning om medicinsk kunskapsproduktion, läkemedelsindustrin, epidemiologi och folkhälsa; samt Linda Soneryd, professor i sociologi vid Göteborgs universitet, som forskat om miljörelaterade risker och kriser samt om hur demokrati och deltagande förstås i anslutning till expertfrågor.
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- Jacobsson, Kerstin, 1966, et al.
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Commitment and control : Teamwork as management tool in a welfare state bureaucracy
- 2021
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - Huddinge : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 58:3, s. 243-265
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Teamwork is a well-known management technique for eliciting commitment and exerting control in private companies. However, less is known about how teamwork operates as a management tool in welfare state bureaucracies. Tying critical management and street-level bureaucracy studies, this article explores teamwork as a key component in the normative control of street-level bureaucrats within the Swedish Social Insurance Agency. Based on extensive ethnographic research, the analysis demonstrates how teamwork functions as a subtle steering device in public management. The analysis identifies teams as: a) performative tools; b) cushioning structures; and c) “moral corsets” on caseworkers. By the seamless linking of vertical and horizontal governance mechanisms, teamwork was instrumental in achieving organizational targets, thereby changing the nature of casework and reducing caseworkers’ discretion. The findings call for more research on the normative shaping of caseworkers under new forms of public management.
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- Lydahl, Doris, 1986
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Visible persons, invisible work? : Exploring articulation work in the implementation of person-centred care on a hospital ward
- 2017
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 54:3, s. 163-179
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Visible persons, invisible work? Exploring articulation work in the implementation of person-centred care on a hospital wardRecently, many initiatives promoting a holistic view of the patient have been developed. In the last 20 years, different models and frameworks have been advanced to operationalize these different forms of holistic care. This article focuses on one specific case of holistic person-centred care, using the sociological theories of articulation work and invisible work to investigate the efforts involved in sustaining its realization. The article builds on a small ethnographic study conducted at a ward in a Swedish hospital implementing person-centred care. Following a nurse, and her patient, through a ‘person-centred’ admission process and its subsequent procedures, it is argued that person-centred care depends on nurses performing many new tasks which are rarely recognized and appreciated. Secondly, it is argued that nurses are continually asked to do what Anselm Strauss defined as articulation work, coordinating between these different new tasks and established duties. Thirdly, the article discusses the tensions arising when implementing a formalized model of care, which builds on a critique of standardization and objectification, and the work that is excluded and invisible in such routinized operationalization. Finally, it is concluded that while the successful implementation of person-centred care is often argued to rely on the willingness of nurses to surrender old habits, it seems rather to hinge on the skilled inventiveness of these nurses and their ability to overcome the practical difficulties they encounter.
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- Strid, Sofia, 1976
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Betydelser av könsstympning hos migrerade minoriteter i Sverige : En feministisk våldsforskningsanalys
- 2020
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - Huddinge : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 57:2, s. 141-163
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Meanings of female genital mutilation among migrant minorities in Sweden. A feminist violence studies analysisThe article examines meanings and attitudes to female genital mutilation among migrated minorities in Sweden. It explores the importance of family, networks, work, the role of laws and regulations, and the meaning and importance of female genital mutilation. It draws conclusions on power structures around and risk factors of female genital mutilation in relation to attitudes and attitudinal change.The material was collected via four focus groups with 47 migrated men and women, originally from Somalia. Theoretically, the article draws on feminist institutionalism and the framework on gender regimes, and scholarship on intersectional violence, and expands the concept of violence beyond the physical, individual and intentional.The article argues that the risk of female genital mutilation decreases considerably with migration. While some previous research has failed to consider migration as a process of attitudinal change, the article shows that attitudes do not simply migrate with migrants; they change through the processes of migration. It contributes to debates on violence from an integration-theoretical perspective, and shows how the concepts of isolation and mobility can contribute to better explanations of attitudes and practices of female genital mutilation.
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- Bengtsson, Mattias, 1978, et al.
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När kallet ställs på sin spets: Pensionering ur ett existenssociologiskt perspektiv
- 2016
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - Falun : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 53:2, s. 127-150
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article we analyze how the meaning and value of work can emerge, be defined and redefined in relation to the coming of retirement, by focusing individuals with dedicated work approaches interpreted as a calling. By relying on an existential sociology framework we analyze the retirement process as an existential imperative, e.g. life phases or processes where questions on meaning and life quality become prominent. For the interviewees, the day of retirement becomes a sort of a road sign that – depending on the distance of time to the point of retirement – has intensified existential questions and the meaning of work. The article explores the defining dimensions of a calling as found in the interviewees dedicated work approaches. We address the types of problems and opportunities that arise when the interviewees are soon to retire and their associated strategies: listening to a calling on ”standby”; learning not to listen to one’s calling, listening to a calling from a private sphere and project the calling’s commitment to other activities.
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- Häggström, Margaretha, 1962, et al.
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Forest-Walks – An Intangible Heritage in Movement A Walk-and-Talk-Study of a social practice tradition
- 2019
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Ingår i: Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language. - 1448-0778. ; 9:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article seeks to understand and extend current understandings of intangible heritage and particularly forest-walks as such. The study is related to Swedish conditions and has been conducted in Sweden. The research is grounded in social practice theory – and the perspective of practice architectures in particular – and it draws on the work of Stephen Kemmis (2009; 2014). The data are based on 12 walk-and-talk interviews conducted in the forest with individuals who willingly walk in the forest on their leisure time. The analysis takes its point of departure from representations by the participants regarding what they emphasise in relation to the practice of forest-walking. We find that the participants in this study have curated their heritage in landscapes, in this case a forest. Further, the study shows that intersections between cultural identity and landscape play a significant role in people’s lives.
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- Jukkala, Tanya, et al.
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Att leva med en världsomfattande pandemi : En studie om människors oro kopplat till covid-19 i Sverige
- 2021
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - Huddinge : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 58:1-2, s. 103-131
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Living with a global pandemic. A study of people's worries in relation to Covid-19 in SwedenCovid-19 as a health crisis has affected all spheres of private and public life, both nationally and internationally, locally and globally.This article aims to contribute knowledge about people's levels of worry during the pandemic's first phase in Sweden.Worry is examined in relation to sociodemographic background, social capital, and judgements concerning potential threats and the national measures implemented.The theoretical framework utilized resides upon concepts and theories of worry and social capital.The data was collected in Sweden in April and May 2020 through an online survey of experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic.Multiple regression analysis and multiple correspondence analysis revealed that higher levels of worry were closely associated both with the judgement that the national measures implemented were not correct, and with the perception that Covid-19 as an illness comprised a greater threat than its financial and social consequences.These factors were also related to advanced age, chronic illness, and lower levels of social capital.Our findings point to the need for further sociological research - both quantitative and qualitative - concerning the pandemic's various consequences in everyday life.
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- Wide, Sverre, 1973-, et al.
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Explanation and causal reasoning: A contribution to the interpretation of competing explanatory claims
- 2013
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Ingår i: Theory & psychology. - : Sage Publications. - 0959-3543 .- 1461-7447. ; 23:6, s. 701-715
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this study is to attain a better understanding of the relationship between competing or complementary scientific explanatory claims. First, six different ways of approaching explanatory claims are briefly described and found, in part, to be unsatisfactory. It is argued that they should be supplemented by an analysis of underlying and sometimes partly unacknowledged causal presuppositions. This approach could be termed a causal analytical investigation, and in order to demonstrate its potential, it is applied to a concrete example: research into dental anxiety. The analysis shows that seemingly competing or complementary explanatory claims here neither compete with nor complement each other; instead, the analysis demonstrates that they explain different things. We then broaden the picture by discussing the relationship between aetiology and treatment. Finally we argue in favour of the general applicability of the approach and its relevance to science in general and to science-based practice.
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- Johansson, Jonas, et al.
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Fritidshemspersonals tal om barns fysiska aktivitet – samhällelig påverkan och möjliga implikationer
- 2023
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Ingår i: Education & Learning. - Falun : Dalarna University. - 2001-4554. ; 17:1, s. 45-63
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this paper is to shed light on how teachers’ talk about children’s physical activity in school-age educare can be seen as part of comprehensive social discourses concerning education and physical activity. Focus-group interviews with a discourse-analytic approach have been carried out with staff from two municipal school-age educare in Sweden. The transcriptions was analyzed with inspiration from critical discourse analyze which is the theoretical standpoint. In the result the discourses of risk, shortage, activity, complement and joy of movement are the most prominent. In analysis these discourses are seen as inter-discursively influenced by the public health discourse wherein concepts as activity rate, discipline, joy of movement and organization are central. These discourses, concepts and possible implications for school-age educare are discussed. It is also argued that a social pedagogical discourse of care with focus on children’s relation making and conflict management seems to be manifest within Swedish school-age educare.
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- Bengtsson, Mattias, 1978, et al.
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The institutionalization of a new social cleavage Ideological influences, main reforms and social inequality outcomes of "the new work strategy"
- 2018
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Ingår i: Sociologisk Forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 55:2-3, s. 155-177
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The objective of this article is to analyse the ideological influences, main reforms and social inequality outcomes of "the new work strategy", i.e. the former Swedish centre-right Alliance government's work-first approach. By studying government bills and reports, official statistics, and research on welfare and labour market policies, discourses, policy measures and their outcomes have been analysed. The main conclusion is that Sweden, the former prototypical "social democratic" welfare state, has adopted a new institutional framework for social protection that we call a "work-first, consolidation state". The reforms aimed at shrinking the welfare state were implemented by strengthening activation principles in social protection systems as well as a politics of lowering taxes, which has institutionalized a new social cleavage in Swedish society and resulted in a massive redistribution from the public sector to the private sector. We also discuss how the transformation of labour income taxes and social protection systems was legitimized by the Alliance's discourse on "outsiderhood", and one ideological influence is located in American discourses of the underclass.
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- Elgenius, Gabriella, et al.
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The changing political landscape in Sweden Political cleavages, actors and processes
- 2018
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Ingår i: Sociologisk Forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 55:2-3, s. 139-154
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The political landscape in Sweden has undergone considerable changes in recent decades The number of political parties in the Swedish parliament has increased from five to eight, and the socio-economic issues of the traditional political right-left scale has been challenged by sociocultural issues relating to lifestyle and identity. Notably, the notion of Swedish exceptionalism and the particularities of its welfare state is lingering despite findings pointing in the opposite direction e.g. with the increased electoral support for the radical right, and its ethno-nationalist and anti-immigrant rhetoric. The corporatist model has been challenged by new forms of political authority, participation and representation. New political actors, such as social movements and civil society actors, think tanks and policy professionals, are becoming increasingly engaged in political processes. The long-term trend suggests that traditionally marginalised groups, such as the young, women and groups of migrant background, are represented in decision-making forums to a higher degree than before. Yet, current conditions need further analysis. In this article, we provide a background to Sociologisk Forskning's special issue on the political landscape of the parliamentary election in 2018.
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- Elgenius, Gabriella, et al.
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The Sweden Democrats and the Ethno-Nationalist Rhetoric of Decay and Betrayal.
- 2017
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sociologisk Forskning, Swedish Sociological Association. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 54:4, s. 353-358
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sweden was long considered an ”exceptional case” with no representatives of the radical right in parliament. However, the Sweden Democrats (SD) entered parliament in the 2010 parliamentary election, pointing towards the demand for ethnic nationalism also in Sweden. This article explores the party’s rhetoric with particular references to the politics of decay and betrayal and its construction of a Swedish golden age. The rhetoric of decay echoes the ethnicity-based nationalisms articulated in other parts of Europe alongside nationalist claims of homogenous origins, a common destiny and an inherited social solidarity. The empirical material consists of political election programs since 1989 (SD 1989), high profile speeches and the party journal (SD Kuriren).
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- Hermansson, Joakim
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Characters as fictional migrants : Atonement, adaptation and the screenplay process
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Screenwriting. - : Intellect Ltd.. - 1759-7137 .- 1759-7145. ; 11:1, s. 81-97
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The migration metaphor has been widely used in connection with media adaptions, but the metaphor has remained an abstract figure of speech. Yet, to understand characters as migrants who go through journeys of acculturation when they are adapted for the screen may enhance understanding of both the characters' potential and problems that may arise during the development process. This article proposes that the development of characters and their processes - as fictional beings - can be understood through the use of models that describe real migrants' adaptation processes. Using Christopher Hampton's screenplay drafts for the film Atonement (2001), it outlines how such migratory journeys go hand in hand with screenwriters' problem-solving processes. The article thus develops the idea that migrating characters, in their capacity as fictional beings and the thematic issues that they represent, both adapt to and appropriate their new media environments; simultaneously, they are appropriated by new creative forces and by the conventions of those new media environments, who in turn must adapt to the characters in this process of bi-directional acculturation.
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- Johansson, Thomas, 1959
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Kropp och kultur: En introduktion.
- 1996
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. ; 33:2-3, s. 5-24
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- Korolczuk, Elzbieta, 1975, et al.
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Strategies of contentious action: a comparative analysis of the women’s movements in Poland and the Czech Republic
- 2015
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Ingår i: European Societies: The Official Journal of the European Sociological Association. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1461-6696 .- 1469-8307. ; 17:4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article compares the contemporary Czech and Polish women's movements and demonstrates that there are significant differences in their strategies. While the Polish women's movement is more active in mobilizing the population and uses both transactional and participatory strategies in order to achieve its goals, the Czech women's movement focuses more on transactional activities, such as lobbying, setting up cooperation with national and international organizations, and negotiating with the authorities, as well as on educational activities. The article explains why these differences occur and why during the last decade the Polish women's movement has attempted at mobilizing the population successfully, while the Czech women's movement has not tried to organize any mass mobilizations. Based on interviews with women's organizations in Poland and the Czech Republic, we argue that institutional factors can explain these differences. This includes such factors as the role of the reformed, postcommunist women's organization in each country and the political opportunity structures. The most important political opportunity structures include a law in Poland that force the parliament to debate a law proposal if civil society organizations can get 100,000 signatures, as well as the facility for residents to allocate 1% of their income taxes to a registered civil society organization of their choosing. Another important difference in the political opportunity structures has been the types of institutional arrangements made to accommodate European Union's demands for gender mainstreaming.
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- Lindgren, Sven-Åke, 1951
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Grounded Theory ett oavslutat projekt
- 2006
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Ingår i: Sociologisk Forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. ; 43:1, s. 51-70
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article review and considers how the methodology of grounded theory has developed in the light of the profound critique it has attracted during recent decades. Four types of critique are examined, representing diverse meta-theoretical positions such as critical realism, constructivism, and postmodernism. Agreements and differences are described which indicate a consensus among researchers, irrespective of conflicting philosophical positions, that grounded theory is a workable approach for doing research. In particular, the discussion emphasizes how promoters of these perspectives deal with the basic aim of grounded theory to develop empirically based theories. A tendency to replace theory with narrative or other limited substitutes such as depiction is problematized. Questions of validation, evaluation, and legitimization of grounded theory, extended to include qualitative research in general, are touched upon. In conclusion it is argued that grounded theory, due to transformations and modifications inspired by positive critique, is better suited to meet today's demand for comlex and reflexive research methodologies.
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- Nilsson, Stefan, 1972, et al.
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Relaxation and guided imagery do not reduce stress, pain and unpleasantness for 11- to 12-year-old girls during vaccinations
- 2015
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Ingår i: Acta Paediatrica. - : Wiley. - 0803-5253 .- 1651-2227. ; 104:7, s. 724-729
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aim: Relaxation and guided imagery is a distraction technique known to reduce discomfort during paediatric medical procedures. We examined whether its use decreased the stress experienced by 11- to 12-year-old girls receiving the human papilloma virus vaccination, as well as the intensity and unpleasantness of any pain. Methods: A randomised crossover trial was conducted with 37 girls. During the first vaccination, each girl was randomised to receive either relaxation and guided imagery or standard care. They then received the other form of care during the second vaccination. Salivary cortisol was measured before each vaccination, and 30 minutes after it was administered. The girls reported pain intensity and pain unpleasantness before and directly after each vaccination and stress after each vaccination. Results: On a group level, relaxation and guided imagery did not decrease cortisol levels, self-reported stress, pain intensity and pain unpleasantness. Salivary cortisol levels decreased significantly in both groups during the second vaccination. Conclusion: Relaxation and guided imagery did not prove beneficial during the vaccination of 11- to 12-year-old girls and is not recommended as a regular nursing intervention. However, further research is needed into effective techniques to help children who experience pain unpleasantness in connection with needle procedures. ©2015 Foundation Acta PÊdiatrica.
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- Nordberg, Marie, 1955
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Forskning om män och maskulinitet
- 2004
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; :3, s. 11-18
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- Sahlin, Ingrid, 1950
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Att prata ihop sig i rätten
- 2009
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 46:1, s. 28-45
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Negotiating experience in the court How do judges assess witness credibility, and how do they proceed to reach sustainable conclusions in a criminal court? This article is based on discussions in four focus groups with lay judges in Swedish district courts. In criminal court trials, a version of an event is generally reinforced if it is confirmed by witnesses. However, if their narratives are too similar, none of them is found trustworthy. The focus group participants agreed that if witnesses were suspected of having discussed their individual experiences of an event and accommodated them into a common story, their testimonies were not considered credible. While testimonies should ideally be untainted by other people’s impressions and opinions, other rules govern the truth of the court. The lay judges appreciated their deliberations, including negotiations on impressions and memories of the trial and they sometimes adjusted their perceptions in the light of information provided by other members of the court. However, if the lay judges are regarded as witnesses of what takes place in the trial, this gives rise to a paradox: While witness negotiations on experiences are regarded as a means to construct a false or biased story, the same kind of interaction between the judges is considered necessary to establish a consensual truth of what actually happened. Key words: witness credibility, lay judges, testimony, court deliberations
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