Published 18 January 2022 The Department of Sociology in Lund will receive three years of funding for a large collaboration project looking at insecure and informal work in the Nordic countries. Researchers Rasmus Ahlstrand and Sara Eldén, here at the Department of Sociology in Lund are part of the project "Tackling Precarious and Informal Work in the Nordic Countries (PrecaNord)" which has been g

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/three-years-funding-large-nordic-collaboration-insecure-and-informal-work - 2025-04-25

Published 17 January 2022 When the American research field "Fear of Crime" was introduced in Sweden in the 1980s, it was translated "otrygghet", a word with a previously established meaning in Swedish. The meaning of the word "otrygghet" has since then changed significantly in Sweden. From being used to signify economic and materialist unpredictability, "otrygghet" has come to be used almost exclu

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hanna-sahlin-lilja-has-defended-her-thesis-fear-crime-research-sweden - 2025-04-25

Published 4 January 2022 The everyday life in two day-care centres of psychiatry in the municipality of Copenhagen is examined in a new sociology thesis from Vibeke Klitgaard. Focus lies on the patients' communication and behavior as well as the stigmatization they experience from the social environment. Vibeke Klitgaard defended her thesis "Social (dis) order in district psychiatry: A systems the

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/vibeke-klitgaard-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-04-25

Published 16 February 2022 Associate Professor Sébastien Tutenges and Researcher Susanne Boethius of the Department of Sociology at Lund University are Editor-in-Chief and Co-Editor of the Nordic Journal of Criminology since the turn of the year. Looking forward to the new job! In an interview for The Nordic Research Council for Criminology (NSfK), the new Editor-in-Chief Sébastien Tutenges says h

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/new-editors-nordic-journal-criminology - 2025-04-25

Published 11 February 2022 In his doctoral thesis in sociology "Structures of subcontracting: Work organisation, control, and labour in the Swedish building sector", Rasmus Ahlstrand analyses the increased use of subcontractors and explores new forms of work organisation in the Swedish building sector. A key contribution of his study is the concept of masked staffing, which refers to unauthorised

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/rasmus-ahlstrand-has-defended-his-thesis-changing-swedish-building-sector - 2025-04-25

Published 9 February 2022 In his article "Does remote work weaken trade unions?*" Anders Kjellberg, Professor of sociology, discusses how the balance of power in the labour market is changed when working from home increases in society. He also writes about the new trade union issues that distance working raises in industries where it is widespread. Those affected are primarily white-collar workers

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/does-remote-work-weaken-trade-unions - 2025-04-25

Published 11 October 2022 Photo: Lea Trier Krøll Why do people across cultures gather in groups to get intoxicated? Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology in Lund Sébastien Tutenges has been researching nightclubs and festivals for two decades to answer this question. His new book "Intoxication" offers valuable new insights into a wide variety of experiences. This book takes us to bars

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/collective-intoxication-can-give-religious-experience-and-more-solidarity - 2025-04-25

Published 26 May 2022 Alison Gerber, Senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology. Photo: Sindre Lo Gerber. On 21 May the Young Academy of Sweden elected six new, prominent researchers representing fields ranging from brain surgery, analytical sociologoy and energy transformation. One of them is Alison Gerber, senior lecturer in sociology here at the Department of Sociology at Lund University. W

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sociologist-one-six-new-prominent-researchers-selected-young-academy-sweden - 2025-04-25

Published 7 June 2022 Associate Professor Dalia Abdelhady has studied how a Turkish newspaper's attempts to write inclusive portrayals of Syrian refugees still contributed to politicising and "othering" them as a group. In a paper published in Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, Dalia Abdelhady studies portrayals of Syrian refugees in the Turkish newspaper

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/turning-refugees-politics-impedes-their-social-integration - 2025-04-25

Published 16 June 2022 Colm Flaherty and his supervisors Charalambos Demetriou (left) and Bo Isenberg (right). Photo: Theo Hagman-Rogowski On Thursday, June 16, Colm Flaherty successfully defended his thesis A Politics of Community: Identity, Stigma, and Meaning in the Extra-Parliamentary Left, and is from here on out a doctor of sociology. Flaherty spent his doctoral studies exploring changing fo

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/welcome-doctorhood-colm-flaherty - 2025-04-25

By marianne [dot] loor [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Marianne Loor) - published 20 June 2022 Children of immigrants are sorted on the basis of preconceived notions with measures that do not take into account their own perspectives. Photo: iStockphoto. How does migration and globalisation shape the lives of individuals in various countries and how does it affect the children of immigrants in terms of

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/other-side-story-how-children-immigrants-experience-life - 2025-04-25

By emma [dot] lord [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se (Emma Lord) - published 12 September 2022 How do immigrant organizations in Sweden work with aid and development in their home countries? Other European countries work more actively than Sweden to use the knowledge about home countries that exists within these organizations. Sociologists from Lund Axel Fredholm, Johan Sandberg and Olle Frödin write abo

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/immigrant-organizations-sweden-can-play-more-important-role-aid-and-development - 2025-04-25

Published 14 September 2022 The Conference starts today with a PhD Student day including paper presentations, workshops and publishing advice. Chris Mathieu and PhD-students gathered on the steps on The Department of Sociology, Lund. Details below*. Photo: Theo Hagman Rogowski. Today the volume in our building will rise with the chatter of about 70 visiting sociologists of the arts from Japan to C

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sociology-conference-arts-movement-opens-today-our-house - 2025-04-25

By theo [dot] hagman-rogowski [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Theo Hagman-Rogowski) - published 13 October 2022 Contrary to popular belief, women played a prominent role in IS recruitment - especially in bringing in other women. A new study from Lund University shows that Swedish women joined the Islamic State as part of a religiously motivated gendered counterculture against Swedish values of gend

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/aggressively-patriarchal-worldviews-attracted-swedish-women-islamic-state - 2025-04-25

Published 24 October 2022 On Friday, 21 October, Oriana Quaglietta Bernal successfully defended her doctoral thesis, "In Her Words: Women's Accounts of Managing Drug-related Risk, Pleasure, and Stigma in Sweden". For the past five years, Oriana Quaglietta Bernal studied why women in Sweden start, continue, and sometimes stop using drugs. Her thesis explores female drug experiences and what they me

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/oriana-quaglietta-bernal-successfully-defends-her-doctoral-thesis - 2025-04-25

Published 28 October 2022 Physical violence is rarely something people think about or act out. Even violence specialists - people with a propensity for violence and a capacity to cause devastating damage - are belligerent only a fraction of their time awake. Sociology professor David Wästerfors is an anomaly. He has thought about violence a lot. This fall, Professor Wästerfors published some of hi

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/david-wasterfors-cant-stop-thinking-about-violence - 2025-04-25

By theo [dot] hagman-rogowski [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Theo Hagman-Rogowski) - published 11 November 2022 Photo: Markus Spiske, Unsplash Dr Colm Flaherty noticed that despite generally declining membership in Swedish political parties, political engagement is very much alive. He says it is observable in the mundane activities of everyday life, and studying it can teach us a lot about Swedish

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/creating-spaces-radical-social-change - 2025-04-25

By theo [dot] hagman-rogowski [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Theo Hagman-Rogowski) - published 22 November 2022 The Department of Sociology's Christopher Mathieu is one of the editors of a new and heavy tome clarifying the complex and much-debated issue of the quality of jobs. It is easy to imagine what it is like to have a good job: good pay, low stress, short hours, a lot of freedom and creativi

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/capturing-evasive-concept-job-quality - 2025-04-25

By emma [dot] lord [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se (Emma Lord) - published 18 January 2023 The so-called "Beast" (cargo train) with migrants. Photo: Priscilla Solano (some faces have been blurred). Since the 1980:s border policies in both Mexico and the United States have transformed the outflow of migrants from Central America. By the turn of the 21st century the outflow of migrants began to be called

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/migration-transformed-crisis - 2025-04-25

Published 26 January 2023 The Department of Sociology's researchers Åsa Lundqvist, Susanne Boëthius, Chris Mathieu and Anders Kjellberg. Photo: Emma Lord and Christer Lindberg. The future of working life in Europe is analysed in a new anthology which, with the help of multiple researchers, looks primarily at three major changes taking place in working life right now. These changes are due to three

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/pandemic-climate-and-digitalisation-three-major-adaptations-working-life-right-now - 2025-04-25