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30 March, 2023
Digital development and educational outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa

Digital development and educational outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: A recipe for inclusive development or deepening divides?

A project on how the spread of digital information and communication technology in Sub-Saharan Africa has affected educational outcomes and inequalities.

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06 December, 2013

The Future of Democracy

How to face the challenge of the protest movements? In this presentation Chantal Mouffe will examine the recent Occupy movements in order to grasp the nature of the challenge that they pose to represen

Main speaker Chantal Mouffe.
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01 January, 2010

Who is an Immigrant?

Pp. 47-74 in Bo Bengtsson, Per Strömblad and Ann-Helén Bay, (Eds.), Diversity, Inclusion and Citizenship in Scandinavia. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Abstract This chapter suggests

Type of publication: Chapters | Gunnar Myrberg
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29 December, 2005

Rural Population Growth in Sweden in the 1990s: Unexpected Reality or Spatial-Statistical Chimera

This article addresses the matter of “urban spillover” in rural population development, i.e. how urban localities tend to push a ring of diffuse urban growth outwards as they expand in area. The data

Type of publication: Working papers | Jan Amcoff
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11 July, 2019

In Sweden we shake hands – but are we really?

Sociologisk Forskning, vol 54, no 4, pp 377–381. Abstract Motivated by a recent controversy over handshaking, a survey of the personal networks of young Swedes (n=2244) is used to describe greeting prac

Type of publication: Journal articles | Edling, Christofer , & Anton Andersson Rydgren, Jens , & Anton Andersson
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04 April, 2024

Cultural traits operating in senders are driving forces of cultural evolution

Proceedings of the royal society Biological Sciences Abstract Cultural evolution typically studies how ideas and behaviours spread and change depending on how we learn and from whom. A new model suggest

Type of publication: Journal articles | Jansson, Fredrik , Enquist, Magnus; Ghirlanda, Stefano & Jérôme Michaud
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19 March, 2021

Vaccine confidence is higher in more religious countries

Human vaccines and immunotherapeutics Abstract Vaccine hesitancy is a threat to global health, but it is not ubiquitous; depending on the country, the proportion that have confidence in vaccines ranges

Type of publication: Journal articles | Eriksson, Kimmo , Vartanova, Irina
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10 June, 2015

The Value of Existence

in: The Oxford Handbook of Value Theory Eds.Iwao Hirose and Jonas Olson, Oxford University Press. Can it be better or worse for a person to exist than not to exist at all? This old and challenging exis

Type of publication: Chapters | Arrhenius, Gustaf , , Wlodek Rabinowicz
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10 January, 2014

The Dangers of Ethnocentrism

Giangiacomo Bravo, professor at Linnéuniversitetet Humans often alter their behavior depending on the opponent's group membership, with positive (e.g., support of same-group members) or negative (e.g.,

Giangiacomo Bravo, professor at Linnéuniversitetet
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07 March, 2016

How much scope for a mobility paradox? The relationship between social and income mobility in Sweden

Sociological Science 3:39-60. 10.15195/v3.a3. Abstract It is often pointed out that conclusions about intergenerational (parent–child) mobility can differ depending on whether we base them on studies of c

Type of publication: Journal articles | Mood, Carina , , Richard Breen Jonsson, Jan O. , , Richard Breen
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