Minerva, vol. 62 Abstract A critical debate has blossomed within the field of research policy, science and technology studies, and philosophy of science regarding the possible benefits and limitations opure lottery

Theory & Society Abstract The main aim of this article is to start a discussion of social pattern, a term that is commonly used in sociology but not specified or defined. The key question can be phrsociologicalconcept of social pattern may look like. A useful and theoretically solid concept of social pattern can in our view be constructed by basing it on Weber’s concept of social action. This means thatboththe behavior of the actorsandthe meaning these invest their behavior with must be taken into account. The article ends with a brief discussion of how to use the concept of social patterns in an effective way and what may endanger such a use.

Demographic Research, Volume 40 - Article 2, p. 27–48. Abstract Background:A number of recent theories in demography suggest a U-shaped relationship between gender equality and fertility. Fertility is t

Philosophical Studies, June 2012, Volume 159, Issue 2,  pp 205–218. Online first. doi.org/10.1007/s11098-011-9698-1 Abstract When facing a choice between saving one person and saving many, some people ha

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, and online Note that the speaker will join us online. Research seminar with Mike Otsuka, Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers Universit

The new pattern in demographic behavior in the industrialized world, i.e. the “second demographic transition”, appeared in the mid-1960s and spread more recently to the Eastern parts of Europe. This o

This literature review describes the demographic development in France, Italy, Spain and Portugal from the 1960s. The general pattern is delayed transition to adulthood and first birth, decline of fer

Journal of Family Issues, doi:10.1177/0192513X14522244. Abstract Couples generally move to accommodate men’s, rather than women’s, career opportunities. Using Swedish panel data including 1,039 married o

Abstract A criminal career can be either general, with the criminal committing different types of crimes, or specialized, with the criminal committing a specific type of crime. A central problem in the

Judgment abd Decision Making Abstract Prior research using the Moral Foundations Questionnaire (MFQ) has established that political ideology is associated with self-reported reliance on specific moral f