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Christofer Edling
I am Professor of Sociology at Lund University, and I have held positions at Jacobs University Bremen, Stockholm University, and Uppsala University where I was SCAS Pro Futura Fellow for four years. M and
Analytical sociology is a research strategy
2012. Sociologica 1 http://www.sociologica.mulino.it/journal/issue/index/Issue/Journal:ISSUE:16
The Phenomenology of Specialization of Criminal Suspects
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
Sociological insights of great thinkers
2011. Praeger.
Surge Under Threat. The Rapid Increase of Women on Swedish Boards of Directors
Pp. 91-108 in Fagan, C., González Menéndez, M. & Gómez Ansón, S. (eds.) Women on Corporate Boards and in Elite Management. Palgrave Publishers Ltd.
Testing the "old boys' network": Diversity and board interlocks in Scandinavia
Pp. 183-202 in B. Kogut (Ed.) The small world of corporate governance. MIT Press.
Tocqueville and analytical sociology
Pp. 153-172 in Raymond Boudon: A Life in Sociology, edited by Mohamed Cherkaoui and Peter Hamilton. Oxford: The Bardwell Press.
Social Capital, Friendship Networks, and Youth Unemployment.
Social Science Research, Volume 61, pp. 234-250. doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2016.06.017 Abstract Youth unemployment is a contemporary social problem in many societies. Youths often have limited access
Friendship trust and psychological well-being from late adolescence to early adulthood: A structural equation modelling approach
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Volume: 45 issue:3, pp.244-252. doi.org/10.1177/1403494816680784 Abstract Aims:This study explored the sex-specific associations between friendship trust and the p: The findings suggest that young people do not benefit from trustful social relations to the same extent as adult populations. Young women who express impaired well-being run a greater risk of being members of networks characterized by low friendship trust over time.
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
