Postdoc to do research on social norm change

Norms can be a driver for change, so in order to understand how our societies will develop over time it is important to understand how norms form and change. We are now searching for a postdoc with extra interest in studying this with us at the Institute for Futures Studies!

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher in a project that aims to empirically investigate the psychological impact of online recommendation systems.

The Institute for Futures Studies (IFFS), Stockholm, is appointing one or two researchers (sociologist/social scientist), or one researcher and one assistant, to the project SEMI, for a one- or two-ye

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, First online, DOI 10.1007/s10964-017-0747-8 Abstract There is limited knowledge on the impact of economic resources on adverse peer relations during adolescence. This st

 A demographer calculates how the average life expectancy can be affected In Sweden, we now experience the first pandemic that occurs in a society with modern information technology, and it is also the

We are seeking a strong and highly motivated candidate with a background in experimental sociology, economics, or social psychology for a postdoctoral position. The advertised position is a two-year po, the Principal Investigator of the five years Wallenberg Foundation Project

Housing, Theory and Society 36(2): 149–166. doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2018.1459826. Abstract The term social housing has been characterized as a “floating signifier”, i.e. a term with no agreed-upon meanin

This is an open event with pre-circulated papers, including a presentation of the first paper but not the second. See abstracts below. Schedule 13.15 Coffee 13.30 “Legitimate Authority and Social OntologAuthor: Laura Valentini, LSECommentator: Aaron Maltais, Stockholm University

Staffan Julén

I am Head of communications at the Institute for Futures Studies, documentary film director and producer. At the institute I have among other things been working on a research project financed by the where I examined how artistic subjective narration can develop the documentary film. 

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