Through multi-level analyses, this study evaluates how welfare regime generosity as well as production regime coordination explains cross-national patterns of retirement preferences across twelve West

Individual- and country-level factors are brought together in simultaneous analyses of their relationships with perceived stress and work-family conflict for women. The hypotheses predicting higher st

Frontiers in Sociology, sec. Migration and Society Abstract Despite the commitment of the Swedish government to ensuring equal access to Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights services for all citizens,

Plos One Abstract Concerns have been raised that immigrants coming to Europe bring fundamentally different social values, affecting the more liberal receiving societies negatively. However, the topic of

International Journal of Public Health Abstract Objectives:Women’s healthcare is a potential source of cross-cultural conflicts. Diverging values between healthcare providers and patients challenges the

Most researchers in the field are in agreement that a diploma from apprenticeship-based vocational training gives a smoother school-to-work transition than a diploma from school-based vocational train

July 24 to 26 Essex university arrange Understanding Society Research Conference. Institute employee Kenisha Russell Jonsson gives a lecture with "Cohabitation or Marriage? The socioeconomic and famil

in: Saving People from the Harm of Death, Eds. Espen Gamlund and Carl Tollef Solberg, p. 255-266, Oxford University Press. In this volume, leading philosophers, medical doctors, and economists discuss

The future of disabilities: The ethics and politics of disability and technology

This project will investigate how theories on equality and justice are affected by the fact that many disabilities are becoming a matter of choice as a consequence of the use of new technologies.

International Journal of Communication 18(2024) Abstract This article explores the discursive linkages between violent misogyny and violent rightwingextremism in the popular Swedish online discussion foranonymous and relatively unmoderated commenting. Empirically, it focuses on thearticulations of misogyny and anti-feminism mapped onto extreme right ideology includingwhite supremacism in user comments posted across 16 Flashback threads. To analyze theextensive data set, we first drew on a collocation analysis of user comments (N = 20,359)scraped from a strategic selection of threads. From this sample we chose 36 combinationsto be considered for a closer reading. In the second analytical step, critical discourseanalysis coupled with the Essex School’s logics approach helped us unpack the logics ofconspiracy and male entitlement, as well as the fantasmatic projections of Swedish womenas both “race traitors” and “victims” at the heart of extreme right discourse in and beyondSweden today.