More and more businesses use AI – artificial intelligence – in recruitment. But what happens when they do so? The research project Can the implementation of artificial intelligence in the recruitment p, led by sociologist Moa Bursell, can give us some answers.

Robert B. Talisse is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee Abstract Democracy is such an important social good that it seems natural to think that more i

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

Explaining things with flow

This is a short presentation of what you can do with a software called Bayesian Dynamical Systems. It can be used to find patterns in large amounts of data and is the result of a cooperation between U

New Methods for Sharing Research Findings with Society

Finding new formats for presenting policy-relevant research results.

Point of you

Developing a new format for research communication, where performative elements and the participants' own experiences serve as the starting point for discussion.

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

Jens Krause, Humboldt University, Berlin In his talk Krause will explain some of the basic principles of collective behaviour and collective cognition. Some of the case studies are based on experiments

AI is watching. A constantly growing number of programs, microphones and cameras, are collecting data about you. Data that will be used. Maybe not by a killer robot who thinks you are the enemy. But m

Irina Vartanova

In my research, I use survey data, such as World Values Survey, to study social norms and their change in different cultures. At the Institute, I work with Pontus Strimling and Kimmo Eriksson on a project