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Modelling Social Mechanisms for Knowledge Generation & Exploration
Nanda Wijermans, Stockholm Resilience Centre Human behaviour is a complex phenomenon with a lot of open questions. Computational modelling can support the scientific quest for more understanding of hum
Inherited Trust and the Economic Success of Second Generation Immigrants
Martin Ljunge, Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) ABSTRACTThe paper that will be presented finds significant private returns from trust. Individuals with high trust earn more. Greater trust lead
What insights can data visualization techniques generate?
Visualizing information is a way to communicate scientific results efficiently and in an appealing way. This is particularly important if scientists want to communicate their results not only to their
Frank Kalter: The structural integration of the 2nd generation in Germany. New data, same old stories?
Frank Kalter, Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim ABSTRACT Occupational and educational attainment are widely seen as the key to the integration of immigrant
A lost generation? A study of long-term influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on business students and their career networks
What impact did the pandemic have on business students' social networks, and how will it impact their career possibilities?
POSTPONED. NEW DATE PENDING.Nicole J. Hassoun: Aiding the Poor in Present and Future Generation
Postponed. New date pending. Nicole J.Hassoun, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Binghamton University.Abstract This paper discusses and brings together two lines of research on global justice – one
Lunch seminar: Working with ghosted labour in supply-chain and data infrastructure to generate counter-claims around sustainability
Location: Big seminar room, Teknikringen 74D, floor 5 (KTH)This is a "Brown Bag Seminar" hosted by KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory in Stockholm with Benjamin Gerdes, artistic researcher at the At this seminar, he will talk about his artistic research project "Ghost platform: Generating the "Complex image" of data, labour and logistics", funded by Vetenskapsrådet.
The intersection of class origin and immigration background in structuring social capital: the role of transnational ties
The British Journal of Sociology, vol 69, no 1, pp 99-123, doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.12289. Abstract The study investigates inequalities in access to social capital based on social class origin and immigra
Social capital and leaving the nest: Channels and housing tenures
i Social Networks, Volume 65 AbstractYoung adults in Europe sometimes have trouble moving away from their parents and obtaining a home of their own, which is considered an important step in the transit
Access to occupational networks and ethnic variation of depressive symptoms in young adults in Sweden
Social Science & Medicine, Volume 190, pp. 207-216. doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.08.022 Abstract Social capital research has recognized the relevance of occupational network contacts for individ
