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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
Hanna Wass: Too much of a good thing? The future of the antifragile democracy
Hanna Wass is an Academy Research Fellow and University Lecturer in the Department of Political and Economic Studies at the University of Helsinki. ABSTRACT As a potentially antifragile system, the stre
Human enhancement - intervju med Karim Jebari om hans doktorsavhandling
Karim Jebari på Institutet för Framtidsstudier intervjuas om sin doktorsavhandling som handlar om human enhancement och riskerna med ny teknologi.
#YouToo? When the predator is your partner
The #MeToo movement has recently been praised by the United Nations experts in women’s human rights. Yet if sexist violence against women has been under the spotlight and denounced in every context ov
On the contagiousness of non-contagious behavior: The case of tax avoidance and tax evasion
Pp. 315-336 in The Benefit of Broad Horizons: Intellectual and Institutional Preconditions for a Global Social Science, edited by Hans Joas and Barbro Klein. Leiden: Brill.
De virala experterna - om sociala medier och covid-19-pandemin
Under covid-19-pandemins första våg fanns ett stort sug efter information, och en tydlig brist på densamma. Facebook blev snabbt en plats där människor delade egna erfarenheter, råd och uträkningar, o
Global sex differences in hygiene norms and their relation to sex equality
Plos Gloal Public Health Abstract Strict norms about hygiene may sometimes have health benefits but may also be a burden. Based on research in the United States, it has been suggested that women traditi
Did the COVID-19 pandemic change our social norms?
As you might remember, a lot of our social behaviors changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how we perceived the behaviors of others. What was once deemed acceptable behavior became scrutinized, wi
Book launch with Andreas Bummel: A world parliament
"A world parliament: Governance and democracy for the 21st century" is here presented by one of the authors, Andreas Bummel at the Institute for Futures Studies in October 2018. Adrienne Sörbom and Ha
Om jämlikhet och vad vi egentligen vill uppnå med den. Intervju med Larry Temkin
Den amerikanske filosofen Larry Temkin har ägnat nästan hela sin forskarkarriär åt att förstå jämlikhet. Han menar att det vi egentligen vill uppnå när vi pratar om jämlikhet är ett slags rättvisa och
