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Näthatet och demokratin. Om konsekvenserna av det nya medielandskapet
Idag kan alla med tillgång till nätet uttrycka sina omedelbara åsikter i en fråga. Det har aldrig varit så enkelt att snabbt kommentera en bild eller händelse i olika forum och flöden. Många har uppmä
Tipping Points – Humanity at the Thresholds of the Planet
Exhibition of Tipping Point: Opening 1 June Galärparken, Djurgåren (close to Junibacken) at 5 pm (preview at 4:30 pm). Therafter daily 2-19 June, opens 11 am, last showing 3 pm every day.Seminar series 3, 4, 9 and 14 June, see below.

The future of work with Richard Freeman
Last October, Harvard professor of economics, Richard B Freeman gave a lecture on the future of work and the paradox of increased inequality despite higher levels of productivity and teamwork. The lec
How and why do we discriminate?
At last Friday’s research seminarKatrin Ausprung from the Department of History and Sociology at Konstanz University in Germany came to talk to us about her reserach on discrimination in housing marke
Positive online emotions
Is it possible to study emotions using mathematical models? Frank Schweizer is one of the resesarchers who have tried and he finds for example that we are quite nice to each other online. He came to te
Health and Wealth: the Contribution of Welfare State Policies to Economic Growth
Unlike economic theories and strategies of the last twenty years, this paper claims that health helps to create wealth, i.e. not only the other way around. It is argued that a human capital approach w
The Nordic Welfare Model in a European Perspective
From a comparative point of view the Nordic countries have succeeded well in terms of poverty alleviation; however, last-resort safety-nets are changing. This study analyses central dimensions of Nord
Family Relations, Children and Interregional Mobility, 1970-2000
The objective of this paper is to examine how family unions or, more precisely, the arrival of children has influenced migration during the three last decades. Both family formation and family dissolu
Welcome to our research seminars
On Friday the 24th of January our seminar series begins again here at the Institute for Futures Studies.The four first seminars all touch our research area segregation. Martin Ljung from the Research
Defining Social Housing: A Discussion on the Suitable Criteria
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