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Lina Eriksson: Changing social norms – what levers can we pull?
Venue:Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm Research seminar with Lina Eriksson, professor of political science at the University of Gothenburg. Register here > Abstract Social makelevers to pull
Lina Eriksson: Changing social norms - what levers can we pull?
Research seminar with Lina Eriksson, professor of political science at the University of Gothenburg. Social norms affect us in almost all aspects of our lives, whether we comply with them, choose to v
Evidence from 43 countries that disease leaves cultures unchanged in the short-term
Nature, Scientific Reports Abstract Did cultures change shortly after, and in response to, the COVID-19 outbreak? If so, then in what way? We study these questions for a set of macro-cultural dimensions
Peter Hedström leaves the Institute for Futures Studies to start new research center for analytical sociology
Peter Hedström, Director of the Institute for Futures Studies, will leave the Institute in August 2014. Peter will then be Professor of Sociology at Linköping University, where he will build a new rese
Cumulative exposure to disadvantage and the intergenerational transmission of neighbourhood effects
Journal of Economic Geography (available online) Abstract:Studies of neighbourhood effects typically investigate the instantaneous effect of point-in-time measures of neighbourhood poverty on individual
Carina Mood
My research concerns poverty, inequality, integration and the welfare of children and youth. At the Institute for Futures Studies I am one of the researchers leaders of the current reseach program's t
Peter Hedström elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities
On the 6th of May, Peter Hedström was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities was founded in 175
Gustaf Arrhenius receives prolonged appointment as director of the institute
What sets the framework for the research at the Institute for Futures Studies is research programs, created by the director. The current one, What future? Challenges and choices in the 21st century(201
Understanding and exploiting information spreading and integrating information technologies
2011. Journal of Computer Science and Technology 26: 829-836. AbstractOur daily life leaves an increasing amount of digital traces, footprints that are improving our lives. Data-mining tools, like recomm
Defining disability and the role of the disability and the medical communities
Theoria Abstract Definitions of disabilityare useful for different purposes and carry normative significance. However, defining disability has proven a difficult task. Communities with different theoreti
