Andreas Diemer

I am a researcher at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University and at the Institute for Futures Studies. I am also part of the Urban Lab network hosted by the Institute

Nora Sánchez Gassen, political scientist and demographer, Nordregio.AbstractThe presentation will analyse how demographic trends such as population aging and international migration have influenced th

International Journal of Sociology Abstract The study aims to explore whether gendered family roles in the country of origin and the country of destination explain labor market outcomes for immigrants i

This project will examine how companies' elite social networks are formed and developed over time by studying how men and women network at a business school in Finland.

Hilary Greaves: Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and a Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford.  The previous topic "Reductionism about personal identity, prudential value and

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Volume 46, Issue 12, pp 2421–2445. Abstract Boys engage in notably higher levels of resistance to schooling than girls. While scholars argue that peer processes contrib

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

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

Institute for Futures Studies Working Paper 2024:18 Abstract We stipulate a normatively desirable scenario for food production in 2100 and identify a technology-centered path to attain it. The target ou

Welcome to Janine Wedel's inaugural lecture as a Kerstin Hesselgrens Visiting Professor: The Role of Elite Corruption in Today’s Illiberalism: Trump as “Trickster,” Why Trumpism is No Accident, and theThis talk, by social anthropologist and public policy professor Janine R. Wedel, examines how the activities of a novel breed of “shadow” or “influence elites” have helped corrode civic trust and fueled the surge in income inequality.  Partly as a result, many citizens in the United States and Europe (notably Poland and Hungary) have turned to demagogic figures who flout both the norms of the rigged system they seek to smash, and the Weltanschauung of the establishment. The talk will explore why people turn to them, Donald Trump’s role as “trickster,” and how Trump and other taboo-breaking, system-busting leaders govern once in power.