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30 January, 2020

Book release: Stefan Svallfors - The Inner World of Research

Register: The seminar is free of charge, but you need to register, REGISTER HERE The Inner World of Research - On Academic Labor is a book about the misery and joy of life as a researcher. It deals with ess

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15 December, 2022

Predicting how US public opinion on moral issues will change from 2018 to 2020 and beyond

Royal Society Open Science, vol. 9, issue 4 Abstract The General Social Survey, conducted every 2 years, measures public opinion on a wide range of moral issues. The data from the 2020 survey are expect

Type of publication: Journal articles | Strimling, Pontus , Vartanova, Irina , Eriksson, Kimmo
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04 July, 2016

Learning to play

In 2007, the Swedish gambling agency ran a simple gambling game called LIMBO. Gamblers were invited to stake 10 kronor on a number of their choice between 1 and 99,999. The person choosing the smalles

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10 December, 2024

Environmentalism around the globe. An introduction to the 2020 ISSP environment module and selected country-level findings

International Journal of Sociology Abstract Environmental problems such as climate change, air and water pollution, and biodiversity loss affect humans globally. The International Social Survey Programm

Type of publication: Journal articles | Fairbrother, Malcolm , & M. Hadler et.al.
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07 July, 2015

Gustaf Arrhenius elected to a council which will help government with sustainability

During the Swedish politician's week in Visby, the government decided to appoint a scientific council for sustainable development. The council will strengthen the link between politics and academia. Th

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31 January, 2017

It' about class: Why children with immigrant parents have lower grades but higher ambitions

Previous research has shown that children of immigrant parents have worse grades in school than children with at least one parent born in Sweden. Yet, these children have higher ambitions with their edI

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23 January, 2018

The road to civilization goes through threat and punishment

Do you frown at people who sneeze in their hand instead of in a tissue? Would you be prepared to punish that person by frowning at him or her, showing you dislike the behaviour? In that case you are a

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09 February, 2015

Christian Munthe: The Price of Precaution

Christian Munthe, Professor of Practical Philosophy, University of Gothenburg and comments by Olle Häggström, Professor of Mathematical Statistics at Chalmers. "The Price of Precaution: Evaluating Acti

Christian Munthe, Professor of Practical Philosophy, University of Gothenburg.
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14 September, 2023

Geoengineering – a serious alternative or a dangerous idea?

Geoengineering is a term used to describe techniques for large-scale manipulation of the climate to reduce the Earth's average temperature. These controversial ideas are now being debated more extensi

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23 September, 2024

Kinship, heritage and ethnic choice: ethnolinguistic registration across four generations in contemporary Finland

European Sociological Review Abstract We studied how individuals’ ethnolinguistic affiliation relates to the ethnolinguistic structure of kinship in contemporary Finland, a society in which Finnish-spea

Type of publication: Working papers | Kolk, Martin , Saarela, J. & O. Obucina
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