A couple of weeks ago it was decided that the Institute for Futures Studies will support the project International Panel on Social Progress. It is a large project with high ambitions that mobilizes se

Climate science faces a challenge in delivering direct and immediate societal benefits. Today, there is a gap between what it produces and what users actually need. In the article "Usability of climat

London: Routledge This innovative book is one of the first to conduct a systematic comprehensive analysis of the ideals and practices of the evolving green state. It draws on elements of political theo

Current Sociology, 66(3), pp. 356-372. doi.org/10.1177/0011392116681385  Abstract Although intimacy is an area characterized by great variety and complexity, both popular and academic discourses have tra

Research seminar with Julia Cage, Associate Professor of Economics, Sciences Po Paris Register Abstract Electoral democracies are in crisis. Turnout is at its lowest point in the history of universal sufand argue that the solution involves a radical rethinking of our system of political finance, participation and representation.

Theory & Society Abstract The main aim of this article is to start a discussion of social pattern, a term that is commonly used in sociology but not specified or defined. The key question can be phrsociologicalconcept of social pattern may look like. A useful and theoretically solid concept of social pattern can in our view be constructed by basing it on Weber’s concept of social action. This means thatboththe behavior of the actorsandthe meaning these invest their behavior with must be taken into account. The article ends with a brief discussion of how to use the concept of social patterns in an effective way and what may endanger such a use.

Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, or online.Research seminar with Olle Hammar, Ph.D. in Economics and researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. RegistIn this paper, we introduce novel estimates of wealth inequality, integrating the standard household wealth concept with newly assessed individual human capital. Using microdata and national accounts from numerous countries since 2000, we explore the distribution across age, gender, education, and occupation. Our analysis reveals two key findings: 1) human capital is more evenly distributed than financial capital, and 2) total wealth, the sum of human and financial capital, is significantly more equal than financial wealth alone. This study offers a groundbreaking perspective on global wealth dynamics, emphasizing the critical, yet often overlooked, role of human capital in wealth distribution.

Maria Ojala is Associate Professor (docent) in psychology at Örebro University. Her research interest mainly concerns how young people think, feel, act, cope, learn and communicate about climate chang

Tobias Hübinette is Associate Professor in Intercultural Education and a Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Studies at Karlstad University. ABSTRACTThis presentation aims at understanding today's situati

Tina Askanius

Tina Askanius is Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies at the School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, where she is also the co-director of the interdisciplinary research pShe holds a PhD in Media and Communication Studies from Lund University, Sweden, where she defended the thesis in 2012. Her research broadly concerns the interplay between social media and social movements, and she has published extensively on these matters in the context of social and climate justice movements as well as ultra-nationalist and neo-Nazi movements in Scandinavia. At the institute she works in the project .