The socially sustainable society

A socially sustainable society is a society where people live well and feel safe. But such a society is constantly faced with challenges, from organized crime, differences in values and scarcity of resources, but also from ideas we have about each other that are not even conscious but can still affect the way we shape our society. This is our most comprehensive theme.

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

Place: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm or onlineREGISTERResearch seminar with Rodney Edvinsson, professor of economic history, Stockholm University.ABSTRACTThe book An Econom presents a new transhistorical framework of defining production, work and consumption. It shows that they all share the common feature of intentional physical transformation of something external to the agent, at some point in time.

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, or online Society’s everyday norms specify which behaviors are socially acceptable in which situations. How similar or different are

Kimmo Eriksson: The global study of everyday norms

Society’s everyday norms specify which behaviors are socially acceptable in which situations. How similar or different are everyday norms in societies around the world—and why? To answer these questio

Socially constructed beliefs about biological gender differences, i.e. gender essentialism, can to a large extent explain the remaining gender segregation and inequality. That’s one of the conclusions

Jan O. Jonsson

Professor of Sociology at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University; Official Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University; member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Science

European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, pp. 1-14, doi.org/10.1007/s10610-018-9387-0 Abstract This population-based time-trend study examines gun violence rates among males in Sweden during the

Theoria, Early View, pp. 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12227  Abstract Recent social‐psychological research suggests that a considerable amount of, for example, racial and gendered discrimination may

European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 25(4): 365-378 Abstract This population-based time-trend study examines gun violence rates among males in Sweden during the years 1996 to 2015 and compar