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President of the Swedish Sociological Association
Professor Stefan Svallfors was elected President of the Swedish Sociological Association for the years 2014-2016. Read more about Stefan Svallfors.
Sociological insights of great thinkers
2011. Praeger.
Joakim Kulin: Climate change or social change? Sociological perspectives on citizens’ environmental beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors
Joakim Kulin, Researcher at Department of Sociology, Umeå University.ABSTRACT It is increasingly evident that greenhouse gas emissions and global warming pose serious existential risks to human societi
Actions and networks: Sociology that really matters (to me)
2008. Sociologica 1(1) 1-18.
Completed: The effects of psychological structures on values and voting behavior
A study of the differences between the voters of the Sweden Democrats, the Social Democrats and the Moderate Party.
Analytical sociology is a research strategy
2012. Sociologica 1 http://www.sociologica.mulino.it/journal/issue/index/Issue/Journal:ISSUE:16
Peter Hedström Consulting Editor
Peter Hedström has been appointed as Consulting Editor for Sociological Science (see www.sociologicalscience.com).
Making their Mark. Disentangling the Effects of Neighbourhood and School Environment on Educational Achievement
Working Paper 2007 No. 3 A revised version is published in the European Sociological Review, 24 (4). Lars Brännström
Axiological Retributivism and the Desert Neutrality Paradox
Campbell, T. Axiological Retributivism and the Desert Neutrality Paradox. Philosophies 2022, 7, 80. https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7040080 Abstract: According to axiological retributivism, people canan outcome in which someone gets what she deserves, even if it is bad for her, can thereby haveintrinsic positive value. A question seldom asked is how axiological retributivism should deal withcomparisons of outcomes that differ with respect to the number and identities of deserving agents.Attempting to answer this question exposes a problem for axiological retributivism that parallels awell-known problem in population axiology introduced by John Broome. The problem for axiologicalretributivism is that it supports the existence of a range of negative wellbeing levels such that if adeserving person comes into existence at any of these levels, the resulting outcome is neither betternor worse with respect to desert. However, the existence of such a range is inconsistent with a setof very plausible axiological claims. I call this the desert neutrality paradox. After introducing theparadox, I consider several possible responses to it. I suggest that one reasonable response, thoughperhaps not the only one, is to reject axiological retributivism.
Completed: Examining and overcoming the psychological barriers to climate action
This project's highly international and interdisciplinary collaboration will create synergies and develop important means to tackle climate change.