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Swedes worry about the environmental consequences of childbearing
Foto: Kelli McClintock/Unsplash Are people having fewer children because they worry about climate change? Researchers at the Institute for Futures Studies (IFFS) have found that many Swedes both worry a
Rationing for the climate: A study of Swedes’ acceptance of consumption limits
With climate change it has become evident that we need to reduce our consumption. Could this be done using rationing? This project aims to understand public attitudes toward climate-motivated rationing.
Political Integration through Associational Affiliation? Immigrants and Native Swedes in Greater Stockholm
2011. 37:99–115. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Abstract Theories of participation have been developed and tested almost exclusively on majority populations. While the relative underrepresentat
In Sweden we shake hands – but are we really?
Sociologisk Forskning, vol 54, no 4, pp 377–381. Abstract Motivated by a recent controversy over handshaking, a survey of the personal networks of young Swedes (n=2244) is used to describe greeting prac
Sweden, the extreme country
The research network World Values Survey has explored people's values since the 1980s in six waves of interviews in a total of 100 countries. The latest survey was completed in 2014 and the result has
Resisting assimilation – ethnic boundary maintenance among Jews in Sweden
in: Distinktion: Journal of Social TheoryAbstractThis article evaluates Andreas Wimmer’s theory of ethnic boundary making by applying it to the maintenance of Jewish ethnic identification in Sweden, a
Mikael Holmqvist: Djursholm – Sweden’s Leader Community
Mikael Holmqvist is Associate Professor of Sociology and Professor of Management at Stockholm University. ABSTRACTAll around the world there are ”leader communities”, i.e., places where leaders choose
Values and voters – on giving your vote to the Sweden Democrats
On the 4th of December, an article was published on DN Debatt on xenophobia among the Sweden Democrats voters. The article refers to a study that was initiated when the writers Peter Hedström and Tim
A Life‐Course Analysis of Geographical Distance to Siblings, Parents, and Grandparents in Sweden
Population, Space and Place, VolumLäe 23, Issue 3, e2020, doi.org/10.1002/psp.2020 Abstract This study makes a contribution to the demography and geography of kinship by studying how internal migration
