In 2013 the Institute for Futures Studies arranged the 6th annual INAS-Conference in Stockholm. The conference was opened by Thomas Schelling, being interviewed by Richard Swedberg.

On the 7th and 8th of June, the International Network for Analytical Sociologists, INAS, will meet for its sixth conference, this time in Stockholm hosted by the Institute for Futures Studies. Thomas

Interview with Thomas Schelling

On the 7th of June, 2013 professor and Nobel Prize Winner Thomas Schelling came to visit Stockholm, Sweden and the Institute for Futures Studies in order inaugurate an international research conferenc

Bilden av Sverige – en förebild eller ett land i kris?

På senare tid har flera beskrivit Sverige som ett land i kris. Inte sällan kopplas krisen till svensk integrationspolitik. Samtidigt får vi rapporter om att mycket överlag har blivit bättre i dagens S

Here you will find documentation from some of our previous research seminars. November 29th 2013: Contexts and conditions of ethnic discrimination. Evidence from field-experiments in German housing mark by Katrin AusprungRead the blog post

Offentliga samtal: Har vi blivit mer faktaresistenta?

(OBS! Bilden kommer när första talaren kommer upp på scen.) Varför pratas det så mycket om faktaresistens idag? Produktionen och tillgängligheten av kunskap har aldrig varit större än idag. Vi har he

På senare tid har fler beskrivit Sverige som ett land i kris. Inte sällan kopplas krisen till svensk integrationspolitik. Samtidigt får vi rapporter om att mycket överlag har blivit bättre i dagens Sv

Gianluca Manzo, Sociology Sorbonne Status hierarchies have the characteristic of being increasingly asymmetric distributions that, however, never turn into winner-take-all structures. In this paper we

For three years, three researchers and two research assistants have surveyed and interviewed a group of people who are remarkably invisible in research. it's remarkable since it is a category of peopl (in Swedish).

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