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Lisa Flower analyses the emotional regime in the White House in The Conversation: “Donald Trump, loyalty and the ‘emotional regime’ in the White House”. “But what exactly is loyalty? And why did Comey put on his poker face when asked for it?“Read the whole article on theconversation.comLisa Flower’s personal page here on our website About The ConversationLund University is a member of the UK editi

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/what-do-trumps-demands-loyalty-white-house-mean - 2025-11-27

Social anthropologist Tova Höjdestrand writes about the so-called Parents' Movement is a Russia in the chapter “Nationalism and Civicness in Contemporary Russia: Grassroots Mobilization in Defense of Traditional Family Values” published in the book Rebellious Parents: Parental Movements in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia. The so-called Parents' Movement is a Russian conservative grassroots mobil

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/rebellious-russian-parents-defense-traditional-family-values - 2025-11-27

NEW PROJECT investigates promises of accessibility for persons with disabilities. Associate Professor David Wästerfors has together with Kristofer Hansson at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences and Hanna Egard at Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society, received a research grant from FORTE for a project on Accessibility and its Resistance. Everyday deviations from spatial and soci

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/society-reachable-all - 2025-11-27

HETZLER GIVES TALK IN GOTHENBURG ON WAR AT WORK. Professor Antoinette Hetzler is invited to the Working life/Welfare seminar at the University of Gothenburg on 6 February 2018. Antoinette Hetzler will be presenting a chapter from a forthcoming book called The Transformation of Work in Welfare State Organizations.The chapter looks at how 569 primary school employees in Sweden, women and men, betwee

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/primary-school-teachers-illness-caused-work - 2025-11-27

Åsa Lundqvist, Professor at the Department of Sociology has, together with Ilona Ostner, published a comparative study on parental support ‘Parenting and parenting support in Germany and Sweden: Convergence and persistent dissimilarities’, in the Journal of Family Research. The researchers' abstract:Parenting support constitutes a long-established part of both the Swedish and the German portfolio

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/comparing-parental-support-sweden-and-germany - 2025-11-27

EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH: Chinese private schools may come across as a contradictory phenomenon: An authoritarian and officially socialist government needs to rely on education as an instrument of national unification and ideological control. So why would they allow for private schools and profit-making in the educational sector? However, far-reaching privatisation processes have been shaping the Chin

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/contradictions-private-schools-china - 2025-11-27

MARRIAGE AS A NORM AMONG YOUNG ADULTS IN CHINA: Lisa Eklund has published the chapter "The sex ratio question and the unfolding of a moral panic? Notions of power, choice and self in mate selection among women and men in higher education in China" in the book Scarce women and surplus men in China and India. The study investigates how sex ratio imbalance influences mate selection among young adults

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/fear-being-left-over-turning-moral-panic - 2025-11-27

SOCIOLOGIDAGARNA 2018: The Swedish Sociological Association's bi-annual conference titled "Sociology in a Polarized World" took place in Lund last week and was hosted by the Department of Sociology. This year's conference, March 7-9, was among the largest in the history of the association, with a peak of 268 delegates attending on International Women’s Day, March 8th. It was also among the first o

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hundreds-sociologists-came-lund-discuss-divided-world - 2025-11-27

Senior lecturer in Sociology Erik Hannerz will co-coordinate a Pufendorf-project about urban creativity together with Peter Bengtsen at the Division of Art History and Visual Studies. It was recently announced that the 2018-2019 thematic projects at the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies at Lund University will include a project focused on urban creativity.Urban creativity is an umbrella ter

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/new-collaboration-project-urban-creativity - 2025-11-27

Johan Sandberg's article "Beyond Granted Asylum-Labor Market Integration Challenges in Sweden" has been published in the latest issue of SAIS Review, on migration and its consequences. The article analyses recent changes to Sweden’s immigration policy and draws upon statistical data to show the effect of the new immigration regime.It discusses the structural economic challenge of integrating immig

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/radical-shift-swedish-migration-policy-analysed - 2025-11-27

SWEDISH PARENTING SUPPORT: Lisa Eklund and Åsa Lundqvist, at the Department of Sociology, have published an article in the Journal of Family Studies (12/6). The article Children’s Rights and Gender Equality in Swedish Parenting Support: Policy and Practice aims to explore how ‘children's rights’ and ‘gender equality’ are articulated in parenting support policies in Sweden, and how these policies a

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/child-rights-gender-equality - 2025-11-27

Priscilla Solano has received a three-year grant from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet VR) for a research project that will study ”a second side to the refugee crisis” - how civil society organisations filled the gaps left by EU national policies and fulfilled refugees’ and migrants’ basic needs: food, a place to stay and legal assistance. Priscilla Solano’s International postdoc-proj

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/funding-project-second-side-refugee-crisis - 2025-11-27

Anna Rypi, Veronika Burcar Alm and Malin Åkerström have published an article about young male crime victims with an immigrant background in the journal Nordic Social Work Research. Interactions between the police and young people with an immigrant background are well researched internationally and are often discussed in the context of discrimination. Such interactions may explain, at least in part

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/young-men-refrain-reporting-crimes - 2025-11-27

Mikael Klintman has written a chapter looking at political consumerism in the toy sector in The Oxford Handbook of Political Consumerism. The chapter looks at political consumerism in the toy sector, offering a brief history of consumer concerns and distinguishing among four strands of political consumerist research in this sector.Manufacturers cannot assume that parents and other carers do their

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/challenges-making-toy-dreams-come-true - 2025-11-27

Gökhan Kaya at the Department of Sociology defended his doctoral thesis in sociology ”Aspirations, capital and identity: four studies on the determinants of life chances for young Swedes with an immigrant background”, on 12th September at 14:00 in Stora Algatan's auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Associate Professor Susanne Urban, Institutet för Bostads- och urbanforskning, UppsalaMain supervisor an

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/gokhan-kaya-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-11-27

Erik Hannerz at the Department of Sociology and Peter Bengtsen at the Division of Art History and Visual Studies recently attended the annual Street Art & Urban Creativity Conference in Lisbon, Portual. Here they presented their plans for the upcoming Pufendorf research theme on Urban Creativity. The theme will run 1 October 2018 - 31 May 2019. During this period, an interdisciplinary group of eig

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/urban-creativity-kicks-presentation-lisbon - 2025-11-27

Anders Hylmö at the Department of Sociology has defended his doctoral thesis in sociology ”Disciplined Reasoning. The mainstream-heterodoxy divide and styles of reasoning in Swedish economics” today, 28th September at 10:00 in Eden's auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Associate Professor Elizabeth Popp Berman, Sociology Department, University at AlbanyChair person of the defence: Professor Mats Benne

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/anders-hylmo-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-11-27

Tisdag 8 maj kl 14.00-15.00 besöker kultur- och demokratiminister Alice Bah Kuhnke Musikhögskolan i Malmö. Hon kommer att hålla en öppen frågestund i Lilla salen för studenterna. Moderator är Staffan Storm, prodekan vid Konstnärliga fakulteten i Malmö.läs mer här: https://www.mhm.lu.se/event/besok-av-kultur-demokratiminister-alice-bah… ministerbesok_8_maj.pdf

https://www.konstnarliga.lu.se/artikel/musikhogskolan-far-besok-av-kultur-och-demokratiministern - 2025-11-27

Vid Kungliga Musikaliska Akademiens sammankomst tidigare i veckan invaldes fyra nya svenska ledamöter och sju utländska. En av de nya svenska ledamöterna är pianisten Francisca Skoogh, doktorand i konstnärlig forskning vid Musikhögskolan i Malmö, Lunds universitet.Läs mer om detta på Musikhögskolan i Malmös webbplats.Se även: http://www.musikaliskaakademien.se/nyheter.7.html

https://www.konstnarliga.lu.se/artikel/francisca-skoogh-ny-ledamot-i-kungliga-musikaliska-akademien - 2025-11-27

Fredagen den 1 juni överlämnade Claes Nilén, miljöchef vid Lunds universitet, och Anna Lyrevik, fakultetens dekan, i samband med Musikhögskolans läsårsavslutning, Lunds universitets miljödiplom till professor Håkan Rydin och rektor Ann-Charlotte Carlén. Detta för att Musikhögskolan under en lång rad av år arbetat systematiskt och engagerat med förbättringsåtgärder inom miljöområdet, som t ex insta

https://www.konstnarliga.lu.se/artikel/musikhogskolan-i-malmo-har-tilldelats-lund-universitets-miljodiplom - 2025-11-27