On 11 May, Lars Crusefalk finished his PhD studies with a successful defence of his thesis "Financial journeys: Reasoning about debt and money among young adults in Sweden". He is the 132nd doctoral candidate to complete PhD studies at the Department of Sociology. Swedish households are among the most indebted in the EU. Home loans make up most of the debt, but other credit usage is becoming incre

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lars-crusefalk-ends-phd-student-journey-and-transitions-doctor-sociology - 2025-09-01

Professor Anders Kjellberg has worked at the Department of Sociology at Lund University since 1978. His research focuses on trade unions, employers' associations and industrial relations. Foto Kennet Ruona. The neoliberal agenda dominating the EU for the past 40 years has been a severe challenge for the trade unions, which have lost organisational strength. Even in Sweden, union density has declin

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/anders-kjellberg-co-authors-comprehensive-book-trade-unions-eu-countries - 2025-09-01

The proportion of unionised blue-collar and white-collar workers fell in 2022 after an increase in the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021. Despite this, Sweden has the world's second highest level of unionisation. This is shown in the report 'The Swedish model from a Nordic perspective: unionisation and the new basic agreement' by Professor Anders Kjellberg for the think tank Arena Idé. The share of

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/sweden-world-leading-union-membership-despite-declining-union-density - 2025-09-01

On Friday 14 February Freja Morris successfully defended her thesis “Tenacious Documents: Exploring the Allure of Documentation in Swedish Compulsory Schools” and is now a doctor in sociology. For over a decade, Swedish teachers have voiced their frustration over the increasing demands for documentation, which they feel detracts from valuable teaching time. Despite various governmental efforts to

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/freja-morris-thesis-highlights-documentation-burden-swedish-schools - 2025-09-01

Aube Tollu is now a doctor in sociology. The thesis offers a fresh perspective on studying armed group members. Aube Tollu’s research intervenes in criminological debates by moving beyond interpretations that portray individuals in armed political milieus solely as pathological. Instead, it develops a more differentiated account of their social realities. Drawing on crip theory and affect theory,

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/aube-tollu-doctor-sociology-after-successful-defence - 2025-09-01

The diversity of our research is reflected in our programmes and provides our students with an inspiring environment in which to develop. The Department of Sociology offers a wide and varied range of courses and programmes in our fields of sociology, social anthropology, gender studies and human resources, both on campus in Lund and online.All our courses and programmes can be found here on the we

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/time-apply-courses-and-programmes-starting-autumn - 2025-09-01

Congratulations all admitted students and welcome to the Department of Sociology! There are four international master's programmes at the Department of Sociology: Cultural Criminology (SACCR), Human Resources, Sociology (SASCO) and Social Anthropology (SASAN). We also collaborate with other departments on several master's programmes and one bachelor's programme in English.Do not miss important inf

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/admitted-one-our-international-masters-programmes-starting-autumn - 2025-09-01

External Reviewer Susanne Wallman Lundåsen, Linköping University and Alexander Saaranen. Photo: Linnéa Saaranen Why do some people believe that most others can be trusted, while others don’t? And how does trust change over time? In his recently defended doctoral thesis, Alexander Saaranen studies social trust, and his findings show that our teenage years may be more important than previously thoug

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/alexander-saaranens-thesis-uncovers-what-makes-us-trust - 2025-09-01

The study on pharmaceutical industry self-regulation that Shai Mulinari and co-authors recently published in PLOS Medicine has received considerable attention internationally. The study has recently been discussed in The British Medical Journal (published by the British Medical Association), The Pharmaceutical Journal (published by the UK Royal Pharmaceutical Society) and The Wall Street Journal. 

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/international-coverage-mulinaris-study-pharmaceutical-industry - 2025-09-01

Abdulhadi Khalaf of the Sociology Department has together with co-editors just published the book "Transit States: Labour, Migration and Citizenship in the Gulf". The states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar) form the largest destination for labour migration in the global South. In all of these states, however, the majority of the

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/new-book-transit-states-labour-migration-and-citizenship-gulf - 2025-09-01

The Department of Sociology held their annual PhD Research Day Friday 12th December, which provided an opportunity for PhDs candidates from Education, Social Anthropology and Sociology to present their ongoing doctors thesis. A total of 13 PhD candidates presented their work which ranged from the emotion work and impression management of loyalty used by defense lawyers, to intellectuals in the con

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/inspiring-research-day-science-mapping-rwandan-farming - 2025-09-01

Ann-Mari Sellerberg and Vesa Leppänen have published a new article: "The contradictory role of the sales assistant: superordination and subordination" Int. J. Work Organisation and Emotion, 2015. More information.  

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/contradictory-role-sales-assistant - 2025-09-01

The Department of Sociology hosted an international migration workshop on the theme “Queer Migrations and Mobilities: Sexuality, Gender, Citizenship, and Intimacy from a European Perspective” on the 11th and 12th of September. The workshop, funded by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Societies (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond), brought together 25 researchers, scholar-activists, activists and ac

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/many-researchers-and-activists-queer-migrant-groups-brought-together-international-workshop - 2025-09-01

The successful candidate will conduct sociological research and teach sociology at the BA, MA, and PhD levels. The position includes 50 percent research and 50 percent teaching and administration. Associated Senior Lecturer in SociologyBiträdande lektor (Sw), Assistant Professor (US) In addition to conducting high-quality research and teaching insociology, the successful candidate is expected to b

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/associated-senior-lecturer-sociology - 2025-09-01

Erik Hannerz’ book Performing Punk has just been published with Palgrave Macmillan. See more details here.  Summary of bookArguing against the presumption that subcultural meaning constitutes a single set of meaning, Hannerz addresses how punks draw upon plural definitions of the mainstream and notions of subcultural authenticity.Drawing from an exceptionally rich fieldwork in Sweden and Indonesia

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/punk-identity-sweden-and-indonesia - 2025-09-01

Max Jerneck defended his dissertation in sociology "Sunrise of an Industry: Solar Energy under Financial and Industrial Capitalism in the U.S. and Japan, 1973 - 2005" today at one o'clock in Hörsal 128, Stora Algatan 4, Lunds University. External reviewer: Professor William Lazonick, University of Massachusetts Lowell.Sunrise of an Industry Max Jerneck

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/max-jerneck-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-09-01

Shai Mulinari has published a co-authored article on “Does Maternal Country of Birth Matter for Understanding Offspring’s Birthweight?  A Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity in Sweden” in PLOS ONE.More information at journals.plos.org AbstractBackgroundMany public health and epidemiological studies have found differences between populations (e.g. maternal countries of birth) in average

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/mulinari-understanding-offsprings-birthweight - 2025-09-01

The Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Uppsala has awarded Thomas Brante this year's prize for the best cross-disciplinary contribution of distinguished quality. The prize is awarded every second year and is worth up to 100,000 SEK. In his research, the Prize Committee states, Thomas Brante shows "how science and practice are unified in the modern knowledge society. In a fruitful approach that

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/brantes-cross-disciplinary-research-receives-royal-prize - 2025-09-01

Victimhood, Forgiveness and Reconciliation: in Stories of Bosnian War Survivors and Stories of Sexualized War Violence after the Bosnian war Basic, Goran (2015) ”Victimhood, Forgiveness and Reconciliation: in Stories of Bosnian War Survivors”. In Eugene L. Olsen (Ed.). Forgiveness: Social Significance, Health Impact and Psychological Effects (Chapter 6). Hauppauge: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.Lea

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The articles concern first the Zelmid case, the first SSRI antidepressant in the journal Social Science & Medicine, second the use of broad migrant categories and third the question if maternal country of birth can be used to understand birthweight. Divergence and convergence of commercial and scientific priorities in drug development: the case of Zelmid, the first SSRI antidepressant in Social Sc

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/shai-mulinari-has-published-three-journal-articles-drugs-and-public-health - 2025-09-01