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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Matthias Abelin at the Department of Sociology has defended his doctoral thesis in social anthropology ”A Swedish Dilemma: Culture and Rule of Law in Swedish Sickness Insurance” today, Friday 10th May at 10:00 in the Eden Auditorium in Lund. Swedish society has been described as both modern, liberal democratic and dee

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/matthias-abelin-has-defended-his-thesis - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Doxa, a new student association at the Department of Sociology, hosted their first public event on 14th May. A panel discussion featuring researchers from Lund University and Denmark covered the implications of surveillance capitalism, a phenomenon expected to grow extensively in just a few years. Other than strengthe

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/new-student-association-starts-out-addressing-surveillance-capitalism - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The building is the same, but the address has changed. From 1 July the Department of Sociology's address is Sandgatan 11. To make it easier for emergency services to find the right building in the Paradis area in Lund, several university buildings are changing addresses. On 1 July, the Department of Sociology's addres

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/department-sociology-gets-new-address - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Sébastien Tutenges has studied overt and covert techniques used in bars and nightclubs to sell more alcohol, and noticed that they are most prevalent in low-priced venues with young patrons. Other than obvious methods to increase drinking – alcohol advertisements, special offers like Happy Hour, and large pitchers or

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/how-bars-and-nightclubs-make-you-drink-more - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Professor Anders Kjellberg has contributed to “Collective bargaining in Europe: towards an endgame”, a four-volume collection covering collective bargaining in EU member states since the year 2000. The literature explores how collective bargaining has been weakend or significantly changed in all 28 EU states. The main

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/comprehensive-work-collective-bargaining-eu - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The events leading up to Cyprus gaining independence from Great Britain in 1960 were not the result of instrumental rational calculations, argues sociologist Chares Demetriou in a recently published paper. Instead, a complicated series of interactions between several actors clouded the colonizer's judgement, ultimatel

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/british-strategy-dividing-cyprus-ultimately-enabled-its-independence - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Anna Berglund at the Department of Sociology defended her doctoral thesis in social anthropology ”Ambiguous hopes: an ethnographic study of agricultural modernisation in a Rwandan village” on Friday 4th October. For her PhD project, Anna Berglund spent 13 months in a Rwandan village studying the consequences of agricu

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/anna-berglund-successfully-defends-her-doctoral-thesis - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. It could have been a Friday the 13th disaster, but Henrik Möller managed to dodge all bad luck and successfully defended his doctoral thesis ”SPECTRAL MATTER: Materiality, Economy, and Culture of Burmese Jade in Contemporary China” on December 13. Henrik Möller states that his research project “examines intersections

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/henrik-moller-defends-his-doctoral-thesis - 2026-06-21

With only a few weeks remaining of its first semester, the maiden voyage of the Master’s programme in Cultural Criminology at Lund University is ending. How does this unique criminology master’s programme provide nuance to deviance? “I have found the course to be fantastic so far,” says Jack Lowe, one of the 14 students currently in the Master’s programme in Cultural Criminology. Having received h

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/focusing-seduction-crime-deviance-and-control - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lisa Eklund has co-authored the article ”Reacting to social discrimination? Men's individual and social risk behaviors in the context of a male marriage squeeze in rural China”, published in Social Science & Medicine. In China, a shortage of marriageable women is resulting in many single men, some of which engage in r

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/marriage-squeezed-men-china-suffer-social-discrimination - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Declarations and policies drafted by the UN, EU and individual nations basically promise accessibility for people with disabilities. But rhetoric is one thing, practice another. Disabled people have to use creative ways to access many places or resources in their everyday life. The sociologist David Wästerfors has stu

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/folk-methods-deal-inaccessibility - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In a new book, sociologist Lisa Flower shows how lawyers manage their emotions in the courtroom, where emotional displays traditionally are unwelcomed. People practicing and studying law often ignore the role emotions play in court. The idea is that feelings disturb the rationality that is the judicial discipline’s fo

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/uncovering-obscure-emotional-labour-law-practitioners - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Professor Antoinette Hetzler has contributed to the anthology Feeling Safe in School: Bullying and Violence Prevention Around the World, published by Harvard Education Press. Professor Hetzler’s expertise concerns conflicts in Swedish schools. In her chapter “Abusive Behaviour in Swedish Schools: Setting Limits and Bu

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/antoinette-hetzler-featured-international-anthology-violence-prevention-school - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. People who trust others are less likely to die than those who are distrusting, conclude sociologist Jan Mewes and colleagues in “Trust, happiness and mortality: Findings from a prospective US population-based survey”, published in Social Science & Medicine. The effects of generalised trust - the belief that others, in

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/survival-advantages-people-who-trust-strangers - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Veronika Burcar Alm has co-authored the article ”Suspected or protected? Perceptions of procedural justice in ethnic minority youth's descriptions of police relations” published in Policing and Society. The researchers interviewed 121 ethnic minority youths living in Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, about their e

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/ethnic-minority-youths-experiences-police - 2026-06-21

Three researchers within the Social Science Faculty at Lund University have compiled an anthology challenging the notion of the refugee crisis of 2015. The book also investigates how Germany, Sweden, and Denmark use bureaucracy to control, discipline, and shape asylum seekers’ lives. In 2015, the number of asylum seekers arriving in the EU doubled from the previous year, totalling at over 1.3 mill

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/how-northern-european-welfare-states-exercise-bureaucratic-violence-asylum-seekers - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Although violence in close relationships also includes violence in sibling relationships, this is a form of violence that is rarely acknowledged. The sibling relationship is associated with various notions of sibling rivalry and sibling love. Sociologist Veronika Burcar Alm has participated in a book about children an

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/fighting-your-sibling-ok-right - 2026-06-21

Many patient organisations collaborate with drug companies, resulting in concerns about commercial agendas influencing patient advocacy. In this new study Associate Professor of Sociology Shai Mulinari, has together with Andreas Vilhelmsson, Emily Rickard and Piotr Ozieranski, analyzed financial support from pharmaceutical companies to patient organisations in Sweden between 2014 and 2018. They ha

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/pharmaceutical-industrys-funding-patient-organisations-sweden - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Veronika Burcar Alm, a teacher at the Department of Sociology, has this year been named Qualified Teaching Practitioner by the Faculty of Social Sciences' Teaching Academy. Meet the department's Qualified Teaching Practitioner Veronika Burcar Alm as she talks about her views on teaching and why she applied to the facu

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/teaching-and-learning-interaction - 2026-06-21

Swedish women talk about the shame, threats and fear that went into telling someone about being abused by their partner in this new article "Revealing hidden realities: disclosing domestic abuse to informal others" published by Susanne Boethius and Malin Åkerström in the Nordic Journal of Criminology, and available as Open Access. One in three women Violence against women in close relationships is

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/women-hesitate-when-revealing-domestic-abuse - 2026-06-21