Past Sociology Seminars

A list of our past sociology seminars will be presented here soon.

2021

January 27, Barbara Hobson, Department of Sociology, Imagining Alternatives and the Sociology of Futures: Projectivity and the Capability to Aspire

March 17, Stefanie Mollborn, University of Colorado Boulder, Health lifestyles and the Reproduction of Inequality

April 28, Roland Paulsen, Lund University, Return to Meaning

May 19, Jens Rydgren, Stockholm University and Sanna Salo, University of Helsinki, The Battle Over Working Class Voters: How Social Democracy has Responded to the Populist Radical Right in the Nordic Countries

June 2, J. Peter Nilsson, Stockholm University, What happens when discrimination in academia becomes salient?


2020

February 12, Richard Swedberg, Cornell University, On the Uses of Exploratory Research and Exploratory Studies in Social Science

March 25, Sofiya Voytiv, Department of Sociology, Exploring mechanisms of diaspora politicization during the armed conflict in the "homeland": a network perspective.

May 6, Michael Gähler, Department of Sociology, The when and whereabouts of gender hiring discrimination

September 9, Siddartha Aradhya, SUDA, Department of Sociology, Immigrant ancestry and birthweight across two generations born in Sweden: An intergenerational cohort study

October 21, Amber Beckley, SUDA, Department of Sociology, Patterns of crime and severe violent victimization across life.

November 4, Signe Svallfors, SUDA, Department of Sociology, Politicizing health: Women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights in the Colombian armed conflict

December 2, Melis Kirgil, Department of Sociology, Sustained Cooperation and Decay in Small Groups

December 16, Ann-Zofie Duvander, SUDA, Department of Sociology, Fragmented child law – consequences of conflicting rules on child maintenance


2019

January 30, Elias le Grand, Department of Child and Youth Studies, Conceptualising Social Types and Figures: From Social Forms to Classificatory Struggles

February 13, Sunnee Billingsley, Department of Sociology    

February 21, Ellen Berrey, University of Toronto    

March 20, Jeffrey Lane, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Digital Urban Ethnography

April 24, Gudrun Østby, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Organized Violence and Institutional Child Delivery: Micro-Level Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa

May 8, Barbara Hobson, Department of Sociology    

May 22, Sharon Nepstad (University of New Mexico), Colin Beck (Pomona College) and Mlada Bukovansky (Smith College), Panel discussion: Rethinking Revolutions

September 6, Felix Elwert, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Causal Mediation Analysis with Unmeasured Mediator-Outcome Confounding

September 11, Yearime Castel Y Barragán, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Performers’ and artistic places’ market position: Movements between the upper and under ground

October 2, Jolanta Aidukaite, Lithuanian Social Research Centre, Support to families with small children in Lithuania and Sweden: father’s role in child care.

October 16, Vanessa Barker, Department of Sociology    Bordering Inequality: Notes on Method


2018

January 18, Juho Härkönen, SUDA, Educational Stratification in Family Structure: Knowns and Unknowns

January 24, Vanessa Barker, Department of Sociology, Nordic Nationalism and Penal Order - Walling the Welfare State

February 7, Magnus Bygren, Department of Sociology, Ethnic Discrimination in a Segmented Labor Market - A Longitudinal Field Experiment Approach"

February 14, Ylva Almqvist, CHESS, Reproduction of inequality through linked lives: Empirical examples from the Stockholm Birth Cohort

February 21, Livia Olàh, Department of Sociology, SUDA, Higher-order Childbearing (Second and Third Births) in Hungary in Turbulent times: Does family Policy Matter?

March 14, Michael Young, University of Texas at Austin, Undeportable: How DREAMers radicalized the U.S. immigrant rights movement

March 21, Kelly Musick, Cornell Population Center, Occupational Characteristics and Women’s Employment during the Transition to Parenthood

April 11, Martin Hällsten, Department of Sociology, Wealth as dimension of socio-economic status: A sibling correlation approach

April 18, Sven Drefahl, SUDA, Mortality in Sweden

May 3, Jack Goldstone, George Mason University, Demography Shapes Democracy: Portents for the Global Future from Population Trends

May 3, Phillip Brown, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University    The Death of Human Capital?

May 9, Linda Haas, Indiana University, Policy Is not Enough –The Influence of the Gendered Workplace on Fathers’ Use of Parental Leave in Sweden

May 16, Mikaela Sundberg, Department of Sociology, Why nuns cannot be friends - Fraternal relations in a total institution

May 30, Jens Rydgren, Department of Sociology, Radical Right-wing Parties in Europe (The Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right)

September 5, Love Bohman, Department of Sociology, Longitudinal Dynamics in the Swedish Director Interlock Network

September 26, Jolanta Aidukaite, Teodoras Medaiskis, Kristina Senkuviene, Lithuanian Social Research Centre, Challenges to Welfare State Systems in Lithuania and Sweden

October 3, Anna Lund, Department of Child and Youth Studies, Stockholm University

October 17, Andrea Voyer, Department of Sociology 

November 15, William Carbonaro, University of Notre Dame, Schools as Equalizers or Strafifyers?

November 28, Marie Evertsson, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Becoming a Parent in Different-sex and Female Same-sex Couples in Sweden. Identity Formation, Gender and the Division of Paid and Unpaid Work.

December 12, Hernan Mondani, Department of Sociology, Check across the street: Identifying collaboration overlaps in the co-offending network of Swedish street gangs with link communities

2017

January 25, Lisa Lindén, Department of Sociology, Communicating Care: The Contradictions of HPV Vaccination Campaigns

February 8, Mats Trondman, Department of Cultural Sciences, Linnaeus University, Understanding Authority

March 8, Derek Gregory, Department of Geography, University of British Colombia, Vancouver, The Death of the Clinic: Surgical Strikes and Spaces of Exception

March 17, Susan Faludi, "In the Darkroom"

March 22, Barbara Hobson, Department of Sociology    Gendered Dimensions and Capabilities: Opportunities, Dilemmas and Challenges

March 29, Rickard Sandell, Department of Social Science, Universidad, Carlos III de Madrid, The Migration Flux: Understanding International Immigration through Internal Migration

April 5, Åsa Lundqvist, Lund University and Christine Roman, Örebro University    Lone mothers. Dilemmas, resources and strategies

May 3, Jennifer Baxter, The Australian Institute of Family Studie, How mothers negotiate the return-to-work in Australia: flexible work and flexible child care

May 10, Merril Silverstein, Syracuse University    Grandparents, Parents, and Grandchildren in Rural China: Exchanges of Support over the Family Life Course

May 17, Daniel Ritter, Department of Sociology    Revolutionary Roads: Paths to Unarmed Regime Change

June 7, Peer Scheepers, Faculty of Social Sciences, Academia Europae    ??

June 15, Yaoyun Li, Department of Sociology, Manchester University, Multiple Barriers - class, gender, hukou and ethnic differences in educational and occupational attainment in contemporary China

September 13, Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser, Diego Portales University, Populism - a Short Introduction

September 27, Juta Kawalerowicz, Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University    Is experience of increasing diversity a mobilizing force to enter politics?

October 12, Jan van Bavel, University of Leuven    The Reversal of the Gender Gap in Education and the New Dynamics of Family Life

October 25, Alison Koslowski, Universal Basic Income, Parental Leave and gender equality

November 22, Karin Helmersson Bergmark, Department of Sociology, Behavioral addictions or behavioral problems – a social science perspective

November 29, Hernan Mondani, Department of Sociology    By their fruit you will recognize them: Journeys along scientific boundaries


2016

February 10, Ylenia Brilli, Centre for Health Economics, University of Gothenburg, The contemporaneous effect of education on adolescent crime: Mechanisms and evidence from regional divides

March 3, Filiz Garip, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, Network Effects on Behavior: How do Mechanisms Matter?

April 6, Mikael Holmqvist, Stockholm Business School    Djursholm - Sveriges ledarsamhälle

May 11, Göran Ahrne, Department of Sociology, More or less organization?

May 25, Jens Rydgren, Department of Sociology,The Radical Right and the End of Swedish Exeptionalism
??    Peter Åkerbäck, Department of Sociolgy, Learning the Principles. Socialization of children in the Unification Church

September 14, Alexander Miething, Sociologiska institutionen, Clustering of egos’ dieting and peers’ weight control behaviors in an ego-centered social network

October 5, Christian Brzinski-Fay, WZB, Berlin    Compressed, Postponed, or Disadvantaged? School-to-Work-Transition Patterns and Early Occupational Attainment in West Germany

October 26, Magnus Bygren, Department of Sociology, The opportunity structure of school segregation - school choice, ethnic segregation and socioeconomic segregation

November 9, Hanna Wikström, University of Gothenburg    Confessions of the Soul. Genuineness Assessment as Technical Violence in Asylum Cases on Religion and Sexuality

November 23, Alison Gerber, Department of Sociology    Making Art Work

November 30, Lotta Stern, Department of Sociology, Insularity: Gender Sociology's Big Problem

December 7, Marie Evertsson, Department of Sociology, The Transition to Parenthood as a Critical Juncture for Gender Inequality in the Home and in the Labor Market ‐ Comparing Heterosexual Couples to Female Same Sex Couples

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