Björn Boman
About me
My research focuses on political representation, political conflicts, as well as academic achievement, personality, cognitive ability, Korean culture, and multidisciplinary theories.
Publications
2024: Human capital indicators as influenced by SES, cognitive and non-cognitive skills: Evidence from Taiwan’s PISA performance. SN Social Sciences.
2024: Nils von Dardel: Dandy persona and multifaceted painter. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2024.101020 (Co-authored with Leif Öjesjö.)
2024: Cognitive skills and economic growth in the twenty-first century: Null evidence from PISA and cognitive ability studies. International Journal of Educational Research Open. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedro.2024.100360
2024: Going in three directions: Parallel trajectories of Kazakhstanization, Westernization, and Post-Soviet multiculturalism in Kazakhstan’s elementary and secondary education. Globalisation, Societies and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2024.2355203 (Co-authored with Anel Mussakhanova)
2024: The Gray nine and parallel personality patterns: Big Five, Dark Tetrad, and a “well-rounded personality”. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-024-09842-y
2024: Förstå och förklara skolresultat. Att använda forskning. Studentlitteratur. https://www.studentlitteratur.se/kurslitteratur/lararutbildning-och-pedagogik/ledarskap-och-skolutveckling/forsta-och-forklara-skolresultat/
2024: The influence of SES, migration background, and non-cognitive abilities on PISA reading and mathematics achievement: Evidence from Sweden. European Journal of Psychology of Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-024-00805-w (Co-authored with Marie Wiberg)
2024: Book review: South Korean education and learning as excellence as a Hallyu: Ethnographic understandings of a nation’s academic success. Globalisation, Societies and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2024.2302831
2024: Parallelization: A theory of cultural, economic, and political complexity. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51636-8
2023: Skolprestationer: faktorer som är relaterade till studieresultat i grundskolans senare år. Doktorsavhandling, Stockholms universitet. https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1795603&dswid=-6100
2023: The coexistence of nationalism, Westernization, Russifucation and Russophobia: Facets of parallelization in the Ukraine war. International Politics, 60, 1315–1331. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-023-00495-z
2023: Japanese and Korean collaborations in K-pop: Iz One, TWICE, and K-pop spaces in Tokyo. East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, forthcoming (2025). https://doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00116_1
2023: Vulnerable women: Negotiations among migrant women in the aftermath of the Ukraine war. Human Arenas. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-023-00347-5
2023: The relationship between urban locality, socioeconomic status and school achievement in Stockholm county, Sweden: evidence from an intra-urban model. International Journal of Educational Research Open, 4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedro.2023.100247
2023: Is the SES and academic achievement relationshop mediated by cognitive ability? Evidence from PISA 2018 using data for 77 countries. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1045568
2023: Converging cultures? A comparative analysis of South Korea and Sweden’s national curricula, 1980–2018. Discover Education, 2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44217-022-00026-7 (Co-authored with Marcus Mosesson)
2022: Vietnam's exceptional educational achievement: A thematic review of the emerging literature. Discover Education, 1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44217-022-00014-x
2022: Feminist themes in Hallyu 4.0 South Korean TV dramas as a reflection of a changing sociocultural landscape. Asian Journal of Women's Studies, 22(4), 419-37. https://doi.org/10.1080/12259276.2022.2127622
2022: CAM: An achievement model of celebrity. SN Social Sciences, 2. https://doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00018_7
2022: The adaptive proculturation process of being a psychotherapist as a Kazakh asylum seeker in Sweden. Human Arenas. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-022-00294-7
2022: Regional differences in educational achievement: A replication study with municipality data. Frontiers in Education, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2022.854342
2022: The influence of SES, cognitive ability, and non-cognitive ability on grades: cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence from two Swedish cohorts. European Journal of Psychology of Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-022-00626-9
2022: Educational achievement among East Asian schoolchildren 1967–2020: A thematic review of the literature. International Journal of Educational Research Open. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedro.2022.100168
2022: PISA achievement in Sweden from the perspective of both individual data and aggregated cross-country data. Frontiers in Education, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2021.753347
2022: Regional differences in educational achievement among Swedish Grade 9 Students. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 66(4), 610–625. https://doi.org/10.1080/00313831.2021.1897880
2021: Why has Sweden in the IFPI league tables but been surpassed by South Korea? A comparative case study. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2021.100204
2021: BOOK REVIEWS: East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 7(2), 313–318. https://doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00056_5
2021: Money or melancholia? Dropout and retention rates in the K-pop industry. Culture and Empathy, 4(2), 156–180. https://doi.org/10.32860/26356619/2021/4.2.0006
2021: The multifold intertextuality in Lee Chang Dong’s burning. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2021.100119
2021: Parallelization: the fourth leg of cultural globalization theory. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 55, 354–370. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-021-09600-4
2021: The Applicability of Big Five and the Dark tetrad on Literary Analysis: A Case Study of Yukio Mishima’s Novel Protagonists. East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 7(1), 95–113. https://doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00041_1
2020: From Oldboy to Burning: Han in South Korean films. Culture & Psychology, 26(4), 919–932. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354067X20922146
2020: “Cultural Amnesia or Continuity? Han in K-pop”. East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 6(1), 111–123. https://doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00018_7
2020: “What makes Estonia and Singapore so good?” Globalisation, Societies and Education, 18(2), 181–193. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2019.1701420
2019: “Achievement in the South Korean Music Industry”. International Journal of Music Business Research, 8(2), 6–20. https://musicbusinessresearch.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/volume-8-no-2-october-2019-boman-end.pdf
2019: Worth to narrow the gap? Educational achievement in South Korea and Sweden. International conference: 60th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between the Kingdom of Sweden and the ROK Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies at Stockholm University May 23-24, 2019.
2019: ”Utbildning i det samtida Vietnam: förändringar och framgångsfaktorer” (Educational policies in Contemporary Vietnam: Development and Factors of Achievement). Orientaliska studier, number 157 (June).
2015: “Koreansk skönhet som en förlängning av den koreanska vågen” (Korean beauty as an extension of the Korean wave), Orientaliska studier, vol. 142. This study has been covered in Swedish press.
2015: Review (in Swedish) of John Lie’s book K-pop: Popular music, cultural amnesia, and economic innovation, (2014), Orientaliska studier, vol. 141.
2015: “Det nutida Koreas religiösa landskap” (The Religious landscape of Korea), Orientaliska studier, vol. 141.
2014: “K-popens globala begränsningar” (The Global Limitations of K-pop), Orientaliska studier, vol. 140.
