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Experimental evidence for scale-induced category convergence across populations

Published in Nature Communications

Category systems exhibit striking agreement across many cultures, yet paradoxically individuals exhibit large variation in the categorization of novel stimuli. Here the authors show that critical mass dynamics explain the convergence of independent populations on shared category systems.

Employees of Greatness : Signifying Values in Performance Appraisal Criteria

The spread of performance-based and variable pay systems has affected expectations on employee contributions and remuneration, which have become increasingly personalized and individualized. Based on a theoretical valuation studies approach, this study of performance-based pay systems in Sweden shows that performance appraisals are (e)valuations of...

Doing informal care : Identity, couplehood, social health and information and communication technologies in older people...

The aim of the thesis has been a) to analyse how informal care influences the identity of carers and care recipients, their sense of couplehood and social health, and b) to explore the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the context of informal care and the everyday lives of older people. Study I focused on how older carers con...

Frivården och (icke)samtalet om sexualitet : Hur förståelsen för sexualitet hanteras och konstrueras inom en avsexualise...

Sexualhälsan utgör en primär del av folkhälsan, trots detta kan samtalsämnet om sexualitet ofta upplevas som tabubelagt och anses opassande i de flesta sammanhang. Kriminalvårdens insatser syftar bland annat till att främja brottsdömda individers livssituation genom att bidra till färdigheter för en sund livsstil och goda levnadsvillkor. I och med ...

Discourse and power in the institutionalisation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) : A comparative perspective

This article examines how companies use discourse in corporate social responsibility (CSR) self-reporting to construct their engagement in social issues. Discourse is examined through the lens of ‘interpretative repertoires’ used in the reporting, which appear as recurrent habitual sets of explanations that are constitutive of CSR’s meanings. Using...

A habilidade das mulheres indígenas de América Latina de transitar em uma pluralidade de mundos

O livro das pesquisadoras Stéphanie Rousseau e Anahi Morales Hudon, intitulado Movimentos de Mujeres Indígenas en Latinoamérica: Género, etnicidad en el Perú, México y Bolívia (Movimentos de Mulheres Indígenas na América Latina: Gênero, etnicidade no Peru, México e Bolívia), é uma obra em espanhol, de 2018, que se debruça na compreensão de como as ...