Published in Frontiers in Sociology
Sociologists often argue that communication in long-term couple relationships is the basis on which expectations, trust, and equality are created in contemporary society. However, what is the role of these everyday conversations in uncertain life situations such as expecting one’s first child? This article examines concerns reported by prospective ...
Published in Frontiers in Sociology
Introduction A large body of research has established a consensus that racial discrimination in CV screening occurs and persists. Nevertheless, we still know very little about how recruiters look at the CV and how this is connected to the discriminatory patterns. This article examines the way recruiters view and select CVs and how they reason about...
Published in European Countryside
This study explores officials’ perspectives on Swedish policies for rural digital transformation (RDT). Through the lens of Social Acceleration and systems thinking, employing Critical Systems Heuristics collecting empirical data, we explore how officials perceive that Swedish digitalisation policies impacts inclusive RDT. We investigate whether th...
This qualitative study examines risk assessment, communication and trust among the Church of Sweden's priests. The implementation is based on eleven semi-structured interviews with priests who are employed in Örebro County. The analysis has been carried out with a theoretical framework that is based on the concepts of risk perception, trust and ris...
Crime impacts residential neighborhoods not only through the loss of life and property but also by instilling a widespread fear among residents. To combat this fear, physical security measures like safety locks, gates, and high perimeter walls have proven effective in both developed and developing nations. This trend has led to the increased popula...
During the years 2022-2024, SKR were forced to transform their collective agreements, as the EU determined that Sweden did not comply with the rule of 11-hour daily rest for healthcare, social care, and emergency services. This forced the sectors to change their work habits and scheduling, something that created resistance in workplaces and a media...
This study aims to understand how beauty ideals that are formed in the Swedish society and implemented in clothing stores in the form of exclusionary fashion, affect and shape women's thinking about their appearance and life as well as how they approach and apply this to their social and private life. The target group of this study are women who ar...
In this essay we have chosen to study single mothers who in conjunction with their parental leave have chosen to change career direction. Through personal and previous experiences during our time at Malmö University we have come into contact with single mothers who had gone through a journey such as the one described which in form led us to questio...
Det fysiska arbetsrummet, är en faktor som kan påverka en studie- och yrkesvägledares yrkesidentitet och yrkesutövning. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka vilken påverkan det fysiska arbetsrummet har på en studie och yrkesvägledares yrkesidentitet och yrkesutövning på grundskolan. För att uppnå detta syfte, formulerades tre specifika forsknin...
Denna studie undersöker generation Z kvinnors konsumtionsbeteende i förhållande till secondhand. Secondhand blir alltmer populärt och uppmärksammas som en större del i unga kvinnors konsumtion. Generation Z och secondhand är ett relativt outforskat område. Genom att undersöka generation Z kvinnor bidrar vi till den sociologiska forskningen genom at...
