Sociology
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Research Domains
- Humanities-Social sciences
Areas of Research
- Working science
- Family sociology
- Sustainable Development
- Environmental sociology
- Organizational theory
- Risk sociology
- Science and Technology Studies
Sociological research at Örebro University is practiced within a variety of different areas, and sociologists are active within a number of inter- and multidisciplinary research teams and environments. The research is organised within two areas:
These areas gather most of the senior researchers and doctoral students in sociology. Below you will find more information about research groups and research projects connected to sociology.
Researchers
Researchers
- Jenny Alsarve
- Monika Berg
- Magnus Boström
- Jan-Magnus Enelo
- Karin Gustafsson
- Biörn Ivemark
- Monica Johansson
- Natalia Krzyzanowska
- Kerstin Lekare
- Rolf Lidskog
- Erik Löfmarck
- Christine Roman
- Daniel Sjödin
- Ylva Uggla
- Anneli Öljarstrand
- André Alvinzi, PhD student
- Jenny Gustafsson, PhD student
- Viktor Hedermo, PhD student
- Susanna Lundberg, PhD student
- Hanna Samzelius, PhD student
- Lina Sandström, PhD student
- Sebastian Svenberg, PhD student
- Merve Tuncer, PhD student
- Oskar Waara, PhD student
Research Teams
Research Projects
Research Projects
- Becoming an expert. IPCCs and IPBESs socialization of young scholars as experts.
- Between dream and reality. International and national studies of parenting and work.
- Collaborative production and social ontology - A study of mobilisations for economic democracy in the UK
- Conceptual development of environmental sociology
- Critical Realism - Theory and Application
- Environment, consumption and everyday life practices
- Environmental Representation
- Exchange of care between generations in Stepfamilies
- Green public ethics: exploring and elaborating value conflict handling of public administrators
- How diversity make a difference. A comparative study of how issues of ethnic and national diversity are managed in mass media organizations in Sweden and Germany
- Lone Mothers and Long Hours. Gender and work in a new welfare regime.
- Making knowledge usable. Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary challenges for international environmental expertise
- Newbreed
- The child as a project. Parenting ideals, parenting practices, and the professionalization of parenthood.
- The legitimacy of the welfare state - New mechanisms of trust in a hollow state development?
- The line between secondary and higher education
- The shaping of environmental expertise. Institutionalized expertise, boundary organizations and global environmental matters