Sociology
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Research Domains
- Humanities-Social sciences
Areas of Research
- Arbetsliv
- Working science
- Family sociology
- Sustainable Development
- Environmental sociology
- Omsorg
- Organizational theory
- Risk sociology
- Science and Technology Studies
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Center for Environmental and Sustainability Social Science (CESSS)
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
- Karin Edberg
- Jan-Magnus Enelo
- Karin Gustafsson
- Biörn Ivemark
- Natalia Krzyzanowska
- Kerstin Lekare
- Rolf Lidskog
- Erik Löfmarck
- Helen Peterson
- Christine Roman
- Lisa Salmonsson
- Daniel Sjödin
- Adam Standring
- Ylva Uggla
- James White
- Sverre Wide
- André Alvinzi, PhD student
- Viktor Hedermo, 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
- Academic Ignorance: A necessary prerequisite for research and teaching in higher education
- After the early childhood years. A longitudinal study of parenthood and work
- Becoming an expert. IPCCs and IPBESs socialization of young scholars as experts.
- Between dream and reality. International and national studies of parenting and work.
- Chess, sociology and social interaction
- 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
- Energy-related practices in transition ? e-bikes, policies and everyday life
- Environment, consumption and everyday life practices
- Environmental Representation
- Exchange of care between generations in Stepfamilies
- Explaining social action: A triptych
- 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