Acta Sociologica is the international journal of the Nordic Sociological Association and has published research from all areas of sociology since 1955.

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Now, you can also virtually hang out with us among the clouds. Handle is actasociologica, same as we use for tooting btw. See you here and there!
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Hey #Sociology nerds🤓! Why do some ppl make economic choices aligning w/rational choice principles while others regularly deviate? 🚨My new paper in @ActaSocJournal addresses this question by applying Bourdieu’s field theory to economic cognition. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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Proud to share the publication of my first paper, co-authored with Silvio Candido, in @ActaSocJournal “Entrenched and unequal at the top: Brazilian capitalism and the social space of its corporate elite” is now out — hope you enjoy the read! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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🆕Paper in @ActaSocJournal! How did school/childcare reopening during COVID-19 impact mothers’ time use and well-being in 🇩🇰? - Care work time declined / Paid work time increased - Less stressed, worried & lonely during care work. study #openaccess👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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Back from the summer break and you have been very productive indeed: 61 manus in our inbox! So when you soon receive reviewer invitations, please keep in mind that for each of your manus that gets reviewed you need to review 2-3 in return for the system to balance out. Thanks! 😘
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In this short paper @ActaSocJournal, I provide a guide to Luhmann's style of theory building and guidelines on how to work with him empirically, especially for those interested in social scientific historical investigations. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… #sociology #Luhmann #theory
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Did you see? 👀 We recently published the article "Political icon and role model: Dimensions of the perceived ‘Greta effect’ among climate activists as aspects of contemporary social movement leadership" by Mattias Wahlström and @KatrinUba. Open access 👇doi.org/10.1177/000169932312…
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New article out today— "Making up the market: Job-seeker courses and the ordinary ethics of social investment in Norway" Part of a forthcoming AS special issue, Social Investment in Action. Many thanks to @DenDitte for her extraordinary work on this! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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New article out 📝 👀 In "Ethnic registration and tertiary-level education of children of mixed native couples" Camilla Härtull & Jan Saarela find that a mixed background does not play a role for educational attainment, but that ethnic affiliation does. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf…

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🚨 New Article 🚨 In "Navigating in the global discourse: The case of Swedish COVID-19 strategy" Marjaana Rautalin and @PerttiA show how policy choices of national governments are conditioned by the global epistemic field that constitutes the problem. journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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📣New article📝 In "One client, four votes: Ethnopolitical clientelism and its socioeconomic consequences during state capture in Montenegro" @besic_milos and @BojanBaca analyzes 33,889 cases to show the consequences of clientelism in Montenegro 2007-2020 doi.org/10.1177/000169932413…
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🚨New book review📕 Komang Ariyanto reviews Henri Lefebvre's "On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography" which "highlights the necessity of adopting a more equitable and sustainable approach to rural development" rural sociologists and policy makers. doi.org/10.1177/000169932412…

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🎲Publication alert🃏 In "Gambling outlets as agents of local area disorganization", Neli Demireva and @SergioLoIacono1 show that gambling outlets are significantly and positively associated with different types of crime. Open access 🌐👇 #sociology doi.org/10.1177/000169932412…

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🚨📖👀 Anne Hovgaard Jørgensen makes "a significant and important contribution to the ethnographic research field on ethnically and racially minoritized students" @laerkevildlyng writes about "Muslim Farthers and Mistrusted Masculinity in Danish Schools" doi.org/10.1177/000169932412…

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🚨 New article 🚨 In "Elites and ordinariness in cross-status encounters: Adding Goffman's ritual interaction order to sociological interpretations", @VassendenAnders develops the sociology of how higher-class people downplay their status. Open Access 👇 doi.org/10.1177/000169932412…
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In "Parental unemployment and children's well-being at school" @simon_skovgaard , Michael Kühhirt and Felix Weiss, using a dataset on all pupils in public schools, find no evidence supporting that parental unemployment affects children's school well-being doi.org/10.1177/000169932412…
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🚨📃👀 In "A step up?" @SigurdOppegaard investigates "Why taxi platform drivers in Oslo, Norway started to drive" and finds that despite frustrations over work conditions, the drivers see the flexibility and income of the 'gig' as an attractive labour market strategy. OA link👇
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🚨 📃 👀 In "After the organization: Symbolic capital and negative expert knowledge in post-whistleblowing careers" Thomas Olesen proposes the concept 'negative expert knowledge' to explain how whistleblowers' negative experiences can become a career resource. 🌐 Link below 👇
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