Social norms may be enforced by individuals informally punishing each other for norm transgressions. But how does society really perceive these informal punishers?

Kimmo Eriksson, Mälardalen University According to social intuitionist research, moral (or “injunctive”) norms are often not rationally motivated. Where do these norms come from then? We propose that o

2011. Journal of Statistics Physics 145:1368-1384. AbstractA random graph model with prescribed degree distribution and degree dependent edge weights is introduced. Each vertex is independently equipped

World Values Survey Cultural Map

This animation tries to describe the change in values in different countries over a period of more than 30 years. Read more about the map at www.worldvaluessurvey.com. The animation is created in c

Sociologisk Forskning, vol 54, no 4, pp 377–381. Abstract Motivated by a recent controversy over handshaking, a survey of the personal networks of young Swedes (n=2244) is used to describe greeting prac

Stella lives with her family in a villa in a medium-sized town in Sweden. She likes her job but her back is hurting. How do we measure her well-being? Increasing well-being is generally accepted as one

The purpose of this edition is to describe the changes in the Swedish model in a broad sense, and discuss it with an eye to current dilemmas and future challenges. Contents End of Equality? The Welfare Joakim Palme, Johan Fritzell and Åke Bergmark

Intrinsic motivation and outer sanctions as drivers of prosocial behaviour

Why do we cooperate? This project studies drivers of cooperation, generosity and pro social behaviour.

We will study how labour market trajectories unfold during early adulthood, and how labour market outcomes relate to factors on the personal, family, or school level.

Security Journal, Volume 31, Issue 1, pp 73–92, doi:10.1057/s41284-017-0089-y Abstract The concept of near-repeat patterns illustrates how crimes are clustered in space and time, with a crime event often s