How does material culture shape contentious politics? Things, we argue, influence
political contention in ways that are reducible neither to struggles over meaning
nor to the thingly aspect of things. The article combines pragmatic semiotics with
insights ...
Free accessResearch articleFirst published August 7, 2023pp. 6–19
In this research note, we analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cultural
participation. We use rich survey data from Denmark to construct pooled time-series
cross-sectional data for each month of the years 2019–2021 and report three findings.
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Free accessResearch articleFirst published September 20, 2023pp. 20–31
This article uses a novel method—the Imitation Game—to search for lasting ethnic biculturalism.
I address the case of Finland-Swedes and the Finnish-speaking majority in Finland.
While it is known that most Finland-Swedes are fluent in two languages, ...
Open AccessResearch articleFirst published February 13, 2023pp. 32–49
Higher education institutions are pressured to use data for university rankings, accreditation,
decision making, and technical support of students and faculty. However, these organizations
also experience barriers and resistance to such data-driven ...
Free accessResearch articleFirst published January 2, 2023pp. 50–65
This paper investigates the effect of attending immigrant-dense schools on student
outcomes, which consists of the joint effect of immigrant peers and school context.
The sorting of students into schools is not random, and a large immigrant peer effect
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Open AccessResearch articleFirst published February 3, 2023pp. 66–87
Sociology of philosophy is the name of a theory-based, empirical sociological subdivision,
whose basic approach is praxeological: doing philosophy involves a variety of socially situated practices that in some cases result in philosophical
arguments and ...
Open AccessResearch articleFirst published November 16, 2023pp. 88–97
Separation often leads to worse economic consequences for women than for men. However,
little is known about how economic consequences of separation play out for different
groups of women. Women who are younger than their male partner are generally ...
Open AccessResearch articleFirst published December 4, 2022pp. 98–116
Why are Nordic sociologists not providing diagnoses of society these days? What has
happened to our desire to describe the wider sociocultural currents of the world we
live in? Where indeed are the present-day Danish Sennett, the Finnish Rosa, or the
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Open AccessArticle commentaryFirst published November 28, 2023pp. 117–120