Ann-Mari Sellerberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 131001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann-Mari Sellerberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann-Mari |
| FAMILY NAME | Sellerberg |
| SIGNATURE | SELLERBERG A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Sociology, University of Lund |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Gender imbalance in a university hierarchy
The article draws on the reports by 12 guest professors - all women - who participated in an EU-financed pedagogical project within a Swedish university's postgraduate studies course, the purpose of which was to address equal opportunities in academia. It has been established that women with doctoral degrees are not being absorbed into the research community. The purpose of the project was to persuade more women postgraduate students to consider …
Waiting and Rejection
Time spent waiting is frequently regarded as time wasted, and therefore as something to be avoided or at least minimized. In this article, however, waiting is viewed from an organizational perspective: delay and waiting are seen as integral to the strategic functioning of organizations, and to their handling of individual requests. Various kinds of waiting or intended organizational delays are described in terms of their contribution to `cooling …
Books in review
Books in review
A Blend of Contradictions
In food we trust? Vitally necessary confidence—and unfamiliar ways of forming public opinion
Nutritional Norms in Long-term Care Analyzed from a Simmelean Perspective
When goals for assistance to a group are defined from 'the outside', what happens to the group members' own wishes? In the regulations concerning the food for elderly long-term-care patients in Swedish hospitals, the exact vitamins and nutrients which every meal should contain are indicated very precisely. What happens in this situation to the patients' own wishes? The question was actualized when the author conducted an interview study among lon…
On Modern Confidence
This article builds on Georg Simmel's thesis that confidence is a most important synthetic force in modern society Its vitality is strengthened in the urban society based on anonymous relations In the rural society con fidence was based on personal information: in trading, retailer and customer knew each other and whom they could not trust Today confidence is based on non-personal information, on consumer laws, declarations of contents, and vario…
Social policy and social psychology
The abortion case is here an example. How is a woman's abortion intention affected by those means which society offers her? Or more generally: How do the intentions of people fare when confronted with those social institutions which are supposed to be the actual means for their fulfillment? Different perspectives make us observant to very different effects. A mechanistic and a symbolic interactional perspective are applied. A third perspective, a…
The Modern Poor
The social-aid institution has been analyzed almost exclusively from a social problems approach, aiming at the understanding of social aid clients as a social problem. This article views them from a different angle, as a sociological category occupying a unique position in society. Following Simmel, we deal here with those who are poor in a social sense, i.e., anyone receiving public assistance. It is the acceptance of social assistance which mak…
The Life of Young Working-Class Mothers in Sweden
Which are the features marking modern motherhood? Our attempts to answer this are based on an investigation among young working-class mothers. Our focus is norms pertaining to the relation between mother and child. Some of these seem distinctly subcultural working-class norms, while others are supposed to be more general. However, norms here presented are held to be the marks of young families, in contrast to older ones. According to these norms …
Waiting and Rejection
Time spent waiting is frequently regarded as time wasted, and therefore as something to be avoided or at least minimized. In this article, however, waiting is viewed from an organizational perspective: delay and waiting are seen as integral to the strategic functioning of organizations, and to their handling of individual requests. Various kinds of waiting or intended organizational delays are described in terms of their contribution to `cooling …
On Modern Confidence
This article builds on Georg Simmel's thesis that confidence is a most important synthetic force in modern society Its vitality is strengthened in the urban society based on anonymous relations In the rural society con fidence was based on personal information: in trading, retailer and customer knew each other and whom they could not trust Today confidence is based on non-personal information, on consumer laws, declarations of contents, and vario…
Nutritional Norms in Long-term Care Analyzed from a Simmelean Perspective
When goals for assistance to a group are defined from 'the outside', what happens to the group members' own wishes? In the regulations concerning the food for elderly long-term-care patients in Swedish hospitals, the exact vitamins and nutrients which every meal should contain are indicated very precisely. What happens in this situation to the patients' own wishes? The question was actualized when the author conducted an interview study among lon…
Social policy and social psychology
The abortion case is here an example. How is a woman's abortion intention affected by those means which society offers her? Or more generally: How do the intentions of people fare when confronted with those social institutions which are supposed to be the actual means for their fulfillment? Different perspectives make us observant to very different effects. A mechanistic and a symbolic interactional perspective are applied. A third perspective, a…
The Modern Poor
The social-aid institution has been analyzed almost exclusively from a social problems approach, aiming at the understanding of social aid clients as a social problem. This article views them from a different angle, as a sociological category occupying a unique position in society. Following Simmel, we deal here with those who are poor in a social sense, i.e., anyone receiving public assistance. It is the acceptance of social assistance which mak…
The Life of Young Working-Class Mothers in Sweden
Which are the features marking modern motherhood? Our attempts to answer this are based on an investigation among young working-class mothers. Our focus is norms pertaining to the relation between mother and child. Some of these seem distinctly subcultural working-class norms, while others are supposed to be more general. However, norms here presented are held to be the marks of young families, in contrast to older ones. According to these norms …
Social policy and social psychology
The abortion case is here an example. How is a woman's abortion intention affected by those means which society offers her? Or more generally: How do the intentions of people fare when confronted with those social institutions which are supposed to be the actual means for their fulfillment? Different perspectives make us observant to very different effects. A mechanistic and a symbolic interactional perspective are applied. A third perspective, a…
On Modern Confidence
This article builds on Georg Simmel's thesis that confidence is a most important synthetic force in modern society Its vitality is strengthened in the urban society based on anonymous relations In the rural society con fidence was based on personal information: in trading, retailer and customer knew each other and whom they could not trust Today confidence is based on non-personal information, on consumer laws, declarations of contents, and vario…
Nutritional Norms in Long-term Care Analyzed from a Simmelean Perspective
When goals for assistance to a group are defined from 'the outside', what happens to the group members' own wishes? In the regulations concerning the food for elderly long-term-care patients in Swedish hospitals, the exact vitamins and nutrients which every meal should contain are indicated very precisely. What happens in this situation to the patients' own wishes? The question was actualized when the author conducted an interview study among lon…
In food we trust? Vitally necessary confidence—and unfamiliar ways of forming public opinion
A Blend of Contradictions
Books in review
Books in review
Waiting and Rejection
Time spent waiting is frequently regarded as time wasted, and therefore as something to be avoided or at least minimized. In this article, however, waiting is viewed from an organizational perspective: delay and waiting are seen as integral to the strategic functioning of organizations, and to their handling of individual requests. Various kinds of waiting or intended organizational delays are described in terms of their contribution to `cooling …
Gender imbalance in a university hierarchy
The article draws on the reports by 12 guest professors - all women - who participated in an EU-financed pedagogical project within a Swedish university's postgraduate studies course, the purpose of which was to address equal opportunities in academia. It has been established that women with doctoral degrees are not being absorbed into the research community. The purpose of the project was to persuade more women postgraduate students to consider …
Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Perspective (graphical (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works)