Mats Deland
Biographic Data
| ID | 142552 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mats Deland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mats |
| FAMILY NAME | Deland |
| SIGNATURE | DELAND M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mid Sweden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8368-4847 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Karl Olivecrona and the Legal Realist Support for Nazi Germany
This chapter follows the political and theoretical choices made by the Swedish law professor Karl Olivecrona. In 1940, following the publication of his main work, Law as Fact (1939), Olivecrona chose to take the side of Nazi Germany. Through a couple of pamphlets, one of them widely translated and distributed in occupied western Europe, Olivecrona argued for political adjustment to the ‘New Europe’ allegedly created by the Third Reich. Traditiona…
Fun and Trouble
Inledning
[Introduction] This special issue of the journal Arkiv , the fourth volume in the series Det vita fältet (“The white field”) which brings together Swedish and international research on the extreme or far right, is based on the famous book from 1950, The Authoritarian Personality by Theodor W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson and R. Nevitt Sanford. The book’s main question of what makes people susceptible to fascist propaganda has…
Else Frenkel-Brunswik – mångtydighetens teoretiker
[Else Frenkel-Brunswik – theorist of ambiguity] The Authoritarian Personality is primarily associated with Theodor W. Adorno, perhaps the foremost of the prominent figures within Critical Theory. But the methods used in the study had largely already been developed by three psychologists: the Austrian Else Frenkel-Brunswik, like Adorno a refugee from Nazism, and the two Americans Daniel J. Levinson and R. Nevitt Sanford. Together they formed the B…
Paul Lazarsfeld, Theodor W. Adorno och den kritiska teorins umgänge med positivistisk socialpsykologi, 1938–2022
[Paul Lazarsfeld, Theodor W. Adorno and Critical Theory’s engagement with positivist social psychology, 1938–2022] Fairly soon after The Authoritarian Personality was published in 1950, positive reviews were mixed with furious attacks, not least linked to Cold War anti-communist sentiment in the United States. However, some of the criticism also dealt with important and complex methodological issues. In the long run, it turned out that the compos…
När Freud jobbade gratis. Den auktoritära personlighetens förhistoria
[When Freud worked for free. The prehistory of the authoritarian personality] Mats Deland’s article is about how the Freudo-Marxist tradition arose when a new, young generation of psychoanalysts, many of them women, many with hard-earned experiences from care work during World War I, encountered the psychological misery among the poor in Berlin and Vienna when working in the free clinics that were opened on Sigmund Freud’s own initiative in the e…
A sociology of the “and one!”
Men and Their Moments
Both conversation-analytic and ethnographic studies of interaction tend to isolate situated conduct from the full biographical context that is meaningful to actors. This article argues that there are good analytic reasons to recover some of that biographical context by incorporating character-driven ethnographic representation within interactionist research. I make this case in reference to a rule dispute captured on video during an ethnography o…
Lakota Hoops
Ny rapport om finländska SS-frivilliga och övergreppen mot judar 1941–1943. A new report on Finnish SS-volunteers and atrocities against Jews 1941–3
Review (in Swedish and in English) of Lars Westerlund's The Finnish SS-Volunteers and Atrocities against Jews, Civilians and Prisoners of War in Ukraine and the Caucasus Region 1941–1943: An Archival Study (Helsinki, National Archives of Finland, 2019)
Midnight Basketball
The Ocean Run
This article investigates the production and re-production of a recurring pickup basketball game at a public park in Santa Monica, California. I argue that it is best understood as a recurring "scene"-an ecologically shaped, biographically significant, interactionally accomplished, and narratively organized pattern of social life-colloquially known as the "Ocean Run." Drawing on Kenneth Burke's dramatism, I suggest that the scene is constituted b…
Going Out
In this article we propose a framework for description and analysis of public life by treating 'outings' as a unit of sociological analysis. Studying outings requires bracketing a concern with bounded places and isolated encounters. Instead, descriptions of outings track people as they organize trips 'out,' including their preparations, turning points, and post hoc reflections. We emphasize how people understand and contextualize their time in pu…
Basketball in the Key of Law
While the conception of law as a constructive and constitutive force is often stated, we have relatively few concrete and grounded case studies showing precisely where and how social actors construct the meaning of their engagements through the invocation of legality. Drawing on Erving Goffman's Frame Analysis (1974), I use the concept of "keying" to articulate how basketball players in informal "pick-up" games transform the meaning of their acti…
Suspending Narrative Engagements
This article explores the way social actors organize their engagements in real time. The term "narrative" points to the subjectively understood practical projects that people structure with beginnings, middles, and ends. All projects may be interrupted, and if social actors are to continue the narrative engagement they must treat the stoppage as a mere suspension. The work of suspending a game of informal pick-up basketball is examined in three p…
Even in Sweden
The cultural racism of Sweden
Basketball in the Key of Law
While the conception of law as a constructive and constitutive force is often stated, we have relatively few concrete and grounded case studies showing precisely where and how social actors construct the meaning of their engagements through the invocation of legality. Drawing on Erving Goffman's Frame Analysis (1974), I use the concept of "keying" to articulate how basketball players in informal "pick-up" games transform the meaning of their acti…
The Ocean Run
This article investigates the production and re-production of a recurring pickup basketball game at a public park in Santa Monica, California. I argue that it is best understood as a recurring "scene"-an ecologically shaped, biographically significant, interactionally accomplished, and narratively organized pattern of social life-colloquially known as the "Ocean Run." Drawing on Kenneth Burke's dramatism, I suggest that the scene is constituted b…
Suspending Narrative Engagements
This article explores the way social actors organize their engagements in real time. The term "narrative" points to the subjectively understood practical projects that people structure with beginnings, middles, and ends. All projects may be interrupted, and if social actors are to continue the narrative engagement they must treat the stoppage as a mere suspension. The work of suspending a game of informal pick-up basketball is examined in three p…
Midnight Basketball
Going Out
In this article we propose a framework for description and analysis of public life by treating 'outings' as a unit of sociological analysis. Studying outings requires bracketing a concern with bounded places and isolated encounters. Instead, descriptions of outings track people as they organize trips 'out,' including their preparations, turning points, and post hoc reflections. We emphasize how people understand and contextualize their time in pu…
Men and Their Moments
Both conversation-analytic and ethnographic studies of interaction tend to isolate situated conduct from the full biographical context that is meaningful to actors. This article argues that there are good analytic reasons to recover some of that biographical context by incorporating character-driven ethnographic representation within interactionist research. I make this case in reference to a rule dispute captured on video during an ethnography o…
A sociology of the “and one!”
The cultural racism of Sweden
Even in Sweden
Suspending Narrative Engagements
This article explores the way social actors organize their engagements in real time. The term "narrative" points to the subjectively understood practical projects that people structure with beginnings, middles, and ends. All projects may be interrupted, and if social actors are to continue the narrative engagement they must treat the stoppage as a mere suspension. The work of suspending a game of informal pick-up basketball is examined in three p…
Basketball in the Key of Law
While the conception of law as a constructive and constitutive force is often stated, we have relatively few concrete and grounded case studies showing precisely where and how social actors construct the meaning of their engagements through the invocation of legality. Drawing on Erving Goffman's Frame Analysis (1974), I use the concept of "keying" to articulate how basketball players in informal "pick-up" games transform the meaning of their acti…
Midnight Basketball
The Ocean Run
This article investigates the production and re-production of a recurring pickup basketball game at a public park in Santa Monica, California. I argue that it is best understood as a recurring "scene"-an ecologically shaped, biographically significant, interactionally accomplished, and narratively organized pattern of social life-colloquially known as the "Ocean Run." Drawing on Kenneth Burke's dramatism, I suggest that the scene is constituted b…
Going Out
In this article we propose a framework for description and analysis of public life by treating 'outings' as a unit of sociological analysis. Studying outings requires bracketing a concern with bounded places and isolated encounters. Instead, descriptions of outings track people as they organize trips 'out,' including their preparations, turning points, and post hoc reflections. We emphasize how people understand and contextualize their time in pu…
Ny rapport om finländska SS-frivilliga och övergreppen mot judar 1941–1943. A new report on Finnish SS-volunteers and atrocities against Jews 1941–3
Review (in Swedish and in English) of Lars Westerlund's The Finnish SS-Volunteers and Atrocities against Jews, Civilians and Prisoners of War in Ukraine and the Caucasus Region 1941–1943: An Archival Study (Helsinki, National Archives of Finland, 2019)
Men and Their Moments
Both conversation-analytic and ethnographic studies of interaction tend to isolate situated conduct from the full biographical context that is meaningful to actors. This article argues that there are good analytic reasons to recover some of that biographical context by incorporating character-driven ethnographic representation within interactionist research. I make this case in reference to a rule dispute captured on video during an ethnography o…
Lakota Hoops
A sociology of the “and one!”
Inledning
[Introduction] This special issue of the journal Arkiv , the fourth volume in the series Det vita fältet (“The white field”) which brings together Swedish and international research on the extreme or far right, is based on the famous book from 1950, The Authoritarian Personality by Theodor W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson and R. Nevitt Sanford. The book’s main question of what makes people susceptible to fascist propaganda has…
Else Frenkel-Brunswik – mångtydighetens teoretiker
[Else Frenkel-Brunswik – theorist of ambiguity] The Authoritarian Personality is primarily associated with Theodor W. Adorno, perhaps the foremost of the prominent figures within Critical Theory. But the methods used in the study had largely already been developed by three psychologists: the Austrian Else Frenkel-Brunswik, like Adorno a refugee from Nazism, and the two Americans Daniel J. Levinson and R. Nevitt Sanford. Together they formed the B…
Paul Lazarsfeld, Theodor W. Adorno och den kritiska teorins umgänge med positivistisk socialpsykologi, 1938–2022
[Paul Lazarsfeld, Theodor W. Adorno and Critical Theory’s engagement with positivist social psychology, 1938–2022] Fairly soon after The Authoritarian Personality was published in 1950, positive reviews were mixed with furious attacks, not least linked to Cold War anti-communist sentiment in the United States. However, some of the criticism also dealt with important and complex methodological issues. In the long run, it turned out that the compos…
När Freud jobbade gratis. Den auktoritära personlighetens förhistoria
[When Freud worked for free. The prehistory of the authoritarian personality] Mats Deland’s article is about how the Freudo-Marxist tradition arose when a new, young generation of psychoanalysts, many of them women, many with hard-earned experiences from care work during World War I, encountered the psychological misery among the poor in Berlin and Vienna when working in the free clinics that were opened on Sigmund Freud’s own initiative in the e…
Fun and Trouble
Karl Olivecrona and the Legal Realist Support for Nazi Germany
This chapter follows the political and theoretical choices made by the Swedish law professor Karl Olivecrona. In 1940, following the publication of his main work, Law as Fact (1939), Olivecrona chose to take the side of Nazi Germany. Through a couple of pamphlets, one of them widely translated and distributed in occupied western Europe, Olivecrona argued for political adjustment to the ‘New Europe’ allegedly created by the Third Reich. Traditiona…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Basketball (7 works) · History (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)