Erika Wall
Biographic Data
| ID | 246861 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erika Wall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erika |
| FAMILY NAME | Wall |
| SIGNATURE | WALL E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mid Sweden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7612-784X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
MacIntyrean Ethics and Lessons About Teleological Ethical Theories
Alasdair MacIntyre’s moral approach is ranked among the very important formulations in contemporary philosophical ethics. Yet, MacIntyre and his commentators have overlooked basic requirements of teleological ethical theories (end- or goal-oriented ethical theories). In the article, we will see just where MacIntyre has erred in constructing his Aristotelian-Thomist teleological moral approach, the most fundamental error being his failure to pursu…
Desirable Leadership
Entering the labour market and conforming to the authority relations that characterize wage labour are central parts of becoming an adult. The aim of this qualitative study is to analyse desirable leadership from the perspective of young adult employees in the retail sector. Informants were asked to define what they view as leadership and describe what they desire leadership to be like. Interviews with 13 young adults (aged 18–28) in the Swedish …
Vignettes of new work in rural settings
In the present narrative analysis, we explore how coworking in a rural context is understood by stakeholders and members in relation to ideas on centre/periphery. Coworking, encompassing a variety of activities, is mostly understood as an urban phenomenon in practice and research. There is a gap in the literature when it comes to how coworking spaces in rural settings are made sense of by stakeholders and members. Here, these understandings speci…
Learning when new at work. A thematic analysis of interviews with young adult retail workers in Sweden
Purpose The aim of this study is to analyse young adults’ positive experiences of learning when entering the labour market.Design/methodology/approach The study is based on 13 individual in-depth interviews with young adults (aged 18–28) working within the retail sector in Sweden. The interviews explored the interviewees’ experiences when entering the workforce, focusing on positive experiences of learning.Findings The findings highlight the rela…
Professional Position Positioned
To gain an in-depth understanding of the position of being a young adult and new at work simultaneously, this study examines the doing of age in relation to others in the lives of young adults, rather than focusing on age as a category and/or developmental phase. The study focuses on being a young adult from a critical and relational perspective of age. Based on focus group interviews with young adults, mostly women, working in retail, the aim is…
Employees Perceptions of Job Insecurity and Performance
The purpose of this article is to understand the experience of workers' perceptions of job insecurity and its relation to performance. To this end, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 38 workers in the retail, services, education, financial, construction, and pharmaceutical industries in Chile. Using content analysis based on workers' accounts of their own experience, we identified two main categories: (a) the experience of job insecurit…
Tid för förändring av arbetsvillkor inom vård och omsorg
I föreliggande studie fokuserar vi på berättelser om arbetsvillkor inom svensk vård och omsorg under den inledande fasen av coronapandemin våren 2020. Studien baseras på 33 intervjuer med vårdpersonal genomförda under de första veckorna av pandemin. Genom att i analysen knyta narrativt meningsskapande till hur tid används och ordnas i berättelser om arbetsvillkor just nu – under de första veckorna för coronapandemin – ser vi hur dessa berättelser…
Capturing Stories of How Young Adults Experience Entry Into the Workforce
Background: In present research protocol, the project entitled 'A sustainable working life for young adults-leadership, learning, and insecurity' is presented and discussed. The study which aims to describe and analyze the expectations of young adults in the retail workforce in terms of leadership, learning and development and how these aspects can be understood from a health promotion perspective. The project is limited to young adults (18-28 ye…
On Time
Tardiness is a common problem in many schools. It can be understood as an individual risk for future problematic behavior leading to absenteeism, school dropout, exclusion and later health problems. Tardiness can also be examined in relation to a broader social-ecological perspective on health. The aim of this study was to analyze students', school staff's and parents' views on students' tardiness in two Swedish schools. A focus group interview d…
Stories of the storm
Households play an important role in risk management. In this article, we take a closer look at risk management strategies applied by rural citizens in relation to an actual situation: a specific storm. The storm chosen, named Ivar, hit the northern parts of Sweden in December 2013 and caused major blackouts and heavy problems for road and train traffic due to extensive tree falls. After the storm, there were persistent problems with electricity,…
Cable Wakeboarding for the First Time
Cable wakeboarding can be defined as a risky adventure recreation activity in which young people are the primary participants. Based on interviews and observations focusing on cable wakeboarding in Sweden, young people’s understanding of the risks associated with this activity was analysed. According to the thematic content analysis of the interview transcripts and field notes, the participants’ interpretations of risk were related to the social/…
The Same, Only Different
The aim of this article is to elucidate how male and female managers of small-scale enterprises in Norway and Sweden relate to and experience the intersection between work and private life. A qualitative content analysis was adopted to explore interviews with 18 managers. The analysis resulted in three primary categories: conflict as a part of the deal, using management to construct balance, and management identity contributing to enrichment. A k…
Makt och motstånd i rehabiliteringsprocessen
Syftet med denna studie är att nå en djupare förståelse för rehabiliteringsprocessens ambition om tidig återgång i arbete och vad detta innebär för långtidssjukskrivna kvinnor. En diskursanalys, baserad på myndighetsmaterial och svaren på en öppen enkätfråga visar, hur makt och motstånd framträder i materialet och hur sjukskrivna görs till passiva mottagare av rehabilitering och/eller definieras som långsamma i relation till de normer som återfin…
Sense-making of risk and role-taking emotions
The aim of this study is to improve our understanding of how young people make sense of traffic risk. The study also aims to contribute to current theory by refining the concept of ‘sense-making of risk’. The focus is to explore, empirically as well as theoretically, how role-taking emotions can contribute to this particular area of research. In order to chart both the sense-making of social interaction and the respondents’ subjective sense of tr…
Visualizing risk
Although the field of risk research is increasingly alert to new theoretical and empirical perspectives, it is still the case that few studies take a visual approach, despite its obvious worth in capturing people’s experiences of everyday life. This paper considers how a visual approach can be used to deepen our knowledge of sense-making of risk, particularly young people’s views on risk. It presents empirical findings from a study that uses part…
En berättelse om risk, en berättelse om genus
During the winter of 2010/2011 the town of Östersund with 60 000 inhabitants was struck by a water crisis. High levels of the parasite Cryptosporidium were discovered in the drinking water. The water delivered by the municipality suddenly constituted a risk for the populations’ health. To consume the infected water could lead to long term stomach illness. This article explores sense-making of risk in everyday life during the time of the Cryptospo…
Riskfyllt vatten
Risky water How the individual makes sense of unexpected parasites in the drinking water This quick response study was carried out with the aim to study how individuals made sense of the outbreak of the parasite Cryptosporidium in the drinking water in Ostersund. In total 24 interviews were made with people in Ostersund. The result shows that the interviewees related to social as well as spatial dimensions when they made sense of this risky situa…
Structure of meaning and sense‐making of risk
The purpose of this study is to refine the theory of individuals' sense‐making of risk as a product of structure of meaning, and subsequently to test the theory empirically by identifying coherent groups of individuals by means of an operationalisation of each individual's structure of meaning. To this end, a two‐step cluster analysis was conducted on a random selection of the Swedish population (N = 778) aged between 16 and 75 that resulted in t…
Ungdomars samtal kring risker i trafiken
Young people talking about risk in traffic milieus: the relationship between sensemaking of risk and place attachment This explorative study investigates the relationship between sensemaking of risk and place attachment among young people. Traffic safety behaviours are focused. Eight focus group interviews have been done, with a total number of 36 interviewees in the age of 16–20 years. Half of the groups where made in Greater Stockholm, and half…
Hooker's Consequentialism and the Depth of Moral Experience
In Ideal Code, Real World, Brad Hooker seeks to offer a version of ideal rule consequentialism that is immune from standard criticisms. I will attempt to challenge Hooker's ideal rule-consequentialist theory by arguing that there are philosophical problems at the ultimate foundation of his maximizing consequentialist and pluralist approach toward well-being and other basic goods. I find that no amount of revision is likely to insulate his approac…
Young people making sense of risk
By using the term ‘sensemaking’ our intention is to deepen the understanding of young people and risk. Four focus group interviews with young people were made in 2004/05, two in an urban area (Greater Stockholm) and two in a rural area (the county of Jämtland). Three reference interviews with adults were also made (two in Greater Stockholm and one in Jämtland). The results indicate that sensemaking of risk is a fruitful way of capturing hidden he…
Reply to Iddo Landau
The Interpersonal Aspects of Coercive Threats and Offers
Je défends ici une conception interpersonnelle des menaces et des offers coercitives, centrée sur les intentions de ceux quifont de telles menaces ou de telles offres. Je critique, ce faisant, un groupe de conceptions fort influentes, appelées «baseline accounts». Robert Nozick, qui adopte une approche de ce genre, incorpore à son analyse des menaces coercitives des éléments non moraux aussi bien que des éléments moraux. Les approches de Daniel L…
Sexual Harassment and Wrongful Communication
Young people making sense of risk
By using the term ‘sensemaking’ our intention is to deepen the understanding of young people and risk. Four focus group interviews with young people were made in 2004/05, two in an urban area (Greater Stockholm) and two in a rural area (the county of Jämtland). Three reference interviews with adults were also made (two in Greater Stockholm and one in Jämtland). The results indicate that sensemaking of risk is a fruitful way of capturing hidden he…
The Same, Only Different
The aim of this article is to elucidate how male and female managers of small-scale enterprises in Norway and Sweden relate to and experience the intersection between work and private life. A qualitative content analysis was adopted to explore interviews with 18 managers. The analysis resulted in three primary categories: conflict as a part of the deal, using management to construct balance, and management identity contributing to enrichment. A k…
Hooker's Consequentialism and the Depth of Moral Experience
In Ideal Code, Real World, Brad Hooker seeks to offer a version of ideal rule consequentialism that is immune from standard criticisms. I will attempt to challenge Hooker's ideal rule-consequentialist theory by arguing that there are philosophical problems at the ultimate foundation of his maximizing consequentialist and pluralist approach toward well-being and other basic goods. I find that no amount of revision is likely to insulate his approac…
Sexual Harassment and Wrongful Communication
Capturing Stories of How Young Adults Experience Entry Into the Workforce
Background: In present research protocol, the project entitled 'A sustainable working life for young adults-leadership, learning, and insecurity' is presented and discussed. The study which aims to describe and analyze the expectations of young adults in the retail workforce in terms of leadership, learning and development and how these aspects can be understood from a health promotion perspective. The project is limited to young adults (18-28 ye…
Vignettes of new work in rural settings
In the present narrative analysis, we explore how coworking in a rural context is understood by stakeholders and members in relation to ideas on centre/periphery. Coworking, encompassing a variety of activities, is mostly understood as an urban phenomenon in practice and research. There is a gap in the literature when it comes to how coworking spaces in rural settings are made sense of by stakeholders and members. Here, these understandings speci…
Stories of the storm
Households play an important role in risk management. In this article, we take a closer look at risk management strategies applied by rural citizens in relation to an actual situation: a specific storm. The storm chosen, named Ivar, hit the northern parts of Sweden in December 2013 and caused major blackouts and heavy problems for road and train traffic due to extensive tree falls. After the storm, there were persistent problems with electricity,…
Visualizing risk
Although the field of risk research is increasingly alert to new theoretical and empirical perspectives, it is still the case that few studies take a visual approach, despite its obvious worth in capturing people’s experiences of everyday life. This paper considers how a visual approach can be used to deepen our knowledge of sense-making of risk, particularly young people’s views on risk. It presents empirical findings from a study that uses part…
Structure of meaning and sense‐making of risk
The purpose of this study is to refine the theory of individuals' sense‐making of risk as a product of structure of meaning, and subsequently to test the theory empirically by identifying coherent groups of individuals by means of an operationalisation of each individual's structure of meaning. To this end, a two‐step cluster analysis was conducted on a random selection of the Swedish population (N = 778) aged between 16 and 75 that resulted in t…
Reply to Iddo Landau
Sexual Harassment and Wrongful Communication
The Interpersonal Aspects of Coercive Threats and Offers
Je défends ici une conception interpersonnelle des menaces et des offers coercitives, centrée sur les intentions de ceux quifont de telles menaces ou de telles offres. Je critique, ce faisant, un groupe de conceptions fort influentes, appelées «baseline accounts». Robert Nozick, qui adopte une approche de ce genre, incorpore à son analyse des menaces coercitives des éléments non moraux aussi bien que des éléments moraux. Les approches de Daniel L…
Reply to Iddo Landau
Young people making sense of risk
By using the term ‘sensemaking’ our intention is to deepen the understanding of young people and risk. Four focus group interviews with young people were made in 2004/05, two in an urban area (Greater Stockholm) and two in a rural area (the county of Jämtland). Three reference interviews with adults were also made (two in Greater Stockholm and one in Jämtland). The results indicate that sensemaking of risk is a fruitful way of capturing hidden he…
Ungdomars samtal kring risker i trafiken
Young people talking about risk in traffic milieus: the relationship between sensemaking of risk and place attachment This explorative study investigates the relationship between sensemaking of risk and place attachment among young people. Traffic safety behaviours are focused. Eight focus group interviews have been done, with a total number of 36 interviewees in the age of 16–20 years. Half of the groups where made in Greater Stockholm, and half…
Hooker's Consequentialism and the Depth of Moral Experience
In Ideal Code, Real World, Brad Hooker seeks to offer a version of ideal rule consequentialism that is immune from standard criticisms. I will attempt to challenge Hooker's ideal rule-consequentialist theory by arguing that there are philosophical problems at the ultimate foundation of his maximizing consequentialist and pluralist approach toward well-being and other basic goods. I find that no amount of revision is likely to insulate his approac…
Structure of meaning and sense‐making of risk
The purpose of this study is to refine the theory of individuals' sense‐making of risk as a product of structure of meaning, and subsequently to test the theory empirically by identifying coherent groups of individuals by means of an operationalisation of each individual's structure of meaning. To this end, a two‐step cluster analysis was conducted on a random selection of the Swedish population (N = 778) aged between 16 and 75 that resulted in t…
Riskfyllt vatten
Risky water How the individual makes sense of unexpected parasites in the drinking water This quick response study was carried out with the aim to study how individuals made sense of the outbreak of the parasite Cryptosporidium in the drinking water in Ostersund. In total 24 interviews were made with people in Ostersund. The result shows that the interviewees related to social as well as spatial dimensions when they made sense of this risky situa…
Sense-making of risk and role-taking emotions
The aim of this study is to improve our understanding of how young people make sense of traffic risk. The study also aims to contribute to current theory by refining the concept of ‘sense-making of risk’. The focus is to explore, empirically as well as theoretically, how role-taking emotions can contribute to this particular area of research. In order to chart both the sense-making of social interaction and the respondents’ subjective sense of tr…
Visualizing risk
Although the field of risk research is increasingly alert to new theoretical and empirical perspectives, it is still the case that few studies take a visual approach, despite its obvious worth in capturing people’s experiences of everyday life. This paper considers how a visual approach can be used to deepen our knowledge of sense-making of risk, particularly young people’s views on risk. It presents empirical findings from a study that uses part…
En berättelse om risk, en berättelse om genus
During the winter of 2010/2011 the town of Östersund with 60 000 inhabitants was struck by a water crisis. High levels of the parasite Cryptosporidium were discovered in the drinking water. The water delivered by the municipality suddenly constituted a risk for the populations’ health. To consume the infected water could lead to long term stomach illness. This article explores sense-making of risk in everyday life during the time of the Cryptospo…
Makt och motstånd i rehabiliteringsprocessen
Syftet med denna studie är att nå en djupare förståelse för rehabiliteringsprocessens ambition om tidig återgång i arbete och vad detta innebär för långtidssjukskrivna kvinnor. En diskursanalys, baserad på myndighetsmaterial och svaren på en öppen enkätfråga visar, hur makt och motstånd framträder i materialet och hur sjukskrivna görs till passiva mottagare av rehabilitering och/eller definieras som långsamma i relation till de normer som återfin…
On Time
Tardiness is a common problem in many schools. It can be understood as an individual risk for future problematic behavior leading to absenteeism, school dropout, exclusion and later health problems. Tardiness can also be examined in relation to a broader social-ecological perspective on health. The aim of this study was to analyze students', school staff's and parents' views on students' tardiness in two Swedish schools. A focus group interview d…
Stories of the storm
Households play an important role in risk management. In this article, we take a closer look at risk management strategies applied by rural citizens in relation to an actual situation: a specific storm. The storm chosen, named Ivar, hit the northern parts of Sweden in December 2013 and caused major blackouts and heavy problems for road and train traffic due to extensive tree falls. After the storm, there were persistent problems with electricity,…
Cable Wakeboarding for the First Time
Cable wakeboarding can be defined as a risky adventure recreation activity in which young people are the primary participants. Based on interviews and observations focusing on cable wakeboarding in Sweden, young people’s understanding of the risks associated with this activity was analysed. According to the thematic content analysis of the interview transcripts and field notes, the participants’ interpretations of risk were related to the social/…
The Same, Only Different
The aim of this article is to elucidate how male and female managers of small-scale enterprises in Norway and Sweden relate to and experience the intersection between work and private life. A qualitative content analysis was adopted to explore interviews with 18 managers. The analysis resulted in three primary categories: conflict as a part of the deal, using management to construct balance, and management identity contributing to enrichment. A k…
Tid för förändring av arbetsvillkor inom vård och omsorg
I föreliggande studie fokuserar vi på berättelser om arbetsvillkor inom svensk vård och omsorg under den inledande fasen av coronapandemin våren 2020. Studien baseras på 33 intervjuer med vårdpersonal genomförda under de första veckorna av pandemin. Genom att i analysen knyta narrativt meningsskapande till hur tid används och ordnas i berättelser om arbetsvillkor just nu – under de första veckorna för coronapandemin – ser vi hur dessa berättelser…
Capturing Stories of How Young Adults Experience Entry Into the Workforce
Background: In present research protocol, the project entitled 'A sustainable working life for young adults-leadership, learning, and insecurity' is presented and discussed. The study which aims to describe and analyze the expectations of young adults in the retail workforce in terms of leadership, learning and development and how these aspects can be understood from a health promotion perspective. The project is limited to young adults (18-28 ye…
Employees Perceptions of Job Insecurity and Performance
The purpose of this article is to understand the experience of workers' perceptions of job insecurity and its relation to performance. To this end, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 38 workers in the retail, services, education, financial, construction, and pharmaceutical industries in Chile. Using content analysis based on workers' accounts of their own experience, we identified two main categories: (a) the experience of job insecurit…
Learning when new at work. A thematic analysis of interviews with young adult retail workers in Sweden
Purpose The aim of this study is to analyse young adults’ positive experiences of learning when entering the labour market.Design/methodology/approach The study is based on 13 individual in-depth interviews with young adults (aged 18–28) working within the retail sector in Sweden. The interviews explored the interviewees’ experiences when entering the workforce, focusing on positive experiences of learning.Findings The findings highlight the rela…
Professional Position Positioned
To gain an in-depth understanding of the position of being a young adult and new at work simultaneously, this study examines the doing of age in relation to others in the lives of young adults, rather than focusing on age as a category and/or developmental phase. The study focuses on being a young adult from a critical and relational perspective of age. Based on focus group interviews with young adults, mostly women, working in retail, the aim is…
MacIntyrean Ethics and Lessons About Teleological Ethical Theories
Alasdair MacIntyre’s moral approach is ranked among the very important formulations in contemporary philosophical ethics. Yet, MacIntyre and his commentators have overlooked basic requirements of teleological ethical theories (end- or goal-oriented ethical theories). In the article, we will see just where MacIntyre has erred in constructing his Aristotelian-Thomist teleological moral approach, the most fundamental error being his failure to pursu…
Desirable Leadership
Entering the labour market and conforming to the authority relations that characterize wage labour are central parts of becoming an adult. The aim of this qualitative study is to analyse desirable leadership from the perspective of young adult employees in the retail sector. Informants were asked to define what they view as leadership and describe what they desire leadership to be like. Interviews with 13 young adults (aged 18–28) in the Swedish …
Vignettes of new work in rural settings
In the present narrative analysis, we explore how coworking in a rural context is understood by stakeholders and members in relation to ideas on centre/periphery. Coworking, encompassing a variety of activities, is mostly understood as an urban phenomenon in practice and research. There is a gap in the literature when it comes to how coworking spaces in rural settings are made sense of by stakeholders and members. Here, these understandings speci…
Sociology (20 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Business (8 works) · Geography (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Qualitative research (6 works) · Social science (6 works)