Margareta Hallberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 331472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margareta Hallberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margareta |
| FAMILY NAME | Hallberg |
| SIGNATURE | HALLBERG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The inner world of research. On academic labor: Stefan Svallfors
Sociologisk Forsknings digitala arkiv
Happiness Studies: Co-Production of Social Science and Social Order
This article is about the growth and establishment of the interdisciplinary research field ”Happiness Studies”. This article focuses on how research on happiness has become a quickly growing and successful field within western societies and what it says about both the social sciences and contemporary social order. The concept of co-production, as defined by Sheila Jasanoff, is used to show how science and society interact and influence each other…
Gender and philosophy of science: The case of Mary Hesse
Back to basics: Governing antibacterial resistance by means of mundane technoscience and accountability relations in a context of risk
In 2006, a sudden spread of a strain of a multi-resistant bacterium (Klebsiella pneumonia ESBL) arose inside of the Swedish university hospital in Uppsala. Measures of risk management were taken immediately to fight the bacteria spread in order to stop what soon developed into an epidemic. Officers at the hospital initiated a system of accountability relations, in this article analysed through a model developed by Neyland and Woolgar. We show how…
Dilemmas of a Vitalizing Vaccine Market: Lessons from the MMR Vaccine/Autism Debate
Argument A number of issues related to vaccines and vaccinations in society are discussed in this paper. Our purpose is to merge an analysis of some recent changes in the vaccine market with social science research on the relationship between citizens and authorities. The article has two empirical parts. The first shows how the vaccine market, which for many years has had immense financial problems, nowadays seems to becoming economically vitaliz…
Forskning med juridiska förvecklingar: Om tolkningsflexibilitet i kontroversen om mässlingsvaccination och autism
Medical research with jurisdictional consequences: interpretative flexibility in the controversy over MMR vaccination and autismBased on the empirical case of the controversy of MMR vaccination and autism around the turn of the millennium, this paper argues for the analytical importance of the concept of “interpretative flexibility”. As shown, this concept is useful not only for the small subfield of sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) but al…
Child Sexual Abuse - a Study of Controversy and Construction
In this article we focus on the construction of and controversy surrounding child sexual abuse as a social problem in the Swedish context. Using concepts and approaches from the field of science studies, we investigate how the problem has been introduced to the public and by whom We identify what we call a knowledge-based controversy. The frequency of child sexual abuse, the methods of diagnosing it, and the role of the investigator are highly di…
Brain or Heart? The Controversy over the Concept of Death
Extended controversies over a new definition of death have occurred in most Western countries, providing good examples of the kind of `science-based' disputes that increasingly characterize the policy of contemporary welfare states. In this paper, with the aim of introducing and testing a conceptual framework capable of capturing the more general features of such controversies, we reconstruct and examine the death-concept dispute in Sweden. The c…
Brain or Heart? The Controversy over the Concept of Death
Extended controversies over a new definition of death have occurred in most Western countries, providing good examples of the kind of `science-based' disputes that increasingly characterize the policy of contemporary welfare states. In this paper, with the aim of introducing and testing a conceptual framework capable of capturing the more general features of such controversies, we reconstruct and examine the death-concept dispute in Sweden. The c…
Child Sexual Abuse - a Study of Controversy and Construction
In this article we focus on the construction of and controversy surrounding child sexual abuse as a social problem in the Swedish context. Using concepts and approaches from the field of science studies, we investigate how the problem has been introduced to the public and by whom We identify what we call a knowledge-based controversy. The frequency of child sexual abuse, the methods of diagnosing it, and the role of the investigator are highly di…
Gender and philosophy of science: The case of Mary Hesse
Brain or Heart? The Controversy over the Concept of Death
Extended controversies over a new definition of death have occurred in most Western countries, providing good examples of the kind of `science-based' disputes that increasingly characterize the policy of contemporary welfare states. In this paper, with the aim of introducing and testing a conceptual framework capable of capturing the more general features of such controversies, we reconstruct and examine the death-concept dispute in Sweden. The c…
Child Sexual Abuse - a Study of Controversy and Construction
In this article we focus on the construction of and controversy surrounding child sexual abuse as a social problem in the Swedish context. Using concepts and approaches from the field of science studies, we investigate how the problem has been introduced to the public and by whom We identify what we call a knowledge-based controversy. The frequency of child sexual abuse, the methods of diagnosing it, and the role of the investigator are highly di…
Forskning med juridiska förvecklingar: Om tolkningsflexibilitet i kontroversen om mässlingsvaccination och autism
Medical research with jurisdictional consequences: interpretative flexibility in the controversy over MMR vaccination and autismBased on the empirical case of the controversy of MMR vaccination and autism around the turn of the millennium, this paper argues for the analytical importance of the concept of “interpretative flexibility”. As shown, this concept is useful not only for the small subfield of sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) but al…
Back to basics: Governing antibacterial resistance by means of mundane technoscience and accountability relations in a context of risk
In 2006, a sudden spread of a strain of a multi-resistant bacterium (Klebsiella pneumonia ESBL) arose inside of the Swedish university hospital in Uppsala. Measures of risk management were taken immediately to fight the bacteria spread in order to stop what soon developed into an epidemic. Officers at the hospital initiated a system of accountability relations, in this article analysed through a model developed by Neyland and Woolgar. We show how…
Dilemmas of a Vitalizing Vaccine Market: Lessons from the MMR Vaccine/Autism Debate
Argument A number of issues related to vaccines and vaccinations in society are discussed in this paper. Our purpose is to merge an analysis of some recent changes in the vaccine market with social science research on the relationship between citizens and authorities. The article has two empirical parts. The first shows how the vaccine market, which for many years has had immense financial problems, nowadays seems to becoming economically vitaliz…
Gender and philosophy of science: The case of Mary Hesse
Happiness Studies: Co-Production of Social Science and Social Order
This article is about the growth and establishment of the interdisciplinary research field ”Happiness Studies”. This article focuses on how research on happiness has become a quickly growing and successful field within western societies and what it says about both the social sciences and contemporary social order. The concept of co-production, as defined by Sheila Jasanoff, is used to show how science and society interact and influence each other…
The inner world of research. On academic labor: Stefan Svallfors
Sociologisk Forsknings digitala arkiv
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Measles (2 works) · MMR vaccine (2 works)