Max Persson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3580916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Max Persson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Max |
| FAMILY NAME | Persson |
| SIGNATURE | PERSSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0666-038X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Worldview of the Corporate Welfare Elite
This article examines how neoliberal restructuring of the Swedish welfare state has given rise to a new elite group that we conceptualize as the corporate welfare elite: actors who occupy critical command positions within the private welfare sector through ownership, management, and representation of significant welfare corporations and employer organizations. Since the 1990s, Sweden has undergone extensive market-oriented reforms enabling for-pr…
Justifying, concealing or owning privilege
Amid rising inequality, scholars have emphasised the importance of further understanding elite legitimation. In this article, we draw attention to the emotional dynamics of elite legitimation, exploring how adolescents from wealthy upper-class families manage feelings of privilege and worth. Based on a one-year ethnography in a Swedish elite high school, we show that an upper-class background was experienced as morally problematic and a threat to…
Understanding Collective Pride and Group Identity
Gavin Brent Sullivan (ed.) (2014) Understanding Collective Pride and Group Identity:New Directions in Emotion Theory, Research and Practice Routledge ISBN 978-0-415-62895-2 £52.00 (hardcover) 216 pp
Contested ease
Research on elites and elite schooling mainly theorize the embodied elite distinction of ease as a dispositional phenomenon, drawing on a Bourdieusian framework. I respond to this by developing an interactionist perspective on embodied elite distinction not as a function of social position, but rather as means of communication used more or less actively to manage others' impressions of one's social position. Drawing on ethnography and interviews,…
Contested ease
Research on elites and elite schooling mainly theorize the embodied elite distinction of ease as a dispositional phenomenon, drawing on a Bourdieusian framework. I respond to this by developing an interactionist perspective on embodied elite distinction not as a function of social position, but rather as means of communication used more or less actively to manage others' impressions of one's social position. Drawing on ethnography and interviews,…
Understanding Collective Pride and Group Identity
Gavin Brent Sullivan (ed.) (2014) Understanding Collective Pride and Group Identity:New Directions in Emotion Theory, Research and Practice Routledge ISBN 978-0-415-62895-2 £52.00 (hardcover) 216 pp
Contested ease
Research on elites and elite schooling mainly theorize the embodied elite distinction of ease as a dispositional phenomenon, drawing on a Bourdieusian framework. I respond to this by developing an interactionist perspective on embodied elite distinction not as a function of social position, but rather as means of communication used more or less actively to manage others' impressions of one's social position. Drawing on ethnography and interviews,…
Justifying, concealing or owning privilege
Amid rising inequality, scholars have emphasised the importance of further understanding elite legitimation. In this article, we draw attention to the emotional dynamics of elite legitimation, exploring how adolescents from wealthy upper-class families manage feelings of privilege and worth. Based on a one-year ethnography in a Swedish elite high school, we show that an upper-class background was experienced as morally problematic and a threat to…
The Worldview of the Corporate Welfare Elite
This article examines how neoliberal restructuring of the Swedish welfare state has given rise to a new elite group that we conceptualize as the corporate welfare elite: actors who occupy critical command positions within the private welfare sector through ownership, management, and representation of significant welfare corporations and employer organizations. Since the 1990s, Sweden has undergone extensive market-oriented reforms enabling for-pr…
Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Privilege (computing (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work)