Ann‐mari Sellerberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603919 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann‐mari Sellerberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann‐mari |
| FAMILY NAME | Sellerberg |
| SIGNATURE | SELLERBERG A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Family Meals and Parents' Challenges
The objective of this study was to evaluate how Swedish parents regard their children's participation in meals. Taped interviews with sixty-two parents, responsible for meals at home, were transcribed and evaluated. This article is restricted to the twenty-one middle class families in the group. Through analysis of the interviews, we evaluated how middle class parents set out to mediate a certain approach to food and eating. Children were simulta…
Soon there'll be a society for every bit of the intestine’
This article addresses the issue of the dual situation in which disabled people find themselves in modern society. On the one hand, people are increasingly grouped according to ever more precise labels. The political system demands this emblematic organisation. The article discusses the growth in the number of new, high-profile organisations and how this relates to the political system in which such organisations are needed as ‘dialogue partners’…
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A Blend of Contradictions
In food we trust? Vitally necessary confidence—and unfamiliar ways of forming public opinion
Expressivity within a time schedule
Field research for the current study took place at two Swedish medical institutions specialising in the long-term care of the elderly. The data consist of taped interviews and observations. On the wards studied, both staff and patients were subordinated to a fixed element in the schedule: the mealtime system. This given frame was non-negotiable. Instead, each of the two parties tried to emphasise its own particular side of the scheme. In the anal…
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 …
Family Meals and Parents' Challenges
The objective of this study was to evaluate how Swedish parents regard their children's participation in meals. Taped interviews with sixty-two parents, responsible for meals at home, were transcribed and evaluated. This article is restricted to the twenty-one middle class families in the group. Through analysis of the interviews, we evaluated how middle class parents set out to mediate a certain approach to food and eating. Children were simulta…
Expressivity within a time schedule
Field research for the current study took place at two Swedish medical institutions specialising in the long-term care of the elderly. The data consist of taped interviews and observations. On the wards studied, both staff and patients were subordinated to a fixed element in the schedule: the mealtime system. This given frame was non-negotiable. Instead, each of the two parties tried to emphasise its own particular side of the scheme. In the anal…
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
Expressivity within a time schedule
Field research for the current study took place at two Swedish medical institutions specialising in the long-term care of the elderly. The data consist of taped interviews and observations. On the wards studied, both staff and patients were subordinated to a fixed element in the schedule: the mealtime system. This given frame was non-negotiable. Instead, each of the two parties tried to emphasise its own particular side of the scheme. In the anal…
A Blend of Contradictions
Books in review
Books in review
Soon there'll be a society for every bit of the intestine’
This article addresses the issue of the dual situation in which disabled people find themselves in modern society. On the one hand, people are increasingly grouped according to ever more precise labels. The political system demands this emblematic organisation. The article discusses the growth in the number of new, high-profile organisations and how this relates to the political system in which such organisations are needed as ‘dialogue partners’…
Family Meals and Parents' Challenges
The objective of this study was to evaluate how Swedish parents regard their children's participation in meals. Taped interviews with sixty-two parents, responsible for meals at home, were transcribed and evaluated. This article is restricted to the twenty-one middle class families in the group. Through analysis of the interviews, we evaluated how middle class parents set out to mediate a certain approach to food and eating. Children were simulta…
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