Björn Boman
Biographic Data
| ID | 669595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Björn Boman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Björn |
| FAMILY NAME | Boman |
| SIGNATURE | BOMAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7529-6713 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Does disability trump family background? Determinants of electoral participation among young individuals with intellectual disability
Systematic differences of electoral participation between various social groups indicate crucial constraints of comprehensive democratic inclusion. Yet, there is a dearth of research on electoral participation among individuals with intellectual disability (ID), whose participation rates are considerably lower than among non‐ID citizens. This study examines determinants of electoral participation among individuals with ID based on administrative …
A literature review and secondary analysis of the descriptive representation of foreign-born men and foreign-born women in Sweden’s local councils and parliament
Sweden is often seen as a role model country in terms of women’s descriptive political representation. Nevertheless, both women and men with a foreign-born background are still underrepresented in the Swedish parliament (Riksdag) and in municipality councils, indicating a democratic deficit. In this literature review, we examine studies which have been published 2000–2025 and focus on foreign-born men and women’s political representation in Swede…
The nexus between economic development, academic achievement and democratisation
Democratisation, economic development and academic achievement are significant social dimensions which are potentially interrelated. The current article aims to contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the relations between these three dimensions by taking advantage of data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), including the 2018 and 2022 surveys. The regression and mediation models were based on both individu…
The East Asian cognitive skills advantage
Several researchers have pointed out that East Asian (e.g., China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan) populations have higher average academic achievement and IQ test scores relative to other national and ethnic groups, including European and North American populations. However, the factors that underlie these differences are puzzling. Some have suggested a slight but distinctive genetic superiority of East Asian populations, especially in mathematical …
Democratic inclusiveness, knowledge focus or something else? Critical analysis of the curriculum for Swedish pupils with intellectual disabilities
The extent to which compulsory school for pupils with intellectual disabilities (ID) differs from regular compulsory school is partly reflected in its curriculum. Regarding elements such as democracy and democratic inclusiveness, research is typically lacking. An analysis of the latest curriculum for Swedish pupils with ID shows that discursive themes such as knowledge, learning, values, and democracy are salient features. That in turn indicates …
Vulnerable Women
Women, in the past and to different extents in the present, have typically constituted a vulnerable although heterogenous social group. After the foundation of a “new” sovereign post-Soviet Union Ukraine in 1991, large numbers of women in poverty were exposed to human trafficking, prostitution, and labor. Since Russia’s war in Ukraine in 2014, many internally displaced persons and migrants have left their places of sojourn for other cities in Ukr…
Obstacles to electoral participation as experienced by individuals with intellectual disabilities insights from a facilitated survey
Strategic Silence and Ambiguity
Micro-states and de-facto states in the context of borders and political–economic development
Human capital indicators as influenced by SES, cognitive and non-cognitive skills
Taiwan’s high performance in the PISA surveys has not been unnoticed by researchers. However, both individual level research and cross-national research which is relevant for Taiwan’s PISA achievement is typically lacking, especially as regards later surveys. This article examined Taiwan’s PISA mathematics and reading achievement in 2018, using individual level data (Valid N = 6863) and cross-national data with aggregated data for 77 countries. A…
Left, right or something else? José Ortega y Gasset’s intellectual influence in the ideological realm
The Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset has influenced several thinkers of the twentieth century, among whom Julius Evola, Ayn Rand, and Pierre Bourdieu specifically have been examined in this article. The selection of thinkers indicates that Ortega has influenced both those on the left and those on the various strands of the right. In relation to Evola, Ortega’s critique of the emergent masses in the age of modern democracy has been emphasi…
Nils von Dardel
The Swedish modernist painter Nils von Dardel (1888–1943) was an integral part of the avant-garde of his time. Dardel's artistic and individual expressions developed from a dandy persona, who expressed dark personal conflicts, into a more integrated humanist perspective signified by love, jealousy, ambivalent sexuality, life and death, and the absurdity of existence. It was generally a turn from negation to optimistic values, as well as to univer…
The influence of SES, migration background, and non-cognitive abilities on Pisa reading and mathematics achievement
The current study analysed the relationships between socio-economic status, migration background, and non-cognitive factors and PISA reading and mathematics achievement. The results from multi-level analyses on Sweden’s PISA survey from 2018 indicate that both mathematics achievement and reading achievement are affected by SES, migration background, reading abilities, growth mindset, and the ability to master the content. Between-school level dif…
The Adaptive Proculturation Process of Being a Psychotherapist as a Kazakh Asylum Seeker in Sweden
The term acculturation is important for describing and analyzing how for example migrants gradually become accustomed to a new host society. The term proculturation is similar but emphasizes the real-life experiences of migrants, as well as the fusion between familiar and unfamiliar ideas, things, and experiences. However, so far there is a dearth of studies which have aimed to explore such a construct empirically. The current article used a limi…
Democratically included? A systematic literature review on voter turnout of people with intellectual disabilities
The extent to which people with intellectual disabilities (ID) are voting is an under-researched area. In order to fill this gap, we conducted a systematic literature review with a focus on voter turnout and democratic inclusiveness among people with ID. In total, we found N = 9 studies that met our inclusion criteria, all of which were based on samples from Western countries such as Croatia, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and US. …
Japanese and Korean collaborations in K-pop
K-pop groups and artists have been localized to appeal to the lucrative Japanese market since the early 2000s. However, the two successful girl groups, TWICE and Iz One, exhibit a new direction in K-pop, by being members of both Korean and Japanese origin within the same groups. By drawing upon the literature on localization strategies and contentious Japan–Korea relations, ethnographic fieldwork and media sources, this article examines two locat…
Going in three directions
Kazakhstan is a post-Soviet nation whose education system and curricular constitution recently have gone through a number of substantial reforms. These changes have occurred in light of political-economic initiatives to strengthen the country's economic competitiveness. The current article examines the latest version of the national curriculum with an emphasis on the subjects Kazakh, English, Russian, smaller minority languages, as well as histor…
The Gray Nine and Parallel Personality Patterns
The vast literature on personality psychology generally focuses on neutral or socially beneficial personality traits such as the Five-Factor model (e.g., agreeableness, conscientiousness) or “dark” traits such as Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, and everyday sadism. However, the current synthesis of the literature indicates that the distinction between benign, malign, and neutral personality traits and facets is partly misguided. In fac…
The influence of SES, cognitive, and non-cognitive abilities on grades
It is well established that socioeconomic status, cognitive ability, and non-cognitive abilities such as self-efficacy are substantially associated with academic achievement. However, the specific relationships of these variables remain a relatively unexplored topic in regard to more recent and representative samples. The current study examined such relations by taking advantage of two cohorts (total N = 12,315) of Swedish students at the element…
The coexistence of nationalism, Westernization, Russification, and Russophobia
Parallelization theory complements earlier concepts in cultural and political history by focusing on the coexistence of seemingly contradictory patterns in various localities, such as segregation/integration of migrants in Europe and the USA, polarization/hybridization in Korea and Ukraine, and secularization/the resurgence of religions in countries like Malaysia and Sweden. The current article examines the parallel presence of Ukrainian national…
Cam
This article does partly extend Duckworth’s achievement model and the significance of beauty, which appears to be linked to celebrity achievement. It presents a revised version of the grit model with an added attractiveness feature, labelled CAM (Celebrity Achievement Model), which may be useful when measuring, predicting, or explaining celebrity achievement, including both ‘macro-celebrities’ and ‘micro-celebrities’. Then, the results of a surve…
Regional differences in educational achievement
The current study analyzed the relationships between explanatory variables such as socioeconomic status (SES), migration background (MB), and formal teacher competence, and aggregated grades in the Swedish lower-secondary school context by using aggregated municipality data from 2013, 2018, and 2019. SES indicators had larger effect sizes when data from different years were merged and when the outcome variable was changed to an alternative measur…
Pisa Achievement in Sweden From the Perspective of Both Individual Data and Aggregated Cross-Country Data
This study set out to analyze Swedish 15-year-olds’ PISA performance in 2015 and to lesser extent 2018 by using a combination of individual data (2015) and aggregated cross-country data for 2015 and 2018, inclusive of 31 OECD countries. At the within-country and individual level, native Swedish students who took the PISA test in 2015 outperformed first- and second-generation migrants. Moreover, the latent socioeconomic variable “number of books a…
Feminist themes in Hallyu 4.0 South Korean TV dramas as a reflection of a changing sociocultural landscape
While contemporary South Korea is fairly westernized but represents a lag in the spheres of culture and politics, it is expected that the current Korean wave or Hallyu 4.0 – popular cultural content, diffused as of 2016 – are cumulatively signified by feminist themes, merged with more traditional Korean and East Asian cultural elements. Five representative Hallyu 4.0 dramas are examined here, based on cultural globalization theory (e.g., hybridiz…
The multifold intertextuality in Lee Chang Dong’s burning
The study focuses on how the South Korean drama/mystery film Burning (2018) intertextually draws from William Faulkner’s short story ‘Barn burning’ and Haruki Murakami’s short story ‘Barn burning’ and related sociohistorical contexts. Burning does quite impressionistically and freely draw from these two short stories as well as adding new features, while simultaneously removing much of the core of Faulkner’s work and some of Murakami’s counterpar…
The coexistence of nationalism, Westernization, Russification, and Russophobia
Parallelization theory complements earlier concepts in cultural and political history by focusing on the coexistence of seemingly contradictory patterns in various localities, such as segregation/integration of migrants in Europe and the USA, polarization/hybridization in Korea and Ukraine, and secularization/the resurgence of religions in countries like Malaysia and Sweden. The current article examines the parallel presence of Ukrainian national…
Cultural amnesia or continuity? Expressions of han in K-pop
K-pop content is generally associated with romantic love, immaturity, synchronized dance choreographies, attractive performers and globally fashionable pop music. However, over the last years more variability in regard to lyrics and music, partly linked to increased artistic agency among some entertainment companies, has been manifested. In this article, I have analysed how the cultural concept of han (associated with grief or resentment among Ko…
What makes Estonia and Singapore so good
Considering high performance in PISA, a case study of Estonia and Singapore is required. Estonia’s economy is not up to par with Singapore. On the other hand, Estonia is more democratic than Singapore. The national IQ levels are higher in Singapore (102) than in Estonia (99.4) but may explain a large portion of the attainment level in both countries. Singapore does also have more highly educated and better paid teachers, as well as a highly skill…
The applicability of Big Five facets and Dark Tetrad traits on Yukio Mishima’s novel protagonists
Psychological accounts of literature research are chiefly associated with a psychoanalytical nomenclature, while research on personality psychology like the Five Factor Model and the Dark Tetrad has mostly been investigated using questionnaires and quantitative statistics. However, building upon a lexical understanding of the 30 Big Five personality facets, in tandem with the application of Dark Tetrad traits on popular culture analysis initiated…
The nexus between economic development, academic achievement and democratisation
Democratisation, economic development and academic achievement are significant social dimensions which are potentially interrelated. The current article aims to contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the relations between these three dimensions by taking advantage of data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), including the 2018 and 2022 surveys. The regression and mediation models were based on both individu…
Micro-states and de-facto states in the context of borders and political–economic development
Democratically included? A systematic literature review on voter turnout of people with intellectual disabilities
The extent to which people with intellectual disabilities (ID) are voting is an under-researched area. In order to fill this gap, we conducted a systematic literature review with a focus on voter turnout and democratic inclusiveness among people with ID. In total, we found N = 9 studies that met our inclusion criteria, all of which were based on samples from Western countries such as Croatia, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and US. …
Going in three directions
Kazakhstan is a post-Soviet nation whose education system and curricular constitution recently have gone through a number of substantial reforms. These changes have occurred in light of political-economic initiatives to strengthen the country's economic competitiveness. The current article examines the latest version of the national curriculum with an emphasis on the subjects Kazakh, English, Russian, smaller minority languages, as well as histor…
Feminist themes in Hallyu 4.0 South Korean TV dramas as a reflection of a changing sociocultural landscape
While contemporary South Korea is fairly westernized but represents a lag in the spheres of culture and politics, it is expected that the current Korean wave or Hallyu 4.0 – popular cultural content, diffused as of 2016 – are cumulatively signified by feminist themes, merged with more traditional Korean and East Asian cultural elements. Five representative Hallyu 4.0 dramas are examined here, based on cultural globalization theory (e.g., hybridiz…
Parallelization
Extending Pieterse’s (1996) tripartite cultural globalization theory consisting of homogenization, hybridization and polarization, the current article outlines a set of exemplifications and justifications of a fourth theoretical underpinning labeled parallelization. The theory implies that at a global scale, crucial events that appear paradoxical or contradictory occur at the same time, such as carbon emissions due to growth-fixated global capita…
What makes Estonia and Singapore so good
Considering high performance in PISA, a case study of Estonia and Singapore is required. Estonia’s economy is not up to par with Singapore. On the other hand, Estonia is more democratic than Singapore. The national IQ levels are higher in Singapore (102) than in Estonia (99.4) but may explain a large portion of the attainment level in both countries. Singapore does also have more highly educated and better paid teachers, as well as a highly skill…
From Oldboy to Burning
Korean culture has been shaped by the traumatic colonial past (1910–1945), which in part facilitated the rise of the historical-cultural han concept in the 1920s onward, often interpreted as rancor, grief, or resentment due to a real or alleged undeserved experience of the Korean people but also beautiful artistic expressions. Scholars have applied han to, for example, Korean music genres like pansori and even Korean American popular culture. The…
Religion, Tradition and the Popular
Review of: Religion, Tradition and the Popular: Transcultural Views from Asia and Europe , Judith Schlehe and Evamarie Sandkühler (eds) (2014) Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 286 pp., ISBN 978-3-83762-613-1, p/bk, €35.99 Japanese Popular Culture and Globalization , William M. Tsutsui (2010) Ann Arbor, MI: Association for Asian Studies, 96 pp., ISBN 978-0-92430-462-0, p/bk, $15 The Dream of East Asia: The Rise of China, Nationalism, Popular Memory, …
Cultural amnesia or continuity? Expressions of han in K-pop
K-pop content is generally associated with romantic love, immaturity, synchronized dance choreographies, attractive performers and globally fashionable pop music. However, over the last years more variability in regard to lyrics and music, partly linked to increased artistic agency among some entertainment companies, has been manifested. In this article, I have analysed how the cultural concept of han (associated with grief or resentment among Ko…
The multifold intertextuality in Lee Chang Dong’s burning
The study focuses on how the South Korean drama/mystery film Burning (2018) intertextually draws from William Faulkner’s short story ‘Barn burning’ and Haruki Murakami’s short story ‘Barn burning’ and related sociohistorical contexts. Burning does quite impressionistically and freely draw from these two short stories as well as adding new features, while simultaneously removing much of the core of Faulkner’s work and some of Murakami’s counterpar…
Why has Sweden risen in the Ifpi league tables but been surpassed by South Korea? A comparative case study
Sweden has risen in the global music market charts since the early 2000s and has a substantial pool of music companies, songwriters, and artists. Nevertheless, over the last decade it has lost ground relative to South Korea in particular. By analyzing the factors associated with global music market strength among 20–50 countries and comparing Sweden and South Korea's comparative advantages and disadvantages, the current article underscores that i…
Money or Melancholia? Dropout and Retention Rates in the K-pop Industry
The K-pop music industry is signified by a hyper-competitive training system. The aim was to examine dropout and retention rates among a representative sample of K-pop artists and groups. The dropout rates of 49 K-pop groups and 298 group members (N = 298; F = 130; M = 168), who have been active any time between 2003–2019, were 5.70%. As gender, age and other generic control factors could not explain more than a fraction of retention rates, the a…
The applicability of Big Five facets and Dark Tetrad traits on Yukio Mishima’s novel protagonists
Psychological accounts of literature research are chiefly associated with a psychoanalytical nomenclature, while research on personality psychology like the Five Factor Model and the Dark Tetrad has mostly been investigated using questionnaires and quantitative statistics. However, building upon a lexical understanding of the 30 Big Five personality facets, in tandem with the application of Dark Tetrad traits on popular culture analysis initiated…
Parallelization
Extending Pieterse’s (1996) tripartite cultural globalization theory consisting of homogenization, hybridization and polarization, the current article outlines a set of exemplifications and justifications of a fourth theoretical underpinning labeled parallelization. The theory implies that at a global scale, crucial events that appear paradoxical or contradictory occur at the same time, such as carbon emissions due to growth-fixated global capita…
Cam
This article does partly extend Duckworth’s achievement model and the significance of beauty, which appears to be linked to celebrity achievement. It presents a revised version of the grit model with an added attractiveness feature, labelled CAM (Celebrity Achievement Model), which may be useful when measuring, predicting, or explaining celebrity achievement, including both ‘macro-celebrities’ and ‘micro-celebrities’. Then, the results of a surve…
Regional differences in educational achievement
The current study analyzed the relationships between explanatory variables such as socioeconomic status (SES), migration background (MB), and formal teacher competence, and aggregated grades in the Swedish lower-secondary school context by using aggregated municipality data from 2013, 2018, and 2019. SES indicators had larger effect sizes when data from different years were merged and when the outcome variable was changed to an alternative measur…
Pisa Achievement in Sweden From the Perspective of Both Individual Data and Aggregated Cross-Country Data
This study set out to analyze Swedish 15-year-olds’ PISA performance in 2015 and to lesser extent 2018 by using a combination of individual data (2015) and aggregated cross-country data for 2015 and 2018, inclusive of 31 OECD countries. At the within-country and individual level, native Swedish students who took the PISA test in 2015 outperformed first- and second-generation migrants. Moreover, the latent socioeconomic variable “number of books a…
Feminist themes in Hallyu 4.0 South Korean TV dramas as a reflection of a changing sociocultural landscape
While contemporary South Korea is fairly westernized but represents a lag in the spheres of culture and politics, it is expected that the current Korean wave or Hallyu 4.0 – popular cultural content, diffused as of 2016 – are cumulatively signified by feminist themes, merged with more traditional Korean and East Asian cultural elements. Five representative Hallyu 4.0 dramas are examined here, based on cultural globalization theory (e.g., hybridiz…
The influence of SES, cognitive, and non-cognitive abilities on grades
It is well established that socioeconomic status, cognitive ability, and non-cognitive abilities such as self-efficacy are substantially associated with academic achievement. However, the specific relationships of these variables remain a relatively unexplored topic in regard to more recent and representative samples. The current study examined such relations by taking advantage of two cohorts (total N = 12,315) of Swedish students at the element…
The coexistence of nationalism, Westernization, Russification, and Russophobia
Parallelization theory complements earlier concepts in cultural and political history by focusing on the coexistence of seemingly contradictory patterns in various localities, such as segregation/integration of migrants in Europe and the USA, polarization/hybridization in Korea and Ukraine, and secularization/the resurgence of religions in countries like Malaysia and Sweden. The current article examines the parallel presence of Ukrainian national…
Human capital indicators as influenced by SES, cognitive and non-cognitive skills
Taiwan’s high performance in the PISA surveys has not been unnoticed by researchers. However, both individual level research and cross-national research which is relevant for Taiwan’s PISA achievement is typically lacking, especially as regards later surveys. This article examined Taiwan’s PISA mathematics and reading achievement in 2018, using individual level data (Valid N = 6863) and cross-national data with aggregated data for 77 countries. A…
Left, right or something else? José Ortega y Gasset’s intellectual influence in the ideological realm
The Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset has influenced several thinkers of the twentieth century, among whom Julius Evola, Ayn Rand, and Pierre Bourdieu specifically have been examined in this article. The selection of thinkers indicates that Ortega has influenced both those on the left and those on the various strands of the right. In relation to Evola, Ortega’s critique of the emergent masses in the age of modern democracy has been emphasi…
Nils von Dardel
The Swedish modernist painter Nils von Dardel (1888–1943) was an integral part of the avant-garde of his time. Dardel's artistic and individual expressions developed from a dandy persona, who expressed dark personal conflicts, into a more integrated humanist perspective signified by love, jealousy, ambivalent sexuality, life and death, and the absurdity of existence. It was generally a turn from negation to optimistic values, as well as to univer…
The influence of SES, migration background, and non-cognitive abilities on Pisa reading and mathematics achievement
The current study analysed the relationships between socio-economic status, migration background, and non-cognitive factors and PISA reading and mathematics achievement. The results from multi-level analyses on Sweden’s PISA survey from 2018 indicate that both mathematics achievement and reading achievement are affected by SES, migration background, reading abilities, growth mindset, and the ability to master the content. Between-school level dif…
The Adaptive Proculturation Process of Being a Psychotherapist as a Kazakh Asylum Seeker in Sweden
The term acculturation is important for describing and analyzing how for example migrants gradually become accustomed to a new host society. The term proculturation is similar but emphasizes the real-life experiences of migrants, as well as the fusion between familiar and unfamiliar ideas, things, and experiences. However, so far there is a dearth of studies which have aimed to explore such a construct empirically. The current article used a limi…
Democratically included? A systematic literature review on voter turnout of people with intellectual disabilities
The extent to which people with intellectual disabilities (ID) are voting is an under-researched area. In order to fill this gap, we conducted a systematic literature review with a focus on voter turnout and democratic inclusiveness among people with ID. In total, we found N = 9 studies that met our inclusion criteria, all of which were based on samples from Western countries such as Croatia, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and US. …
Japanese and Korean collaborations in K-pop
K-pop groups and artists have been localized to appeal to the lucrative Japanese market since the early 2000s. However, the two successful girl groups, TWICE and Iz One, exhibit a new direction in K-pop, by being members of both Korean and Japanese origin within the same groups. By drawing upon the literature on localization strategies and contentious Japan–Korea relations, ethnographic fieldwork and media sources, this article examines two locat…
Going in three directions
Kazakhstan is a post-Soviet nation whose education system and curricular constitution recently have gone through a number of substantial reforms. These changes have occurred in light of political-economic initiatives to strengthen the country's economic competitiveness. The current article examines the latest version of the national curriculum with an emphasis on the subjects Kazakh, English, Russian, smaller minority languages, as well as histor…
The Gray Nine and Parallel Personality Patterns
The vast literature on personality psychology generally focuses on neutral or socially beneficial personality traits such as the Five-Factor model (e.g., agreeableness, conscientiousness) or “dark” traits such as Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, and everyday sadism. However, the current synthesis of the literature indicates that the distinction between benign, malign, and neutral personality traits and facets is partly misguided. In fac…
The East Asian cognitive skills advantage
Several researchers have pointed out that East Asian (e.g., China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan) populations have higher average academic achievement and IQ test scores relative to other national and ethnic groups, including European and North American populations. However, the factors that underlie these differences are puzzling. Some have suggested a slight but distinctive genetic superiority of East Asian populations, especially in mathematical …
Psychology (17 works) · Political science (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (9 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Demography (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)