Sociological research at the institute is engaged in a number of different topics. There is a strong research tradition, in urban sustainability, ecological modernization and the politics of place and space. In the latter area, a recent collaborative project including sociologists and a political scientist is providing novel insights into urban governance and the remaking of public space. Younger scholars and PhD students in sociology are doing research about housing and new family forms in distinction to the conventional nuclear family, urban nature and the role of animals in urban settings, and migration, travel and the organizational management of mobility. However diverse this research agenda may seem to be, a number of common themes run through much of the research, particularly questions of class and gender but also of age and ethnicity.

Members of the group

Mats Franzén, professor
Eva Sandstedt, professor
Jim Kemeny, professor emeritus
Per Gustafson, associate professor
Tora Holmberg, assistant professor
Helen Ekstam, Ph.D. candidate
Lennart Räterlinck, Ph.D. candidate