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Short presentation
of research domains and projects

The research unit Sociology of Education and Culture (SEC) was founded in 1990 by Donald Broady, received its current name in 1992 and moved in 1997 from the Stockholm to Uppsala University. It is currently directed by Donald Broady, Mikael Börjesson and Marta Edling.

The SEC unit is a node in Scandinavia for research in the vein of certain French traditions founded by Pierre Bourdieu, Jean-Paul Benzécri and others. The research areas include studies on cultural fields, history of education, formation of elites, students’ trajectories, and transnational transformations of the educational and cultural fields. There are also methodologically oriented work on geometric data analysis, prosopographical methods and internet applications.

The main focus has since the start been on research in the sociology of education and the sociology of culture in close co-operation with especially French colleagues at

• Centre de sociologie européenne (CSE) at l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), IRESCO (Institut de recherche sur les sociétés contemporaines) and Collège de France, Paris
• Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux (CEMS), EHESS, Paris
• Mathématiques Appliquées (MAP5), Université René Descartes, Paris
• Institut de recherche interdisciplinaires sur les enjeux sociaux (IRIS), EHESS, Paris

Also since 1990 research on markup languages, such as SGML and later XML, and prosopographical methods, in co-operation with

• Oxford Text Archive (OTA), University of Oxford
• Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), King’s College, London
• and other partners in the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI)

Historical perspectives is of central importance and there are a growing number of historians among the collaborators.

Projects, Sociology of Culture

The main bulk of ongoing studies in the sociology of culture consists of investigations on various kinds of "fields" in Pierre Bourdieu's sense. For example:

• Bygga maktbas. Uppbyggnad och utveckling av databas över ledande positioner (Building the power base. Creation and development of a database on leading positions), funded by Ragnar Söderbergs stiftelse. Period 2010-2012. Dir. Anita Göransson.
• Ett kunskapsområdes uppkomst och etablering: Hållbar utveckling som undervisningsämne inom svensk högre utbildning. En utbildningssociologisk studie (The emergence of a knowledge field. Sustainable development as a subject within Swedish higher education. A study in the sociology of education), funded by Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council). Period Jan 2011-dec 2013. Dir. Ida Lidegran.
  <http://www.skeptron.uu.se/proj/sd/>
• Formering för offentlighet. En kollektivbiografi över Stockholmskvinnor 1880-1920 (Formation for the Public Sphere. A Collective Biography of Stockholm Women 1880-1920), funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation). Dir. Donald Broady.
  <http://www.skeptron.uu.se/broady/sec/ffo.htm
• Geografi, samhälle och fiktionens rum i engelskspråkig västindisk litteratur (Geography, society and the symbolic terrain of anglophone Caribbean fiction), funded by Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council), 2012-2014. Dir. Bo G Ekelund.  Start 1 Jan 2012.
  <http://su.avedas.com/converis/contract/4821;jsessionid=f8c84c5cac1a93f802e14fb4aa1c>
• Konsten att lyckas som konstnär. Socialt ursprung, kön, utbildning och karriär 1945-2007 (The Art of Success in Art. Social Origin, Gender, Education, and Career 1945-2007), funded by Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council). Dir. Martin Gustavsson.
  <http://www.ekohist.su.se/konsten/>
• Konst, karriär och kön. En studie av manliga och kvinnliga konstnärers meriteringsvägar och rekryteringen till professurer och högre lärartjänster 1945-2000 (Art, career and gender. The career pathways of male and female artists and the recruitment of professors at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Valand Art Academy 1945-2000), funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation). Dir. Marta Edling.
  http://anslag.rj.se/router.php?function=anslag&id=41753 
• Projekt Arkiv Derkert, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation) and Moderna Museet. Dir. Annika Öhrner.
• Sextioåtta. Studentrevoltens sociala förutsättningar och kulturella effekter (Sixty-Eight. The Swedish Student Rebellion, Its Social Conditions, and Its Effects on Cultural Fields. A Study in the Sociology of Educational Change), funded by Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council). Dir. Donald Broady.
  <http://www.skeptron.uu.se/broady/sec/68.htm>

Projects, Sociology of Education

The unit has undertaken studies on recruitment, the educational strategies of different social groups and the struggles between educational institutions. It has a massive datasets at its disposal concerning all Swedish university students and secondary school pupils in Sweden during the last thirty years. Historical perspectives are prominent in recent and ongoing studies such as:

• Demokratens födelse: demokratisk fostran i svensk folkbildning 1830-1940, funded by Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council). Dir. Samuel Edquist. Start 1 Jan 2012.
• Evaluation of the Special Committee on Recruitment to Higher Education (Rekryteringsdelegationen).  A commission from the Swedish government.
  <http://www.skeptron.uu.se/broady/sec/r-rekryteringsdelegationen-06.htm>
• Familjerna i det nya utbildningslandskapet. Vägval, tillgångar och strategier 1985–2015, funded by Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council). Dir. Mikael Palme. Start 1 Jan 2014.
• Folkskolans finansiering. De ekonomiska förutsättningarna för den allmänna folkundervisningens framväxt, 1842–1937 (The finances of popular schooling. Economic conditions for the development of the folkskola 1842-1937), finansierat av Handelsbankens forskningsstiftelser. Dir. Johannes Westerberg.
  <http://www.skeptron.uu.se/pers/johannes/folkskolan/index.htm>
• Grusade förhoppningar eller lyckade nyorienteringar? Högskolestudenters ändrade studieplaner och avhopp inom högre utbildning 1977-2007 (Graveled expectations or successful reorientations? Switchers and dropouts in higher education 1977-2007), funded by Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council). Dir. Carina Carlhed. Period Jan 2010-dec 2012.
  <http://www.skeptron.uu.se/proj/grusade/>
• Gymnasieskolan som konkurrensfält (The Competition Field of Secondary Education), funded by Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council). Dir. Donald Broady. <http://www.skeptron.uu.se/broady/sec/gyko.htm>
• Internationaliseringens nationella arenor. Svensk högre utbildning och utländska studenter, 1945-2015
  (Domestic Arenas of Internationalization. Swedish Higher Education and International Students, 1945-2015), funded by Vetenskapsrådet  (the Swedish Research Council). Dir. Mikael Börjesson.
  <http://www.skeptron.uu.se/proj/dai/>
• Kampen om studenterna. Det svenska högskolefältet och lärosätenas rekryteringsstrategier 1993-2003 (The Struggle for Students. The Swedish Field of Higher Education and the Recruitment Strategies of the Institutions), funded by Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council). Dir. Donald Broady.
  <http://www.skeptron.uu.se/broady/sec/kast.htm>
• Nordic Fields of Higher Education. Structures and Transformations of Organization and Recruitment, 1985-2015, funded by NordForsk. Dir. Mikael Börjesson.
• Samhällets globalisering. Globaliseringen och den svenska gymnasieskolan. En utbildningssociologisk studie av hur nationsöverskridande profiler utformas och värdesätts, funded by Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council). Dir. Mikael Palme. Start 1 Jan 2012.
• Skolans kungsväg. Det naturvetenskapliga programmets plats i utbildningssystemet (The Royal Road of Schooling. The Science Programme within the Swedish Educational System), funded by Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council). Dir. Donald Broady.
  <http://www.skeptron.uu.se/broady/sec/r-kungsv.htm>
• Skolmatematikens utveckling och reformer av det svenska skolsystemet under 1900-talet. En komparativ historisk studie av förändringar av innehåll, metoder och institutionella förutsättningar, funded by Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council). Dir. Johan Prytz.  Start 1 Jan 2012.
• Språken, skolan, samhället 1960-2010 (Language, School, and Society 1960-2010), funded by Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council). Dir. Bo G. Ekelund.
  <http://www.skeptron.uu.se/proj/3s/>
• Studielån, lön och förmögenhet inom högskolan. Sociala gruppers studiefinansiering, 1998-2006, funded by Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council). Dir. Martin Gustavsson.  Start 1 Jan 2012.
• Transnationella strategier inom den högre utbildningen. Sveriges förhållande till Frankrike och USA 1919-2009 (Transnational Strategies within Higher Education. Sweden's Relations to France and the US 1919-2009), funded by Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council). Dir. Mikael Börjesson.
  <http://www.skeptron.uu.se/proj/transnat.htm>
• Utrikespolitik och internationalisering av svensk högre utbildning. Svenska Institutet och det akademiska utbytet 1945-2010, funded by Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council). Dir. Andreas Åkerlund.  Start 1 Jan 2012

 

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