Our study aims to analyze the social exclusion of older Swedish and Finnish speakers living as linguistic minorities in bilingual municipalities Finland, where municipal authorities are required offer services both languages. Data was taken from 2016 Language Barometer Survey , measuring quality language (n=33). For purposes our study, we focused on 2,030 people between ages 60 84. We included ...

A community research model developed in the UK was adopted in a multi-country interdisciplinary study of health and welfare in superdiverse neighbourhoods. The model involves training a diverse group of community members in qualitative research methods, and engaging them in research in their own community. In Uppsala, Sweden, five community researchers were recruited to facilitate access to div...

The COVID-19 crisis truly challenged social interaction, the use of space and objects, as well our sense purpose meaning in life. In this context, religious communities faced sudden interruption their usual activities, lack access to communal spaces a global epidemic that summoned ancient “medieval plague” anxieties work with. This article focuses on vast repertoire adaptations reactions severa...

T majority of families in Ust’-Avam in northern Siberia are dependent on subsistence hunting, fishing, and trapping and have been part of a vertically integrated industrial economy in a remote area of the former Soviet Union. Thus, the results from behavioral games conducted there in 2003—the dictator game (DG), the ultimatum game (UG), and the third-party punishment game (TPG)—lend themselves ...

The establishment of reliable and authoritative figures on ethnic, religious, and language groups plays a prominent role in efforts to fight discrimination and foster individual human rights as well as minority group rights. However, there is no consensus among statisticians, demographers and social scientists at large concerning standards to be used in the identification of minority groups and...