Utbildnings- och kultursociologi (SEC)
Sociology of Education and Culture


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Research domains within SEC:

     » Studies on educational fields

     » Studies on cultural fields

     » Studies on the social and
        economic history of education

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» PhD program Sociology of Educ.

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» Grad. School History of Education

» On Educational Sciences

» The Digital Literature Program

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Most seminars are arranged either at Humanistiskt Centrum in Campus Engelska parken (next to the cemetery, behind the library Carolina Rediviva) or at Campus Blåsenhus (next to the Castle and the Botanic Garden).  Most collaborators have offices at either of these campus sites. For maps visit http://katalog.uu.se/map/
and search for "Engelska parken" or "Blåsenhus".
    See also Google Maps where however the fairly new building Blåsenhus does not yet appear. From the Uppsala Castle it is on the other side of Dag Hammskölds väg. From Botaniska Trädgården it is on the other side of Norbyvägen.

 

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    www.skeptron.uu.se/broady/sec/pre.htm  

 

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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

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

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 (). , funded by Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council), 2012-2014. Dir. Bo G Ekelund.  Start 1 Jan 2012.
  • 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, 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:

Digital literature

The research programme Digital literature started at Nada, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm and moved in the late 1990's to Uppsala University. It is devoted to the development of tools and methods for the encoding, management and exchange of digital resources in research and education, primarly in the social sciences and the humanities.
<http://www.skeptron.uu.se/broady/dl/>

A recently accomplished project is Märkning av utbildningsinnehåll (Educational Content Markup), funded by VINNOVA (the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems). Dir. Donald Broady.
<http://www.skeptron.uu.se/broady/dl/mu.htm>

National Graduate School in History of Education

Nationella forskarskolan i utbildningshistoria (The National Graduate School in History of Education) started in January 2005 and is funded by Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council). Uppsala University acts as the host. A research network for the history of Education is connected to the Graduate School.
<http://www.skeptron.uu.se/utbhist/>
<http://www.skeptron.uu.se/broady/histedu/>

Collegium for Educational Sciences at Uppsala University

Kollegiet för utbildningsvetenskaplig forskning vid Uppsala universitet (The Uppsala University Collegium for Research on Education) was established by Utbildningsvetenskapliga fakulteten (the Faculty of Educational Sciences) in March 2004. It is coordinated by the SEC Unit and provided with a scientific board comprising Uppsala scholars representing a broad spectrum of disciplines, departments and faculties. Also in other respects SEC has taken part in the development of Educational Sciences at Uppsala University towards a broad endeavour that takes advantage of numerous research environments at the university.
<http://www.skeptron.uu.se/uvuu/>
<http://www.skeptron.uu.se/broady/uv/>

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