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Sociology of Education and Culture (SEC) is a research unit based in several disciplines within the social sciences and humanities It is affiliated with several departments, primarily at Uppsala University.

SEC 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 and prosopographical methods.

Important research tools are concepts such as capital and field. Prosopographical methods and geometric data analyses are frequently used.

Main research domains:
• educational fields
• cultural fields
• the social and economic history of education

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Contact

E-mail:

SEC Directors:
Donald Broady <donald.broady@edu.uu.se>,
Mikael Börjesson <mikael.borjesson@edu.uu.se>, and
Marta Edling <marta.edling@edu.uu.se>

Coordinators, studies on educational fields:
Mikael Börjesson & Ida Lidegran <ida.lidegran@edu.uu.se>

Coordinators, studies on cultural fields:
Donald Broady, Marta Edling & Martin Gustavsson <martin.gustavsson@ekohist.su.se>

Coordinators, studies on the social and economic history of education:
Esbjörn Larsson <esbjorn.larsson@edu.uu.se> &
Johannes Westberg <johannes.westberg@edu.uu.se>

Postal address:

Marta Edling
Dept. of History, Uppsala universitet
Box 628, SE-751 26 Uppsala, Sweden