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Thursday 9 January 2014

Let's celebrate Swedish sociology!

The December edition of the BJS has two rather good articles from Sweden on social stratification themes. So let's celebrate with Lisa Ekdahl's utterly charming Jag tror han är en ängel  (English translation below) and, of course, Ulf Lundell's Öppna Landskap.

Posted by Colin at 02:37

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