This book provides original evidence arguing for dignity as an indicator of public health, by offering a scientific framework for measuring dignity and its social determinants. Hitlin and Andersson show that dignity can be efficiently measured by using simple survey items that ask individuals whether there is "dignity" in their life or in how they are treated by others. National survey data show that unhappiness, sadness, anger, and lower general health are far more common for those report...

A comprehensive and accessible guide to learning and successfully applying QCASocial phenomena can rarely be attributed to single causes—instead, they typically stem from a myriad of interwoven factors that are often difficult to untangle. Drawing on set theory and the language of necessary and sufficient conditions, qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is ideally suited to capturing this causal complexity. A case-based research method, QCA regards cases as combinations of condit...

Att Frans G. Bengtsson skrev Röde orm vet de flesta, en bok som fortfarande läses av många och som har präglat bilden av vikingatiden i vår litterära fantasi. Men vem var Frans G. Bengtsson egentligen, och hur ser det litterära arvet efter honom ut?I fyra essäer får vi veta mer om Frans G. Bengtssons liv och författarskap ur olika perspektiv. Svante Nordin intresserar sig för den dubbla bilden av Bengtsson i sin inledande text å ena sidan stämplad som reaktionär och ogillad av krit...