"In Sweden we shake hands" - but are we really?
Andersson, Anton ; Edling, Christofer LU
and Rydgren, Jens
(2017)
In Sociologisk Forskning
54(4).
p.377-381
- Abstract
- Motivated by a recent controversy over handshaking, a survey of the personal networks of young Swedes (n=2244) is used to describe greeting practices across social class, gender, immigrant background, and geographic location. While greeting practices in the sample are fairly uniform, there are also important differences. Handshaking is predominantly used by respondents with an immigrant background, men and women distinguish between greetings depending on the gender of the person they are greeting, and greeting practices differ between northern and southern Sweden as well as between rural and urban areas.
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/562e0275-9cd0-41cb-b8e7-3d888abe0f6c
- author
- Andersson, Anton
; Edling, Christofer
LU
and Rydgren, Jens
- organization
- publishing date
- 2017-12
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- greeting practice, friendship networks, gender
- in
- Sociologisk Forskning
- volume
- 54
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 5 pages
- publisher
- Sveriges Sociologförbund
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:85041076625
- ISSN
- 0038-0342
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 562e0275-9cd0-41cb-b8e7-3d888abe0f6c
- alternative location
- http://www.diva-portal.se/smash/get/diva2:1168362/FULLTEXT01.pdf
- date added to LUP
- 2018-01-05 09:46:27
- date last changed
- 2022-03-09 08:22:40
@article{562e0275-9cd0-41cb-b8e7-3d888abe0f6c,
abstract = {{Motivated by a recent controversy over handshaking, a survey of the personal networks of young Swedes (n=2244) is used to describe greeting practices across social class, gender, immigrant background, and geographic location. While greeting practices in the sample are fairly uniform, there are also important differences. Handshaking is predominantly used by respondents with an immigrant background, men and women distinguish between greetings depending on the gender of the person they are greeting, and greeting practices differ between northern and southern Sweden as well as between rural and urban areas.}},
author = {{Andersson, Anton and Edling, Christofer and Rydgren, Jens}},
issn = {{0038-0342}},
keywords = {{greeting practice; friendship networks; gender}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{4}},
pages = {{377--381}},
publisher = {{Sveriges Sociologförbund}},
series = {{Sociologisk Forskning}},
title = {{"In Sweden we shake hands" - but are we really?}},
url = {{http://www.diva-portal.se/smash/get/diva2:1168362/FULLTEXT01.pdf}},
volume = {{54}},
year = {{2017}},
}