Jan O. Jonsson – författare

Sverige har, på bara ett par-tre decennier, blivit ett multietniskt samhälle. Bland unga idag, som bygger framtidens Sverige, har mer än var fjärde utländsk bakgrund. Författarna till denna bok har följt över 5 000 unga genom deras tonårsperiod till det tidiga vuxenlivet och låtit dem beskriva sina liv och levnadsvillkor i termer av skola, fritid, attityder, framtidsvisioner med mera. 

Frågan om integration är ofta snävt inriktad på enskilda problem, som arbetslöshet eller brottslighet. Men integration är ett mångdimensionellt fenomen och i denna bok lyfts flera centrala dimensioner fram, bland annat utbildning, jobb, boende, vänskap och sociala band, samt religiositet, attityder och välbefinnande. Forskarna analyserar systematiskt skillnader mellan barn med inrikes- och utrikesfödda föräldrar, och i den senare gruppen skillnader mellan dem som själva immigrerat och dem som är födda i Sverige. 

Unga med utländsk bakgrund är, tvärtemot vad många tror, stora framtidsoptimister och har höga ambitioner när det gäller utbildning och karriär. Integrationen när det gäller högre utbildning går också snabbt, men unga med utländsk bakgrund löper samtidigt högre risk än andra att sakna gymnasieutbildning. 

Det är längre till integration när det gäller de sociala och kulturella dimensionerna, där religiositeten är en vattendelare. Här finns en tendens att underskatta de stora skillnaderna mellan rika sekulära demokratier som Sverige och de ofta socioekonomiskt utsatta och starkt religiösa samhällen som många unga och/eller deras föräldrar har sin bakgrund i. En fråga som ställs är vilka realistiska förväntningar man bör ha när det gäller integration. 

Integration är en fundamental fråga för landets framtid, men diskussionen präglas alltför ofta av politiska kontroverser och ideologiska låsningar. Denna bok ger en bred faktabas som kan bidra till en mer balanserad diskussion.   

Jan O. Jonsson och Carina Mood är professorer i sociologi vid Institutet för social forskning (SOFI), Stockholms universitet, och knutna till Institutet för framtids­studier; Jonsson är även verksam vid Nuffield College i Oxford. Georg Treuter är forskningsassistent vid Institutet för social forskning i Stockholm.  

The empirical study of individuals'' life-course is one of the most promising areas of research within sociology today. Increased availability of large-scale longitudinal data and improved statistical methods have made it possible to address theoretically relevant questions about events such as entrance into the labour market, job mobility, divorce and death.

This book consists of studies capturing the life-course from the cradle to the grave. The research questions include long-term consequences of childhood conditions; family formation and school-careers; work and parental leave; gender discrimination in job promotion; divorce and occupational career; persistence in poverty; and the intriguing question of why the highly educated tend to survive everyone else.

The studies shed light on the relation between family and work, on gender inequality, social class differences, welfare state redistribution, and labour market processes. They do this in a particular context, namely Sweden in the post-war period that is, during the decades that formed one of the most advanced welfare states in modern history. One chapter provides a descriptive account of institutional and life-course change in Sweden during that period.

Most authors use the Swedish level-of-living surveys, a unique data set providing ample opportunity to study social processes in a longitudinal perspective. The book will, therefore, be of relevance to those with interests in the Swedish welfare state as well as those with theoretical and reseacrh interests in the reproduction of inequality

The empirical study of individuals'' life-course is one of the most promising areas of research within sociology today. Increased availability of large-scale longitudinal data and improved statistical methods have made it possible to address theoretically relevant questions about events such as entrance into the labour market, job mobility, divorce and death.

This book consists of studies capturing the life-course from the cradle to the grave. The research questions include long-term consequences of childhood conditions; family formation and school-careers; work and parental leave; gender discrimination in job promotion; divorce and occupational career; persistence in poverty; and the intriguing question of why the highly educated tend to survive everyone else.

The studies shed light on the relation between family and work, on gender inequality, social class differences, welfare state redistribution, and labour market processes. They do this in a particular context, namely Sweden in the post-war period that is, during the decades that formed one of the most advanced welfare states in modern history. One chapter provides a descriptive account of institutional and life-course change in Sweden during that period.

Most authors use the Swedish level-of-living surveys, a unique data set providing ample opportunity to study social processes in a longitudinal perspective. The book will, therefore, be of relevance to those with interests in the Swedish welfare state as well as those with theoretical and reseacrh interests in the reproduction of inequality

The empirical study of individuals' life-course is one of the most promising areas of research within sociology today. Increased availability of large-scale longitudinal data and improved statistical methods have made it possible to address theoretically relevant questions about events such as entrance into the labour market, job mobility, divorce and death.

This book consists of studies capturing the life-course from the cradle to the grave. The research questions include long-term consequences of childhood conditions; family formation and school-careers; work and parental leave; gender discrimination in job promotion; divorce and occupational career; persistence in poverty; and the intriguing question of why the highly educated tend to survive everyone else.

The studies shed light on the relation between family and work, on gender inequality, social class differences, welfare state redistribution, and labour market processes. They do this in a particular context, namely Sweden in the post-war period  that is, during the decades that formed one of the most advanced welfare states in modern history. One chapter provides a descriptive account of institutional and life-course change in Sweden during that period.

Most authors use the Swedish level-of-living surveys, a unique data set providing ample opportunity to study social processes in a longitudinal perspective. The book will, therefore, be of relevance to those with interests in the Swedish welfare state as well as those with theoretical and reseacrh interests in the reproduction of inequality