Mikael Klintman – författare

A smart, incisive toolkit for understanding how the framing of information influences the way we see the world.In today’s chaotic media landscape, working out who and what to believe is a daunting task. Lies and misinformation are only part of the problem – often the way a story is presented has just as much effect on us as what the story is.In Framing, sociologist Mikael Klintman offers a cutting-edge toolkit for exposing and analysing the rhetoric that saturates our everyday lives. Combining insights from the social sciences, economics and evolutionary biology, he lays out a four-part approach to understanding how information is ‘framed’ for us, built around the key elements of texture, temperature, position and size.Demonstrating this approach through an array of real-world examples, from climate change denial to the subtle messaging of caviar ads, Klintman reveals how canny communicators mislead us without relying on overt deception. At the same time, he probes the deeper evolutionary and cultural roots of our susceptibility to frames.

This book develops a groundbreaking, novel approach to examining ethical consumer behaviour from the perspective of evolutionary theory, illustrating the deeply rooted potentials and limits within society for reducing environmental harm.

Within the disciplines of social, economic, and evolutionary science, a proud ignorance can often be found of the other areas’ approaches. This text provides a novel intellectual basis for breaking this trend. Certainly, Human Sciences and Human Interests aspires to open a broad debate about what scholars in the different human sciences assume, imply or explicitly claim with regard to human interests.Mikael Klintman draws the reader to the core of human sciences - how they conceive human interests, as well as how interests embedded within each discipline relate to its claims and recommendations. Moreover, by comparing theories as well as concrete examples of research on health and environment through the lenses of social, economic and evolutionary sciences, Klintman outlines an integrative framework for how human interests could be better analysed across all human sciences.This fast-paced and modern contribution to the field is a necessary tool for developing any human scientist’s ability to address multidimensional problems within a rapidly changing society. Avoiding dogmatic reasoning, this interdisciplinary text offers new insights and will be especially relevant to scholars and advanced students within the aforementioned disciplines, as well as those within the fields of social work, social policy, political science and other neighbouring disciplines.

Within the disciplines of social, economic, and evolutionary science, a proud ignorance can often be found of the other areas’ approaches. This text provides a novel intellectual basis for breaking this trend. Certainly, Human Sciences and Human Interests aspires to open a broad debate about what scholars in the different human sciences assume, imply or explicitly claim with regard to human interests.Mikael Klintman draws the reader to the core of human sciences - how they conceive human interests, as well as how interests embedded within each discipline relate to its claims and recommendations. Moreover, by comparing theories as well as concrete examples of research on health and environment through the lenses of social, economic and evolutionary sciences, Klintman outlines an integrative framework for how human interests could be better analysed across all human sciences.This fast-paced and modern contribution to the field is a necessary tool for developing any human scientist’s ability to address multidimensional problems within a rapidly changing society. Avoiding dogmatic reasoning, this interdisciplinary text offers new insights and will be especially relevant to scholars and advanced students within the aforementioned disciplines, as well as those within the fields of social work, social policy, political science and other neighbouring disciplines.

Why do people and groups ignore, deny and resist knowledge about society's many problems? In a world of 'alternative facts', 'fake news’ that some believe could be remedied by ‘factfulness’, the question has never been more pressing. After years of ideologically polarised debates on this topic, the book seeks to further advance our understanding of the phenomenon of knowledge resistance by integrating insights from the social, economic and evolutionary sciences. It identifies simplistic views in public and scholarly debates about what facts, knowledge and human motivations are and what 'rational' use of information actually means. The examples used include controversies about nature-nurture, climate change, gender roles, vaccination, genetically modified food and artificial intelligence. Drawing on cutting-edge scholarship as well as personal experiences of culture clashes, the book is aimed at the general, educated public as well as students and scholars interested in the interface of human motivation and the urgent social problems of today.

Why do people and groups ignore, deny and resist knowledge about society’s many problems? In a world of ‘alternative facts’, ‘fake news’ that some believe could be remedied by ‘factfulness’, the question has never been more pressing. After years of ideologically polarised debates on the topic, this book seeks to further advance our understanding of the phenomenon of knowledge resistance by integrating insights from the social, economic and evolutionary sciences. It identifies simplistic views in public and scholarly debates about what facts, knowledge and human motivations are and what ‘rational’ use of information actually means. The examples used include controversies about nature-nurture, climate change, gender roles, vaccination, genetically modified food and artificial intelligence. Drawing on cutting-edge scholarship and personal experiences of culture clashes, the book is aimed at the general, educated public as well as students and scholars interested in the interface of human motivation and the urgent social problems of today.

Vi och dom, mitt gäng och deras, vän eller fiende – hur ska vi kunna leva tillsammans i vår globaliserade och polariserade värld?

Den här boken handlar om fördomar, om hur vi generaliserar och kategoriserar. Men också om tolerans och vad som begränsar den – och hur den skulle kunna utvidgas.

Våra hjärnor hanterar information om andra på olika sätt beroende på om vi placerar dem i kategorin ingrupp eller utgrupp. Dessutom grupperar, värderar och beter vi människor oss annorlunda gentemot “dom” än “oss”.

Det kan vara av godo: sammanhållningen i vår familj, här ställer vi upp för varandra, blod är tjockare än vatten! Och det kan vara av ondo: krossa kackerlackorna! Men i sig är vårt beteende, det att vi ständigt delar upp världen i en hel mängd olika vi och dom, i sig varken bra eller dåligt. Det bara är.

Med hjälp av den senaste forskningen inom neurovetenskap, psykologi och sociologi skriver författarna om dessa kategoriseringar; varifrån de kommer, hur de fungerar och hur vi kan dra fördel av en fördjupad kunskap om vår natur. Bara genom att förstå hur vi fungerar kan vi finna fungerande strategier för att undvika konflikter som grundar sig i fördomar och hat mellan olika grupper – alltifrån skvaller och diskriminering på arbetsplatsen till krig och folkmord.

Sagt om boken:

"Innehållet visar på både bredd och djup, vilket tillsammans med god språkbehandling gör att alla som privat eller yrkesmässigt har med grupper att göra kan ha stor behållning av texten." Björn Nilsson, BTJ-häftet nr 22 2018

Det finns en förväntan om att forskare ska samverka i samförstånd med det omgivande samhället för att lösa komplexa problem. Kunskapssamverkan är dock en process som bara delvis präglas av konsensus. När aktörer från olika sfärer möts för att utveckla ny kunskap är det också viktigt att värna sin särart. I detta häfte undersöks och diskuteras hur kunskapssamverkan rotad i vetenskaplig verksamhet kan och bör organiseras genom både samråd och förhandling.