Curious about the civil society elites in Sweden? Able to read Swedish? Well, here's a book for you. I contribute w 2 chapters, 1 on revalist leaders' hist. role in SWE society & 1 on the hyperagents, the very well connected, with Roberto Scaramuzzino.

UK - out of the frying pan...

Consequently, temperance organizations in Sweden (e.g. IOGT-NTO) can boast more members and a more central societal role than Danish Blue Cross that as lone survivor has few members but has found a niche mainly as a service provider.

Rural evangelicals would only accept this 'un-Lutheran' movement when urban evangelicals adapted the most 'loud' and 'American' elements such as the temperance pledge to the more 'quiet' rural Lutheranism: "Exaggerations and ornaments should be shunned like the plague"

Progressives framed temperance as a social issue affecting peoples' sense of social justice and part of 'local self-government and immediate popular government' to be implemented through local municipal initiatives and national referendums.

I then analyze movement leaders' texts to show how they frame the cause differently to achieve resonance with the cultural doxa of their field position. This was a process that involved multiple translations as the cause travelled in physical and social space.

I first apply social network analysis of career data on temperance leaders to show the structure of field positions. The SNA reveals that the cause was adopted across a field fragmented by rural/urban and progressive/conservative divides, i.e. across consolidated cultural milieus.

New article out in @culsoc.bsky.social. This one is close to my heart: A #Bourdieu'sian 'field-translation' take on the diffusion of #socialmovements to new country contexts. I ask: how is a movement adopted when it travels to a culturally fragmented field?
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