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Lars Harrysson. Photo: Patrik Hekkala

Lars Harrysson

Senior lecturer

Lars Harrysson. Photo: Patrik Hekkala

Nuets förnöjsamhet: en grundad teori om livsval och överlevnadsstrategier

Contentment in the moment. A grounded theory about life choices and survival strategies

Author

  • Ulrika Sandén
  • Hans Thulesius
  • Lars Harrysson

Summary, in English

"Contentment in the moment" is a classic grounded theory exploring safety and contentment within a small community in northern Norway. The purpose of the study was to explore the village's everyday life from a participant's perspective and to develop an understanding of their living conditions. We found different survival strategies, which have their roots in the village's history of poverty, isolation and harsh climate. Today these Strategies have changed from a matter of life and death to a modern psychosocial foundation of contentment. The study is based on four and a half years of observations, in-depth interviews and informal but focused conversations with people living in Polarfjorden. The data was analysed using the constant comparative method of classic grounded theory. In this article we further relate our work to more general sociological theory, more specifically to Charles Tilly's work on reason and routines.

Department/s

  • Innovation Engineering
  • Family Medicine and Community Medicine
  • School of Social Work

Publishing year

2015

Language

Swedish

Pages

235-256

Publication/Series

Sociologisk Forskning

Volume

52

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Sveriges Sociologförbund

Topic

  • Sociology

Keywords

  • contentment
  • happiness
  • risk
  • reason
  • grounded theory

Status

Published

Research group

  • Family Medicine and Community Medicine

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2002-066X