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Max Koch. Foto: Johan Persson.

Max Koch

FD och habilitation i sociologi från Freie Universität Berlin | Professor

Max Koch. Foto: Johan Persson.

Habitus and climate change: Exploring support and resistance to sustainable welfare and social–ecological transformations in Sweden

Författare

  • Martin Fritz
  • Max Koch
  • Håkan Johansson
  • Kajsa Emilsson
  • Roger Hildingsson
  • Jamil Khan

Summary, in English

We explore peoples' dispositions and practices with regard to social–ecological transformations based on a sustainable welfare policy strategy in Sweden. We draw on Bourdieu's concept of habitus to highlight the relations between social positions, dispositions, and position-takings. Using data from an own survey, we identify habitus types and place these in the space of social positions. We apply principal component analysis to a large set of questions about social, ecological, and climate change related topics and identify eight underlying eco–social dispositions. These are used for cluster analyses that find typical constellations of eco–social dispositions within the Swedish population: variants of eco–social habitus. We find seven habitus types and describe their social characteristics, political preferences, and practices. Finally, the seven habitus are plotted onto the map of social positions, the Bourdieusian social space, highlighting their relations—proximities, tensions, and contestations—to each other. We find evidence that political struggles around social–ecological transformations reproduce existing social structures but are also connected to new “eco–social” divisions that appear between groups in similar positions. In the conclusion we discuss the implications for social–ecological transformations based on sustainable welfare.

Avdelning/ar

  • Socialhögskolan
  • Statsvetenskapliga institutionen
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • Trafik och väg
  • Miljö- och energisystem

Publiceringsår

2021-09-01

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

874-890

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

British Journal of Sociology

Volym

72

Issue

4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Wiley-Blackwell

Ämne

  • Social Work

Nyckelord

  • Social-ecological transformation
  • sustainable welfare
  • Bourdieu
  • Sweden
  • alliances
  • resistance

Aktiv

Published

Projekt

  • The New Urban Challenge? Models of Sustainable Welfare in Swedish Metropolitan Cities

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0007-1315