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Research on international trade and transport : a generational shift?
2018
Scandinavian economic historians made a strong presence at the World Economic History Congress (WEHC), Boston, this summer. Around one hundred Nordic scholars featured on the list of participants, ...
Studying Sensitive and Contradictory Family Situations - Considerations from Three Family Studies
2011
The purpose of this article is to discuss questions about studying sensitive and contradictory family situations, particularly in the process of gathering qualitative data via interviews. In the article, the authors ask what types of considerations are possible when studying such issues. Three ongoing family studies conducted in the social sciences by the authors are used as the basis for discussing the sensitive and contradictory nature of such family issues. The authors’ studies are about the foster children’s family relations, the sons of problem-drinking fathers and the families participating in a preventive family support system. Family matters are often perceived as being something pr…