Henrik Lundberg
Senior Lecturer
Department of Sociology and WorkAbout Henrik Lundberg
Presentation Henrik´s major interests within the field of sociology concern the sociology of knowledge/science, sociological theory and the sociology of religion. He teaches above all in the Teacher’s Education Program.
Finished projects
Sweden and the philosophers. University philosophy in Swedish post war society. (Granted under the Swedish Research Council, 2014-2016, PI: Carl-Göran Heidegren)
Philosophy in the Nordic Welfare Society. Comparative Studies (Granted under the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, 2016-2109. PI: Carl-Göran Heidegren)
Awards Oscar II’s prize for best doctoral dissertation in the social sciences at Lund University 2007. The Katrin Fridjonsdottir Memorial Prize 2010.
Books:
(2018) Sverige och filosoferna. Svensk 1900-tals filosofi i sociologisk belysning [Sweden and the Philosophers. Swedish 20th century Philosophy in Sociological Light] Lund: Studentlitteratur. (with Carl-göran Heidegren and Klas Gustavsson).
(2007) Filosofisociologi - ett sociologiskt perspektiv på filosofiskt tänkande [The Philosophy of Sociology - A Sociological Perspective on Philosophical Thought] Lund: 2007.
Peer reviewed publications
(2022) “Karl Mannheim. Varaförbunden kunskap och tankestilar” [Karl Mannheim. Existentially connected knowledge and thought styles] in (Eklund, L och Isenberg, B ed.) Sociologins klassiker. Upptäckter och återupptäckter [The Sociological Classics. Discoveries and re-discoveries] Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2022, pp. 301-315.
(2020) Arne Næss och Ingemar Hedenius som dramatiska intellektuella. Ett förslag till en gemensam plattform för kunskapssociologi och kunskapshistoria [Arne Næss and Ingemar Hedenius as dramatic intellectuals: A case for a shared theory for the sociology of knowledge and the history of knowledge] Slagmark vol 81.
(2019) ”Filosofi som demokratins tjänarinna: Arne Næss reformering av examen philosophicum ur ett kultursociologiskt perspektiv” [Philosophy as the Handmaid of Democracy. Arne Næss’s project to reform examen philosophicum in a Cultural sociological perspective Lychnos – Årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria 2019
(2017) “Between Ideology and Utopia: Karl Mannheim’s Quest for a Political Synthesis” in David Kettler and Volker Meja (ed.) The Anthem Companion to Karl Mannheim (2017)
(2015) ”’The Holy that Has Befallen Me’. Vitalis Norström and His Intellectual Choices in a Sociology of Philosophy Perspective” Ideas in History 9: (37-64), 2015.
(2015) "Upplysning och gränsdragning: En filosofisociologisk studie av den första generationen analytiska filosofer i Sverige"[Enlightenment and boundary work: a study of the first-generation Swedish analytical philosophers from a sociology-of-philosophy perspective] Sociologisk forskning 52:3, 209-233.
(2014) ”’Det heliga som har hänt mig’ En filosofisociologisk studie av Vitalis Norströms Hvad innebär en modern ståndpunkt i filosofien?" Lychnos. Årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria 2014.
(2014) "Philosophical Thought and Its Existential Basis: The Sociologies of Philosophy of Randall Collins and Pierre Bourdieu" Transcultural Studies, 10, No. 1 (2014), 119-147
(2012) “’Science of science’, Truth and Reason: Bourdieu’s Failed Case against Cognitive Relativism” Distinktion. Scandinavian Journal of Social theory 13:2, 169-186.
(2010) “Towards a Sociology of Philosophy” (2010) Acta Sociologica Vol. 53:1 (with Carl-Göran Heidegren).
(2007) ”’Sanning på ena sidan av Pyrenéerna, villfarelse på den andra’. Om kunskapssociologi, filosofisociologi och filosofihistoria” [”’Truth on this side of the Pyrenees, error on the other’. On the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of philosophy and the history of philosophy”]. Lychnos. Årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria 2006 (with Carl-Göran Heidegren).
Reviews
(2016) “Intellectual Life in Sociological Light. Review essay. Distinktion. Scandinavian Journal of Social theory 17: 1.
(2011) Review of Craig Calhoun (ed.) Robert K. Merton Sociology of Science and Sociology as Science Acta Sociologica 54: 403.
Miscellaneous (2013) Karl Mannheim’s Sociology of Political Knowledge http://www.e-ir.info/2013/10/26/karl-mannheims-sociology-of-political-knowledge/