Publications
a. books (translations and second editions before 1990 not listed):
(Forty) so far
2021 ’Into the Hottest Century and into Epochal Change’, Revista de Estudios Globales vol.1, no.1
2021 Klass i Sverige (red. med D. Suhonen & J. Weitz) Lund, Arkiv
2020 Inequality and the Labyrinths of Inequality, London, Verso
2019 El Estado social de mañana (con P. van Parijs y N. Duvoux), Santiago de Chile, LOM
2018 Kapitalet, överheten och alla vi andra (Capital, the establishment, and all the rest of us), Lund, Arkiv
2017 Cities of Power, London, Verso (Spanish translation, under Chinese and Russian translation)
2016. /ed.) Cities and Power, London , Routldge
2014 Societá multiculturale, Rome, Alfabeto Treccani/Kindle ebook
2013 The Killing Fields of Inequality, Cambridge, Polity (Danish, Finnish, Korean, Polish, Spanish (2), Swedish, Turkish translations so far)
2011 African Capital Cities . Power and powerlessness (co-edited with S. Bekker), Cape Town and Dakar, HSRC Press and CODESRIA
2011 The World. A Beginner’s Guide. Cambridge, Polity Press (Finnish, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish translations so far)
2010 Handbook of European Societies. Social Transformations in the 21st Century Berlin New York, Springer (co-editor and co-author)
2009 Les sociétés d´Europe du XXe au XXI siècle, Paris, Armand Colin
2009 Post-Soviet Capitals: Minsk, Vilnius, Baku. Minsk, Belarus State Univerity Press (in Russian; co-editor and co-author)
2008 From Marxism to Post-Marxism? London Verso (Brazilian and Turkish translations)
2006 Inequalities of the World (editor and co-author), London Verso
2006 Asia and Europe in Globalization: Continents, Regions, Nations (co-editor and co-author), Leiden, Brill
2005 Política social: el mundo contemporáneo y las experiencias de Cuba y de Suecia (co-author, with A. Ferriol and R. Castiñeiras) La Habana y Montevideo, INE
2004 Between Sex and Power. Family in the World 1900-2000., London, Routledge (Brazilian translation)
2004 African Families in a Global Context (editor and co-author), Uppsala, Nordic
Africa Institute
2000 Die Gesellschaften Europas 1945-2000, Frankfurt and New York, Campus (updated and revised edition of European Modernity)
1999 Modernities and Globalizations. European and Latin American Experiences and Perspectives, Stockholm, FRN, l999 (editor and co-author)
1999 Europa hacia el siglo veintiuno, Mexico, Siglo XXI (updated and shortened edition of European Modernity
1998 From A Doll´s House to the Welfare State: Reflections on Nordic Sociology (co-editor and co-author), Madrid, ISA
l995 European Modernity and Beyond. The Trajectory of European Societies l945-2000. London, Sage. (French, German, Italian, Polish, Belarussian, Swedish, and Spanish editions)
1992 Peripecias de la modernidad, Buenos Aires, Imago Mundi
l99l Vad styr Sverige? (What Governs Sweden?, with M. Blomsterberg et al.), Gothenburg, Dept. of Sociology Research Report
l99l Vision möter verklighet (Vision Meets Reality, with Sven E. Olsson et al.), Stockholm, Liber
l99l Can the Welfare State Compete? (with Alfred Pfaller and Ian Gough) London, Macmillan (Spanish translation)
l990 Teorías Contemporáneas del Estado (Contemporary State Theories), Maracaibo, Vadell Hermanos and University of Zulia
l989 Borgarklass och byråkrati i Sverige (Bourgeoisie and Bureaucracy in Sweden – Two historical studies) Lund, Arkiv
1989 Ghetto´s in Holland? (with P. Broertje), Amsterdam, Van Gennep
l986 Why Some Peoples Are More Unemployed Than Others, London, Verso (German, Spanish, and Swedish translations)
l981 Klasstrukturen i Sverige l930-l980 (The Class Structure of Sweden l930-l980), Lund, Zenit
l980 The Ideology of Power and the Power of Ideology, London, Verso
l978 What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules?, London, Verso (Spanish, Italian, Swedish, and Korean editions)
l976 Science, Class and Society, London, Verso (Italian and Spanish editions)
l973 Vad är bra värderingar värda? (What is the value of good values?), Staffanstorp, Cavefors
l972 Critica e rivoluzione (Critique and revolution – the Frankfurt School), Bari, Laterza
l971 Klasser och ekonomiska system (Classes and economic systems), Staffanstorp, Cavefors
1966 En ny vänster (editor and co-author), Stockholm, Rabén & Sjögren
b. articles (a selection after 1982 plus 2 major texts of the l970s)
2021
‘Two Epochal Turns of Inequality, Their Significance and Their Dynamics’, The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 8, 9 https://rdcu.be/cjiHo
´La “pandemia de la desigualdad”´, Sistema 260, enero
‘States, Nations, and Civilizations’ Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social
Sciences, ‘States, Nations, and Civilizations’ , 14(2), 225-242, http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40647-020-00307-1
2020
‘Viral Encounter: Experiences, Lessons, and Options’, Crisis and Critique, 7,3 online, November
‘Dreams and Nightmares of the World’s Middle Classes’, New Left Review 124, July-August
‘Opus Magnum: How the Pandemic is Changing the World’, Thesis Eleven, online July 6
‘Sweden’s Turn to Inequality, 1982-2019’, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, March
2019
‘An Agenda for Class Analysis’, Catalyst vol. 3, no. 3
2018
´Twilight of Swedish Social Democracy´, New Left Review no. 113, 5-26
‘ Social trends and new geographies’ , lead author of chapter 1, in particular ch. 1.1., ´On the Peak of Possibilities or Facisng an Abyss?´of the report by the International Panel on Social Progress, Rethinking Society of the 21st Century vol. 1. Cambridge University Press
´Stratification Requiescat in pace: Paradigm Shift from “Stratification” and Mobility to Inequality´, pp. 42-52 in R. Sosa Elizaga (ed.), Facing An Unequal World, London, Sage
2017
´The “People´s Home” is falling down, time to update your vierw of Sweden´, Sociologisk forskning 54:4, 275-78
´Can we still believe in social progress?`, The Conversation, November
‘Dynamics of Inequality’, New Left Review no. 103, 67-84
‘After Emancipation, What? Stay-ing True in Hard Times’, pp. 3-7 in Markus Schultz (ed.), The Futures We Want, Berlin/Madrid/New York/Vienna, WebForum International Sociological Association, 2016
2016
‘Klasse im 21. Jahrhundert’, pp. 285-315 in H. Bude and Ph. Staab (eds.), Kapitalismus und Ungleichheit, Frankfurt/New York, Campus
‘An Age of Progress?’, New Left Review 99 (May-June), 27-37
‘Globality and Modernity: Making Concepts Raise Research Questions’, pp.79-95 in B. Mersmann and H. G. Kippenberg (eds.), The Humanities between Global Integration and Cultural Diversity, De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston
2015
’Life-curves of Inequality’,
Korean Journal of Sociology | December 2015, Vol. 49, No. 6 | 47-61
‘Desigualdades en México y América Latina: una contextualización global’, Estudios Latinoamericanos (México) no. 36, 83-107
‘Cities and Power’, guest editor’s introduction to special issue on Cities and power, International Journal of Urban Sciences 19:1, 1-6
‘Moments of Equality: Today’s Latin Ameruica in a Global Historical Context’, pp. 13-28 in B. Fritz and L. Lavinas (eds.), A Moment of Equality for Latin America?, Farnham Surrey, Ashgate
The EU crisis and its geopolitical temptation. – Eutopia 14.1.2015. See more at: http://www.eutopiamagazine.eu/en/göran-therborn/speakers-corner/debate-crisis-and-social-cohesion-eu-crisis-and-its-geopolitical-temptation#sthash.bJam1MQh.dpuf
‘Desigualdades en América Latina: desde la Ilustración hasta el siglo XXI’,pp. 95-123 in M. Castillo Gallardo and C. Maldonado Graus (eds.), Desigualdades. Santiago de Chile, RIL
‘ The new millennium in Europe: future prospects and problems’, an interview. SocietáMutamentoPolitica 6.11, 219-28
‘Why Study Sociology Exploring The Endless Social Horizon’, conclusding chapter 20 in K. Vaiday (ed.), The Curious Academic Publishing, Kindle e-book
2014
“Bland intellektuella och statstjänstemän – mot ändlösa horisonter”, ss. 145-58 i G. Andersson, T. Brante, C. Edling (red.), Det personliga är sociologiskt. Malmö, Liber
“Family Systems of the World: Are They Converging?”,
In J. Treas, J. Scott, and M. Richards (eds), The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families, Oxford, Blackwell
‘ Modern Monumentality: The National European Experience, ’ In J. Osborne (ed.), Approaching Monumentality in Archaeology, New York, SUNY Press
‘ Inequality of Life and Death’, Social Europe Journal, http://www.social-europe.eu/2014/08/inequality-of-life-and-death/
‘ Europe: Trading Power. American Hunting Dog, or the World’s Scandinavia?’, updated ch. 14 in M. Teló (ed.), European Union and the New Regionalism, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2014, 3rd. Ed.
‘ From Civilizations to Modernity: Divisions and Connections of the World , and Their Legacy – A Historical Social Geology’ , pp. 267-90 in S.A. Arjomand (ed.), Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age, New York, SUNY Press
‘New Masses?’, New Left Review 85, (Jan-Febr.), 7-16
Review of Béla Tomka, ‘ A Social History of Twentieth-Century Europe’ , Archiv für Sozialgeschichte vol. 54
www.fes.de/cgi-bin/afs.cgi?id=81517
2013
“Global Cities”, World Power, and the G20 Capital Cities, pp. 51-82
K. Fujita (ed.), Cities and Crisis . New Critical Urban Theory, London, Sage, (for the International Sociological Association)
Sociologins risker och möjligheter, Sociologisk Forskning 50:2, 157-65
“Evolución global y perspectivas de los diferentes tipos de desigualdad en el mundo” (Different Inequalities: Their Global Trajectories and Their Prospects), pp. 269-99 in J.F. Tezanos (ed.), Los nuevos problemas sociales, Madrid, Sistema
‘The Biggest Injustice in Modern Society is Inequality of Life Expectancy’, Social Europe, 3.6. 21013, www.social-europe.eu/author/goeran-therborn
Review of Anton Hemerijck ’Changing Welfare States’ Journal of Social Policy, available on CJO2013. doi:10.1017/S0047279413000469.
2012
Class in the 21st Century, New Left Review 78, 5-29
The killing fields of inequality, International Journal of Health Services 42 (4) 579-89
El patrón mundial de sexo-género y de relaciones familiares, pp. 185-216 in R. Esteinou (coord.), La nueva generación social de familias, México D.F., Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, La Casa Chata
Las nuevas fronteras de la izquierda, in R. Blackburn et al. Las nuevas fronteras de la izquierda, Quito, Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales
MODERNIDAD, MODERNIZACIÓN E INTEGRACIÓN CONTINENTAL,
Puente@Europa (Buenos Aires), X:. 1, 8-14
Citizenship and Welfare: Politics and Social Policies (with S. Hort),in K. Nash et al. (eds.), The New Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology, Oxford, Blackwell
Afterword: Social Change, Scholarly Change, and Scholarly Continuity, pp. 283-6 in B. Larsson, M. Letell, H. Thörn (eds.), Transformations of the Swedish Welfare State, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan
Por qué en algunos países hay más paro que en otros? Parte II, 25 años más tarde, pp 227-52 in A. Guerra and J.F. Tezanos (eds.), Alternativas económicas y sociales frente a la crisis, Madrid, Editorial Sistema
2011
Global Inequality: The Return of Class, Global Dialogue 2:1
The Tide and Turn of the Marxian Dialectic of European Capitalism, Journal of Modern History 9:1, 9-12
Europas Brüche mit sich selbst. Die europäischeWirtschaft und die Geschichte, die Moderne und die Zukunft Europas in der Welt, pp. 113-37 in F. Cerutti and E. Rudolph (eds.), Brauchen die Europäer eine Identität?, Zürich, Orell Füssli
End of A Paradigm. The Current Crisis and the Idea of Stateless Cities. Environment and Planning 43:272-85
INEQUALITIES AND LATIN AMERICA: FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE 21ST CENTURY Working Paper for the DesiguALdades research progtramme. Online publication.
2010
Socialism, in G.T. Kurian et al. (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Political Science, Washiungton DC, CQ Press
Different Roads to Modernity and Their Consequences: A Sketch, in M. Boatca et (eds.), , Decolonizing European Sociology, Farnham, Ashgate
The Global Future of Welfare States (with I. Gough), in F. Castles et al. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State, Oxford, Oxford University Press
European Roads to Modernity and Their National Capitals, in S. Eliaeson and N. Georgieva (eds.), New Europe. Growth to Limits? Oxford, The Bardwell Press
Roads to Modernity and Their National Nodes, in D.G. Schulze et al. (eds.), Rechtsstaat und Verrechtlichung – Eine deutsch-spanische Strategie der EntPolitisierung und Demokratie-Vermeidung?, Muenster, Westfaelisches Dampfboot
Cities (with P. Le Galés), in S. Immerfall and G. Therborn (eds.), Handbook of European Societies. Social Transformations in the 21st Century Berlin New York, Springer
2009
Family: Historical and Cultural Perspectives, in R. Shweder (ed.), The Chicago Companion to the Child, Chicago University Press, pp. 333-38
Ojämlikheter på vägen (Inequalities on the road), i E. Fasth, S. Hort, S. Lundberg (eds.), Mellan hantverk och profession. En vänbok till Gunnar Olofssn, Växjö, Vöxjö Universiy Press
Capital cities and their contested role in the life of nations, City – analysis of urban trends 12:1
The killing fields of inequality, Soundings (London) April
NATO´s Demographer, New Left Review 56
2008
Modern Tendencies in Sociology, The Journal of Philosophy and Social Sciences (Minsk, in Belorussian) no. 2
Identity and Capital Cities: European Nations and the European Union, in F. Cerutti and S. Lucarelli (eds.) The Search for a European Identity:: Values, Policies and Legitimacy of the European Union, London, Routledge
2007
Caucasian Triptych, New Left Review 46, 69-88
La dirección social de Europa, avance o retroceso? Agenda para un modelo social europeo, in A. Guerra and J.F. Tezanos (eds.), El rumbo de Europa. Madrid: Sistema
The World’s Trader, the World’s :Lawyer: Europe and Global Processes, in O. Strietska-Ilina (ed.), A clash of transitions: Towards a Learning Society, New York, Peter Lang, 61-80
´Europe: Trading Power, American Hunting Dog, or the World´s Scandinavia?´, in M. Teló (ed.), European Union and New Regionalism, 2nd. ed., London: Ashgate
After Dialectics. Radical Social Theory in a Post-Communist World, New Left Review 43, 63-114
Depois da Dialectica: teoria social radical em um mundo pós-comunista, Margem Esquerda 10 (São Paolo)
Is there a future for the family?, Public Policy Research 14:1, 41-46
2006
Eastern Drama.Eastern European Capital Cities in the 20th Century, guest editor´s lead article to a special issue on Eastern European capitals, International Review of Sociology no. 2 2006
Capital Politics: Why and How Place Matters, in. R. Goodwin and C. Tilly (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis, Oxford, OUP 2006
After Dialectics: Postmodernism, post-marxism, and other posts and positions, in G. Delanty (ed.), Companion to European Social Theory, London, Routledge, 2006
Post-Western Europe and the plural Asias, in G. Delanty (ed.), Europe and Asia: Towards A New Cosmopolitanism, London/New York, Routledge, 24-44
The Pole and the Triangle: US Power and the Triangle of America, Asia, and Europe, in V Hadiz (ed) Empire (London/New York , Routledge, 2006
O desafio mundial as ciencias sociais – abordagens para analise global (The World´s Challenge to the Social Sciences Approaches to Global Analysis), in C. Barreira, R. M. Leao Rego, and T. Dwyer (eds.), USociologia e conhecimiento alem das fronteiras, Porto Alegre, Tomo, 77-95
Family’s in Today’s World- and Tomorrow’s, International Journal of Health Services, vol 36 (3):593-603.
Social Quality in Sweden (with Sonia Therborn), Journal of Social Quality no.1-2 2006
2005
´Nach dem Patriarchat´, in J. Berger (ed.), Zerreisst das soziale Band? Frankfurt/New York, Campus. 2005
´Familias en el mundo. Historia y futuro en el umbral del siglo XXI´, in I. Arriagada and V, Aranda (eds.), Cambios de las familias en el marco de las transformaciones globales: necesidad de políticas públicas eficaces Santiago de Chile, CEPAL, 2005
´Magt og seksualitet. Familien i det 20. århundredets verden´, Dansk Sociologi, 16:1 (2005)
´Social Quality in Sweden´ (with Sonia Therborbn), a report to the European Netwiork on Indicators of Social Quality (Amsterdam, Foundation of Social Quality)
2004
Culture as a World System, in Proto-Sociology vol. 20
´The Ruling Class Thirty Years Later, in R. Levine (ed.), Enriching the Sociological Imagination, Leiden: Brill
Solidaridad Amenazada – Oportunidades de Imaginación Política
Issues and Contexts of Pension Politics, A. Guerra y J.F. Tezanos (eds.) Política eoconómica europea, Madrid: Sistema
African Families in A Global Context, Research Review (Accra) 15 Supplement’
´Space and Learning´, preface to M. Lawn and A. Novoa (eds.), Fabricating Europe, Dordrecht/Boston/London, Kluwer, (French ed. ´Espace et savoir´, preface to M. Lawn and A. Novoa (eds.), L´Europe Réinventé, Paris, l´Harmatttan, 2005)
2003
Entangled Modernities, in European Journal of Social Theory vol. 6 (3)
Dimensions and Processes of Global Inequalities, in , G. Skapska and A.M. Bukowska (eds.) The Moral Fabric in Contemporary Societies, Leyden: Brill
Cuestiones relativas a la desigualdad mundial y a la pobreza en Europa, in A. Guerra and J.F. Tezanos (eds.), Alternativas para el siglo XXI, Madrid, Sistema
2002
The World´s Trader, the World´s Lawyer: Europe and Global Processes, European Journal of Social Theory no. 5-2002
Class Perspectives: Shrink or Widen? Acta Sociologica no. 3-2002
Back to Norms: On the Scope and Dynamics of Normative Action, Current Sociology no- 6-2002
Asia and Europe in the world: locations in the global dynamics, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, No 2- 2002
Entre el sexo y el poder: pautas familiares emergentes en el mundo, Sistema no. 166
´Prólogo´, a A dónde va el mundo? , México, Fundación Cultural Tercer Mundo, 2002
Monumental Europe:The National years. On the Iconography of European Capital Cities, Housing, Theory and Society 19:1, 26-47
2001
Globalization and Inequality, Soziale Welt no. 4-2001
Europe´s Breaks with Itself. The History, Modernity, and the World Future of Europe in F. Cerutti and E. Rudolph (eds.), A Soul for Europe vol. 2, Leuven and Virginia, Peeters, Stirling
European Modernity and European Normativity: The EU in History and in Social Space,
in S. Andersen (ed.), Institutional Approaches to the European Union, Oslo,
Arena Report
Europe – Superpower or a Scandinavia of the World?, in M. Teló (ed.), European Union
and New Regionalism, Aldershot, Ashgate
Ambiguous Ideals and Problematic Outcomes: Democracy, Civil Society, Human Rights, and Social Justice, in Democracy Reality and Responsibility, Vatican City,
Pontificae Academiae Scientarum Socialium Acta
The European Welfare State and Britain´s Social Options, in K. Rahkonen and T. Lausti
(eds.), ”Blairism” – A Beacon for Europe? , Helsinki, Renvall Institute
El Espacio Social de la Izquierda Mundial l960-2010, in La Izquierda ante los Nuevos
Tiempos, Mexico, Senado de la República
Into the 21st Century. The New Parameters of Global Politics, New Left Review 10
(New Series)
On the Politics and Policy of Social Quality, in W. Beck et al. (eds.), Social Quality: A Vision for Europe, The Hague/Boston/London, Kluwer Law International, 2001
2000
Capitalism. Encyclopedia of Democracy, London, Blackwell, 2000
“Modernization” Discourses. Their Limitations and their Alternatives. In W. Schelke et. al (eds.) Paradigms of Social Cxhange: Modernization, Development, Transformation, Evolution, Frankfurt, Campus, New Yorek, St. Martin´s Press, 2000
Globalizations: Dimensions, Historical Waves, Regional Effects, Normative Governance, International Sociology, vol. 15:2, 2000
El Pensamiento Crítico del Siglo XX, Encuentro XXI (May 2000)
At the Birth of Second Century Sociology. Times of Reflexivity, Spaces of Identity, and Nodes of Knowledge. British Journal of Sociology, 51:1, 2000
Time, Space, and Their Knowledge. The Times and Place of the World and Other Systems. (Contribution to Festschrift to I. Wallerstein,; G. Arrighi and F. Goldfrank eds., Journal of World System Research VI:2, 2000)
1999
Sociologiens første århundrede – og det næste, Dansk Sociologi i dag 4:10 (också utgiven på engelska av Sociologiska institutionen i Umeå och på svenska av Sociologiska institutionen i Göteborg
Dimensions of Globalization and the Dynamics of (In)Equalities, in D. Kalb et al. (eds.), The Ends of Globalization: Bringing Society Back In. Boulder co.: Riwmnan and Littlefield, 1999; Brazilian ed. in P. Gentili (ed.) Globalizacão excludente, Rio de Janeiro, Vozes
On politics and policy of Social Quality, The European Journal of Social Quality vol 1:1-2, l999
Globalization, and the Rural World, plenary address to the Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology, Chania l997, in B. Kasimis and A. Papadopoulos (eds.), Local Responses to Global Intergration, Aldershot, Ashgate, l999
The Unemployment Iceberg, What Is Beneath, Behind, and Ahead, International Journal of Health Services 29:3 (l999); Spanish version, El iceberg del desempleo: lo que hay debajo, detrás y por delante, Sistema (Madrid) no. 151, julio l999
”Europe” As Issues of Sociology, Inaugural address to the Second European Sociological Conference, Budapest l995, in T. Boje et al. (eds.), European Societies. London, Routledge, l999
As teorias do Eastado e seus deafios no fim do seculo, in E, Sader and P. Gentili (eds.),Pós-neoliberalismo II, Rio de Janeiro, Vozes
1998
Società multiculturale. Torino, Enciplopedia italiana delle scienze sociale, l998
1989 and After: Meanings, Explanations, Lessons, in P. Sztompka (ed.), Building Open Society and Perspectives of Sociology in East-Central Europe, Madrid, ISA, l998
Modernities and Globalizations, in B. Isenberg (ed.), Sociology and Social Transformation, Lund, Dept. of Sociology, l998
1997
Europas künftige Stellung – das Skandinavien der Welt?,
S. Hradil and S. Immerfall (eds.), Die westeuropäischen Gesellschaften im Vergleich, Opladen, Leske + Budrich, l997
English version.: Europe in the Twentyfirst Century: The World´s Scandinavia?, in P. Gowan and P. Anderson (eds.), The Question of Europe, London, Verso, l997; Spanish brochure publication, Europa en el siglo XXI: la Escandinavia del mundo?, México, UNAM Colección El Mundo Actual, l998; Italian edition, Europa: la Scandinavia del mondo? Europa Europe no.5 l999
Multiculturality and East Central Europe in European Modernity, in Cultural Crossroads in Europe, Stockholm, FRN, l997
El Estado del Bienestar de Europa Occidental y su mundo hostil, in A. Guerra et al., Una nueva política social y económica para Europa, Madrid, Sistema, l997
Beyond Civil Society: Democratic Experiences and Their Relevance to the “Middle East”, in E. Özdalga and S. Persson (eds.), Civil Society, Democracy, and the Muslim World, Istanbul, Swedish Research Institute, l997
1996
Lo spettro del multicutlralismo, Il Mulino 1-1996
Sociology, Economics, and Normative Action: Notes Toward A Theory of Middle
Height, in D. Sciulli (ed.), Macro Socio-Economics, Amonk NY and
London, M.E. Sharpe, l996
Child Politics: Dimensions and Perspectives, in Childhood no. 1 l996
Dialectics of Modernity. On Critical Theory and the Legacy of 20th Century Marxism, in B. Turner (ed.), A Companion to Social Theory, Oxford, Blackwell, l996
Framtida historier. l925-l995 i framtidens ljus (Future histories. l925-l995 in the light of future history), lecture in honour of Erik Allardt´s 70th birthday, Sosiologia 33:1 (l996)
1995
War and Civil Conflict, in S.M. Lipset et al. (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Democracy, Washington D.C., Congressional Quarterly Books, 1995.
Patterns and Meaning of Unemployment, Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, l995:4
Routes to/through Modernity, M. Featherstone et al. (eds,), Global Modernities, London, Sage, l995
1994
Sociology as a Discipline of Diasgreements and as a Paradigm of Competing Explanations: Culture, Structure, and the Variability of Actors and Situations, in P. Sztompka (ed.), Agency and Structure: Re-orienting Social Theory. Philadelphia: Gordon & Breach, l994.
Another way of taking religion seriously, European Journal of Political Research, 26:103-10
1993
Modernitá sociale in Europa (l950-l992), in P. Anderson et al. (eds.), Storia d´Europa vol. 1, Torino, Einaudi, l993
The Politics of Childhood, in F. Castles (ed.), Families of Nations, Aldershot, Dartmouth, l993
Beyond the Lonely Nation-State, in F. Castles (ed.), op. cit.
El futuro del trabajo y las consequencias de la ausencia de trabajo, El Socialismo del Futuro no. 7 (l993)
Normens vägar och frågetecken, Sociologisk forskning no. 2 l993
A Unique Chapter in the History of Democracy: The Swedish Social Democrats, in. K. Misgeld et al (eds.), Creating Social Democracy, University Park Pa., Penn State University Press, l993
1992
The Right to Vote and the Four World Routes to/through Modernity, in R. Torstendahl (ed.), State Theory and State History, London Sage, l992
Lessons from ”Corporatist” Theorizations, in J. Pekkarinen, M. Pohjola & B. Rowthorn (eds.), Social Corporatism, Oxford, Clarendon Press, l992
The Life and Times of Socialism, New Left Review no. l94 (l992)
Class and the coming of post-industrial society, in S. Kozyr-Kowalski & A. Przestalski (eds.), On Social Differentiation, Poznan, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, l992.
Sociologin och de två kulturerna, Sociologisk forskning nr 2 l992
Guide Petersson och makten i det moderna, i L. Niklasson (red.), Lärdomar av Maktutrdningen, Sthlm, Carlssons, l992
1991
Staten och människors välfärd, i B. Furuhagen (red.), Utsikt mot Europa, Sthlm, Utbildningsradion, l99l
Cultural Belonging, Structural Location, and Human Action, Acta Sociologica vol. 34 (l99l)
Swedish Social Democracy and the Transition from Industrial to Postindustrial Politics, in F. Fox Piven (ed.), Labor Parties in Postindustrial Societies, Cambridge, Polity Press, l991
1990
Vías a través la modernidad (Lecture to the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, 26.11.l990), Relaciones (Xochimilco, Mexico, UAM) no. 4 l990
Ska sociologer förklarea någonting? Hur gör de då I såfall? Sociologisk forskning nr 3 l990
1989
Social Steering and Household Strategies: the macropolitics and the microsociology of welfare states, Journal of Public Policy vol 9 (l989)
Revolution and Reform: Reflections on Their Linkages Through the Great French Revolution, in J. Bohlin et al. (eds.), Samhällsvetenskap, ekonomi, historia, Göteborg, Daidalos, l989
Pillarization and Popular Movements – Two Roads to Welfare Capitalism: the Netherlands and Sweden, in F. Castles (ed.), Comparative History of Public Policy, Cambridge, Polity, l989
Los retos del Estado de Bienestar, in R. Muñoz de Bustillo (ed.), Crisis y futuro del estado de bienestar, Madrid, Alianza, l989
Estados del Bienestar e igualdad, in A. Broggi et al. (eds.), Crisis económica y estado del bienestar, Madrid, Instituto de estudios fiscales, l989
States, Populations and Productivity: Towards A Political Theory of Welfare States, in P. Lassman (ed.), Politics and Social Theory, London, Routledge, l989
1987
Does Corporatism Really Matter? The economic crisis and issues of political theory, Journal of Public Policy, vol.7 (l987)
Nationale Politik der internationalen Arbeitslosigkeit, in H. Abromeit & B. Blanke (eds.), Arbeitsmarkt, Arbeitsbeziehungen und Politik in den 80er Jahren, Opladen, Westdeutscher Verlag (Leviathan Sonderheft 8), l987
Migration in Western Europe: The Old World Turning New?, Science 237 (l987)
1986
Neo-Marxist, pluralist, corporatist, statist theories and the welfare state, in A. Kazancigil (ed.), The State in Global Perspective, Aldershot, Gower/Unesco, l986
Class Analysis: History and Defence, in U. Himmelstrand (ed.), Sociology from crisis to science, London, Sage, l986
The Working Class and the Welfare State: A Historical Overview and A Little Swedish Monograph, in P. Kettunen (ed.), Det nordiska i den nordiska arbetarrörelsen, Helsinki, Finnish Society for Labour History and Cultural Traditions, l986
1985
The Coming of Swedish Social Democracy, in E. Collotti (ed.), Il movimiento operaio tra le due guerre, Milano, Feltrinelli (Annali l983/84), l985
1984
Classes and States: Welfare State Developments l88l-l981, Studies in Political Economy no. 13 (Ottawa), l984.
The Prospects of Labour and the Transformation of Advanced Capitalism, New Left Review no. 145, l984
1983
Electoral Campaigns as Indicators of Ideological Power, in S. Hänninen & L. Paldán (eds.), Rethinking Ideology, West Berlin, Argument, l983.
Why Some Classes Are More Successful than Others, New Left Review no. 130 (March-April)
1979
The Travail of Latin American Democracy, New Left Review no. 113-114 (JanuarApril)
1978
Sweden Before and After Social Democracy. A First Overview, Acta Sociologica 21: Supplerment, 37-58 (with A. Kjellberg, S. Marklundf, & U. Öhlund)
1977
The Rule of Capital and the Rise of Democracy, New Left Review no. 103 (May-June)
1968
From Petrograd to Saigon, New Left Review no 48
In toto my works have appeared in twentyfour languages (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, English, French, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Slovene, Serbo-Croat, Hungarian, Polish, Belarussian, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Chinese, and Korean).
My own linguistic competence includes speaking Swedish, English, French, German, Dutch , and Spanish, an ability to read Portuguese and Italian press and social science publications, and to read inscriptions and similar brief texts in Latin and in Russian.