Johan Asplund

Johan Asplund (born 1937) is a Swedish sociologist interested in social interaction and ethnomethodology. [He appears cited e.g. in the works of Mats Alvesson (on reflexive methodology and critical management theory).] At present, his works are not widely translated from the original Swedish. [It is said that he thinks that the essence of a text gets lost if you translate it, and therefore refuses being published in other languages.] Until his retirement, he hold the chair of Sociology at Lund University.

Two of his mostly read books are "Det sociala livets elementära former" (1987, approximately "Elementary forms of social life"), in which he introduces his theory about humans as essentially "socially responsive" ("socialt responsiva"), and "Essä om Gemeinschaft och Gesellschaft" (1991, "Essay about Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft"), in which he explains and discusses this concept, originally developed by the German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies, 1887. Johan Asplund's writings on cities are summarized in English by Bo Gronlund in New Urban Theory.

Bibliography

* "Om mättnadsprocesser" 1967
* "Sociala egenskapsrymder" 1968
* "Om undran inför samhället" 1970
* "Om attitydbegreppets teoretiska status" 1971
* "En mycket fri tolkning av några teser i George Lukács historia och klassmedvetande" 1971
* "Inledning till strukturalismen" 1973
* "Bertillon och Holmes" 1976
* "Teorier om framtiden" 1979
* "Socialpsykologiska studier" 1980
* "Tid, rum, individ och kollektiv" 1983
* "Ett ostämt piano är hemskt" 1984
* "Om hälsningsceremonier, mikromakt och asocial pratsamhet" 1987
* "Det sociala livets elementära former" 1987
* "Rivaler och syndabockar" 1989
* "Essä om Gemeinschaft och Gesellschaft" 1991
* "Storstäderna och det forteanska livet" 1992
* "Avhandlingens språkdräkt" 2002
* "Genom huvudet" 2002
* "Hur låter åskan?" 2003
* "Angående Raymond Chandler" 2004
* "Munnens socialitet och andra essäer" 2006

Prizes and awards

* "Kellgrenpriset" 1997
* "John Landquists pris" 2003

Notes