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Tom R. Burns

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Titel:Professor em.
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Epost:Tom.Burns@soc.uu.se
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Fields of Interest in Sociology

  • Power, Social rules & Institutions, Social Structuring
  • Socio-economics: Capitalism, markets, money, class conflict, regulation, development, and socio-economic policy
  • Sustainable Development
  • Technology and Environmental Research
  • Immigration, Structural Discrimination, & Racism
  • Values, Morality, Social Justice
  • Construction of Social Theory and Methodology: theories of human consciousness & agency, social rule systems,   cognitive-normative framing and decision-making, social interaction, socio-cultural evolution, & social structures

Selected Publications on the following topics (pdf files follow; also see CV)

  • Agenda 21st Century: Shaping a Sustainable Society
  • EU Reports: Institutional Discrimination in 8 EU Countries
  • Societal Power Series (Reports to the Kamali Power Investigation for the Swedish Government)
  • Swedish Institutional Discrimination (Kamali Reports)
  • Systems Analysis: The Middle East
  • Systems Analysis: Parliamentary Democracy
  • Systems Analysis: The Dynamics of Capitalism
  • Systems Analysis: Markets in a Social Context
  • Systems Analysis: The Sociology of Money
  • Systems Analysis: The Sociology of Consciousness
  • Systems Theorizing: The Theory of Actor-System Dynamics (ASD); multi-level methods of modeling system stability & change
  • Systems Theorizing: System Theories (Encyclopedia of Sociology)
  • Systems Theorizing: Institutions, Discourses, and Agency
  • Systems Theorizing: Cultural & Institutional Evolution
  • The Social Theory of Interaction and Generalized Games (GGT): cooperation, conflict, power & influence, dynamic games & transformation, normative and other types of equilibria & disequilibria

Current Research

  • Agenda 21st Century: Shaping a Sustainable Society 
  • The European Dilemma: Institutional Patterns and Politics of 'Racial' Discrimination in 8 EU countries
  • The European Union: Democracy, Lobbying and Policy Making--A Multi-Level, Multi-sector Research Program
  • Organized Civil Society and European Governance: Accountability, Representativeness, and Operating Mechanisms: A Multi-level Project on Movements and NGOs in the areas of Environment, Anti-racism, and Regionalism in 10 European Countries.
  • The Future of Parliamentary Democracy: Theoretical, Empirical, and Normative Studies
  • Comparative Analysis of Capitalistic Systems; Sustainable and Equitable Development
  • Institutional Dynamics and Socio-cultural Evolution
  • The Social Foundations of Games, Rationality, and Morality in Institutional Contexts
  • Natural Resources and the Environment
  • Ethics, Morality, Social Justice 
  • Sweden and Jews: History, Tensions, and Changing Relationships
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A recent CV
A Recent Festschrift:RULE SYSTEM THEORY-Applications and Explorations. Helena Flam & Marcus Carson (Editors), Peter Lang Publishers, Berlin/New York, 2008
Agenda 21st Century: Crisis of the Planet and The Shaping of a Sustainable Society
Agenda 21st Century: Sustainability and New Forms of Self-Regulation. Published in Human Systems Management, 2006
Agenda 21st Century: Sustainability for the 21st Century--An International Program
Agenda 21st Century: The Presentations at the UN relating to the Brundtland Report 20 years later
EU Report: Institutional Discrimination in School Systems in 8 countries
EU Report: Institutional Discrimination on Labor Markets & Work Places in 8 EU Countries
EU Report: The European Dilemma: Institutional Discrimination in 8 countries: A Comparative Perspective
Power Series: Capitalism and Its Meta-powers (Vol III of the 7 studies on power for the Kamali Utredningen om makt, integration och strukturell diskriminering)
Power Series: Social Power Processes: Relationial And Interactional Aspects (Vol. VII of the 7 studies on power for the Kamali Utredningen om makt, integration och strukturell diskriminering)
Power Series: The Meta-powers, Risks, and Limitations of Technologies and Socio-Technical Systems (Vol. VI of the 7 studies on power for the Kamali Utredningen om makt, integration och strukturell diskriminering)
Power Series: A Swedish Dilemma: The Immigrant “Problem”, Social Powers, And Modern Democracy (Vol. VIII of the 7 studies on power for the Kamali Utredningen om makt, integration och strukturell diskriminering)
Power Series: Meta-power and Other Structuring Powers (Vol II of the 7 studies on power for the Kamali Utredningen om makt, integration och strukturell diskriminering)
Power Series: The Meta-powers of Bureaucracy (Vol IV of the 7 studies on power for the Kamali Utredningen om makt, integration och strukturell diskriminering)
Power Series: The Powers and Ironies of Democracy (Vol V of the 7 studies on power for the Kamali Utredningen om makt, integration och strukturell diskriminering)
Power Studies: BIG MEN AND THE ACCUMULATION OF POWER in Melanesia, Oceania, 43:2 (1972:Dec.)
Power Studies: Meta-power & Relational Control. Published in Social Science Information, 1975
Power Studies: Meta-power and Relational Control. Published in the J. of Conflict Resolution, 1975
Swedish Institutional Discrimination: Politics of Immigration, Discrimination, and Racism (Report for the Kamli Power Investigation)
Swedish Institutional Discrimination: SSKH Notat, Helsingfors universitet (Rapport till Kamali Utredningen om makt, integration och strukturell diskriminering)
Swedish Institutional Discrimination: The Introduction to an Anthology (in Swedish). Published by Unversity of Uppsala Press, 2007
Systems Analysis-Middle East: IRAQ: ONE, TWO, OR THREE STATES, OR SIMPLY WAR(S)? Journal of Political Science, Istanbul University, 2005
Systems Analysis-Middle East: State(s) of Iraq. Appeared in The Asian Times, March 10, 2005
Systems Analysis-Middle East: The Middle East Oil Conflict 1973-75. Published in Security Dialogue, 1975
Systems Analysis-Middle East: The Oil Crisis and the Emerging World Order: The Structuring of Institutions in the International System. Alternatives: A Journal of World Policy, 1977
Systems Analysis: Capitalism and Dynamics System Theories. Published in the Handboook of 21st Century Sociology, 2006
Systems Analysis: Capitalist Market Institutions. Published in C. Mongardini (ed), Market and Individual, 1994
Systems Analysis: Money Institutions. Published in The European Journal of Economic and Social Systems, 2003
Systems Analysis: The Evolution of Contemporary Parliamentary Democracy. In the European Journal of Social Theory 1999
Systems Analysis: The Future of Democracy--Green Paper prepared in 2000 for the Association of EU Parliamentary Presidents
Systems Analysis: The History of Parliamentary Democracy. In the Handbook of Historical Sociology 2003
Systems Analysis: The Sociology of Consciousness. Published in the J. of Consciousness Studies, 1998
Systems Analysis: The Sociology of Consciousness. Published in the J. of Consciousness Studies, 1998
Systems Theorizing: ASD Systems Theory. Published in World Futures, 2006
Systems Theorizing: Encyclopedia of Sociology Article 2006
Systems Theorizing: Institutional Dynamics, Paradigms, and Social Agents. In Hollingsworth et al (eds.) Advancing Socio-Economics: An Institutionalist Perspective, 2002
Systems Theorizing: Institutions, Policy Paradigms and Discourses. In Paul Chilton and Ruth Wodak (eds), A New Agenda in Critical Discourse Analysis, 2005
Systems Theorizing: Multi-level Concepts and Methodology. Published In Quality and Quantity, 1977
Systems Theorizing:Cultural Evolution: Social Rule Systems, Selection and Human Agency. In International Sociology, 1992
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