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In this research anthology, inequality in Swedish working life in a Sweden marked by increased inequality, is studied. Racialised inequality, racism and discrimination in individual workplaces are focused, but inequalities based on class and gender are also studied. The concept of inequality regime is used by several of the authors to analyse work organizations. The workplaces studied are found in different sectors, not least in healthcare. The book also includes contributions that provide comparative international perspectives and studies of the development of inequality over time. The anthology contains 12 chapters based on empirical studies of working life, one chapter that analyses working life inequality from a political theory perspective, an introduction and a closing chapter that frames and draws conclusions from the different studies, as well as an afterword. The authors are 22 researchers from different social science disciplines.

El estudio de los aspectos positivos de la vida humana como el amor, la felicidad o la sabiduría tiene un papel relevante en la investigación psicológica, en especial para explotar el potencial humano innato. El objetivo de esta investigación se direcciona a conocer la relación entre los niveles de sabiduría y felicidad en una muestra de docentes de enseñanza secundaria de Ecuador. Mediante un paradigma post-positivista se recurrió a una metodología de tipo descriptiva, comparativa por género, correlacional y de corte transversal por medio de las pruebas escala tridimensional de sabiduría y cuestionario de felicidad de Oxford. En el estudio participaron 210 individuos (70,5 % femenino y 29,5 % masculino), con edades entre 20 a 60 años, docentes de enseñanza secundaria. El análisis mostró presencia de sabiduría moderada y de felicidad alta-moderada. No se presentan diferencias por género en las variables de interés (p> .05). Se encontró una relación baja positiva entre las variables de análisis con r= ,371; p< .01, por tanto, la sabiduría se relaciona con la felicidad, al ser un componente complementario en el desarrollo de la misma. Los hallazgos aportan información relevante para el desarrollo de la psicología positiva.

Homosexuality, bisexuality, transgender and queer have long been a sensitive topic in Christian churches. As society has changed, some denominations have become increasingly affirming, while others see the changes as incompatible with Christian values.
A Conditional Community is based on in-depth interviews with 29 lgbtq Christians and is the first Swedish scientific study on the subject. Using a phenomenological approach, the author investigate how sexuality, intimacy and faith are experienced by the interviewees and how their Christian identity interacts with their identity as lgbtq people.
A Conditional Community is aimed at teachers, researchers and students in fields such as religious studies, sexology, gender studies and psychology. The book is also of interest to professionals who require knowledge on the subject, such as pastors and therapists. Furthermore, it can serve as a basis for discussions and reflection on faith, sexuality and lgbtq in the Free Church contexts.

We live in a moment of hardening of nationalist discourses against immigration and racial minorities. In this conservative climate, Canada prevails as a benchmark for multicultural integration. However, there are voices within the nation that question this image of harmony. The case of the Black Vancouver community has not yet been studied in depth in this regard. This article of reflection aims to contribute to the debate on the relations of the nation-state and subaltern groups, and how they manifest themselves in the multicultural city. Vancouver has been chosen as a paradigmatic space because of its transcultural character built on indigenous lands. The object of study was the literature of Wayde Compton author and black activist of the city. Stemming from theories of the socio-spatial dialectic of Edward Soja and Leonie Sandercock, this article analyses the connection between the city, its representation in literature and its effects on social relationships. The work of Compton and its parallelism with the geo-history of Vancouver and subaltern ethnic communities were analysed. The result reaches a reading of Vancouver as a (post)colonial city and space of subaltern multiculturalism, regarding the official Canadian model, and colonialism that has made invisible to the Black Vancouver and the indigenous communities.