Johan Asplund (May 19, 1937 – November 13, 2018) was a

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

sociologist interested in social interaction and

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. At present, his works are not widely translated from the original

.It is said that he thought that the essence of a text gets lost if you translate it, and therefore refused to be published in other languages. Until his retirement, he held the chair of Sociology at Lund University. Two of his most widely 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 ''Gemeinschaft'' () and ''Gesellschaft'' (), generally translated as "community and society", are categories which were used by the German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies in order to categorize social relationships into two types. The 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 * ''

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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 * ''Ord för ord '' 2017

Prizes and awards

* ''Kellgrenpriset'' 1997 * ''John Landquists pris'' 2003

Notes

1937 births 2018 deaths Swedish sociologists {{Europe-sociologist-stub