Marie Flinkfeldt
Professor
Sociology
Uppsala university
Sweden
Biography
Marie Flinkfeldt's research focuses on social interaction in various institutional and non-institutional settings. Examining how people talk to each other is a way to explore aspects of culture, morality and identity as they are "talked into being." Flinkfeldt defended her PhD thesis, "Legitimacy Work: Managing Sick Leave Legitimacy in Interaction", in 2016. She is currently coordinating a research project on service calls to the Swedish Social Insurance Agency.
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