"In Sweden we shake hands" - but are we really

Authors

  • Anton Andersson Stockholm University
  • Christofer Edling Lunds University
  • Jens Rydgren Stockholm University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37062/sf.54.18240

Keywords:

greeting practice, friendship networks, gender

Abstract

Motivated by a recent controversy over handshaking, a survey of the personal networks of young Swedes (n=2244) is used to describe greeting practices across social class, gender, immigrant background, and geographic location. While greeting practices in the sample are fairly uniform, there are also important differences. Handshaking is predominantly used by respondents with an immigrant background, men and women distinguish between greetings depending on the gender of the person they are greeting, and greeting practices differ between northern and southern Sweden as well as between rural and urban areas.

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Published

2017-12-20

How to Cite

Andersson, Anton, Christofer Edling, and Jens Rydgren. 2017. “‘In Sweden We Shake Hands’ - But Are We Really”. Sociologisk Forskning 54 (4):377-81. https://doi.org/10.37062/sf.54.18240.