Editing Johan Asplund

{{Short description|Swedish sociologist (1937–2018)}}
{{for|the ice hockey player|Johan Asplund (ice hockey)}}
'''Johan Asplund''' (May 19, 1937 – November 13, 2018)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.svd.se/dodsannonser#/Case/547406/Dodsannons|title = Dödsannonser i SVD|newspaper = Svenska Dagbladet}}</ref> was a [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[sociologist]] interested in social interaction and [[ethnomethodology]].<ref>He appears cited e.g. in the works of [[Mats Alvesson]] (on reflexive methodology and critical management theory).</ref> At present, his works are not widely translated from the original [[Swedish (language)|Swedish]].<ref>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.</ref> Until his retirement, he held{{clarify|date=July 2012}} 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]]"), 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 [[György Lukács|George Lukács]] historia och [[Social class|klass]]medvetande'' 1971
* ''Inledning till strukturalismen'' 1973
* ''[[Bertillon]] och Holmes'' 1976
* ''Teorier om framtiden'' 1979
* ''[[Social psychology|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

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