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= Jacob Strandell = Jacob Strandell (Jacob Anders Thure Strandell, born March 12, 1986) is a Swedish sociologist. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Uppsala University.

The main focus of Strandell’s research is on the interaction between culture and cognition, as well as interpersonal relationships. He has argued that cultural sociology and cognitive science need to be interdisciplinary, and has worked to identify points of correspondence, and argued that the development of a shared vocabulary of culture and cognition researchers is critical for the progress of social science and to understanding real world behavior.

He also studies interpersonal relationships, examining how cultural factors affect cognitive aspects such as self-esteem and identity, and consequently how these interactions translate to practices in and of love, sex, and relationships. He primarily employs discourse analysis and a qualitative approach throughout his work.

Education and Career
He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Sociology at Lund University in 2011, publishing a thesis on consensual non-monogamy. He then earned a Magister’s degree in Sociology at Halmstad University in 2012, this time focusing his research on individualization and romantic love. A year later he would complete his Master’s Degree of Social Science in Sociology at Lund University, where he published his dissertation examining increasing marriage rates in Sweden despite high individualization.

Strandell obtained his Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Copenhagen in 2017. His dissertation demonstrated a strong compatibility between cognitive science and cultural sociology, and advocated for an interdisciplinary approach towards understanding culture, cognition, and the interaction between the two. Part of this research is set to be published as a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Sociology.

As a Ph.D. fellow and later research assistant at the University of Copenhagen, Strandell did several guest lectures on topics of culture and cognition interaction, and organized two post-graduate theory courses on the topic of cognitive sociology in 2014 and 2016.

Strandell has appeared on an interview at NeutralMedia in 2017, speaking on topics of gender, polygamous and monogamous relationship practices, relationship anarchy, and Jungian Psychology, and as a panelist for the Relationship Institute. In an article on United Academics magazine, he reiterates his position for a "cross-disciplinary, cumulative and collaborative" approach in the social sciences, which is a recurring theme in his work.

Peer-reviewed publications

 * Strandell, J. (2017). Increasing marriage rates despite high individualization: Understanding the role of internal reference in Swedish marriage discourse. Cultural Sociology.
 * Strandell, J. (2017). Self-esteem in action: from direct causality to motive and mediator of self-performative action. Culture & Psychology. 23(1): 74–87.
 * Strandell, J. (2016). Culture, Cognition and Behavior in the Pursuit of Self-Esteem. Poetics, 54: 14-24.

Dissertation

 * Strandell, J. (2017). Culture-Cognition Interaction: Bridging Cultural Sociology and Cognitive Science.

Forthcoming

 * Strandell, J. (2018) Bridging the vocabularies of dual-process models of culture and cognition. Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Sociology.