ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses an exploratory analysis, which is a speculative critical overview emergent from the descriptive analysis taking the form of explanatory critique. The move to explanatory critique is done by abstracting from the reports and descriptive analysis of the fieldwork findings to explicate mechanisms that generate the cultural conditions for lived experiences. In terms of developing an explanatory critique of empirical reality, the mechanisms of inequality and equity were salient as generative for creating tendencies for consciousness and practices in Sweden. These mechanisms can be expressed as part of a perception of Sweden as being egalitarian, or at least relatively egalitarian, which mystifies the inherent class exploitation in social democratic capitalism. Swedish social democracy was analysed as practically significant in consciousness in two embedded forms. The chapter explains the theoretical framework enabled a contribution heuristically theorising through explanatory critique of Swedish empirical reality.
