Browsing Department of Sociology by Author "Nilsen, Ann"
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Changing Temporal Opportunity Structures? Two Cohorts of Young Women’s Thoughts about Future Work, Family and Education
Nilsen, Ann (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article seeks to explore if and how period specific conditions affect young women’s thoughts about their future lives. A contextualist analysis is done of a small sample of biographical interviews with Norwegian women ... -
Independence and relationality in notions of adulthood across generations, gender and social class
Nilsen, Ann (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The adult person is in sociological literature often referred to as a genderless and classless being. As a life course phase it is implicitly viewed as a static destination after a dynamic transition period of youth. The ... -
Levels of intersecting temporalities in young men’s orientation to the future. A cross-national case comparison
Nilsen, Ann (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Inspired by G.H. Mead’s philosophy of time and his focus on the present as the site of interpretation of past experiences and thoughts about the future, this paper makes cross-national comparisons between four cases of ...