Browsing Department of Sociology by Document Types "Peer reviewed"
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Age, occupational class and sickness absence during pregnancy: a retrospective analysis study of the Norwegian population registry
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-05-02)Objective Western women increasingly delay having children to advance their career, and pregnancy is considered to be riskier among older women. In Norway, this development surprisingly coincides with increased sickness ... -
Arbeidskamper i det nye arbeidslivet: En analyse av arbeidstakernes maktgrunnlag i konflikten om Norse Production
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Truer internasjonalisering av arbeidslivet den norske modellen? I denne artikkelen undersøker jeg dette spørsmålet gjennom en analyse av streiken i Norse Production høsten 2017. Caset baserer seg på dokumentanalyse, ... -
Are low-skilled young people increasingly useless, and are men the losers among them?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Claims that low-skilled young people, and especially the men among them, are being excluded from the labour market have been influential over recent decades, contributing to an increasing concern over the issue of early ... -
Associations online: Barriers for Using Web-based Communication in Voluntary Organizations
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)Despite the high adoption level of Facebook and other social network sites (SNSs) in Norway, local level voluntary associations have not embraced SNSs to the same degree. Regular websites are the main web representation, ... -
Barnfrihet: Hvorfor ønsker noen ikke å ha barn?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Denne artikkelen handler om hva som gjør at noen mennesker ønsker å være barnfri. Betegnelsen «barnfri» er ment å beskrive personer som lever uten barn fordi de ønsker eller har valgt det selv. Datamaterialet er åtte ... -
Capturing agency in different educational settings: A comparative study on youth perceptions of mobility-framing structures
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The geographical mobility of young Europeans takes place within institutional realms that frame young people´s educational and vocational situations. These institutional framings provide unequal preconditions for going ... -
Changes in health-related rehabilitation trajectories following a major Norwegian welfare reform
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background In this study we investigated the health-related rehabilitation trajectories of young Norwegian adults between 2004–2019. The study period is interesting because it overlaps with an extensive welfare system ... -
Changing Temporal Opportunity Structures? Two Cohorts of Young Women’s Thoughts about Future Work, Family and Education
(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 ... -
Childhood experiences of companion animal abuse and its co-occurrence with domestic abuse: Evidence from a national youth survey in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)It is increasingly acknowledged that companion animal abuse often occurs in the same contexts as other types of abuse, particularly domestic abuse. However, the co-occurrence and strengths of these associations in the ... -
CIRCULATION AT THE TOP: ELITES, SOCIAL MOBILITY AND INTERGENERATIONAL CAPITAL CONVERSION
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Despite calls for bridging the gap between the sociology of social class and the sociology of elites, there are few examples where this actually has been done. This article seeks to do so by applying approaches and ... -
Cleavage structures and school politics: a Rokkanian comparative-historical analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This paper explores comparatively and historically why Nordic andContinental welfare and education regimes differ in the degree ofcomprehensiveness of their primary and lower secondary schoolsystems. It analyses how school ... -
Co-occurring occupations among siblings in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)According to class theory, social class boundaries are akin to social mobility patterns. This study explores these patterns by looking at co-occurring occupations among siblings. The author uses data from Norway's ... -
A collective sigh of relief : Local reactions to the establishment of new asylum centers in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-03-25)This article investigates a mood change in local communities where new asylum seeker facilities were established in the wake of the “refugee crisis” in 2015. Whereas opinions in flux are often studied using quantitative ... -
Consonant and Dissonant Experiences—Young Migrants’ Understandings of Integration: A Cross-Country Comparison between Germany, Luxembourg, and Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Our article addresses two aspects of young migrants’ understandings of integration: their own ideas of what integration is, and their perception of the destination society’s concepts and expectations regarding their ... -
Constructions of the ideal elite employee: A content analysis of job advertisements for positions in the Norwegian upper class
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Previous research has shown that the upper class has a high degree of self-recruitment. Simultaneously, research on job recruitment suggests that there has been an increase in the importance of ‘soft skills’. This article ... -
Cultural divisions and time: Mapping diachronic homologies using class-specific MCA (CSA)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In this article, we present an alternative approach to study dimensional stability and change in cultural divisions across time. Drawing on recent developments in Geometric Data Analysis (GDA), we combine the use of two ... -
Cultural productivism and public support for the universal basic income from a cross-national perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)It has been hypothesized that the capacity of universal basic income (UBI) to attract wider public support is impaired by the strength of productivist cultural norms and values, common to the majority of develope societies. ... -
Disability pension dynamics in early adulthood: A two-decade longitudinal study of educational, work and welfare-state trajectories in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background Since the 1990's, structural transformations in the Norwegian economy have decreased employment opportunities for low-skilled young people lacking formal education credentials. In parallel with these economic ... -
Does Postponement of First Pregnancy Increase Gender Differences in Sickness Absence? A Register Based Analysis of Norwegian Employees in 1993–2007
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-03-25)Background: From 1970–2012, the average age at first delivery increased from 23.2–28.5 in Norway. Postponement of first pregnancy increases risks of medical complications both during and after pregnancy. Sickness absence ... -
Early retirement from the labour market among immigrants and natives: A register-based study of Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This study investigates early exit from the labour market among natives and immigrants in Norway, and to what extent this be explained by push, pull, or other factors. To answer these questions, we use high-quality Norwegian ...