Department of Sociology: Recent submissions
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Cuba i endring - en befolkning i spenning
(Master thesis, 2017-06-13)Temaet for denne studien ser nærmere på cubaneres situasjon i de endringene nasjonen nå gjennomgår med USA. Hva tenker cubanere om at en 54 år lang blokade fjernes og de diplomatiske relasjonene med fienden USA gjenopprettes? ... -
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 ... -
«Å ha fagbrev er nøkkelen til arbeidslivet». En kvalitativ studie av erfarte muligheter og innganger til omsorgsarbeid blant menn med innvandrerbakgrunn
(Master thesis, 2023-06-23)Formålet med dette forskningsprosjektet har vært å bidra til mer kunnskap om menn med innvandrerbakgrunn sin inngang til omsorgsarbeid, erfaringer knyttet til muligheter og begrensinger på arbeidsmarkedet, samt ambisjoner ... -
På veg mot ei ny dansk maktutgreing; makt, hierarki og ulikskap i ein egalitær kontekst.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Maktutgreiingar har vore noko av eit sær-skandinavisk fenomen, med eigne utgreiingar i både Noreg (1972-82 og 1997-2003), Sverige (1985-1990) og Danmark (1997-2003).1 I alle desse prosjekta har koplinga mellom makt og ... -
Stability, transformation, and escalation: Norwegian classes and class boundaries 2008–2020
(Chapter, 2022)Norway is considered to be one of the most egalitarian countries in the world. But even though egalitarian perceptions have been dominant over the last 20 years, class inequalities have either remained stable or been on ... -
Entheogenic Spirituality: Characteristics of Spiritually Motivated Psychedelics Use
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Investigations of the use of psychedelic or entheogenic drugs in spiritual contexts have focused on mystical experience. Arguing that entheogenic spirituality should be understood more broadly, this study recruited 319 ... -
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 ... -
The Politics of Comprehensive School Reforms: Cleavages and Coalitions
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Religion, Conspiracy Thinking, and the Rejection of Democracy: Evidence From the UK
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)While some research addresses the relationship between religiosity and political attitudes, little is known about the relationship between religion, conspiracy beliefs, and political culture. Using the concept of ... -
Struggling for girls’ education: coalition strategies of Norwegian and German women’s rights activists in comparative-historical perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This paper explores how girls’ education developed in Norway and Prussia (and later North Rhine-Westphalia, NRW) during the first and second wave of women’s political mobilisation. It analyses how organisations and activists ... -
Setting out for new shores! An explorative analysis of agency in youth employment mobility
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Based on biographical interviews from an intra-European youth mobility study in Luxembourg and Norway the article aims to contribute to the debate on how to understand and account for complexities of agency in youth ... -
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 ... -
Samproduksjon i mulighetsrommet for brukermedvirkning i norske helse- og omsorgstjenester
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Ideen om at brukere er deltakende og aktive samarbeidspartnere når det gjelder sine egne velferdstjenester, er sentral i de politiske strategiene for norske helse- og omsorgstjenester. Brukermedvirkning og samproduksjon ... -
The Gender Cleavage: Updating Rokkanian Theory for the Twenty-First Century
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article develops Stein Rokkan’s cleavage theory to include the gender cleavage. It discusses the gender cleavage’s structural, cultural, and organizational dimensions. The extent to which the gender cleavage becomes ... -
Handwritten letters and photo albums linking geoscientists with school classes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Was something lost as society moved away from “traditional” media such as handwritten letters and photography and into the digital age? Some of the authors remember this age fondly, and we wanted to see if this fondness ... -
Why do people participate in research interviews? Participant orientations and ethical contracts in interviews with victims of interpersonal violence
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Researchers are increasingly interested in why people want to participate in qualitative interview studies, particularly what they hope to gain from participating. The present paper contributes to this research agenda by ... -
Mobility dynamics within the settlement phase of Syrian refugees in Norway and The Netherlands
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This paper sets out to investigate the forced and voluntary (im)mobility of Syrians who recently moved to Europe and are in the transition from asylum to settlement. We conceptualise ‘settlement’ for this group as a dynamic ... -
A Promise of Inclusion: On the Social Imaginary of Organised Encounters between Locals and Refugees
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The present study contributes an empirical analysis that makes explicit a central social imaginary underpinning organised cultural encounters between ‘locals’ and immigrants: that contact between individuals who would not ... -
Experiencing and resisting interwoven social boundaries: the case of highly educated recent refugees in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article explores forced migrants’ experiences with mainstream social boundaries and investigates how classed resources are used to resist and renegotiate such boundaries. The case of forced migrants from Syria who ... -
Individuals of high socioeconomic status are altruistic in sharing money but egoistic in sharing time
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The questions of whether and how socioeconomic status (SES) predicts prosocial behavior have sparked an interest from different disciplines, yet experimental evidence is inconclusive. We embedded two types of dictator games ...