• Assessing Contradictions: Methodological Challenges when Mapping Symbolic Boundaries 

      Sølvberg, Lisa M.; Jarness, Vegard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      In this article, we address the methodological question of making sense of contradictions in sociological analysis. Focusing on the scholarly debate about generating and interpreting data on symbolic boundaries – the ways ...
    • Class, Status, Closure. The Petropolis and Cultural Life 

      Jarness, Vegard (Doctoral thesis, 2013-05-24)
      This thesis concerns the correspondence between relations of social class and relations of social status. Dating back to the early days of the social sciences, the debate about class and status has been revitalised in the ...
    • Cultural divisions and time: Mapping diachronic homologies using class-specific MCA (CSA) 

      Hjellbrekke, Johannes; Jarness, Vegard (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 ...
    • Stability, transformation, and escalation: Norwegian classes and class boundaries 2008–2020 

      Flemmen, Magne Paalgard; Hjellbrekke, Johannes; Hovden, Jan Fredrik; Jarness, Vegard (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 ...
    • Who you know: the classed structure of social capital 

      Alecu, Andreea Ioana; Helland, Håvard; Hjellbrekke, Johannes; Jarness, Vegard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      This article focuses on the social structuring of social capital, understood as resources embedded in social networks. The analysis integrates key theoretical–methodological insights from two distinct approaches concerned ...