• 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 ...

• Disability pension dynamics in early adulthood: A two-decade longitudinal study of educational, work and welfare-state trajectories in Norway 

  Wittlund, Sina Marion; Mykletun, Arnstein; Lorentzen, Thomas (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 ...

• Social Failure and Rage: The Downward Social Mobility and Unsettled Life Course of a Norwegian Terrorist 

  Møen, Atle (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  This essay sketches out an analysis of some of the key aspects of the life course of Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian mass murderer and terrorist, as well as his typical delusional and paranoid traits. His acts of ...

• Gendered transition structures: life course patterns after completion of gender-segregated vocational education in Norway 

  Lorentzen, Thomas; Vogt, Kristoffer Chelsom (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  In this article, we present the results from a sequence analysis of two cohorts of young people skilled in gender-segregated vocational education in Norway. By using administrative data on monthly statuses in education, ...

• The end of ‘Welcome Culture’? How the Cologne assaults reframed Germany’s immigration discourse 

  Wigger, Iris; Yendell, Alexander; Herbert, David Eric John (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Controversy over immigration and integration intensified in German news media following Chancellor Merkel’s response to the refugee crisis of 2015. Using multidimensional scaling of word associations in reporting across ...

• Local responses to hostility to new asylum seeker centres in Norway 

  Strømsø, Mette; Bygnes, Susanne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  This article investigates disagreement over how to respond to the establishment of asylum seeker centres in local communities. Building on interviews with individuals in one rural and one urban community in Norway, we ...

• “I Turned to Things That Mean More to Me”: Unpacking the Activist Trajectories of Syrians in Oslo 

  Selim, Amany (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  The article examines how Syrians’ activist trajectories have evolved in exile contexts of small Syrian communities and limited mobilization structures. Based on in-depth interviews with Syrians in Oslo, I argue that the ...

• The Impact Of Covid-19 On Immigration: The Transformation Of Norwegian Migration Policy On Asylum Seekers 

  Skrobanek, Jan; Jobst, Solvejg (Journal article, 2021)

  Until just a year ago, hardly anyone believed that the increasingly unrestrained growth in mobility could be so abruptly interrupted by a radical immobilisation of large population groups. Neither mobility studies nor other ...

• PIONEERED: Elaborating the link between social and educational policies for tackling educational inequalities in Europe 

  Hadjar, Andreas; Alieva, Aigul; Jobst, Solvejg; Skrobanek, Jan; Grecu, Alyssa; Gewinner, Irina; de Moll, Frederick; Toom, Auli (Journal article, 2021)

  Although a number of policies tackling educational inequalities have been introduced in recent decades in Europe, educational inequalities exist to a varying extent both in different sub- and supranational contexts. In ...

• “Quiet is the New Loud”: The Biosociology Debate’s Absent Voices 

  Ariansen, Anja Maria Steinsland (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  In 2000, a controversial article about hormones and gender roles was published to stimulate debate about whether and how biological knowledge should be integrated in sociological research. Two decades later, this so-called ...

• I skyggen av likestillingen – voldsutsatte mødre i Norge 

  Bjørnholt, Margunn (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Målet med artikkelen er å undersøke voldsutsatte mødres erfaringer i lys av det likestilte foreldreskapet som rettslig realitet, politisk ambisjon og kulturelt ideal i Norge. Artikkelen er et bidrag til å knytte vold i ...

• Barnfrihet: Hvorfor ønsker noen ikke å ha barn? 

  Andersen, Melissa Geelmuyden (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 ...

• Constructions of the ideal elite employee: A content analysis of job advertisements for positions in the Norwegian upper class 

  Sølvberg, Lisa Maria Breistein (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 ...

• Hva har vi lært av flyktningkrisen? Hovedfunn fra prosjektet "Imagining and Experiencing the Refugee Crisis" (IMEX) 

  Bygnes, Susanne (Bergen Studies in Sociology;15/2021, Report, 2021)

• Nabolagserfaringer etter flyktningkrisa 

  Bygnes, Susanne (Bergen Studies in Sociology;16/2022, Others, 2022)

• “Liquid integration” of vulnerable migrant youth. Some general considerations 

  Skrobanek, Jan; Jobst, Solveig; Grabowska, Izabela; Ryan, Louise (Bergen Studies in Sociology;15/2021, Research report, 2020)

• Makt og motstand. En studie av bedriftsorganisasjon og fagorganisasjon ved Eidanger Salpeterfabriker (Hydro Porsgrunn) 1945 – 1970 

  Olsen, Ole Johnny (Bergen Studies in Sociology;14/2021, Doctoral thesis, 1984)

• Kritikk i samfunnskunnskap: rettkomne og bandlagde elevar. Ein kvalitativ studie av klasseskilje på ein vidaregåande skule 

  Eide, Thomas Noven (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Kritisk tenking er ein føresetnad for politisk danning i den norske einskapsskulen. Samtidig er sosial reproduksjon av klasseskilje eit vedvarande trekk ved det norske utdanningssystemet, noko som reiser spørsmålet om kva ...

• «Eg føler eg mister kontrollen i jobben som sjukepleiar, det kan godt hende at viktige beskjedar vert gløymde». Ein kvalitativ studie av utfordringar i sjukepleiaryrket 

  Blindheim, Thea (Master thesis, 2021-08-01)

  Denne oppgåva undersøkjer ulike utfordringar som informantane møter i sjukepleiaryrket. Eg har gjennomført åtte intervju med sjukepleiarar i alderen mellom tjuetre og femtiåtte år, der fem av dei arbeider innanfor den ...

• Arbeidskamper i det nye arbeidslivet: En analyse av arbeidstakernes maktgrunnlag i konflikten om Norse Production 

  Lekve, Isak (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, ...

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