Department of Sociology
Recent Submissions
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Norwegian prison officers´ perspectives on professionalism and professional development opportunities in their occupation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-12)Despite increasing attention towards education as a quality measure for correctional services, little research attention has been paid to the qualification and training of prison officers. This article investigates how ... -
Prosessuell interseksjonalitet: gutter, posisjoner og prosesser
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Ved oppmerksomhet om gutters problemer sier ofte forskere at disse må forstås interseksjonelt, men hva menes egentlig med det? Innenfor faglitteraturen pågår debatter om hvorvidt interseksjonalitet som perspektiv bør ... -
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 ... -
Kortsiktighetens pris
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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. ... -
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 ... -
What Matters in a Job? A Multi-Level Study of Job Preference Orientations and the Intrinsic Quality of Work in 25 Societies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This paper examines cross-national differences in job preference orientations from the perspective of job quality. In particular, it investigates the extent to which preferences of workers in 25 developed societies are ... -
Innsyn og utsyn. Undervegs
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The Work Ethic and Social Change in the Czech Republic and Slovakia – a Modernisation Theory Perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The article investigates long-term trends in the work ethic in the Czech Republic and Slovakia from the perspective of modernisation theory. In particular, it examines whether the work ethic in the two culturally similar ... -
Norwegian Women's experiences of 20th-century migration to England: Narratives of changing gender roles
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This article discusses migratory gender roles within a north/north movement context. Using the case of older Norwegian women migrating to England while young, actively making migration part of their lives, it combines life ... -
Work orientations in contemporary advanced societies : Three comparative studies based on large-scale cross-national survey data
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-12-11)This thesis investigates work orientations among workers in contemporary capitalist societies from a comparative cross-national perspective. It consists of three individual studies. Each applies a different conceptual and ... -
Transnational Ageing in Place. The Case of Pakistani and Polish migrants in Norway
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-12-04)This thesis combines the research field of social gerontology and the field of migration research to explore the experiences of “ageing in place” among Pakistani and Polish migrants in Norway. In the social gerontological ... -
Individualisering, subjektivitet og fellesskap. Ein samanheng mellom klassisk - og moderne sosiologi
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Mobile likestillingsaktører: Fra 'stivnet' til 'villet' likestilling. Italienske kvinners komparative erfaringer med arbeid og familie i Italia og Norge
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Denne artikkelen diskuterer hvordan italienske kvinner med høy utdanning bruker og kombinerer likestillingsorienterte velferdstjenester i Norge. Finanskrisen som rammet Italia i 2008 førte til at spesielt unge mennesker ... -
Not All Syrian Doctors Become Taxi Drivers: Stagnation and Continutity Among Highly Educated Syrians in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Many studies of forced migration have documented processes of deskilling and falls in status resulting from an inability to convert capital from one context to another. This article relies on qualitative interviews with ... -
Å åpne og lukke dører: En kvalitativ studie av hvordan elever på vei ut av videregående med generell studiekompetanse forstår sine muligheter og alternativer for fremtiden
(Master thesis, 2020-07-24)Studiens formål var å utrede en kvalitativ analyse av den overordnede problemstillingen: Hvordan forstår elever på vei ut av videregående med generell studiekompetanse sine muligheter og alternativer for arbeid og utdanning? ... -
Educational experiences and perceptions of occupational hierarchies: The case of the Norwegian working class
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)In this article we present the experiences of members of the Norwegian working class in the educational system and show that the findings contradict established theories in the sociology of education in a way that calls ... -
Levels of intersecting temporalities in young men’s orientation to the future. A cross-national case comparison
(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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
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