In this research article Tina Baier and her co-authors compare genetic influences on educational achievement and their social stratification across Germany, Norway, Sweden, and the United States.
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This paper explores the trajectories of Norwegians who, in their late-thirties, possessed financial assets such as securities, company shares and stocks, qualifying them as the wealthiest one percent nationally. Published in The British Journal of Sociology.
The new book The Politics of Citizenship in Indonesia, edited by Kristian Stokke and Eric Hiariej, presents case studies of citizenship in contexts from diverse angles to reveal how citizens are engaging in public life.
In this working paper, Tina Baier focus on the extent to which parental separation affects genetic influences on educational attainment across 20th Century birth cohorts.
In this journal article, published in European Sociological Review, Torkild Lyngstad and co-authors ask whether birth order in the parental generation influences the educational attainment of their children.
In this research article, publised in Demography, Torkild Lyngstad and co-authors study sibling similarity in cognitive skills, school grades, and educational attainment in Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
In this article published in European Sociological Review, Tina Baier and co-authors ask to what extent differences in education, occupational standing, and income are attributable to genes, and do genetic influences differ by parents’ socioeconomic standing? When in a children’s life course does parents’ socioeconomic standing matter for genetic influences, and for which of the outcomes, fixed at the different stages of the attainment process, do they matter most?
In this working paper Martin Isungset, Tina Baier and Torkild Lyngstad study whether the relative importance of genetic and environmental influences for lifetime income changed as gender equalization took place.
Mediated (re)presentations of suburbs have a cultural impact on perceptions of real life suburbs. This is according to Per Gunnar Røe who has contributed with a chapter in the new book Suburbia in the 21st century - From Dreamscape to Nightmare?
In this article published in Journal of Marriage and Family Tina Baier and her co-author uses a behavioral genetics approach to test whether parental separation lowers the importance of genes for children's school performance.
Despite growing gender equality in society and preferences for egalitarian marriages among young adults, this article by Anne Lise Ellingsæter argues that wedding traditions in the Nordic context perpetuate patriarchal ideas. Published in the latest volume of Acta Sociologica.
The rationale behind this study, published in Frontiers in Sociology, Alexi Gugushvili and coleagues are using empirical data from Poland, to investigate how individuals’ origin and destination socio-economic position and social mobility are linked to self-rated health and reported psychological wellbeing.
In this article published in Social Science & Medicine, Alexi Gugushvili examines whether changing one's socioeconomic position over the life course affects health. The findings argue that perceived upward mobility has a consistent and strong positive effect on health outcomes in Poland.
In this article published in Quality & Quantity, Alexi Gugushvili examines how the choice of socioeconomic positions in terms of educational, occupational, and income attainment, and the choice of health measures in terms of obesity, depressive symptoms, and self-rated health, influence findings on the origin and destination effects, as well as the health implications of social mobility.
In this article published in Archives of Sexual Behavior, Willy Pedersen observes a reconfigured landscape of sexual victimization patterns among Norway adolescents due to their increasing participation on social media and digital platforms.
In this article published in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, Are Skeie Hermansen uses heat plots to visualize differences in ethnic and socioeconomic characteristics of workplace contexts by immigrant background.
In her new book You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World, professor Karen O'Brien explores how and why each of us matter more than we think in the work to create a just and sustainable future.
In this article published in Political Geography, Kristian Stokke argues that Myanmar's peace initiatives during the last three decades should thus be understood as illiberal strategies for containing ethnic armed organizations.
I dette kapittelet i boken Forankring Fryder utgitt av Universitetsforlaget, argumenterer Per Gunnar Røe for at sosiokulturelle stedsanalyser kan gi et bedre grunnlag for demokratisk medvirkning i planprosesser.
In this article published in Politics and Governance, Manès Weisskircher and Anna-Sophie Heinze show that the AfD party is exceptional among the populist radical right (PRR) party family in that it sharply contradicts the “standard model” of PRR party organisation.
In this article published in Research Features, Andrea Nightingale argues that the global community should be debating key political questions such as, ‘who ought to govern change’, and ‘what knowledges do we need to understand uncertainty and change?’.
In this article published in Acta Sociologica Anne Lise Ellingsæter, Marianne Nordli Hansen and Ragni Hege Kitterød examine the time spent by parents on childcare activities.
In this article published in Current Sociology Willy Pedersen and Cahtrine Holst explore the rise of lay experts in Norwegian drug policy.
Willy Pedersen og Guro Ødegård er redaktører for en ny bok som bretter ut livet til dagens unge og gir ny empirisk innsikt om livet i familien, i skolen og i idretten.
In this article published in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Mari Hjorteset, Per Gunnar Røe and Terje Wessel examine urban patterns of car sharing supply and demand at neighbourhood level.