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Are workers not engaging with climate issues for fear of losing their jobs?

The green shift is creating losers in the labour market. What do people who are in danger of losing their jobs think about Norwegian climate policy?

“The urban space is sexualised and misogynistic”

Emma Arnold intended to look for graffiti and street art, but advertisements interfered.

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- It is the university of life that people engage in in their leisure time, says Lise Kjølsrød. In her new book the sociologist argues that "adults’ play" such as rock climbing and art collecting are not only important for the individual, but also for society.

ERC Consolidator Grant to Torkild Hovde Lyngstad

In the ERC Consolidator Grant project "Societal openness, normative flux, and the social modification of heritability" Lyngstad will look at the importance of genetics, environments and their interactions in family demography and social stratification

Oslo is a divided city

There are major differences in people's wealth in Norway, and the biggest differences are in Oslo, according to Associate Professor Øyvind N. Wiborg.

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19 Mar.

Borders – Winter seminar in Human Geography 2020

Professorboligen, Karl Johans gate 47, Oslo

20 Mar.

Borders – Winter seminar in Human Geography 2020

Professorboligen, Karl Johans gate 47, Oslo

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Understanding Tradition: Marital Name Change in Britain and Norway Jan. 14, 2020
Jon Elster Jan. 9, 2020

New PROMENTA colleagues at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography Dec. 18, 2019

Earlier this fall, PROMENTA was joined by two new doctoral research fellows at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography. Liridona Gashi and Eirik Jerven Berger are both part of the Drug Policy Reform research group at PROMENTA, and will be supervised Professor Willy Pedersen and Professor Sveinung Sandberg.
Eilert Sundt Lecture 2019: The revenge of places that don't matter Nov. 13, 2019

How does the rising discontent affect political behavior in the EU? And how do people from the so-called "places that don't matter" - vent their anger against the system at the ballot box?

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