The coffee farmers in Guatemala have large expenses in the face of fungal attacks and droughts, but the price of coffee remains the same. What does it take for a global value chain to adapt to climate change?
2021
Teachers at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography take chances in the auditorium: "A lecture is a format that was invented at a time when people barely had textbooks".
Norwegians from minority backgrounds would like to see more awareness of minorities in society according to a sociologist: “White people do not perceive the colour of their skin as meaningful”.
Grete Brochmann believes that the Danes’ latest experimental policy to return refugees to Syria is also an extreme line in the European context.
The differences in wealth between Norwegians is now far greater than in several other European countries. Marianne Nordli Hansen and Maren Toft have been interviewed by sciencenorway.no after writing about Norwegian inequality in American Sociological Review.
Twenty-seven social scientists have contributed to the book Arbeiderklassen (The working class).
In many countries, the current political opinions of different groups firmly oppose each other. A new study of two Norwegian Facebook forums points out how group discussions on social media may be pushing the boundaries.