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.
In this article published in City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action, Emma Arnold explores how sexualised outdoor advertising produces affect and space in the city and reflects on how these images may impact women’s experience of urban space.
In this article, published in Politics, Groups, and Identities, Manjana Milkoreit and Eunbin Chung focus on global citizenship as a specific social identity, seeking to connect ideology and social identity approaches.
In this article, published in The International Journal of Drug Policy, Willy Pedersen and his co-authors investigate the association between parental education and drug charges.
In this article published in Ecological Economics, Manjana Milkoreit and her co-authors develop a framework to identify and characterize social tipping processes critical to facilitating rapid social transformations.
In this article, published in Journal of Social Philosophy, Cathrine Holst re-visits Jane Mansbridge's approach to descriptive representation in light of recent discussions of women's representation in international courts.
In this book Inger Furseth and Pål Repstad provide an introduction to some of the most influential figures in contemporary social theory with an emphasis on their analyses of society and religion.
In this book chapter Per Gunnar Røe explores the relation between the pandemic and low-income status in Oslo and argues that social inequality, rather than density and public transport use, is most associated with contagion.
In this first volume of the open access journal Nordic Journal of Urban Studies you can find articles conserning urban life and its challenges by, among others, Per Gunnar Røe.
In this article, published in Current Sociology, Sigurd M. Nordli Oppegaard and Johan Fredrik Rye explore institutional de-differentiation in contemporary society through empirical material from Norwegian prisons.