By following 21 complete birth cohorts, Maren Toft utilize sequence analysis and systematically explore pathways that lead to the Norwegian upper class during 10 years of adulthood.
In this article Maren Toft explores intra‐ and intergenerational mobility patterns in the upper strata of the Norwegian class structure.
Det som preger Sundt som forsker er den intellektuelle nysgjerrigheten, de lange litterære sveipene, den subjektive dimensjonen og ikke minst innsatsen for å samle best mulig data, skriver Willy Pedersen.
Terrorist attacks are known to influence public opinion, but do they also change behaviour? Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund,Tak Wing Chan, Elisabeth Ugreninov, Arnfinn H. Midtbøen and Jon Rogstad address this question by comparing the results of two identical randomized field experiments on ethnic discrimination in hiring.
In this article Terje Wessel, Lena Magnusson Turner and Viggo Nordvik explore demographic processes behind ethnic geographies in Oslo.
Maren Toft and Magne Flemmen have contributed to the book New Direction in Elite Studies with a chapter on The gendered reproduction of the upper class.
This article by Anne Krogstad tries to capture the visual mode of political communication by studying how the portrayal of politicians provides the public with knowledge about the world of politics during different information eras.
In Topoi/Graphein Christian Abrahamsson maps the paradoxical limit of the in-between to reveal that to be human is to know how to live with the difference between the known and the unknown.
Inger Furseth`s new book is an empirical comparative study of the complexity of religion in the public spheres of the five Nordic countries.
In this article, Willy Pedersen, Anders Bakken and Tilmann von Soest examine the relative influence of neighborhood and school on the alcohol socialization process. The study suggests that “privileged” youth may be at risk of high alcohol consumption.
Cathrine Holst is a coeditor to the volume Expertisation and democracy in Europe. The book provides an account of the role and re-organisation of expertise and expert knowledge in Europe and the European Union in a broad range of policy spheres, contributing to the debate triggered by the recent crises.
In this article, Dr. Victor Lund Shammas draws on archival research in Stanford, California to study the origins of neoliberal ideology and its historical trajectory.
Political Geographies of Citizenship er et temanummer av Norsk Geografisk Tiddskrift. Temanummeret har flere bidragsytere fra Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeoggrafi, bl.a. Kristian Stokke og David Jordhus-Lier.
This article by Maren Toft provides empirical evidence of residential pathways in the Oslo region over the life course; it does so by using population-wide data in a 24-year panel, while focusing on residency in affluent and deprived areas.
In this article Victor Shammas offer five lessons for a science of crime and punishment based on Pierre Bourdieu’s works.
Andreas Scmitz, Magne Flemmen and Lennart Rosenlund argue that "fear"has been largely neglected in social science. In this article the authors show that concerns, fear, and worries are constitutive characteristics of the habitus by investigating the structure of ‘fear manifestations’ in relation to the social space.
Magne Flemmen and Mike Savage has published an article on the contemporary significance of white racism and its association with nationalist sentiment in the UK.
Does it matter where you go to secondary school? In the UK, the answer is apparently yes. Aaron Reeves, Sam Friedman,Charles Rahal and Magne Flemmen has published an article about private schools and elite Recruitment in American Sociological Review.
Per Gunnar Røe har bidratt med et kapittel om europeisk suburbanisering i boken Old Europe, New Suburbanization? Governance, Land, and Infrastructure in European Suburbanization.
The book Politics of Citizenship in Indonesia by Eric Hiariej and Kristian Stokke presents case studies of citizenship in diverse contexts and from diverse angles to reveal how citizens are engaging in public life in Indonesia.
Antologien En smartere stat tar for seg aktuelle utfordringer fra ulike sektorer; innvandring og integrering, krisehåndtering, byutvikling, samferdsel, helsepolitikk og forskningspolitikk.
I denne artikkelen utfordrer Willy Pedersen den gjengse oppfatning av at fyllesex er det samme som dårlig sex. Han hevder at såkalte "one night stands" kan være et spennende normbrudd med mye nytelse.
Willy Pedersen, Viggo Jan Vestel and Anders Bakken have published an article regarding attitudes among ordinary adolescents in favour of the use of political violence and radicalization in Sage Journals.
Victor Shammas has contributed with a chapter in the edited version of the antology Scandinavian Penal History, Culture and Prison Practice: Embraced by welfare State.
I denne artikkelen i The British Journal of Sociology viser Magne Paalgard Flemmen, Vegard Jarness (UiB) og Lennart Rosenlund (UiS) hvordan livsstiler og kulturelle preferanser er klassedelte i Norge i dag.