The continuing expansion of women's employment has increasingly focused attention on the question of how caring work traditionally carried out by unpaid women will be accomplished. In particular, how can caring responsibilities ...

A Bundle Institution Between Tradition and Vision Department of Sociology, University of Oslo, 1950-2000 The first department of socio-logy in Norway is describ-ed and analyzed as a bundle of five disciplinary activities ...

English summary Inaugural lecture The Ambiguity of Modernity - Increased Individualization or Stable Structural Inequality? Over the past quarter of a century a number of authors have argued that modern societies are ...

Harriet Holter was ahead of her time and influenced heavily all the research areas she ventured, such as sex roles, family, sexualized violence, resistance to knowledge and gender perspectives on research and politics. ...