This article examines the effect of ethnic composition in upper secondary school on students grades (educational achievement) and their subsequent educational choices (educational attainment), using multilevel analysis. ...

Research on welfare states and research on social stratification and mobility share a common concern for social inequality. Research on welfare states is usually comparatively designed, looking for similarities and variation ...

Assimilated, hybrid or ethnically incorporated? Adaptation and identification among Somalis in Norway.

The article examines the role and contribution of preferential treatment of state enterprises to growth in the textile and garment industry. State enterprises are still the largest single sector in the textile and garment ...

A number of previous studies have documented a fairly high level of marital homogamy in Norway. Most of these studies, however, have been local and ethnographic, or based on national data measuring homogamy within a limited ...

The most important predictors of early intercourse debut are reported to be poor social resources and early developing problem behaviors. In this study we have a new, additional emphasis on variables related to self-concept ...

In recent decades there has been a very strong increase in the number of people enrolled in higher education in Norway. This increase has taken place although the economic returns to schooling in Norway are low. The increase ...

Artikkelen legger fram en argumentasjon som vil vise at det ikke kan begrunnes sosiologisk tilfredsstillende at rikdom er en verdi i seg selv. Verdien av rikdom avhenger kort sagt av hva for verdi - stor, null eller ...

The argument of this article is that feminist analysis of the gender of knowledge would profit by using a generational perspective. By making use of Sandra Harding's concepts of structural, symbolic and individual gender ...

In a normal population sample of Norwegian adolescents, six per cent reported to have been victims of violent victimisation during the last year. The sample consisted of three cohorts of adolescents from Oslo (10812 persons) ...

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. ...