In situ solutions, participatory practices and the inclusion of community knowledge have become key ingredients in urban upgrading policies across the world. Knowledge, however, is not neutral, but value-laden, representing ...

Using a combination of descriptive and multivariate regression methods applied on a sample survey (n=4000) conducted in Luhansk (Ukraine) during Fall 2013, this paper investigates demographic, socio-economic, housing-specific ...

Background: Recent studies have challenged the idea that illegal substances are necessarily associated with more harm than those that are legal. This study investigates perceived drug harm among students at the University ...

Aims: Several studies suggest a rapid decrease of alcohol use among adolescents after the turn of the century. With decreasing prevalence rates of smokers, a so-called hardening may have taken place, implying that remaining ...

During recent decades, Jeffrey C. Alexander has been occupied with studying social life from a cultural perspective, developing a cultural sociology concerned with the shaping or constitutive impact of cultural formations ...

I denne artikkelen diskuterer jeg hva som kjennetegner legitimerings­retorikken rundt utvalgte offentlige institusjoner i Skandinavia under 2000-tallet. Jeg angriper legitimeringsretorikken som del av et mer omfattende ...

This paper examines men’s contributions to the division of emotional labour in heterosexual couple relationships by exploring the dimensions of commitment and independence, and how couples deal with challenges. The study ...

Politikeres profilbilder på Facebook kan ses som syntetisert politikk i visuell, personliggjort form. De gir politikere et helt konkret og gripbart menneskelig uttrykk. I artikkelen analyseres og sammenliknes nordiske ...

Introduction: The hardening hypothesis states that with the declining prevalence and growing social disapproval of smoking, remaining smokers are more unwilling and unable to quit as well as increasingly characterized by ...

Sosiologi i dag 44, 1/2014, 5-11 http://ojs.novus.no/index.php/SID

Artikkelen tar utgangspunkt i at steder og anledninger til å treffe en partner endrer seg gjennom modernisering. Hva betyr det for partnervalg og samlivskvalitet at møtestedene endrer karakter? Spørsmålet belyses gjennom ...

This article examines the emergence and transformation of Norway’s peace engagement in the context of changing international relations. Focusing on foreign policy discourses and practices, the article portrays peace ...

Background: Most studies show that women have considerably higher rates of sickness absence than men, but little is known on how the gender gap has developed over time. Methods: Data are taken from the EU Labour Force ...

Previous research indicates that women fare less well than men on a wide range of healthrelated measures, including sickness absence from work. Possible explanations are that women have—on average—less healthy jobs than ...

Tolerance and equality are widespread norms in the official policy of many European countries. The educational system is an arena which even more than others is meant to foster equal opportunities by giving individuals the ...

En grunn til at det er interessant å studere høyrepopulistiske partier i regjeringsposisjon, er at disse partiene har til felles at de er anti-establishment. I tillegg går de fleste slike partier inn for en restriktiv ...

Background Nondaily smoking appears to have remained stable in Western countries in recent years, alongside a steep decline in daily smoking. Nondaily smoking increases the risk of several diseases and ...

The author analyzes the relationship between unionization and absences due to sickness in Norway using register data covering the entire population employed in the private sector during 2003 to 2007. A few previous studies ...

Background Several studies have reported significantly higher stress levels, both short and long terms, among mothers giving preterm birth compared with mothers giving birth at term. Stress, however, is a ...

Sosiologisk Årbok 2013.2 139-153 http://www.sosiologiskaarbok.no/

This article explores images of high-level female politicians in France and Norway from 1980 to 2010, examining the ways in which they present themselves to the media and their subsequent reception by journalists. Women ...

Sosiologisk tidsskrift 2011, 379-394. http://www.idunn.no/st/2011/04/art04

South African cities regularly experience service delivery protests, which often target local governments who are blamed for non-delivery and non-participation. The legitimacy crisis of local democracy can be understood ...

Researchers have often pointed to the masculine norms that are integrated into politics. This article explores these norms by studying male images of politics and power in France and Norway from 1945 to 2009. Both dress ...