In this paper, we use geo-coded, individual-level register data on four European countries to compute comparative measures of segregation that are independent of existing geographical sub-divisions. The focus is on ...

In this article, we explore Norwegian Progress Party politicians’ change of their rhetoric of immigration after the party for the first time became part of a coalition government in 2013. Equal to other right-wing populist ...

Children displaying early behavior problems are at risk of experiencing problems in education system and often face poor life chances later in life. As with other mental health problems, there is a social gradient in child ...

Purpose: The creation of customized, technology-based services is highly dependent on experience-based knowledge embodied in individual expert employees. Therefore, knowledge upgrading through recruitment is fundamental ...

The structure of the food industry and industrial patterns along agri-food chains are continuously under development. Structural development of food industries refers to issues such as concentration, internationalisation, ...

Commissions appointed to examine and propose solutions to major policy problems play a vital role in policy formulation in the Nordic countries. Whereas existing accounts emphasize the corporatist and statist features of ...

Visual presentations of political leaders have a long tradition. They convey information about who a politician is and – to a certain degree – his or her political positions. As studiously crafted displays of ideals, such ...

Simple calculations seem to show that larger studies should have higher statistical power, but empirical meta-analyses of published work in criminology have found zero or weak correlations between sample size and estimated ...

This article reviews the empirical literature on women’s empowerment through electricity access and the methodologies that have been used. Statistical studies have looked at areas with access to the grid and measured the ...

The main stimulus for this theme issue came from the perception shared by several scholars that “post-socialist” (or “post-communist cities”) cities are poorly visible in the urban studies literature, and that when they ...

In Norway, the prevalence of daily smoking has gradually declined from 50% among men and 30% among women in the early 1970s to 13% in both genders in 2015. The rate of occasional smoking has remained stable at approximately ...

Climate change presents new challenges that society must prepare for. For Norway, climate change means higher temperatures, increased rainfall and rising sea levels, changes that are leading to an increased frequency of ...

This dissertation investigates the future orientations of Oslo youth as they approach their twenties. It does so against the backdrop of theoretical debates over individualization, class, and youth. Theories of individualization ...

Background: More knowledge is needed to understand costly behaviors such as absence from work or reduced efficiency at work due to alcohol. The aim of this study was: (i) to map employees’ attitudes toward alcohol-related ...

This thesis is a study on group differences in alcohol-related sickness absence. It consists of four papers: The first is an extensive review article of international research on the alcohol ?? sickness absence association. ...

English Summary This dissertation monograph investigates village-level solar power supply, which is one of the potential solutions for providing access to basic electricity services for people who are not served by ...

This study analyses the association between the gender of managers and sickness absence in workplaces. It uses Norwegian administrative register data which are broadly representative of the private workforce. Previous ...

Korttids sykefravær, her definert som sykefravær av mindre enn én ukes varighet, er relativt lite studert. Her benytter vi data fra Statistisk sentralbyrås Arbeidskraftundersøkelser (2006–2013) til å belyse om korttidsfraværet ...

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 ...

AIMS – First, to establish whether there are differences in alcohol-related sickness absence according to socioeconomic status and family situation among young employees in Norway. Second, if differences are found, to ...

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 ...

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 ...

From the snow and ice of Scandinavia to the glamour of Monte Carlo, from the heat of Kenya to the thin air in the Argentinian mountainsides, the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) has served up passionate motorsport drama ...

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 ...

It is widely believed within and beyond academia that mobility is closely interlinked with freedom, independence and wellbeing. With ageing, functional capacities are often reduced; walking and cycling become more demanding ...

This dissertation examines how marriage, parenthood and family are negotiated through the media. In the course of three articles I examine three different media debates from a discourse theoretical angle. In the first ...

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 ...

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 ...

I juli 2002 ble forskriften og merkeordningen Beskyttede betegnelser opprettet i Norge etter mønster fra tilsvarende system i EU. Ordningen muliggjør lovbeskyttelse av produktbetegnelser til næringsmidler med spesiell ...

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

I 1913 fikk norske kvinner stemmerett på lik linje med menn. I artikkelen gis et 100-årsperspektiv på hva dette har betydd politisk. Vi følger kvinnenes manøvrering og alliansebygging i stemmerettsdebattene rundt 1900, vi ...

Publisert av: Universitetsforlaget, ISBN: 9788215019765. http://www.universitetsforlaget.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 ...

Avhandlingen utforsker kjønnsmangfold og innovasjon i organisasjoner. Den omhandler sammenhenger mellom lederes biologiske kjønn, kjønnsrolleidentitet, holdninger til likestilling og opplevelse av egen lederstil og ...

Kapittel 8 i: Svein Østerud (red.) (2012), 22. juli: Forstå, forklare, forebygge. Oslo: Abstrakt forlag. Copyright Abstrakt forlag 2012. Tilgjengeliggjort her med tillatelse fra forlaget.

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

Tabell nederst på side 52 er tatt ut av denne versjonen grunnet opphavsrettslige forhold.

Når klimakrisen er så alvorlig, hvorfor skjer det så lite? En viktig forklaring er at fastgrodde teorier fra 1800- og tidlig 1900-tallet fortsatt utøves blant økonomer i dag, fremkommer det i analysen. Avhandlingen tar for ...

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 ...

Avhengighet reduserer straffenivået<br><br> Heroinavhengighet gir reduserte straffer i narkotikasaker i motsetning til vanskelig sosial eller økonomisk situasjon. Det viser en avhandling av Mette Irmgard Snertingdal ved ...

Hegnes, Atle Wehn: Der Schutz der geographischen Nahrungsmittel in Norwegen als Übersetzungs- und Transformationsprozess, in: Susanne Bauer/Christine Bischof/Stephan Gabriel Haufe/Stefan Beck/Leonore Scholze-Irrlitz (Hg.), ...

En fersk doktoravhandling i samfunnsgeografi kaster nytt lys over den kontroversielle damutbyggingen på Narmada-elva i India. Sardar Sarovar-prosjektet var i verdens søkelys gjennom hele 1990-tallet pga massiv tvangsflytting ...

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 ...

Avhandlingen tar opp styringsproblemer knyttet til utvikling av lokale og regionale handelssentre, hvor tradisjonelle bysentre taper i konkurranse med kjøpesentre som vokser frem utenfor bysentrene. Dette reflekterer en ...

Small talk er viktig i rusbehandling. Det terapeutiske potensialet i uformell samhandling mellom klienter og ansatte på en behandlingsinstitusjon for rusmisbrukere er tema i avhandlingen til Astrid Skatvedt. Hun forsvarer ...

The overall ambition of this study is to provide a better understanding of how people cope with severe debt problems and why defaulters sometimes act in financially unwise ways. The empirical results suggest that coping ...

Avhandlingen behandler sentrale aspekter ved arkitektprofesjonen knyttet til profesjonsteorier og andre begrepsdannelser innen sosiologi og beslektede samfunnsvitenskapelige disipliner. Det overordnede spørsmålet som stilles ...

Artikkelen framlegger og drøfter en typologi over teoribegreper i samfunnsvitenskapen. Et overordnet skille trekkes mellom tre forskjellige meta-metodologier: Standardmetodologien, den sosialfilosofiske metodologien og den ...

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. ...

I artikkelsamlingen kan du lese om pedagogiske endringer i krysningspunktet mellom teknologi, organisering og læring. Du finner artikler fra en rekke ulike fagmiljøer som beskriver prosjekter av mange ulike slag. Erfaringene ...