This study questions the traditional story of the detachment and independence of expert bodies such as agencies, central banks and expert committees. It shows that there are numerous institutional links with elected bodies ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hate crime is a fluid category that has been constructed and implemented in a variety of ways within the legal system and in political discourse. As hate crime policies have been developed in many divergent directions ...

Mediene sies å ha endret vilkårene for religion i offentligheten, fordi de former og formidler religion ut fra egne, og ikke religiøse institusjoners, formål og kriterier. Gjennom tre artikler utforsker denne avhandlingen ...

Throughout history, the introduction of new technologies has influenced economic, social, cultural, and human development. Today, the rapid development of new information and communication technologies (ICT) is changing ...

Solar photovoltaic (PV) will play the leading role in addressing off‐grid electricity access; it can be applied almost anywhere and used in a wide range of applications for households, businesses, institutions and communities. ...

The study findings show not only the complexity of structural and local factors influencing farmers’ food insecurity but also their responses to these factors in two sites: the Fero-two Peasant Association (coffee-based ...

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 ...

High rates of part-time work have been associated with high female employment rates in the Nordic countries, except for Finland. Part-time work has played a key role in the modification of the male breadwinner gender ...

Married cancer patients enjoy a survival advantage, potentially attributable to better health at diagnosis, earlier contact with health personnel, and/or access to resources to ensure more optimal treatment. These mechanisms ...

Background: Ecstasy pills with MDMA as the main ingredient were introduced in many European countries in the 1980s, and were often linked to the rave and club scenes. However, use gradually levelled off, in part as a ...

In 2000, the Chinese government initiated a campaign to develop Western China and reduce local and regional inequality. Privatisation has been a central component of the campaign. This article studies the relationship ...

As in the rest of the industrialized world, organizational changes have been increasingly frequent in the Norwegian hospital sector in recent decades. Due to an ageing population, medical advances expanding treatment ...

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 article discusses, on the basis of the situation of small-scale farmers in the western highlands of Cameroon, strategies that may reduce their poverty. Background information about Cameroon is given in order to situate ...

Aims: Recent research suggests that early onset of intoxication (EOI) may be of greater importance for a wide range of subsequent adverse outcomes than early drinking experiences without intoxication. However, research on ...

Den «dobbelt likestilte» arbeid-familiemodellen, der foreldre deltar likt i yrkesarbeid og familiearbeid, har høy oppslutning i Norge, og understøttes av velferdsordninger. Generelt blir fordeling av tid til yrkesarbeid ...

Aims: Low socioeconomic status (SES) characterizes smoking and nicotine dependence in adult samples. However, less is known about how parental SES is linked to smoking in offspring and potential mechanisms at work. Methods: ...

Five institutional fields were pinpointed as the main components of a public sphere in the introductory chapter (Engelstad, Larsen, Rogstad & Steen-Johnsen, this volume). They vary significantly in their institutional ...

The last two decades have seen far-reaching structural transformations in the public sphere. Few topics have attracted more attention, wild guesses, and misinterpretation, than the prospective effects of ongoing changes ...

National day speeches play an explicit part in defining national identities. In this article, we examine how mayors in Norwegian municipalities reflect on Norway's increased diversity in their 17 May speeches. National day ...

Samfunnsgeografi er studiet av samfunnets romlighet. Som student i samfunnsgeografi utvikler du din geografiske forestillingsevne og blir i stand til å forstå betydningen av det geografiske i samfunnet rundt deg. Denne ...

Rural Alaskan youth are encouraged to pursue higher education in order to enhance individual and community resilience. However, the dwindling number of youth that return to their home communities after attending post-secondary ...

Although fertility is positively correlated across generations, the causal effect of children’s experience with larger sibships on their own fertility in adulthood is poorly understood. With the sex composition of the two ...

Innen samfunnsforskningen er sosial bakgrunn en av hovedforklaringene på utdanning- og yrkesoppnåelse i voksen alder. Samtidig har en lang forskningstradisjon vist at det er forskjeller mellom søsken i samme familie i ...

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 ...

Hvordan ble 22. juli-terroren og reaksjonene på denne tolket i den norske offentligheten? Terrorangrep kan brukes til å konstruere ulike typer kollektiv identitet og tolkes på måter som skaper svært forskjellige sosiale ...

The construction industry in India is one of the largest sources of employment in the country, but it is weakly regulated by labour legislation. As a consequence, construction workers are hired informally, their employment ...

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. ...

Background Research on norms regulating drunken behaviour has tended to focus on differences between different countries and cultures rather than variations within them. Here, we examine whether there are: (i) situation-specific ...

Introduction: International drug policy has traditionally been based on the premise that illegal drugs are more harmful than legal substances. Here, we investigate how students in the UK and Norway now perceive possible ...

Cities are increasingly organised according to socio-spatial divisions in which groups with similar characteristics live in the same areas. This social polarisation is associated with differences in living conditions, ...

Aktive vilkår for mottak av velferdsytelser er en felleseuropeisk trend. Dette innebærer at retten til velferdsytelser betinges av at mottaker deltar i en form for aktivitet, for eksempel arbeid for trygd (workfare), aktiv ...

This paper expands the model of rational action by introducing a new concept. rational laziness, to better understand actors’ decision making. In addition to rational information processing, human beings often rely on ...

Hirschman’s (1970) concepts of exit, voice and loyalty can be reworked to add further nuances to the understanding of labour agency. Agency by exit is of interest in demonstrating how agency is conditioned by structures ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For en politiker hjelper det lite å ha en indre overbevisning dersom den ikke kan formidles til andre, eksempelvis i språk, tekst eller bilder. I dette kapitlet drøftes sistnevnte formidlingsform, nærmere bestemt visuell ...

Avhandlingen tar fraspark i den tidlige norske sosiologiske kvinneforskningen. Denne forskningen påpekte at kvinners gjøren ble studert fra menns ståsted og med begreper som var skapt i og hørte til i menns verden. Dette ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: 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 ...

Temaet for avhandlingen er utdanningsatferd (skoleprestasjoner og utdanningsvalg) blant etterkommere av innvandrere fra Vietnam, Pakistan og India. Tidligere forskning viser at klassebakgrunn er av mindre betydning for ...

The dissertation «Defensive accountings – An ethnomethodological study of clients’ resistance practices in vocational rehabilitation practices» utilizes the methodology of ethnomethodological conversation analysis to do a ...

Statistics show a gap in employment rate for people with and without disabilities despite decades of disability policy promoting equal opportunities for societal participation. This thesis provides insight into what may ...

This thesis presents a critical assessment of community adaptation, and identifies the need to broaden the understanding of the concept of adaptation to include subjective dimensions, such as place attachment and identity. ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2004, Poland’s accession to the EU triggered what is now considered to be the largest migration flow to Norway in history. In the next seven to eight years, well over a hundred thousand Polish workers were recruited to ...

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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 ...

After decades of research documenting the various processes of marginalisation and exclusion immigrants experience in their European countries of residence, recent efforts have been made to explore the extent to which these ...

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 ...

Publisert av: Universitetsforlaget, ISBN: 9788215019765. http://www.universitetsforlaget.no.

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.

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 ...

Pure idyll? The importance of consumption for rural development exemplified with local food and cabin life. Rural areas are presently facing new challenges and opportunities for development. These changes are significantly ...