Institutt for sosiologi og statsvitenskap
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Self-inflicted deprivation? Quality-as-sent versus quality-as-received in three current affairs topics
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Abstract Both the news media and citizens have been blamed for citizens’ lack of political sophistication. Citizens’ information source choices can certainly contribute to suboptimal results of opinion formation when ... -
Phthalate exposure and allergic diseases: Review of epidemiological and experimental evidence
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Phthalates are among the most ubiquitous environmental contaminants and endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Exposure to phthalates and related health effects have been extensively studied over the past four decades. An association ... -
Explaining Support for Political Violence: Grievance and Perceived Opportunity
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)What explains support for violence against the state? The surge in survey-based studies in (former) conflict areas has improved our understanding of the determinants of armed conflict. Yet, the potential interaction between ... -
Ethno-political favouritism in maternal health care service delivery: Micro-level evidence from sub-Saharan Africa, 1981–2014.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)It is commonly held that political leaders favour people of the same ethnic origin. We test this argument of ethno-political favouritism by studying variations in the usage of maternal health care services across groups ... -
More than self‐interest: Why different classes have different attitudes to income inequality
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The connection between social class and political preferences is among the most well established in the social sciences. This association is typically taken as prima facie evidence of economic self‐interest: Classes hold ... -
Economic Governance and Homicide: Some Theory and Empirics, 1990 – 2017
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article posits that free-market institutions and practices reduce economic distortions that provide rents for underground organizations, which ultimately form criminogenic environments. Rents from market distortions ... -
Educational inequalities in high- vs. low-preventable health conditions: Exploring the fundamental cause theory
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Aim: To explore variations in educational gradients or gaps between high- and low-preventable health conditions. Background: This is one of the first European studies to test whether the association between socioeconomic ... -
In the Scheme of Things: Sustainability as Seen Through the Lens of Salmon Aquaculture Sustainability Standards
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2020:371, Doctoral thesis, 2020)This thesis was written as part of the SustainFish project, which was funded by the Norwegian Research Council (project number 254841). It explores the consequences of employing a technical understanding of certification ... -
Mitigating isolation and loneliness with technology through emotional care by social robots in remote
(Chapter, 2020)This book chapter explores how experiences of isolation and loneliness in remote areas can be mitigated through social robots’ emotional care. We first discuss the concept of being social and how that notion is changing ... -
Det som teller eller det som kan telles? Rasjonalisering som maktmiddel i arealpolitikken
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Denne artikkelen er en situasjonsanalyse (Clarke, 2005; Clarke et al., 2018) av to jordvernsituasjoner i Trondheim og Toronto. I artikkelen identifiseres diskurser om jordvern i planprosessen «Kommuneplan Trondheim 2012-2024», ... -
Becoming certified, becoming sustainable? Improvements from aquaculture certification schemes as experienced by those certified
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)While the effectiveness of sustainability certification has been studied through many different approaches, an understudied dimension is the behavioral changes made within the companies that become certified. Following ... -
New perspectives on international labour migration to Europe’s rural regions
(Chapter, 2020)While international migration to urban spaces has been extensively studied, there remain significant gaps in our understanding of international labour migration to Europe’s rural regions. In this chapter we locate this ... -
A world class academy in professional football: The case of Ajax Amsterdam
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The holistic ecological approach puts an emphasis on the environment in which prospective elite athletes develop. Applying the holistic ecological approach, this article examines talent development among male under-19 ... -
Does international labour migration affect internal mobility in rural Norway?
(Chapter, 2020)Since the enlargement of the European Union, which began in 2004, large numbers of international labour migrants have arrived and settled in Norway. Also, many rural areas, previously unfamiliar with international migration, ... -
‘Living on the edge’? A comparative study of processes of marginalisation among Polish migrants in rural Germany and Norway
(Chapter, 2020)This chapter explores comparatively two cases of Polish labour migration in two different national and rural contexts of migration. We draw on ethnographic data from two projects which respectively looked at a once widely ... -
International Labour Migration to Europe’s Rural Regions
(Book, 2020)Emerging in the throes of a global pandemic that threatens Europe’s economies and food security, International Labour Migration to Europe’s Rural Regions combines a diverse range of empirically rich, in-depth case studies, ... -
Unified approaches on talent development in football? Differences and similarities among representatives from a football association and two professional football clubs
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Talent development is a major task for most coaches, both in professional and non-professional clubs. This study provides a qualitative analysis of how coa- ches and administrators from both the national football association ... -
The imagined scientist of science governance
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In this article, we introduce the concept of ‘the imagined scientist’. It inverts previous discussions of the public as an imagined community with a knowledge deficit, to examine imagined scientists representing an actor ... -
Dying is normal, dying with the coronavirus is not: a sociological analysis of the implicit norms behind the criticism of Swedish ‘exceptionalism’
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)From the outset of the coronavirus crisis, Sweden has been heavyily criticized for its exceptional pandemic mitigation policy. Sweden is often accused pursuing an abnormal and ‘disastrous strategy' that puts its citizens' ...
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