Institutt for sosiologi og statsvitenskap: Recent submissions
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Good animal welfare in a sustainable food system
(Chapter, 2024)Debates on animal welfare have increased in quantity and intensity. This applies particularly to animalwelfare issues in food production, positively and negatively. Polarization is a diagnosis that describes anincreased ... -
Niklas Luhmann's Unknown Class Theory and Its Explanatory Potential for the Clustering of Inequalities
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)Niklas Luhmann's theory of social classes, which was just recently made available in English, may surprise many, as Luhmann is not typically associated with social class theory. Instead, his work is renowned for emphasizing ... -
Navigating the in-between: social workers’ perceptions and experiences of facilitating sport for unaccompanied minor refugees in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)In Western European countries, sports clubs are positioned as important arenas in the civic integration of newcomers. Yet, in the existing literature on forced migration and sports, there is a notable absence of studies ... -
Subnational inequalities in years of life lost and associations with socioeconomic factors in pre-pandemic Europe, 2009–19: an ecological study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Background: Health inequalities have been associated with shorter lifespans. We aimed to investigate subnational geographical inequalities in all-cause years of life lost (YLLs) and the association between YLLs and ... -
Viewpoint diversity, balance, deliberativeness: Assessing the media performance of migration coverage multi-dimensionally based on deliberative democratic theories
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)The issue of migration is highly salient in public debates in many countries. Given this salience and the risk of political instrumentalization (often by actors from the far right), it is important for citizens to receive ... -
Oppdrag Mjøsa - Årsrappport 2024
(Research report, 2025)I 2024 kom vi i gang med alle elementer vi har skissert i Oppdrag Mjøsas planer: Styringsgruppa er i gang, årsmøtet er avholdt, folkemøte er avholdt og forskningsgruppene er komplette med alle phd-er på plass. I tillegg ... -
Norsk engasjementspolitikk i Midtøsten: Utenrikspolitisk analyse av norske myndigheters beslutning om å gjøre et privat meklingsinitiativ i den israelsk-palestinske konflikten til norsk politikk
(Master thesis, 2025)I 1993 ble Oslo-avtalen, den første politiske avtalen mellom israelerne og palestinerne, forhandlet fram med hjelp av Norge gjennom det som er kjent som «Oslo-kanalen». Ved å innlemme et i utgangspunktet privat meklingsinitiativ ... -
Idrettselever og doble karrierer: En undersøkelse av grunnleggende psykologiske behov og sense of belonging i skole- og idrettskonteksten og deres assosiasjoner med personlig utbrenthet og frykt for å feile.
(Master thesis, 2024)Bakgrunn og hensikt: Ungdom som balanserer en skolehverdag og idrettshverdag kan oppleve økte krav når de begynner på videregående skole knyttet til prestasjoner i begge kontekstene. Denne doble karriereveien de lever i ... -
Pragmatic Comparative Research: Pragmatism as a Philosophy of Science for Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) is a set-theoretic approach that enables accounting for causal complexity, incorporating features of qualitative and quantitative methods. Pioneered in sociology, it is increasingly ... -
The Role of Extended Nuclear Deterrence in the Russo-Ukrainian War.
(Master thesis, 2025)Denne masteroppgaven undersøker hvordan USAs bruk av utvidet atomavskrekking, strategisk tvetydighet og konvensjonell militærmakt har påvirket Russlands beslutningstaking om atomvåpen og konfliktdynamikk. Studien anvender ... -
Spatial inequality in higher education: A growing urban-rural educational gap?
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Betydningen av lærerstøtte for elevers selvregulerte læring i kroppsøving – mediert gjennom elevenes mestringsforventninger og målorienteringer
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Formålet med denne studien var å undersøke relasjonen mellom lærerstøtte, elevers mestringsforventninger og målorienteringer (2×2-modellen), og deres selvregulerte læring i kroppsøving. Betydningen av lærerstøtte ble ... -
Changing life expectancy in European countries 1990–2021: a subanalysis of causes and risk factors from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)Background: Decades of steady improvements in life expectancy in Europe slowed down from around 2011, well before the COVID-19 pandemic, for reasons which remain disputed. We aimed to assess how changes in risk factors and ... -
Constructing the data economy: tracing expectations of value creation in policy documents
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Public sector data is increasingly seen as a key resource for value creation in the private sector across a wide range of countries. Situated within studies on technology policies, this paper investigates how the idea of ... -
Disability and social trust: a comparison of people with a spinal cord injury and the general population in Norway, the Netherlands, and South‑Africa
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Is it the case that social trust is significantly different for people with a disability compared to people without a disability? Or is it the case that disabled people's perception of social trust is country-specific ... -
The Nordic model fails to protect vulnerable children
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Science in the clutches of elite sports: hard science, relational skills and power in Norwegian sports coaching
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)In this article, we examine the professionalization coaching in Norway, focusing on the years between 1990 and 2020. During this period, Norway started to perform comparatively well in international elite sport. Data are ... -
Exceptional policies for exceptional situations? How COVID-19 revealed persisting precarity for seasonal migrant workers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)When COVID-19 hit Norway and national borders were closed on 12 March 2020, farmers were ready to start preparations for a new growing season. Within a few weeks of the lockdown, the government implemented innovative ...