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Balancing acts of kindness: Reassessing the relationship between informal helping and formal volunteering Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Hans-Peter Y Qvist
Although time is a finite resource, much sociological research suggests a positive association between engagement in informal helping activities and formal volunteering. However, it remains unclear whether this relationship is causal and, if so, in which direction the causality runs. To address these issues, I draw on two-wave panel data from Denmark. Using a cross-lagged panel model, I find no evidence
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Shackled by double disadvantage? Gender, segregation and immigrants’ occupational attainments Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Anne Grönlund, Ida Öun
The aim of the article was to determine whether immigrant women's occupational status reflect a double disadvantage in comparison to immigrant men and inborn women and how patterns are formed by occupational segregation. The study utilised register data for descriptive comparisons of the immigrant and inborn populations in Sweden ( n ≈ 4,900,000). Regression analyses were performed on nationally representative
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The unequal conversion of intended redistribution into factual redistribution in Europe and its impact on social inequalities between families Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Patricia Frericks, Julia Höppner
Redistribution is one of the key elements of contemporary social order, and research has dealt with it in various ways. Most welfare state research mixes in its analysis the regulations on redistribution and actual outcomes. However, to adequately understand redistribution, one needs to distinguish between regulations and outcomes. Measuring unequal conversion in terms of deviations between redistributions
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Co-occurring occupations among siblings in Norway Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Stian A Uvaag
According to class theory, social class boundaries are akin to social mobility patterns. This study explores these patterns by looking at co-occurring occupations among siblings. The author uses data from Norway's population-wide registers to analyze occupational co-occurrences among siblings across 98 occupations. The association is analyzed in relative terms: how often occupations are held by both
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Political changemakers in Norway: The strategies and political ideas of welfare providers Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Signe Bock Segaard
This article contributes to the knowledge of interest groups’ political power. It examines how interest groups shape political debates and decision-making, and what strategies are most successful to this end, through an in-depth case study analysis of the Norwegian transposition of the revised EU policy on public procurement. The case is unique as it illustrates a policy process that changed direction
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Growing inequality during the Great Recession: Labour market institutions and the education gap in unemployment across Europe and in the United States Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Caroline Berghammer,Alicia Adserà
We study how the education gap in unemployment has evolved by gender and age groups across 28 European countries and the United States from 2000 to 2014, using the European Union's Labour Force Surveys and the US Current Population Surveys. During and after the Great Recession, the absolute education gap in unemployment expanded in almost all countries, which was mainly driven by a marked increase
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Has the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo fuelled resistance towards Muslim immigrants in Europe? Results from a natural experiment in six European countries Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2022-03-25 Michael Savelkoul,Manfred te Grotenhuis,Peer Scheepers
In recent years, Europe witnessed several terrorist attacks by Islamist terrorists. To date, crucial questions are whether and how such events influence the European public’s resistance towards Muslims, and if such influence depends on the level of intergroup competition, both at the contextual and individual level. Using the European Social Survey (ESS7), we were able to compare respondents interviewed
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Professional talk on cybervetting: Accounting for a contested practise Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Christel Backman,Anna Hedenus
Even though recruiters’ practise of searching for information online during recruitment and selection has been a contested practise, owing to the risk of discrimination and privacy intrusions as well as poor evidence for its ability to predict work performance, it is used in recruitment. In this article, our aim is to understand how ‘professional talk’ is used as a discursive resource to legitimize
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Elites on Equality: Room for Gender Balance and Ethnic Diversity in Leadership Positions? Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Mari Teigen,Arnfinn H. Midtbøen,Rune Karlsen
Access to resources, wealth, and power positions varies systematically with membership in social categories. This article asks what role the elites themselves – as holders of power and regulators of access to influential positions – can play in maintaining, but also changing, the demographic composition of elites. Drawing on a unique survey among the entire Norwegian elite, we investigate what holders
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The impact of the parental division of paid labour on depressive symptoms – the moderating role of social policies Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Anna Baranowska-Rataj
This study examines the association between the parental division of paid labour and depressive symptoms in a comparative perspective. It investigates how this relationship varies across couples in countries with different social policies using data from European Social Survey, and multilevel models with cross-level interactions between the parental division of paid labour and macro-level indicators
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Resisting or maintaining gender inequality? Wedding traditions among Norwegian millennials Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Anne Lise Ellingsæter
Historically, wedding traditions have reflected unequal power dynamics between women and men. Anglo-American studies suggest that despite growing gender equality in society and preferences for egalitarian marriages among young adults, wedding traditions perpetuate patriarchal ideas. This article explores this puzzle in the Nordic context. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with Norwegian millennials
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Cultural reproduction in Finland: Symmetric intergenerational transmission of cultural orientations Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Jarmo Kallunki
Cultural reproduction has attracted the attention of cultural sociologists over the last few decades. While a body of research has shown that the orientation to highbrow culture is transmitted from parents to their children, research on the transmission of other cultural orientations has been scarce. In this paper, I study the intergenerational transmission of three cultural orientations—highbrow,
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Book Review: Interactional Justice: The Role of Emotions in the Performance of Loyalty by Lisa Flower Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2022-01-20 Emma Jones
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The opportunity structure of segregation: School choice and school segregation in Sweden Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Maria Brandén,Magnus Bygren
It is a matter of debate whether free school choice should lead to higher or lower levels of school segregation. We investigate how school choice opportunities affect school segregation utilizing geocoded Swedish population register data with information on 13 cohorts of ninth graders. We find that local school choice opportunities strongly affect the sorting of students across schools based on the
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Contested European citizenship: Results from a 13 country survey Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Jürgen Gerhards,Holger Lengfeld,Clara Dilger
European citizenship consisting of equal economic, social and political rights for all EU citizens has come under pressure in recent years due to the different crises the EU had to face. Based on a survey conducted in 13 EU member states we examined to what extent EU citizens support the notion that citizens from other European countries should enjoy the same rights as nationals. Overall, 56% of EU
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The increasing educational divide in the life course development of subjective wellbeing across cohorts Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Alexander Patzina
Labour market, health, and wellbeing research provide evidence of increasing educational inequality as individuals age, representing a pattern consistent with the mechanism of cumulative (dis)advantage. However, individual life courses are embedded in cohort contexts that might alter life course differentiation processes. Thus, this study analyses cohort variations in education-specific life course
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Book Review: Civic Engagement in Scandinavia: Volunteering, Informal Help and Giving in Denmark, Norway and Sweden Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Liv Egholm
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Social background and school track choice: An analysis informed by the rational choice framework Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Ilaria Lievore,Moris Triventi
We investigate social inequalities based on social background in the choice of the academic track among equally performing students, and how indicators derived from the rational choice framework contribute to account for such inequalities. We discuss the main theoretical concepts underpinning rational choice theory as applied to educational decisions: perceived costs, benefits, and risks of failure;
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Gender differences and similarities in work preferences: Results from a factorial survey experiment Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Sara Seehuus
Despite increased gender equality in many arenas in most of the Western world, women and men continue to choose different educational paths; this is one reason for the persistent gender segregation in the labour market. Cultural and economic explanations for occupational gender segregation both contend that gendered career choices reflect gendered preferences. By analysing data from a multifactorial
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How does parental time relate to social class in a Nordic welfare state? Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-11-19 Anne Lise Ellingsæter,Ragni Hege Kitterød,Marianne Nordli Hansen
Time intensive parenting has spread in Western countries. This study contributes to the literature on parental time use, aiming to deepen our understanding of the relationship between parental childcare time and social class. Based on time-diary data (2010–2011) from Norway, and a concept of social class that links parents’ amount and composition of economic and cultural capital, we examine the time
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The effects of parenting on early adolescents’ noncognitive skills: Evidence from a sample of twins in Germany Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-11-15 Michael Grätz,Volker Lang,Martin Diewald
Many theories in the social sciences assume that parenting affects child development. Previous research mostly supports the notion that parenting affects the skill development of children in early childhood. There are fewer studies testing whether parenting in early adolescence has such an influence. We estimate the effects of parenting on early adolescents’ noncognitive skills using data from the
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Null effects of neighbourhood increases in visible minorities on radical right wing party mobilisation Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-11-13 Juta Kawalerowicz,Anders Hjorth-Trolle
In many European countries, a growing share of population with immigrant background coincides with the surge in support for radical right parties. In this paper we show how such increases affect radical right candidacy. We use Swedish register data which identifies political candidates. With geocoded data, we match individuals running for the Sweden Democrats to their local neighbourhood contexts,
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Book Review: Pioneers of Sociological Science: Statistical Foundations and the Theory of Action Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-09-13 Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund
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When Baehr met Steffen: Appraising classicality through the lens of neglect Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-09-13 Josef Ginnerskov
Classical sociology has long served as a locus for the discipline's self-understanding, and is a phenomenon increasingly studied in its own right. The growing literature is synthesised in Peter Baehr's renowned framework for scrutinising reception and formation processes. By theorising on the trajectories of multiple classics, Baehr has helped pave the way for sociology’s understanding of how classicality
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Book Review: Charisma and Disenchantment: The Vocation Lectures by Max Weber Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-09-13 John Dreijmanis
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Ambivalent perceptions of the Other: Towards a dual-process sociology of intercultural relations Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-08-04 Nina Høy-Petersen
Applying theories from sociology and social psychology concerned with the intersection of culture and cognition to in-depth interviews, this paper empirically explores the Norwegian majority population’s perceptions of cultural diversities using a dual-process (DP) methodological and analytic approach. Globalization has produced a mix of new anxieties, opportunities, and curiosities, leaving most people
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Early home-leaving (HL) and educational attainment − The moderating role of HL in the intergenerational transmission of education Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-07-27 Hanna Remes,Outi Sirniö,Pekka Martikainen
Leaving the parental home is a key step in successful transitions to adulthood. Early home-leaving (HL) is associated with lower educational attainment, but the role of early versus later home-leaving in the intergenerational transmission of education has not been assessed in previous research. We used a longitudinal register-based total sample of families in Finland to examine whether the association
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Book Review: Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-07-15 Henrik Fürst
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Labour market disadvantage or poor health upon arrival? An examination of the native–immigrant gap in early retirement on a disability pension Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 Jeevitha Yogachandiran Qvist,Hans-Peter Y Qvist
Non-Western immigrants in Scandinavia have a higher risk of early retirement on a disability pension than natives, but the reasons are unclear. One theory is that increased demands for standardization, efficiency and productivity in advanced capitalist labour markets, such as the Scandinavian market, cause expulsion of the weakest and least qualified individuals from the labour market, including a
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From artistic consecration to degradation: The case of Sven Hassel Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 Dominik Želinský,Philip Smith,Sandra Simonsen
Sociologists often neglect aesthetic and moral factors in explaining the rise and fall of artists’ reputations. Their focus has often been on more ostentatiously “sociological” variables such as politics, networks, organizations, and power. In this study we make central a pollution dynamic and explore the overlooked phenomenon of “literary degradation.” We identify two pathways—the downward aesthetic
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Book Review: Globalizing Issues: How Claims, Frames, and Problems Cross Borders Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-06-21 Niilo Kauppi
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Book Review: Social Class in Europe: New Inequalities in the Old World Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-05-06 Mike Savage
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Unemployment and political trust across 24 Western democracies: Evidence on a welfare state paradox Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Carlotta Giustozzi,Markus Gangl
Set against the backdrop of the Great Recession, the paper explores the interplay of unemployment experiences and political trust in the USA and 23 European countries between 2002 and 2017. Drawing on harmonized data from the European Social Survey and the General Social Survey, we confirm that citizens’ personal experiences of unemployment depress trust in democratic institutions in all countries
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Gender differences in child and adolescent daily activities: A cross-national time use study Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Pablo Gracia,Joan Garcia-Roman,Tomi Oinas,Timo Anttila
This study used 2009–2015 time-diary data to examine gender differences in daily activities among children and adolescents aged 10–17 in Finland, Spain and the UK ( N = 3517). In all three countries, boys were significantly more involved in screen-based activities and exercising and girls in domestic work, non-screen educational activities and personal care. Gender differences in socializing time were
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The role of partnering and assortative mating for income inequality: The case of Finland, 1991–2014 Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-04-27 Jani Erola,Elina Kilpi-Jakonen
Previous studies covering various developed countries suggest that changes in assortative mating by education have contributed only a little to the changes in income inequality, opposite to the expectations of many. In this paper we consider two potential reasons for the zero effects: (a) that it is the selection into partnership rather than assortative mating according to specific characteristics
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Constructing fatherhood in the North and South: Paid parental leave, work and care in Iceland and Spain Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-04-27 Ásdís A Arnalds,Sabina Belope-Nguema,Guðný Björk Eydal,José Andrés Fernández-Cornejo
While Iceland and Spain historically belong to two different welfare regimes, both countries have enacted fathers’ quotas to their systems of paid parental leave. From the year 2000, Iceland has provided fathers with a three-month-long quota, and Spain introduced a 13-day fathers’ quota in 2007. Using survey data, the article applies structural equation modelling to learn of the interconnection between
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Employment among female immigrants to Europe Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Morten Blekesaune
This article investigates how cultural factors might affect the employment of female immigrants to Europe. Cultural factors include the characteristics of individual women, their countries of origin in Africa, Asia and Latin America and the European regions where they reside. Data are from the European Social Survey (2002 to 2019) and various international organisations. Employment is predicted by
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How material deprivation impacted economic stress across European countries during the great recession. A lesson on social comparisons Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-04-05 Stefanie Kley
The development of a common standard of consumption is one goal of the ongoing harmonization of the EU member states’ economies. As a result, the degree to which household deprivation affects people’s economic stress should converge. Based on comparison theory, such convergence could be one indicator for Europe growing together (‘Europeanization’). The association between deprivation and economic stress
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Divorce and female labour force participation: Do women who expect an upcoming divorce increase their employment? Evidence from Flanders Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-04-04 Gert Thielemans,Dimitri Mortelmans
Women who expect an upcoming divorce have the possibility of taking action in order to protect themselves against the projected negative financial consequences. In this paper we investigate whether they do. Using retrospective data for a sample of 884 divorced women from the Divorce in Flanders (DiF)-survey, we estimate the difference in the probability that women increase their employment intensity
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Book Review: Russian Modernization: A New Paradigm Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-03-30 Harri Melin
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Book Review: The Calling of Social Thought: Rediscovering the Work of Edward Shils Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Sven Eliaeson
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Too many immigrants: How does local diversity contribute to attitudes toward immigration? Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-03-24 Juta Kawalerowicz
This paper investigates the link between residential context, perceptions and attitudes toward immigrants by linking data from the British Election Study with Census statistics on composition of electoral constituencies in 2001 and 2011. I consider which type of local diversity is most salient for natives’ attitudes by combining information on ethnicity, religion and skills. Second, I look at whether
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The welfare state criticism of the losers of modernization: How social experiences of resentment shape populist welfare critique Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-03-17 Arno Van Hootegem,Koen Abts,Bart Meuleman
This article aims to explain the paradoxical finding that socio-economically vulnerable groups express more economic, moral and social criticism of the welfare state. As these groups generally benefit more from the welfare state and hold more egalitarian world views, their stronger criticism cannot be explained by the traditional frameworks of self-interest and ideology. As an alternative, we highlight
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Book Review: The Sociology of Identity: Authenticity, Multidimensionality, and Mobility Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 Peter Kivisto
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Book Review: The Bourdieu Paradigm: The Origins and Evolution of an Intellectual Social Project Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-01-28 David L Swartz
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Career stability in turbulent times: A cross-cohort study of mid-careers in Finland Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Aart-Jan Riekhoff,Satu Ojala,Pasi Pyöriä
In this article, we investigate whether the mid-career stability of Finnish men and women has changed for the birth cohorts 1958 to 1972 and, if so, what the driving forces are behind such changes. We analyse career stability during a 15-year period following the age of 30 using ‘career turbulence’ indicators. To identify the impact of cyclical and structural changes in the labour market, we analyse
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Narratives of the mystical among users of psychedelics Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2021-01-11 Willy Pedersen,Heith Copes,Liridona Gashi
We are now witnessing a radical revival in clinical research on the use of psychedelics (e.g. LSD and psilocybin), where ‘mystical’ experiences are at the centre. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 50 psychedelic drug users, we document how they draw on archetypical mystical narratives, comprising three key dimensions: (1) the transcendence of time and space; (2) deep euphoria; and (3) the perception
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Book Review: The Performance Complex: Competition and Competitions in Social Life Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Patrik Aspers
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Book Review: Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Arvid Lindh
unjust institution was perceived as one where staff members exerted a great deal of pressure on inmates (p. 235). Another important finding was that the feeling of being justly treated correlated with patterns of social contact: inmates who had more social contact felt more justly treated (p. 250). Wheeler and Cline concluded that disciplinary sanctioning was a rather infrequent occurrence (p. 122)
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Book Review: The Scandinavian Prison Study by Stanton Wheeler, Hugh F Cline and David J Armor Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2020-12-08 Linda Kjær Minke
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Book Review: Social Avalanche: Crowds, Cities and Financial Markets Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2020-12-08 Roar Hagen
of reality construction as meaning making. This didactic approach helps the reader stay with a plot of synthesis. Instructively, recurrent use of particular examples, such as multiple re-analyses of Roland Barthes’ wrestler from various angles, stories Spillman’s plot of a field where multidimensionality is the gold standard and where a single study can contribute to a whole field of cultural sociology
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Dualisation versus targeting? Public transfers and poverty risks among the unemployed in Germany and Great Britain Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Jan Brülle
The paper analyses changes in the generosity of public transfers to the unemployed and their effectiveness for the alleviation of poverty risks in Germany and Great Britain between the 1990s and th...
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Need, competence and compliance: Selective empowering in the distribution of medical technologies in the Norwegian health care system Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Emil Øversveen
The development of medical technologies is often assumed to improve medical treatment, but may also reproduce health inequalities if their benefits are unequally distributed. Sociological studies h...
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The impact of having a child with special needs: Labour market adaptations of immigrant and majority mothers Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2020-11-26 Liza Reisel, Marjan Nadim, Idunn Brekke
This article compares how having a child with special needs shapes the labour market adaptations of immigrant and majority mothers. We use longitudinal data from Norwegian public registers includin...
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The unwilling foils of the political right: The cultural elite in Swedish and Norwegian newspapers Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2020-11-24 Anne Krogstad, Audrey Stark
Using classic elite understandings as our point of departure, we specify the constituent elements and repertoires of the cultural elite as these are described in Swedish and Norwegian newspapers. T...
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Book Review: What Is Cultural Sociology? Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2020-11-13 Trygve B Broch
zealotry on the part of politicians and policy makers. Shildrick addresses this issue briefly in chapter seven with reference to the concept of ‘wilful institutional ignorance’. I suspect that wilful institutional ignorance plays a role, but it is also easy to see how motivated reasoning plays a role, allowing harmful policies to be implemented in good faith rather than out of malice or ideological
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Book Review: Poverty Propaganda: Exploring the Myths Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2020-11-10 Kolbeinn Stefánsson
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Book Review: Horizontal Europeanisation: The Transnationalisation of Daily Life and Social Fields in Europe Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2020-11-10 Barbara Hoenig
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Book Review: Unequal Europe: Regional Integration and the Rise of European Inequality Acta Sociologica (IF 2.355) Pub Date : 2020-10-21 Kenneth Nelson