Browsing ODA Open Digital Archive by Journals "Acta Sociologica"
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Are immigrant youth involved in voluntary organizations more likely than their non-immigrant peers to be engaged in politics? Survey evidence from Norway
(Acta Sociologic;Volume: 63 issue: 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-01-06)The aim of this paper is to examine the link between associational involvement and political participation among youth in Norway and how this link varies between boys and girls of an immigrant or non-immigrant background. ... -
The impact of having a child with special needs: Labour market adaptations of immigrant and majority mothers
(Acta Sociologica;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-26)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 including all women who gave ... -
Managers’ views on employees’ parental leave: Problems and solutions within different institutional logics
(Acta Sociologica;Vol 62, Issue 1, 2019, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-04-02)An examination of managers’ perspectives on employees’ parental leave rights is presented, drawing on qualitative interviews with 34 managers in the Norwegian police and in the legal profession. The aim of the article is ... -
Moral economies of the welfare state: A qualitative comparative study
(Acta Sociologica;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-06-13)This paper uses innovative democratic forums carried out in Germany, Norway, and the United Kingdom to examine people’s ideas about welfare-state priorities and future prospects. We use a moral economy framework in the ... -
The role of education and social background in the changing political involvement of adolescents – a comparative approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Political involvement differs according to youngsters’ social background, but the role of students’ own educational pathways in that social gradient is less clear. We investigate whether track position and the school ... -
Towards a renewed understanding of barriers to immigrant parents’ involvement in education
(Acta Sociologica;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This article investigates Danish and Norwegian early childhood education and care teachers’ expectations of immigrant parents’ involvement in kindergarten. The findings are interpreted in terms of the multifaceted interplay ... -
Who deserves to be sanctioned? A vignette experiment of ethnic discrimination among street-level bureaucrats
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)To study discrimination in labour/housing markets, and among street-level bureaucrats in the welfare state, present both theoretical and methodological challenges. In the sociological study of discrimination, experiments ...