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Taking the initiative: determinants of parental self-referral to the Norwegian Child Welfare Services
(Nordic Social Work Research;Volume 7, Issue 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study investigates determinants of self-referral to the Child Welfare Services among parents in Norway. Increasing the rates of self-referral can ensure earlier intervention and assistance to more children and parents ... -
Teachers’ professional development and an open classroom climate:A comparative study of Norway, Sweden, South Korea, and Taiwan
(Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education;Vol 3 No 1 (2019): Special Issue: ICCS 2016 Teachers' Perspectives on Civic and Citizenship Education, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-04-04)This article examines teachers’ professional development (PD) in terms of content knowledge and teaching methods, their sense of preparedness in teaching, and their teaching practice of civic and citizenship education (CCE) ... -
Teens’ dreams of becoming professional athletes: the gender gap in youths’ sports ambitions
(Sport in Society Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-03-06)In comparatively gender equal Norway, most boys and girls participate in sports at about equal rates. This apparent gender equality is investigated further: do young teens also profess equal ambitions of becoming professional ... -
Theorizing musical politics: How music express feminist critiques during political protests against the Temer Government in today’s Brazil
(International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology;Vol.9, No.2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Inspired by Karen Barad’s theoretical developments within the field of “posthumanist performativity” and Martha Nussbaum’s work on “political emotions” alongside Herder’s notion of “empirical aesthetics” this article ... -
Thinking through generation: On parenting and belonging among adult children of immigrants in Norway
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-13)In this chapter, we aim to contribute to discussions on generations in migration research by applying Norbert Elias’ and Karen Foster’s generation concepts to an investigation of descendants of immigrants’ experiences of ... -
Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning: 'Problemorientert empirisme' gjennom 60 år
(Tidsskrift for Samfunnsforskning;Årgang 61, nr. 1-2020, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning vil prøve å gi et norsk publikum vitenskapelig orientering om samfunnsforhold og mellommenneskelige spørsmål. […] Vår oppgave er å legge fram resultater av forskning, ikke å fremme sosiale ... -
”Time flies when you are stuck at home, broke, drunk and full of existential dread”. En reflexiv etnografisk betraktelse kring humor ochsamlande under Covid-19 pandemin.
(Tidsskrift for kulturforskning;Nr 1 (2021), Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07-27)This article discusses the way folklorists and ethnologists gathered online during the Covid-19 pandemic to collect and share online humour. The ethnographers’ instinct during a global crisis was to immediately start ... -
"To be, or not to be": Experiencing deterioration among people with young-onset dementia living alone
(International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being;Volume 13, 2018 - Issue 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-07-05)Having dementia before the age of 65 (YOD) represents a radical break from an agenormative and expected life course. The disease afflicts the person’s identity, threatens the self-image and self-confidence, and erodes the ... -
Tobacco use among Norwegian adolescents: from cigarettes to snus
(Addiction;109(7), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-03-16)Aims To: (i) investigate the development of smoking and snus use among Norwegian adolescents, and (ii) describe the users in each group. Design Two population-based surveys with identical procedures in 2002 (response ... -
Tord Larsen, Emil A. Røyrvik (Red.): Trangen til å telle. Objektivering, måling og standardisering som samfunnspraksis
(Norsk Antropologisk tidsskrift;Årgang 30 Nr. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-06-12)«Den overordnete ambisjonen med denne boka er å undersøke objektivering, måling og standardisering i vår tid, og vise hvordan disse praksisene utgjør en kulturell logikk som former de fine hoveddimensjonene i sosialt liv: ... -
Transition from school-based training in VET
(Journal article; Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Purpose – This paper assesses the drop-out rate among disadvantaged students within vocational education and training. The purpose of this paper is to examine the probability of dropping out after school-based training ... -
Transnational mobility and social remittances. The case of Polish women in Norway and Poland
(Ethnologia Europaea;Volume 50 • Issue 1 • Re-enchantment, Ritualization, Heritage-making: Processes Reconfiguring Tradition in Europe, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-14)Research on skilled migrants often focuses on the negative effects of migration on sending countries. Discussions of positive results are limited to monetary remittances. Using ethnographic data, we explore the impact of ... -
Transnational practices and local lives. Quran courses via Skype in Norwegian-Pakistani families
(Identities;22(3), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-03-30)With the emergence of an adult generation of descendants of migrants who are entering the labour market, marrying and having children, questions of transnationalism are made current in new ways. This article engages in the ... -
Transnational Regimes of Family Violence: When Violence Against Women Crosses Borders
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2022)This chapter explores how gender-based family violence is not always limited to the nation state but can also be perpetrated, endured and facilitated transnationally. In research to date only some aspects of what is ... -
Trust, Cultural Health Capital, and Immigrants' Health Care Integration in Norway
(Trust, Cultural Health Capital, and Immigrants' Health Care Integration in Norway;Vol 53, Issue 2, 2019, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-09-10)Trust is a decisive feature of social interactions, transactions, and relationships, yet the implications of trust in integration processes has largely escaped sociological inquiry. Based on interviews and focus group ... -
Trust: an essential condition in the application of a caregiver support intervention in nursing practice
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background The recent policy of deinstitutionalization of health care in Western countries has resulted in a growing number of people - including elderly - with severe mental illness living in the community where they ... -
Understanding Societal Trends in Adolescent Violence
(Nordisk Tidsskrift for Kriminalvidenskab;Årg. 109 Nr. 1 (2022): NSfK 60 år – Jubileumsvolym: Vilka frågor ställer framtidens nordiska kriminologer?, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-02-07)Adolescent violence is a considerable burden for society worldwide. The economic toll of adolescent violence is high (Institute for Economics & Peace, 2014), and violence-related injuries are a major cause of early death ... -
Understanding the increase in parents’ involvement in organized youth sports
(Sport, Education and Society;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-02-18)As part of an ethnographic study on young people and learning (the knowledge in motion across contexts of learning project, set in Norway), we interviewed a diverse sample of parents of young teenagers, many of whom ... -
Understanding unwanted sexual touching A situational approach
(Routledge Research in Gender and Society;, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)Situations involving unwanted sexual touching are analysed in this chapter in an effort to enhance our understanding of the social dynamics of this particular form of invading behaviour against girls and young women. The ... -
Understanding volunteering intensity in older volunteers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Although volunteering is considered a good strategy for successful ageing, not many older adults are engaged in voluntary work and those who are do so mainly sporadically. This study focuses on time invested in volunteering ...