Erik Børve Rasmussen
Biographic Data
| ID | 260288 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erik Børve Rasmussen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erik Børve |
| FAMILY NAME | Rasmussen |
| SIGNATURE | RASMUSSEN E B |
| AFFILIATIONS | OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8781-0636 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Wise choices in physiotherapy
This article examines Choosing Wisely (CW) – a campaign to reduce the overuse of healthcare services through the development and spreading of testing and treatment recommendations. Since its launch in 2012 by the American Board of Internal Medicine, CW has become an international and inter-professional campaign. Taking its spread into physiotherapy as our case, we explore how a highly general CW recommendation from the Norwegian Physiotherapist A…
Dual scripts and incongruent innovation
Despite continuous policy efforts, implementing technology in healthcare services remains a precarious venture. This study reports from a collaborative research and development project in Norway that aimed to implement a social technology - Komp - in community homecare services. Originally designed for social contact in the family setting, the project repurposed Komp as a solution connecting homecare services to home-dwelling older adults for ser…
Domestication as Stabilisation
As health and care policies in Western societies emphasise ageing at home, loneliness among home‐dwelling older adults emerges as a health‐related area of intervention and technological innovation. One such intervention is Komp, a social technology designed for families to socially include an older family member struggling to use digital technology. This study couples the concepts of domestication and script to unpack the negotiations of Norwegia…
Five Misconceptions About Interview Modes or
New technology brings new methodological opportunities. While long limited to face-to-face interviewing, today's interview researchers can choose from a plethora of options, including email, instant messaging, telephone, and video interviews. Consequently, the issue of interview modes and their relative strengths and weaknesses has received increased attention. In this article, we take stock of existing writings on interview modes in qualitative …
Diagnosing by anticipation
Anticipation is a fundamental aspect of social life and, following Weber, the hallmark of social action-it means trying to take others' responses to our actions into account when acting. In this article, we propose and argue the relevance of anticipation to the sociological study of diagnosis. To that end, we introduce and elaborate on the concept of diagnosing by anticipation. To diagnose by anticipation is to consider diagnoses as cultural obje…
Skjermet av skjermen
I denne artikkelen skal jeg i dialog med Julia Kristeva og Simone de Beauvoir analysere en bestemt case om en eldre kvinne som bodde på et sykehjem og nærmet seg døden. Artikkelen undersøker kvinnens forhold til kommunikasjonsteknologien Komp, som er utviklet med formål om å gi eldre mulighet til å kommunisere virtuelt med sine pårørende. Mens Komp er utviklet for å motvirke sosial isolasjon, viser denne historien hvordan teknologien også kan tje…
Student at a distance
‘Homebound’ children are unable to attend school for illness-related reasons. To lessen their predicament, schools have begun experimenting with ‘telepresence robots’ that can enable remote participation. While promising, we know little about the use of telepresence robots in practice. To begin to redress this, we draw on 159 semi-structured interviews to explore the experiences of 37 child users of the robot ‘AV1’ in Norwegian schools. The child…
Theorizing theory
‘Theory’ is a seminal term in sociology. Sociologists tend to ask that articles, chapters and monographs are ‘theoretical’, ‘develop theory’ or ‘make a theoretical contribution’. Yet, as demonstrated in Gabriel Abend’s 2008 article ‘The Meaning of ‘Theory’, it is generally unclear what sociologists mean when they talk about theory. Abend distinguishes seven different meanings sociologists tend to impute to ‘theory’ and argues that no single defin…
Educational purity and technological danger
This article contributes to the sociology of education and technology by providing a cultural analysis of scepticism towards new technologies in school, using reactions to the telepresence robot ‘AV1’ as its case. AV1 is designed to connect ‘homebound’ students with their ‘school-based’ teachers and classmates. Despite its idealistic purpose, the robot has been met with significant scepticism by Norwegian school workers. To understand why, the ar…
Sanctioning the sick
The recent inclusion of behavioural conditionality in health‐related benefit programmes raises questions about frontline workers' (FWs') discretionary use of sanctioning. Using an experimental vignette design in a survey of 824 FWs in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV), we investigated whether FWs' perceptions of diagnosis and sick recipients' obligations affect their propensity to sanction for non‐compliance. We find that the …
Mothers constructing six-year-olds
Research on ethnicity and social class in primary school has shown how school produces social inequality and seems to suffer from a lack of professional diversity competence. Less work has examined how a democratic, equality-oriented curriculum puts hierarchies and differences into play. Our study is based on an ethnographic text material in form of a home–school correspondence from two ethnically and socioeconomically different parts of Oslo, No…
Deltakelse og verdighet
Varm teknologi mot ensomhet blant eldre
Artikkelen undersøker hvordan ensomhet blant eldre er forsøkt motvirket ved bruk av digital teknologi: Kommunikasjonsløsningen Komp er en skjerm med kun én knapp og en tilhørende app man kan bruke til å sende bilder, meldinger og opprette videosamtaler med skjermen. Den er utviklet spesielt for eldre brukere uten digital kompetanse og skal motvirke ensomhet gjennom økt digital sosial kontakt. Utviklerne kaller den en «varm teknologi» fordi de men…
Helseprioriteringer i endring
In 1987 came the world's first national health priority white paper, and it was Norwegian. The report was followed up by two new reports in 1997 and 2014, respectively. This article analyzes assumptions for prioritization work based on these three reports. A definite change in the NOUs is that the sociological perspective is replaced by an economic utility perspective, and that an ethic-philosophical perspective is replaced by a more individual-o…
Experience, stereotypes and discrimination. Employers’ reflections on their hiring behavior
This article explores the relationship between labor market discrimination, stereotypes and employers’ experiences with immigrant workers. Based on interviews with 58 employers, recruited as part of three randomized field experiments on ethnic discrimination in the Norwegian labor market, we find that experience matters in three distinct ways: first, employers with negative experiences with immigrant workers were unwilling to give job applicants …
Making and managing medical anomalies
This article explores the making and management of anomaly in scientific work, taking 'medically unexplained symptoms' (MUS) as its case. MUS is a category used to characterize health conditions that are widely held to be ambiguous, in terms of their nature, causes and treatment. It has been suggested that MUS is a 'wastebasket diagnosis'. However, although a powerful metaphor, it does neither the category nor the profession justice: Unlike waste…
Rhetorical work and medical authority
This article explores general practitioners' (GPs) persuasive efforts in cases where biomedical evidence is absent but expected. Health insurance in Western countries is based on the biomedical ideal that legitimate complaints should have objective causes detectable by medical examination. For GPs responsible for assessing sickness and incapacity for work, the demand for objective evidence can be problematic: what if they as experts deem that a p…
Stability and change in disease prestige
Balancing medical accuracy and diagnostic consequences
Focusing on the case of medically unexplained symptoms (MUS), this article explores diagnostic classification in the absence of biomedical evidence or other strong medical warrants for diagnosis. The data are from three focus group interviews with Norwegian general practitioners (GPs) conducted in 2015, that centred on the issue of what diagnoses to use (or not) for MUS. The qualitative analysis reconstructs the logic underlying GPs' diagnostic a…
Stability and change in disease prestige
Experience, stereotypes and discrimination. Employers’ reflections on their hiring behavior
This article explores the relationship between labor market discrimination, stereotypes and employers’ experiences with immigrant workers. Based on interviews with 58 employers, recruited as part of three randomized field experiments on ethnic discrimination in the Norwegian labor market, we find that experience matters in three distinct ways: first, employers with negative experiences with immigrant workers were unwilling to give job applicants …
Balancing medical accuracy and diagnostic consequences
Focusing on the case of medically unexplained symptoms (MUS), this article explores diagnostic classification in the absence of biomedical evidence or other strong medical warrants for diagnosis. The data are from three focus group interviews with Norwegian general practitioners (GPs) conducted in 2015, that centred on the issue of what diagnoses to use (or not) for MUS. The qualitative analysis reconstructs the logic underlying GPs' diagnostic a…
Rhetorical work and medical authority
This article explores general practitioners' (GPs) persuasive efforts in cases where biomedical evidence is absent but expected. Health insurance in Western countries is based on the biomedical ideal that legitimate complaints should have objective causes detectable by medical examination. For GPs responsible for assessing sickness and incapacity for work, the demand for objective evidence can be problematic: what if they as experts deem that a p…
Five Misconceptions About Interview Modes or
New technology brings new methodological opportunities. While long limited to face-to-face interviewing, today's interview researchers can choose from a plethora of options, including email, instant messaging, telephone, and video interviews. Consequently, the issue of interview modes and their relative strengths and weaknesses has received increased attention. In this article, we take stock of existing writings on interview modes in qualitative …
Making and managing medical anomalies
This article explores the making and management of anomaly in scientific work, taking 'medically unexplained symptoms' (MUS) as its case. MUS is a category used to characterize health conditions that are widely held to be ambiguous, in terms of their nature, causes and treatment. It has been suggested that MUS is a 'wastebasket diagnosis'. However, although a powerful metaphor, it does neither the category nor the profession justice: Unlike waste…
Diagnosing by anticipation
Anticipation is a fundamental aspect of social life and, following Weber, the hallmark of social action-it means trying to take others' responses to our actions into account when acting. In this article, we propose and argue the relevance of anticipation to the sociological study of diagnosis. To that end, we introduce and elaborate on the concept of diagnosing by anticipation. To diagnose by anticipation is to consider diagnoses as cultural obje…
Educational purity and technological danger
This article contributes to the sociology of education and technology by providing a cultural analysis of scepticism towards new technologies in school, using reactions to the telepresence robot ‘AV1’ as its case. AV1 is designed to connect ‘homebound’ students with their ‘school-based’ teachers and classmates. Despite its idealistic purpose, the robot has been met with significant scepticism by Norwegian school workers. To understand why, the ar…
Varm teknologi mot ensomhet blant eldre
Artikkelen undersøker hvordan ensomhet blant eldre er forsøkt motvirket ved bruk av digital teknologi: Kommunikasjonsløsningen Komp er en skjerm med kun én knapp og en tilhørende app man kan bruke til å sende bilder, meldinger og opprette videosamtaler med skjermen. Den er utviklet spesielt for eldre brukere uten digital kompetanse og skal motvirke ensomhet gjennom økt digital sosial kontakt. Utviklerne kaller den en «varm teknologi» fordi de men…
Stability and change in disease prestige
Balancing medical accuracy and diagnostic consequences
Focusing on the case of medically unexplained symptoms (MUS), this article explores diagnostic classification in the absence of biomedical evidence or other strong medical warrants for diagnosis. The data are from three focus group interviews with Norwegian general practitioners (GPs) conducted in 2015, that centred on the issue of what diagnoses to use (or not) for MUS. The qualitative analysis reconstructs the logic underlying GPs' diagnostic a…
Helseprioriteringer i endring
In 1987 came the world's first national health priority white paper, and it was Norwegian. The report was followed up by two new reports in 1997 and 2014, respectively. This article analyzes assumptions for prioritization work based on these three reports. A definite change in the NOUs is that the sociological perspective is replaced by an economic utility perspective, and that an ethic-philosophical perspective is replaced by a more individual-o…
Experience, stereotypes and discrimination. Employers’ reflections on their hiring behavior
This article explores the relationship between labor market discrimination, stereotypes and employers’ experiences with immigrant workers. Based on interviews with 58 employers, recruited as part of three randomized field experiments on ethnic discrimination in the Norwegian labor market, we find that experience matters in three distinct ways: first, employers with negative experiences with immigrant workers were unwilling to give job applicants …
Making and managing medical anomalies
This article explores the making and management of anomaly in scientific work, taking 'medically unexplained symptoms' (MUS) as its case. MUS is a category used to characterize health conditions that are widely held to be ambiguous, in terms of their nature, causes and treatment. It has been suggested that MUS is a 'wastebasket diagnosis'. However, although a powerful metaphor, it does neither the category nor the profession justice: Unlike waste…
Rhetorical work and medical authority
This article explores general practitioners' (GPs) persuasive efforts in cases where biomedical evidence is absent but expected. Health insurance in Western countries is based on the biomedical ideal that legitimate complaints should have objective causes detectable by medical examination. For GPs responsible for assessing sickness and incapacity for work, the demand for objective evidence can be problematic: what if they as experts deem that a p…
Mothers constructing six-year-olds
Research on ethnicity and social class in primary school has shown how school produces social inequality and seems to suffer from a lack of professional diversity competence. Less work has examined how a democratic, equality-oriented curriculum puts hierarchies and differences into play. Our study is based on an ethnographic text material in form of a home–school correspondence from two ethnically and socioeconomically different parts of Oslo, No…
Deltakelse og verdighet
Varm teknologi mot ensomhet blant eldre
Artikkelen undersøker hvordan ensomhet blant eldre er forsøkt motvirket ved bruk av digital teknologi: Kommunikasjonsløsningen Komp er en skjerm med kun én knapp og en tilhørende app man kan bruke til å sende bilder, meldinger og opprette videosamtaler med skjermen. Den er utviklet spesielt for eldre brukere uten digital kompetanse og skal motvirke ensomhet gjennom økt digital sosial kontakt. Utviklerne kaller den en «varm teknologi» fordi de men…
Sanctioning the sick
The recent inclusion of behavioural conditionality in health‐related benefit programmes raises questions about frontline workers' (FWs') discretionary use of sanctioning. Using an experimental vignette design in a survey of 824 FWs in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV), we investigated whether FWs' perceptions of diagnosis and sick recipients' obligations affect their propensity to sanction for non‐compliance. We find that the …
Skjermet av skjermen
I denne artikkelen skal jeg i dialog med Julia Kristeva og Simone de Beauvoir analysere en bestemt case om en eldre kvinne som bodde på et sykehjem og nærmet seg døden. Artikkelen undersøker kvinnens forhold til kommunikasjonsteknologien Komp, som er utviklet med formål om å gi eldre mulighet til å kommunisere virtuelt med sine pårørende. Mens Komp er utviklet for å motvirke sosial isolasjon, viser denne historien hvordan teknologien også kan tje…
Student at a distance
‘Homebound’ children are unable to attend school for illness-related reasons. To lessen their predicament, schools have begun experimenting with ‘telepresence robots’ that can enable remote participation. While promising, we know little about the use of telepresence robots in practice. To begin to redress this, we draw on 159 semi-structured interviews to explore the experiences of 37 child users of the robot ‘AV1’ in Norwegian schools. The child…
Theorizing theory
‘Theory’ is a seminal term in sociology. Sociologists tend to ask that articles, chapters and monographs are ‘theoretical’, ‘develop theory’ or ‘make a theoretical contribution’. Yet, as demonstrated in Gabriel Abend’s 2008 article ‘The Meaning of ‘Theory’, it is generally unclear what sociologists mean when they talk about theory. Abend distinguishes seven different meanings sociologists tend to impute to ‘theory’ and argues that no single defin…
Educational purity and technological danger
This article contributes to the sociology of education and technology by providing a cultural analysis of scepticism towards new technologies in school, using reactions to the telepresence robot ‘AV1’ as its case. AV1 is designed to connect ‘homebound’ students with their ‘school-based’ teachers and classmates. Despite its idealistic purpose, the robot has been met with significant scepticism by Norwegian school workers. To understand why, the ar…
Diagnosing by anticipation
Anticipation is a fundamental aspect of social life and, following Weber, the hallmark of social action-it means trying to take others' responses to our actions into account when acting. In this article, we propose and argue the relevance of anticipation to the sociological study of diagnosis. To that end, we introduce and elaborate on the concept of diagnosing by anticipation. To diagnose by anticipation is to consider diagnoses as cultural obje…
Domestication as Stabilisation
As health and care policies in Western societies emphasise ageing at home, loneliness among home‐dwelling older adults emerges as a health‐related area of intervention and technological innovation. One such intervention is Komp, a social technology designed for families to socially include an older family member struggling to use digital technology. This study couples the concepts of domestication and script to unpack the negotiations of Norwegia…
Five Misconceptions About Interview Modes or
New technology brings new methodological opportunities. While long limited to face-to-face interviewing, today's interview researchers can choose from a plethora of options, including email, instant messaging, telephone, and video interviews. Consequently, the issue of interview modes and their relative strengths and weaknesses has received increased attention. In this article, we take stock of existing writings on interview modes in qualitative …
Wise choices in physiotherapy
This article examines Choosing Wisely (CW) – a campaign to reduce the overuse of healthcare services through the development and spreading of testing and treatment recommendations. Since its launch in 2012 by the American Board of Internal Medicine, CW has become an international and inter-professional campaign. Taking its spread into physiotherapy as our case, we explore how a highly general CW recommendation from the Norwegian Physiotherapist A…
Dual scripts and incongruent innovation
Despite continuous policy efforts, implementing technology in healthcare services remains a precarious venture. This study reports from a collaborative research and development project in Norway that aimed to implement a social technology - Komp - in community homecare services. Originally designed for social contact in the family setting, the project repurposed Komp as a solution connecting homecare services to home-dwelling older adults for ser…
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