Ditte Andersen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 278679 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ditte Andersen |
| NOMBRES | Ditte |
| APELLIDO | Andersen |
| FIRMA | ANDERSEN D |
| AFILIACIONES | VIVE - The Danish Center for Social Science Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2085-3305 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 102 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Research participation and its impacts
This article explicates key ethical and methodological considerations in qualitative research on sexism in academia. We draw on a longitudinal qualitative study that combined focus groups, diaries and repeated individual interviews with 15 female PhD students. First, we outline prospective considerations in the design phase. Previous studies document how sexism and gender biases may be hard for individuals to recognize; we explicate how we took t…
Social investment in action
The economic style of reasoning is not value-neutral! An interview with Elizabeth Popp Berman
As part of Acta Sociologica's special issue on "Social investment in Action" we bring an interview with Professor Elizabeth Popp Berman, author of the widely acclaimed Thinking like an Economist - How Efficiency Replaced Equality in US Public Policy (Princeton University Press, 2022). Interviewer, Ditte Andersen, probes Berman's argument on how the economic style of reasoning is linked to specific values, especially the value of efficiency, in wa…
Special issue
Peer workers as emotion managers
Peer support is increasingly an integrated part of formalized mental health care, in which individuals with lived experiences of mental illness are employed as peer workers (PWs) to provide support to service users. While the supportive nature of peer support has been widely recognized in the mental health system, little is known about the everyday emotional management that such work requires. To address this gap, we examine the emotional mechani…
Imposed volunteering
This article contributes to the sociology of care-relational justice by identifying, conceptualising and unpacking 'imposed volunteering' as a mechanism that shapes societal caring arrangements. Contemporary societies allocate care work disproportionately to women, ethnic minorities and working-class citizens, which exacerbates social inequalities. Distribution of caring responsibilities is a political question but often not recognised as such, b…
We Have Equal Opportunities - in Theory
This article reports on the findings from a qualitative, longitudinal study on lay perceptions of opportunity structures among young adults in Denmark. Previous research suggests that people often underestimate the extent of inequality and that rising inequality aggravates misperceptions. Our study deepens the understanding of the multi-layered processes that form meritocratic beliefs, and it identifies key factors at the macro-, meso- and micro-…
Co-Production of Care During Covid-19
This feature article explores how Danish authorities have worked to secure public health in cooperation with citizens, companies, and civil society organizations amid an unfolding pandemic
Digital story grammar
Digital story grammar (DSG) is a methodology that combines narrative theory and computerised text analysis. The methodology offers new ways of identifying patterns in narrative identity work and examining how these patterns relate to social structures such as gender and social class. DSG works through an algorithm that identifies narrative units consisting of subjects, verbs and objects. To demonstrate the potential of the methodology, we apply i…
Narrative sense-making and prospective social action
The ways in which humans narratively make sense of their lives shape how they navigate the future. At least, that is what prominent philosophers like Sartre, Ricoeur and MacIntyre proposed. Philosophically this idea has roots in the long-standing thesis of mimesis; like art imitates life and life imitates art in the Aristotelian sense, so do life and stories imitate each other (Bruner, 1987). Despite the tenacity of the idea, relatively little re…
Not a Real Prostitute”
Stuck! Welfare state dependency as lived experience
The concern that public support may spur dependency has been voiced throughout the history of welfare states. Nevertheless, little research examines the experience of welfare state dependency in the context of recipients’ everyday lives. This paper provides an in-depth analysis of a case involving Anna, who depends on the Danish welfare system for financial benefits and other forms of support. The study spans five years from age 19 to 24, and inc…
Timely care
Through a conceptualization of timely care defined as the right care at the right time, this article analyzes the challenges involved in synchronizing the needs of vulnerable youth with the care provided through the welfare state bureaucracy. While the process of timing care provision with fluctuating human needs is a major challenge for any welfare state bureaucracy, the issue of time has yet to be integrated systematically into research on care…
Of course you like to fight
Previous research has critiqued conventional anger management programmes for disregarding participants' values honouring masculine performances of being tough, risk-seeking and capable of violence. Conversely, the Danish programme subjected to case study in this paper, represents a liberal approach that endorses such values while still encouraging participants to reform their behaviour. We investigate this approach as a frame for participants' st…
Stigma, problem drug use, and welfare state encounters
Aim: This study examined the ways in which citizens who have self-identified as having problem drug use experienced welfare state encounters in Denmark and considered the findings in the context of the social investment paradigm.Methods: We conducted qualitative interviews with 106 Danish citizens who identified as having a problem drug use. The interviews were transcribed and coded in Nvivo to classify different types of welfare state encounters…
Co-production in community mental health services
The concept of co-production suggests a collaborative production of public welfare services, across boundaries of participant categories, for example professionals, service users, peer-workers and volunteers. While co-production has been embraced in most European countries, the way in which it is translated into everyday practice remains understudied. Drawing on ethnographic data from Danish community mental health services, we attempt to fill th…
Functional Family Therapy for Young People in Treatment for Nonopioid Drug Use
Objectives: This review evaluates the evidence on the effects of functional family therapy (FFT) on drug abuse reduction for young people in treatment for nonopioid drug use. Data and Analysis: We followed Campbell Collaboration guidelines to conduct a systematic review of randomized and nonrandomized trials. Results: The search yielded two studies that met inclusion criteria. Only one study provided numerical results on the effect of FFT on drug…
Effects of Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT) on Nonopioid Drug Abuse
Purpose: This review evaluates the evidence of the effects of multidimensional family therapy (MDFT) on drug use reduction in young people for the treatment of nonopioid drug use. Method: We followed Campbell Collaboration guidelines to conduct a systematic review of randomized and nonrandomized trials. Meta-analytic methods were used to quantitatively synthesize study results. Results: The search yielded five studies that met inclusion criteria.…
Stories of change in drug treatment
Addiction research has demonstrated how recovering individuals need narratives that make sense of past drug use and enable constructions of future, non-addict identities. However, there has not been much investigation into how these recovery narratives actually develop moment-to-moment in drug treatment. Building on the sociology of storytelling and ethnographic fieldwork conducted at two drug treatment institutions for young people in Denmark, t…
Storytelling in Drug Treatment
Professionals who provide drug treatment to young people regularly encounter what they conceive to be inauthentic client claims, that is, claims not in accordance with reality. Earlier research demonstrates how authenticity remains a key concern within drug treatment, but it has not sufficiently explained how professionals account for and distinguish between different types of inauthenticity. Building on the sociology of storytelling, this study …
Giving Clients a Backstage Experience
Professionals who provide drug treatment to young people seek to approach clients as agents of change, i.e., highlight clients' agency and ownership of treatment plans. On the basis of ethnographic data from two treatment institutions in Denmark, this article investigates how everyday interaction organizes clients' experiences in ways that alternately support and contradict this professional ambition. Notably, findings indicate that talk and mate…
Stories of change in drug treatment
Addiction research has demonstrated how recovering individuals need narratives that make sense of past drug use and enable constructions of future, non-addict identities. However, there has not been much investigation into how these recovery narratives actually develop moment-to-moment in drug treatment. Building on the sociology of storytelling and ethnographic fieldwork conducted at two drug treatment institutions for young people in Denmark, t…
Timely care
Through a conceptualization of timely care defined as the right care at the right time, this article analyzes the challenges involved in synchronizing the needs of vulnerable youth with the care provided through the welfare state bureaucracy. While the process of timing care provision with fluctuating human needs is a major challenge for any welfare state bureaucracy, the issue of time has yet to be integrated systematically into research on care…
Co-production in community mental health services
The concept of co-production suggests a collaborative production of public welfare services, across boundaries of participant categories, for example professionals, service users, peer-workers and volunteers. While co-production has been embraced in most European countries, the way in which it is translated into everyday practice remains understudied. Drawing on ethnographic data from Danish community mental health services, we attempt to fill th…
We Have Equal Opportunities - in Theory
This article reports on the findings from a qualitative, longitudinal study on lay perceptions of opportunity structures among young adults in Denmark. Previous research suggests that people often underestimate the extent of inequality and that rising inequality aggravates misperceptions. Our study deepens the understanding of the multi-layered processes that form meritocratic beliefs, and it identifies key factors at the macro-, meso- and micro-…
Narrative sense-making and prospective social action
The ways in which humans narratively make sense of their lives shape how they navigate the future. At least, that is what prominent philosophers like Sartre, Ricoeur and MacIntyre proposed. Philosophically this idea has roots in the long-standing thesis of mimesis; like art imitates life and life imitates art in the Aristotelian sense, so do life and stories imitate each other (Bruner, 1987). Despite the tenacity of the idea, relatively little re…
Imposed volunteering
This article contributes to the sociology of care-relational justice by identifying, conceptualising and unpacking 'imposed volunteering' as a mechanism that shapes societal caring arrangements. Contemporary societies allocate care work disproportionately to women, ethnic minorities and working-class citizens, which exacerbates social inequalities. Distribution of caring responsibilities is a political question but often not recognised as such, b…
Digital story grammar
Digital story grammar (DSG) is a methodology that combines narrative theory and computerised text analysis. The methodology offers new ways of identifying patterns in narrative identity work and examining how these patterns relate to social structures such as gender and social class. DSG works through an algorithm that identifies narrative units consisting of subjects, verbs and objects. To demonstrate the potential of the methodology, we apply i…
Giving Clients a Backstage Experience
Professionals who provide drug treatment to young people seek to approach clients as agents of change, i.e., highlight clients' agency and ownership of treatment plans. On the basis of ethnographic data from two treatment institutions in Denmark, this article investigates how everyday interaction organizes clients' experiences in ways that alternately support and contradict this professional ambition. Notably, findings indicate that talk and mate…
Not a Real Prostitute”
Stuck! Welfare state dependency as lived experience
The concern that public support may spur dependency has been voiced throughout the history of welfare states. Nevertheless, little research examines the experience of welfare state dependency in the context of recipients’ everyday lives. This paper provides an in-depth analysis of a case involving Anna, who depends on the Danish welfare system for financial benefits and other forms of support. The study spans five years from age 19 to 24, and inc…
The economic style of reasoning is not value-neutral! An interview with Elizabeth Popp Berman
As part of Acta Sociologica's special issue on "Social investment in Action" we bring an interview with Professor Elizabeth Popp Berman, author of the widely acclaimed Thinking like an Economist - How Efficiency Replaced Equality in US Public Policy (Princeton University Press, 2022). Interviewer, Ditte Andersen, probes Berman's argument on how the economic style of reasoning is linked to specific values, especially the value of efficiency, in wa…
Special issue
Of course you like to fight
Previous research has critiqued conventional anger management programmes for disregarding participants' values honouring masculine performances of being tough, risk-seeking and capable of violence. Conversely, the Danish programme subjected to case study in this paper, represents a liberal approach that endorses such values while still encouraging participants to reform their behaviour. We investigate this approach as a frame for participants' st…
Effects of Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT) on Nonopioid Drug Abuse
Purpose: This review evaluates the evidence of the effects of multidimensional family therapy (MDFT) on drug use reduction in young people for the treatment of nonopioid drug use. Method: We followed Campbell Collaboration guidelines to conduct a systematic review of randomized and nonrandomized trials. Meta-analytic methods were used to quantitatively synthesize study results. Results: The search yielded five studies that met inclusion criteria.…
Storytelling in Drug Treatment
Professionals who provide drug treatment to young people regularly encounter what they conceive to be inauthentic client claims, that is, claims not in accordance with reality. Earlier research demonstrates how authenticity remains a key concern within drug treatment, but it has not sufficiently explained how professionals account for and distinguish between different types of inauthenticity. Building on the sociology of storytelling, this study …
Storytelling in Drug Treatment
Professionals who provide drug treatment to young people regularly encounter what they conceive to be inauthentic client claims, that is, claims not in accordance with reality. Earlier research demonstrates how authenticity remains a key concern within drug treatment, but it has not sufficiently explained how professionals account for and distinguish between different types of inauthenticity. Building on the sociology of storytelling, this study …
Giving Clients a Backstage Experience
Professionals who provide drug treatment to young people seek to approach clients as agents of change, i.e., highlight clients' agency and ownership of treatment plans. On the basis of ethnographic data from two treatment institutions in Denmark, this article investigates how everyday interaction organizes clients' experiences in ways that alternately support and contradict this professional ambition. Notably, findings indicate that talk and mate…
Effects of Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT) on Nonopioid Drug Abuse
Purpose: This review evaluates the evidence of the effects of multidimensional family therapy (MDFT) on drug use reduction in young people for the treatment of nonopioid drug use. Method: We followed Campbell Collaboration guidelines to conduct a systematic review of randomized and nonrandomized trials. Meta-analytic methods were used to quantitatively synthesize study results. Results: The search yielded five studies that met inclusion criteria.…
Stories of change in drug treatment
Addiction research has demonstrated how recovering individuals need narratives that make sense of past drug use and enable constructions of future, non-addict identities. However, there has not been much investigation into how these recovery narratives actually develop moment-to-moment in drug treatment. Building on the sociology of storytelling and ethnographic fieldwork conducted at two drug treatment institutions for young people in Denmark, t…
Functional Family Therapy for Young People in Treatment for Nonopioid Drug Use
Objectives: This review evaluates the evidence on the effects of functional family therapy (FFT) on drug abuse reduction for young people in treatment for nonopioid drug use. Data and Analysis: We followed Campbell Collaboration guidelines to conduct a systematic review of randomized and nonrandomized trials. Results: The search yielded two studies that met inclusion criteria. Only one study provided numerical results on the effect of FFT on drug…
Stigma, problem drug use, and welfare state encounters
Aim: This study examined the ways in which citizens who have self-identified as having problem drug use experienced welfare state encounters in Denmark and considered the findings in the context of the social investment paradigm.Methods: We conducted qualitative interviews with 106 Danish citizens who identified as having a problem drug use. The interviews were transcribed and coded in Nvivo to classify different types of welfare state encounters…
Co-production in community mental health services
The concept of co-production suggests a collaborative production of public welfare services, across boundaries of participant categories, for example professionals, service users, peer-workers and volunteers. While co-production has been embraced in most European countries, the way in which it is translated into everyday practice remains understudied. Drawing on ethnographic data from Danish community mental health services, we attempt to fill th…
Not a Real Prostitute”
Stuck! Welfare state dependency as lived experience
The concern that public support may spur dependency has been voiced throughout the history of welfare states. Nevertheless, little research examines the experience of welfare state dependency in the context of recipients’ everyday lives. This paper provides an in-depth analysis of a case involving Anna, who depends on the Danish welfare system for financial benefits and other forms of support. The study spans five years from age 19 to 24, and inc…
Timely care
Through a conceptualization of timely care defined as the right care at the right time, this article analyzes the challenges involved in synchronizing the needs of vulnerable youth with the care provided through the welfare state bureaucracy. While the process of timing care provision with fluctuating human needs is a major challenge for any welfare state bureaucracy, the issue of time has yet to be integrated systematically into research on care…
Of course you like to fight
Previous research has critiqued conventional anger management programmes for disregarding participants' values honouring masculine performances of being tough, risk-seeking and capable of violence. Conversely, the Danish programme subjected to case study in this paper, represents a liberal approach that endorses such values while still encouraging participants to reform their behaviour. We investigate this approach as a frame for participants' st…
Co-Production of Care During Covid-19
This feature article explores how Danish authorities have worked to secure public health in cooperation with citizens, companies, and civil society organizations amid an unfolding pandemic
Digital story grammar
Digital story grammar (DSG) is a methodology that combines narrative theory and computerised text analysis. The methodology offers new ways of identifying patterns in narrative identity work and examining how these patterns relate to social structures such as gender and social class. DSG works through an algorithm that identifies narrative units consisting of subjects, verbs and objects. To demonstrate the potential of the methodology, we apply i…
Narrative sense-making and prospective social action
The ways in which humans narratively make sense of their lives shape how they navigate the future. At least, that is what prominent philosophers like Sartre, Ricoeur and MacIntyre proposed. Philosophically this idea has roots in the long-standing thesis of mimesis; like art imitates life and life imitates art in the Aristotelian sense, so do life and stories imitate each other (Bruner, 1987). Despite the tenacity of the idea, relatively little re…
We Have Equal Opportunities - in Theory
This article reports on the findings from a qualitative, longitudinal study on lay perceptions of opportunity structures among young adults in Denmark. Previous research suggests that people often underestimate the extent of inequality and that rising inequality aggravates misperceptions. Our study deepens the understanding of the multi-layered processes that form meritocratic beliefs, and it identifies key factors at the macro-, meso- and micro-…
Peer workers as emotion managers
Peer support is increasingly an integrated part of formalized mental health care, in which individuals with lived experiences of mental illness are employed as peer workers (PWs) to provide support to service users. While the supportive nature of peer support has been widely recognized in the mental health system, little is known about the everyday emotional management that such work requires. To address this gap, we examine the emotional mechani…
Imposed volunteering
This article contributes to the sociology of care-relational justice by identifying, conceptualising and unpacking 'imposed volunteering' as a mechanism that shapes societal caring arrangements. Contemporary societies allocate care work disproportionately to women, ethnic minorities and working-class citizens, which exacerbates social inequalities. Distribution of caring responsibilities is a political question but often not recognised as such, b…
Special issue
Social investment in action
The economic style of reasoning is not value-neutral! An interview with Elizabeth Popp Berman
As part of Acta Sociologica's special issue on "Social investment in Action" we bring an interview with Professor Elizabeth Popp Berman, author of the widely acclaimed Thinking like an Economist - How Efficiency Replaced Equality in US Public Policy (Princeton University Press, 2022). Interviewer, Ditte Andersen, probes Berman's argument on how the economic style of reasoning is linked to specific values, especially the value of efficiency, in wa…
Research participation and its impacts
This article explicates key ethical and methodological considerations in qualitative research on sexism in academia. We draw on a longitudinal qualitative study that combined focus groups, diaries and repeated individual interviews with 15 female PhD students. First, we outline prospective considerations in the design phase. Previous studies document how sexism and gender biases may be hard for individuals to recognize; we explicate how we took t…
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