Niels Ulrik Sørensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 128058 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Niels Ulrik Sørensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Niels Ulrik |
| FAMILY NAME | Sørensen |
| SIGNATURE | SØRENSEN N U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6410-1183 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
I couldn’t Even Be in the Corridors During Breaks Because I Didn’t Feel Safe”: LGBTQ+ Students’ Experiences of (Un)Safe Spaces in Secondary Schools
LGBTQ+ students are exposed to student violations and discriminatory acts in secondary school to a much higher degree than non-LGBTQ+ students. In this article, we investigate how different spaces in school interact with processes of social inclusion and exclusion and how this affects LGBTQ+ students’ experiences of belonging and safety at secondary school. The analyses in the article are presented as movements through classrooms, corridors, cant…
Horizons of Possibility—Young People’s Encounters with Nature and Their Qualities in Social Programs
This article presents an analysis of young people’s encounters with nature within a context of social programs. In the intersection between nature and social initiatives, nature is often defined as something that contains a range of inherent properties that can have a positive impact on various aspects of young people’s lives—such as their well-being, development and learning. However, there is a lack of analyses that focus on the manifold, diver…
Bodies in motion: Exploring transformations of students’ embodied practices through middle school years
This paper explores embodied practices and relations of students’ ‘hexis’, the bodily part of habitus, during middle school years in a Danish state school setting, focusing on how these practices are shaped by classroom dynamics and grade level. Drawing on field notes and vignettes from 12 visits across 3 grade levels in 2 state schools–fifth grade (ages 11–12), seventh grade (ages 13–14), and ninth grade (ages 15–16)–the study reveals distinct p…
A Toxic Combination: Performance, Temporariness, and Struggling for Success in Early Working Life
This article examines some of the conditions that can explain the rise in young workers’ mental health and well-being problems in early work life. Based on 30 qualitative interviews with Danish workers under 30, who all had experienced different kinds of mental health and well-being problems in early work life, it shows how poor working environment and employment conditions often are triggering factors for young workers’ mental health and well-be…
It makes me feel at home’: Establishing a sense of belonging after leaving the childhood home
Moving out from the childhood home is an essential transition in most young people’s lives. Based on the concept of ‘belonging’, this article explores how young people obtain a sense of belonging to a new place after leaving their childhood homes. The article explores the heterogeneous processes involved in the process of coming to belong to a new place. The article is based on a longitudinal interview study involving 36 Danish young people, whom…
In a way, you’d like to move with them’: Young people, moving away from home, and the roles of parents
This article develops a nuanced understanding of the role of parents when young people move away from home. The moving processes of young people have grown more temporary and reversible, and parents are increasingly expected to be involved in the lives of their children after they move away from home. This points to changes in the notions of parenthood, which have been described as ‘involved parenting’. Building on qualitative interviews with 36 …
Social Communities in Transitions: Young Danes’ Narratives on the Change and Maintenance of Social Communities
This article focuses on how the perceptions and functions of social communities in different social arenas change over the course of young people’s transition processes. It considers the perspectives of 12 young Danes at different life stages and based on their narratives about family, educational, and leisure communities, we identify different categories of social communities, which are affected differently by young people’s transition processes…
Living on the Periphery of Youth: Young People’s Narratives of Youth Life in Rural Areas
Drawing on theoretical perspectives regarding the importance of place and belonging to a place in understanding young people’s lives as well as broader processes of social change and continuity, this article explores conceptions of youth as experienced—and narrated—by young people living in rural areas. The article analyzes how discourses on urbanism and youth can be traced in young people’s narratives about their communities and their own lives …
Et helt normalt perfekt selv. Konstruktioner af selvet i unges beretninger om mistrivsel
Ungdomsforskningen har længe været optaget af spørgsmål, der vedrører unges identitetsdannelse. De seneste årtier har denne optagethed fået næring fra en række dagsordensættende samfundsvidenskabelige teorier, som har udvist en betydelig interesse for at udforske selvet, der tilsyneladende er blevet destabiliseret, rekonstrueret og rehabiliteret i en uendelighed. Selvet synes at have fået status som en slags prisme, som de samfundsvidenskabelige …
Dodges for Heterosexuality – Young Boys viewing Male Bodies in Pornography
This article analyses young boys' descriptionsof their meetings with male bodies in pornography. It is based on qualitative interviews with 15 and 16 year old boys performed in the NIKK-project ";Youth, gender and pornography in the Nordic countries";, which took place in 2005 and 2006. The article explores the tension between the masculine and the feminine, the homosexual and the heterosexual generated during these meetings. Especially it focuse…
On the Edge - The Aestheticization of the Masculine and the Heterosexual among Young Men in a Late-modern City
Living on the Periphery of Youth: Young People’s Narratives of Youth Life in Rural Areas
Drawing on theoretical perspectives regarding the importance of place and belonging to a place in understanding young people’s lives as well as broader processes of social change and continuity, this article explores conceptions of youth as experienced—and narrated—by young people living in rural areas. The article analyzes how discourses on urbanism and youth can be traced in young people’s narratives about their communities and their own lives …
In a way, you’d like to move with them’: Young people, moving away from home, and the roles of parents
This article develops a nuanced understanding of the role of parents when young people move away from home. The moving processes of young people have grown more temporary and reversible, and parents are increasingly expected to be involved in the lives of their children after they move away from home. This points to changes in the notions of parenthood, which have been described as ‘involved parenting’. Building on qualitative interviews with 36 …
It makes me feel at home’: Establishing a sense of belonging after leaving the childhood home
Moving out from the childhood home is an essential transition in most young people’s lives. Based on the concept of ‘belonging’, this article explores how young people obtain a sense of belonging to a new place after leaving their childhood homes. The article explores the heterogeneous processes involved in the process of coming to belong to a new place. The article is based on a longitudinal interview study involving 36 Danish young people, whom…
A Toxic Combination: Performance, Temporariness, and Struggling for Success in Early Working Life
This article examines some of the conditions that can explain the rise in young workers’ mental health and well-being problems in early work life. Based on 30 qualitative interviews with Danish workers under 30, who all had experienced different kinds of mental health and well-being problems in early work life, it shows how poor working environment and employment conditions often are triggering factors for young workers’ mental health and well-be…
Social Communities in Transitions: Young Danes’ Narratives on the Change and Maintenance of Social Communities
This article focuses on how the perceptions and functions of social communities in different social arenas change over the course of young people’s transition processes. It considers the perspectives of 12 young Danes at different life stages and based on their narratives about family, educational, and leisure communities, we identify different categories of social communities, which are affected differently by young people’s transition processes…
On the Edge - The Aestheticization of the Masculine and the Heterosexual among Young Men in a Late-modern City
Dodges for Heterosexuality – Young Boys viewing Male Bodies in Pornography
This article analyses young boys' descriptionsof their meetings with male bodies in pornography. It is based on qualitative interviews with 15 and 16 year old boys performed in the NIKK-project ";Youth, gender and pornography in the Nordic countries";, which took place in 2005 and 2006. The article explores the tension between the masculine and the feminine, the homosexual and the heterosexual generated during these meetings. Especially it focuse…
Et helt normalt perfekt selv. Konstruktioner af selvet i unges beretninger om mistrivsel
Ungdomsforskningen har længe været optaget af spørgsmål, der vedrører unges identitetsdannelse. De seneste årtier har denne optagethed fået næring fra en række dagsordensættende samfundsvidenskabelige teorier, som har udvist en betydelig interesse for at udforske selvet, der tilsyneladende er blevet destabiliseret, rekonstrueret og rehabiliteret i en uendelighed. Selvet synes at have fået status som en slags prisme, som de samfundsvidenskabelige …
Living on the Periphery of Youth: Young People’s Narratives of Youth Life in Rural Areas
Drawing on theoretical perspectives regarding the importance of place and belonging to a place in understanding young people’s lives as well as broader processes of social change and continuity, this article explores conceptions of youth as experienced—and narrated—by young people living in rural areas. The article analyzes how discourses on urbanism and youth can be traced in young people’s narratives about their communities and their own lives …
In a way, you’d like to move with them’: Young people, moving away from home, and the roles of parents
This article develops a nuanced understanding of the role of parents when young people move away from home. The moving processes of young people have grown more temporary and reversible, and parents are increasingly expected to be involved in the lives of their children after they move away from home. This points to changes in the notions of parenthood, which have been described as ‘involved parenting’. Building on qualitative interviews with 36 …
Social Communities in Transitions: Young Danes’ Narratives on the Change and Maintenance of Social Communities
This article focuses on how the perceptions and functions of social communities in different social arenas change over the course of young people’s transition processes. It considers the perspectives of 12 young Danes at different life stages and based on their narratives about family, educational, and leisure communities, we identify different categories of social communities, which are affected differently by young people’s transition processes…
It makes me feel at home’: Establishing a sense of belonging after leaving the childhood home
Moving out from the childhood home is an essential transition in most young people’s lives. Based on the concept of ‘belonging’, this article explores how young people obtain a sense of belonging to a new place after leaving their childhood homes. The article explores the heterogeneous processes involved in the process of coming to belong to a new place. The article is based on a longitudinal interview study involving 36 Danish young people, whom…
A Toxic Combination: Performance, Temporariness, and Struggling for Success in Early Working Life
This article examines some of the conditions that can explain the rise in young workers’ mental health and well-being problems in early work life. Based on 30 qualitative interviews with Danish workers under 30, who all had experienced different kinds of mental health and well-being problems in early work life, it shows how poor working environment and employment conditions often are triggering factors for young workers’ mental health and well-be…
Horizons of Possibility—Young People’s Encounters with Nature and Their Qualities in Social Programs
This article presents an analysis of young people’s encounters with nature within a context of social programs. In the intersection between nature and social initiatives, nature is often defined as something that contains a range of inherent properties that can have a positive impact on various aspects of young people’s lives—such as their well-being, development and learning. However, there is a lack of analyses that focus on the manifold, diver…
Bodies in motion: Exploring transformations of students’ embodied practices through middle school years
This paper explores embodied practices and relations of students’ ‘hexis’, the bodily part of habitus, during middle school years in a Danish state school setting, focusing on how these practices are shaped by classroom dynamics and grade level. Drawing on field notes and vignettes from 12 visits across 3 grade levels in 2 state schools–fifth grade (ages 11–12), seventh grade (ages 13–14), and ninth grade (ages 15–16)–the study reveals distinct p…
I couldn’t Even Be in the Corridors During Breaks Because I Didn’t Feel Safe”: LGBTQ+ Students’ Experiences of (Un)Safe Spaces in Secondary Schools
LGBTQ+ students are exposed to student violations and discriminatory acts in secondary school to a much higher degree than non-LGBTQ+ students. In this article, we investigate how different spaces in school interact with processes of social inclusion and exclusion and how this affects LGBTQ+ students’ experiences of belonging and safety at secondary school. The analyses in the article are presented as movements through classrooms, corridors, cant…
Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (3 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works)