M N Hansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 137541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M N Hansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | M N |
| FAMILY NAME | Hansen |
| SIGNATURE | HANSEN M N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3487-8666 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 415 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Dynastic cores and the borrowed time of newcomers. Wealth accumulation and the Norwegian one percent
This paper explores the trajectories of Norwegians who, in their late-thirties, possessed financial assets, such as securities, company shares and stocks, qualifying them as the wealthiest one percent nationally. We describe the accumulation of financial wealth over a 25-year period in adulthood and study how different wealth sequences are linked to family origins and kinship ties. Although some Norwegians manage to build up large fortunes from r…
How does parental time relate to social class in a Nordic welfare state
Time intensive parenting has spread in Western countries. This study contributes to the literature on parental time use, aiming to deepen our understanding of the relationship between parental childcare time and social class. Based on time-diary data (2010-2011) from Norway, and a concept of social class that links parents' amount and composition of economic and cultural capital, we examine the time spent by parents on childcare activities. The a…
Historical change in an elite profession-Class origins and grades among law graduates over 200 years
This article explores the relationship between social class and educational achievement measured by grades among Norwegian law graduates over a span of 200 years. We argue that class inequalities may arise due to mechanisms favouring 'insiders', meaning students whose families have legal backgrounds. Alternatively, a broader category of students with origins in educated or elite families could also enjoy special advantages. Our results indicate t…
Wealth Accumulation and Opportunity Hoarding: Class-Origin Wealth Gaps over a Quarter of a Century in a Scandinavian Country
Although the Scandinavian countries are often considered to epitomize social democratic governance, Scandinavia's profound wealth inequalities, seen in relation to the more modest income differences, constitutes a fascinating paradox. Drawing on class theoretical concerns with strategies for reproduction and a Bourdieusian emphasis on class fractions, we explore how class-origin wealth gaps evolved over the past 25 years in Norway, and how they c…
Rettferdiggjøring av ulikhet
The Accumulation and Transfers of Wealth: Variations by Social Class
The purpose of our study is to investigate the role of wealth in broader stratification processes. Based on unique data from Norwegian tax registers, we address questions about the association between class origin, wealth transfers, and wealth accumulation among young adults. We show that is more common to receive transfers in the higher than in the lower social classes, and that those originating in the economic upper class, i.e. large proprieto…
The Scandinavian model during increasing inequality: Recent trends in educational attainment, earnings and wealth among Norwegian siblings
Forms of Capital and Modes of Closure in Upper Class Reproduction
We investigate the recruitment into the upper class, analysing the impact of different forms of capital and modes of closure. Unlike many Bourdieu-influenced approaches to class, we systematically investigate divisions by composition of capital: the relative weight of economic to cultural capital. We find capital-specific barriers to mobility: access to the upper class fractions is not only differentiated by one's parents' volume of capital or th…
Self-Made Wealth or Family Wealth? Changes in Intergenerational Wealth Mobility
The main question raised is, who becomes rich? Is there a class of wealthy property owners that is reproduced over generations? Or are the typical avenues into the highest echelons of wealth entrepreneurial activity or highly paid executive positions? Wealth mobility is examined using population data from Norway. The focus is on the top 1 percent and the top 0.1 percent of the wealth scale over a period of nearly two decades. The results show tha…
Class and Cultural Capital--The Case of Class Inequality in Educational Performance
According to Bourdieu, the culture of the most powerful classes serves as a legitimate culture that can be mastered to varying extents. Students who have been inculcated these cultural forms from childhood will have the greatest probability of academic success. The subsequent research aimed at testing the validity of cultural capital theory is no unified research tradition. In this article, we first discuss different understandings of the concept…
Norsk sosiologi – styringsmaktens lydigste tjener
Utdanningspolitikk og ulikhet
UTDANNINGSPOLITIKK OG ULIKHET. REKRUTTERING TIL HØYERE UTDANNING 1985–1996 Er betydningen av sosial bakgrunn for rekruttering til høyere utdanning endret i løpet av 80-og 90-tallet? Er utviklingen i ulikhet forskjellig i ulike deler av utdanningssystemet? For å besvare disse spørsmålene skilles det mellom ulike typer høyere utdanning, høyskoleutdanninger, universitetsutdanninger og såkalte eliteutdanninger. Det argumenteres også for at begrepet s…
Change in intergenerational economic mobility in Norway: Conventional versus joint classifications of economic origin
Change over Time in the Intergenerational Transmission of Social Disadvantage
A major goal of social democratic welfare states has been to reduce the impact of social origin on the life chances of individuals. If the universalistic and egalitarian policies of these states were successful, we would expect the effect of social origin on social disadvantage to decline across cohorts. We study the impact of parental income during childhood and adolescence on four forms of social disadvantage in Norway. These are receipt of soc…
Rational Action Theory and Educational Attainment. Changes in the Impact of Economic Resources
The article addresses the question of whether the impact of economic resources on educational attainment has changed over time. According to the rational action perspective, variations in parental economic resources should be an important source of inequality in educational attainment, because richer families most easily can pay for their children's education. Moreover, inequalities should increase in periods with increasing economic inequality a…
Social Origins and Academic Performance at University
The paper addresses the question of whether social class origin affects academic performance at university. Although a clear relationship between social origins and performance has been found at lower levels of the educational system, the much stronger selection of lower class students to higher education makes it unlikely that they should be less talented than students from higher class backgrounds. However, according to cultural capital theory,…
Utdanning og ulikhet – valg, prestasjoner og sosiale settinger
Education and Economic Rewards. Variations by Social-Class Origin and Income Measures
The main question raised here is whether the levels of reward among people with similar education, both with respect to level and field, vary by social‐class origin. It is argued that social‐class origin is likely to have greater impact on economic rewards among those educated in 'soft' than in 'hard' educational fields, because performance is more easily measured in the latter category. A further question is how the choice of income measure affe…
Closure in an Open Profession. The Impact of Social Origin on the Educational and Occupational Success of Graduates of Law in Norway
Education in law in Norway must be characterised as an open educational field, with lower entry requirements than other prestigious professional fields. Such an open system might be expected to lead to a high degree of equality by social class origin among the graduates. The impact of social origin is assessed at different steps of the educational and occupational career in a unique sample consisting of all Norwegian graduates in law between 1981…
The Scandinavian Welfare State Model: The Impact of the Public Sector on Segregation and Gender Equality
Comparative studies of sex segregation indicate that the levels in the Scandinavian countries are high, especially in Norway. Observers tend to link this to various aspects of the social democratic welfare state. This article examines the thesis that the public sector in the Scandinavian welfare state model is an attractive employer for women, with regard to both working conditions and wages. The data consist of a sample from the 1990 Norwegian p…
Social and Economic Inequality in the Educational Career: Do the Effects of Social Background Characteristics Decline
This paper studies the influence of social and economic background on educational decisions during the complete career in the Norwegian educational system. The data consists of a sample of Norwegians between the age of 30 and 34 in 1990 from the population censuses. Studies of the development of social inequality in educational attainment often use a sequential binary choice model. The model used here seeks to provide a more realistic representat…
Earnings in Elite Groups: The Impact of Social Class Origin
The question addressed here is whether, and to what extent, social class origin has an impact on earnings among people with similar educational credentials and similar occupational positions. It is argued that earnings advantages of those originating in the upper or upper-middle classes are likely to be found primarily among those who choose education and occupations in the sector of their origin, and in occupations in which the criteria for meas…
Wealth Accumulation and Opportunity Hoarding: Class-Origin Wealth Gaps over a Quarter of a Century in a Scandinavian Country
Although the Scandinavian countries are often considered to epitomize social democratic governance, Scandinavia's profound wealth inequalities, seen in relation to the more modest income differences, constitutes a fascinating paradox. Drawing on class theoretical concerns with strategies for reproduction and a Bourdieusian emphasis on class fractions, we explore how class-origin wealth gaps evolved over the past 25 years in Norway, and how they c…
Class and Cultural Capital--The Case of Class Inequality in Educational Performance
According to Bourdieu, the culture of the most powerful classes serves as a legitimate culture that can be mastered to varying extents. Students who have been inculcated these cultural forms from childhood will have the greatest probability of academic success. The subsequent research aimed at testing the validity of cultural capital theory is no unified research tradition. In this article, we first discuss different understandings of the concept…
Self-Made Wealth or Family Wealth? Changes in Intergenerational Wealth Mobility
The main question raised is, who becomes rich? Is there a class of wealthy property owners that is reproduced over generations? Or are the typical avenues into the highest echelons of wealth entrepreneurial activity or highly paid executive positions? Wealth mobility is examined using population data from Norway. The focus is on the top 1 percent and the top 0.1 percent of the wealth scale over a period of nearly two decades. The results show tha…
Forms of Capital and Modes of Closure in Upper Class Reproduction
We investigate the recruitment into the upper class, analysing the impact of different forms of capital and modes of closure. Unlike many Bourdieu-influenced approaches to class, we systematically investigate divisions by composition of capital: the relative weight of economic to cultural capital. We find capital-specific barriers to mobility: access to the upper class fractions is not only differentiated by one's parents' volume of capital or th…
Social and Economic Inequality in the Educational Career: Do the Effects of Social Background Characteristics Decline
This paper studies the influence of social and economic background on educational decisions during the complete career in the Norwegian educational system. The data consists of a sample of Norwegians between the age of 30 and 34 in 1990 from the population censuses. Studies of the development of social inequality in educational attainment often use a sequential binary choice model. The model used here seeks to provide a more realistic representat…
Education and Economic Rewards. Variations by Social-Class Origin and Income Measures
The main question raised here is whether the levels of reward among people with similar education, both with respect to level and field, vary by social‐class origin. It is argued that social‐class origin is likely to have greater impact on economic rewards among those educated in 'soft' than in 'hard' educational fields, because performance is more easily measured in the latter category. A further question is how the choice of income measure affe…
The Scandinavian Welfare State Model: The Impact of the Public Sector on Segregation and Gender Equality
Comparative studies of sex segregation indicate that the levels in the Scandinavian countries are high, especially in Norway. Observers tend to link this to various aspects of the social democratic welfare state. This article examines the thesis that the public sector in the Scandinavian welfare state model is an attractive employer for women, with regard to both working conditions and wages. The data consist of a sample from the 1990 Norwegian p…
Social Origins and Academic Performance at University
The paper addresses the question of whether social class origin affects academic performance at university. Although a clear relationship between social origins and performance has been found at lower levels of the educational system, the much stronger selection of lower class students to higher education makes it unlikely that they should be less talented than students from higher class backgrounds. However, according to cultural capital theory,…
Closure in an Open Profession. The Impact of Social Origin on the Educational and Occupational Success of Graduates of Law in Norway
Education in law in Norway must be characterised as an open educational field, with lower entry requirements than other prestigious professional fields. Such an open system might be expected to lead to a high degree of equality by social class origin among the graduates. The impact of social origin is assessed at different steps of the educational and occupational career in a unique sample consisting of all Norwegian graduates in law between 1981…
Dynastic cores and the borrowed time of newcomers. Wealth accumulation and the Norwegian one percent
This paper explores the trajectories of Norwegians who, in their late-thirties, possessed financial assets, such as securities, company shares and stocks, qualifying them as the wealthiest one percent nationally. We describe the accumulation of financial wealth over a 25-year period in adulthood and study how different wealth sequences are linked to family origins and kinship ties. Although some Norwegians manage to build up large fortunes from r…
Change over Time in the Intergenerational Transmission of Social Disadvantage
A major goal of social democratic welfare states has been to reduce the impact of social origin on the life chances of individuals. If the universalistic and egalitarian policies of these states were successful, we would expect the effect of social origin on social disadvantage to decline across cohorts. We study the impact of parental income during childhood and adolescence on four forms of social disadvantage in Norway. These are receipt of soc…
The Scandinavian model during increasing inequality: Recent trends in educational attainment, earnings and wealth among Norwegian siblings
Rational Action Theory and Educational Attainment. Changes in the Impact of Economic Resources
The article addresses the question of whether the impact of economic resources on educational attainment has changed over time. According to the rational action perspective, variations in parental economic resources should be an important source of inequality in educational attainment, because richer families most easily can pay for their children's education. Moreover, inequalities should increase in periods with increasing economic inequality a…
How does parental time relate to social class in a Nordic welfare state
Time intensive parenting has spread in Western countries. This study contributes to the literature on parental time use, aiming to deepen our understanding of the relationship between parental childcare time and social class. Based on time-diary data (2010-2011) from Norway, and a concept of social class that links parents' amount and composition of economic and cultural capital, we examine the time spent by parents on childcare activities. The a…
Earnings in Elite Groups: The Impact of Social Class Origin
The question addressed here is whether, and to what extent, social class origin has an impact on earnings among people with similar educational credentials and similar occupational positions. It is argued that earnings advantages of those originating in the upper or upper-middle classes are likely to be found primarily among those who choose education and occupations in the sector of their origin, and in occupations in which the criteria for meas…
Change in intergenerational economic mobility in Norway: Conventional versus joint classifications of economic origin
Historical change in an elite profession-Class origins and grades among law graduates over 200 years
This article explores the relationship between social class and educational achievement measured by grades among Norwegian law graduates over a span of 200 years. We argue that class inequalities may arise due to mechanisms favouring 'insiders', meaning students whose families have legal backgrounds. Alternatively, a broader category of students with origins in educated or elite families could also enjoy special advantages. Our results indicate t…
Utdanning og ulikhet – valg, prestasjoner og sosiale settinger
The Accumulation and Transfers of Wealth: Variations by Social Class
The purpose of our study is to investigate the role of wealth in broader stratification processes. Based on unique data from Norwegian tax registers, we address questions about the association between class origin, wealth transfers, and wealth accumulation among young adults. We show that is more common to receive transfers in the higher than in the lower social classes, and that those originating in the economic upper class, i.e. large proprieto…
Utdanningspolitikk og ulikhet
UTDANNINGSPOLITIKK OG ULIKHET. REKRUTTERING TIL HØYERE UTDANNING 1985–1996 Er betydningen av sosial bakgrunn for rekruttering til høyere utdanning endret i løpet av 80-og 90-tallet? Er utviklingen i ulikhet forskjellig i ulike deler av utdanningssystemet? For å besvare disse spørsmålene skilles det mellom ulike typer høyere utdanning, høyskoleutdanninger, universitetsutdanninger og såkalte eliteutdanninger. Det argumenteres også for at begrepet s…
Earnings in Elite Groups: The Impact of Social Class Origin
The question addressed here is whether, and to what extent, social class origin has an impact on earnings among people with similar educational credentials and similar occupational positions. It is argued that earnings advantages of those originating in the upper or upper-middle classes are likely to be found primarily among those who choose education and occupations in the sector of their origin, and in occupations in which the criteria for meas…
The Scandinavian Welfare State Model: The Impact of the Public Sector on Segregation and Gender Equality
Comparative studies of sex segregation indicate that the levels in the Scandinavian countries are high, especially in Norway. Observers tend to link this to various aspects of the social democratic welfare state. This article examines the thesis that the public sector in the Scandinavian welfare state model is an attractive employer for women, with regard to both working conditions and wages. The data consist of a sample from the 1990 Norwegian p…
Social and Economic Inequality in the Educational Career: Do the Effects of Social Background Characteristics Decline
This paper studies the influence of social and economic background on educational decisions during the complete career in the Norwegian educational system. The data consists of a sample of Norwegians between the age of 30 and 34 in 1990 from the population censuses. Studies of the development of social inequality in educational attainment often use a sequential binary choice model. The model used here seeks to provide a more realistic representat…
Education and Economic Rewards. Variations by Social-Class Origin and Income Measures
The main question raised here is whether the levels of reward among people with similar education, both with respect to level and field, vary by social‐class origin. It is argued that social‐class origin is likely to have greater impact on economic rewards among those educated in 'soft' than in 'hard' educational fields, because performance is more easily measured in the latter category. A further question is how the choice of income measure affe…
Closure in an Open Profession. The Impact of Social Origin on the Educational and Occupational Success of Graduates of Law in Norway
Education in law in Norway must be characterised as an open educational field, with lower entry requirements than other prestigious professional fields. Such an open system might be expected to lead to a high degree of equality by social class origin among the graduates. The impact of social origin is assessed at different steps of the educational and occupational career in a unique sample consisting of all Norwegian graduates in law between 1981…
Utdanning og ulikhet – valg, prestasjoner og sosiale settinger
Social Origins and Academic Performance at University
The paper addresses the question of whether social class origin affects academic performance at university. Although a clear relationship between social origins and performance has been found at lower levels of the educational system, the much stronger selection of lower class students to higher education makes it unlikely that they should be less talented than students from higher class backgrounds. However, according to cultural capital theory,…
Rational Action Theory and Educational Attainment. Changes in the Impact of Economic Resources
The article addresses the question of whether the impact of economic resources on educational attainment has changed over time. According to the rational action perspective, variations in parental economic resources should be an important source of inequality in educational attainment, because richer families most easily can pay for their children's education. Moreover, inequalities should increase in periods with increasing economic inequality a…
Change in intergenerational economic mobility in Norway: Conventional versus joint classifications of economic origin
Change over Time in the Intergenerational Transmission of Social Disadvantage
A major goal of social democratic welfare states has been to reduce the impact of social origin on the life chances of individuals. If the universalistic and egalitarian policies of these states were successful, we would expect the effect of social origin on social disadvantage to decline across cohorts. We study the impact of parental income during childhood and adolescence on four forms of social disadvantage in Norway. These are receipt of soc…
Utdanningspolitikk og ulikhet
UTDANNINGSPOLITIKK OG ULIKHET. REKRUTTERING TIL HØYERE UTDANNING 1985–1996 Er betydningen av sosial bakgrunn for rekruttering til høyere utdanning endret i løpet av 80-og 90-tallet? Er utviklingen i ulikhet forskjellig i ulike deler av utdanningssystemet? For å besvare disse spørsmålene skilles det mellom ulike typer høyere utdanning, høyskoleutdanninger, universitetsutdanninger og såkalte eliteutdanninger. Det argumenteres også for at begrepet s…
Norsk sosiologi – styringsmaktens lydigste tjener
Class and Cultural Capital--The Case of Class Inequality in Educational Performance
According to Bourdieu, the culture of the most powerful classes serves as a legitimate culture that can be mastered to varying extents. Students who have been inculcated these cultural forms from childhood will have the greatest probability of academic success. The subsequent research aimed at testing the validity of cultural capital theory is no unified research tradition. In this article, we first discuss different understandings of the concept…
Self-Made Wealth or Family Wealth? Changes in Intergenerational Wealth Mobility
The main question raised is, who becomes rich? Is there a class of wealthy property owners that is reproduced over generations? Or are the typical avenues into the highest echelons of wealth entrepreneurial activity or highly paid executive positions? Wealth mobility is examined using population data from Norway. The focus is on the top 1 percent and the top 0.1 percent of the wealth scale over a period of nearly two decades. The results show tha…
Forms of Capital and Modes of Closure in Upper Class Reproduction
We investigate the recruitment into the upper class, analysing the impact of different forms of capital and modes of closure. Unlike many Bourdieu-influenced approaches to class, we systematically investigate divisions by composition of capital: the relative weight of economic to cultural capital. We find capital-specific barriers to mobility: access to the upper class fractions is not only differentiated by one's parents' volume of capital or th…
The Scandinavian model during increasing inequality: Recent trends in educational attainment, earnings and wealth among Norwegian siblings
The Accumulation and Transfers of Wealth: Variations by Social Class
The purpose of our study is to investigate the role of wealth in broader stratification processes. Based on unique data from Norwegian tax registers, we address questions about the association between class origin, wealth transfers, and wealth accumulation among young adults. We show that is more common to receive transfers in the higher than in the lower social classes, and that those originating in the economic upper class, i.e. large proprieto…
Rettferdiggjøring av ulikhet
Historical change in an elite profession-Class origins and grades among law graduates over 200 years
This article explores the relationship between social class and educational achievement measured by grades among Norwegian law graduates over a span of 200 years. We argue that class inequalities may arise due to mechanisms favouring 'insiders', meaning students whose families have legal backgrounds. Alternatively, a broader category of students with origins in educated or elite families could also enjoy special advantages. Our results indicate t…
Wealth Accumulation and Opportunity Hoarding: Class-Origin Wealth Gaps over a Quarter of a Century in a Scandinavian Country
Although the Scandinavian countries are often considered to epitomize social democratic governance, Scandinavia's profound wealth inequalities, seen in relation to the more modest income differences, constitutes a fascinating paradox. Drawing on class theoretical concerns with strategies for reproduction and a Bourdieusian emphasis on class fractions, we explore how class-origin wealth gaps evolved over the past 25 years in Norway, and how they c…
Dynastic cores and the borrowed time of newcomers. Wealth accumulation and the Norwegian one percent
This paper explores the trajectories of Norwegians who, in their late-thirties, possessed financial assets, such as securities, company shares and stocks, qualifying them as the wealthiest one percent nationally. We describe the accumulation of financial wealth over a 25-year period in adulthood and study how different wealth sequences are linked to family origins and kinship ties. Although some Norwegians manage to build up large fortunes from r…
How does parental time relate to social class in a Nordic welfare state
Time intensive parenting has spread in Western countries. This study contributes to the literature on parental time use, aiming to deepen our understanding of the relationship between parental childcare time and social class. Based on time-diary data (2010-2011) from Norway, and a concept of social class that links parents' amount and composition of economic and cultural capital, we examine the time spent by parents on childcare activities. The a…
Sociology (21 works) · Economics (16 works) · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (15 works) · Demographic economics (14 works) · Norwegian (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Social science (10 works) · Inequality (9 works) · Social class (9 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (8 works)