Johannes Hjellbrekke
Biographic Data
| ID | 1435115 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johannes Hjellbrekke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johannes |
| FAMILY NAME | Hjellbrekke |
| SIGNATURE | HJELLBREKKE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8227-7270 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 436 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be considered as a position of economic power and internationally incompatible sources of information hinder compa…
Literary practices, capital structures and political position-taking: The Norwegian writers during World War II
The socioeconomic dimensions of racial inequality in South Africa: A social space perspective
It is well evidenced that South Africa is characterised by extreme socioeconomic inequality, which is strongly racialised. We offer an original sociological perspective, which departs from established perspectives considering the dynamics of vulnerability and poverty to focus on the structuring of classed and racialised privilege. We map how stocks of economic, cultural, and social capital intersect to generate systematic and structural inequalit…
Questionable Research Practices and Misconduct Among Norwegian Researchers
This article presents results from the national survey conducted in 2018 for the project Research Integrity in Norway (RINO). A total of 31,206 questionnaires were sent out to Norwegian researchers by e-mail, and 7291 responses were obtained. In this paper, we analyse the survey data to determine attitudes towards and the prevalence of fabrication, falsification and plagiarism (FFP) and contrast this with attitudes towards and the prevalence of t…
Cultural divisions and time: Mapping diachronic homologies using class-specific MCA (CSA)
In this article, we present an alternative approach to study dimensional stability and change in cultural divisions across time. Drawing on recent developments in Geometric Data Analysis (GDA), we combine the use of two distinct statistical techniques: Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) and Class Specific MCA (CSA). Specifically, the approach allows for the systematic investigation of three key aspects: (i) whether and how the dimensionality …
Who you know: The classed structure of social capital
This article focuses on the social structuring of social capital, understood as resources embedded in social networks. The analysis integrates key theoretical-methodological insights from two distinct approaches concerned with social capital and inequality: the position-generator approach associated with Nan Lin and the spatial approach associated with Pierre Bourdieu. Empirically, we exploit the possibilities of survey data containing detailed i…
Emerging Cultural Capital in the City: Profiling London and Brussels
This essay examines how the contemporary city is being redefined as a fundamental crucible in which new and emerging modes of cultural capital are being forged. Drawing inspiration from the links Bourdieu draws between physical and social space, we use comprehensive quantitative surveys from Belgium and the UK to explore the accelerating interplay between large urban centres and the generation of 'cosmopolitan cultural capital'. We show a close a…
Class, Culture and Culinary Tastes: Cultural Distinctions and Social Class Divisions in Contemporary Norway
In this article we analyse class cultures by mapping out differences in 'original taste'; that is, respondents' classed preferences for food and drink. By employing Multiple Correspondence Analysis, we produce a relational model of tastes. Using three indicators of social class - occupational class, income and education - we find clear class divisions. The upper and middle classes exhibit diverse and what are typically regarded as 'healthy' taste…
Øvst ved bordet?»: Ein analyse av symbolske kapitalhierarki ved Noregs Banksårsmiddag
Response: Not So Fast: A Comment on Atkinson and Deeming's ‘Class and Cuisine in Contemporary Britain: The Social Space, the Space of Food and their Homology’
In a recent paper in The Sociological Review, Atkinson and Deeming argue that tastes in food are homologous to the social space, exactly as it was in Bourdieu's Distinction. This would involve differences in food tastes not only along the class hierarchy, but also a clear-cut divide by the relative weight of cultural and economic capital. However, Atkinson and Deeming base their claims on insufficient data analysis: They misinterpret their own co…
Erik Jørgen Hansen: Social mobilitet. Drøm, realitet, illusion
Héritiers et outsiders: Sur la noblesse d'État norvégienne
Cet article traite de la contribution de la théorie des champs de Pierre Bourdieu à des études comparatives du champ du pouvoir dans différents pays. En retenant, comme cas empirique, l'exemple de la Norvège, il traite des difficultés méthodologiques que comporte la mise en évidence des structures de l'espace social et du champ du pouvoir. Ensuite, il insiste sur la différence essentielle, mais souvent négligée, entre généralisation empirique et …
A New Model of Social Class? Findings from the BBC's Great British Class Survey Experiment
The social scientific analysis of social class is attracting renewed interest given the accentuation of economic and social inequalities throughout the world. The most widely validated measure of social class, the Nuffield class schema, developed in the 1970s, was codified in the UK's National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification (NS-SEC) and places people in one of seven main classes according to their occupation and employment status. This …
Social Capital in the Field of Power: The Case of Norway
This paper analyses social capital structures in the field of power, based on data from the Norwegian Power and Democracy Survey on elites. Separating between objectified, institutionalised, embodied, and inherited social capital, and inspired by Bourdieu's approach, we analyse the relations between social capital and the other forms of capital by way of specific multiple correspondence analysis and ascending hierarchical cluster analysis. First,…
The Norwegian Field of Power Anno 2000
This article, in the line of Bourdieu (1989), belongs to the research domain about elites and the field of power. Using data from the Norwegian Power & Democracy survey on elites, conducted in 2000, it specifically seeks to uncover the main dimensions and fractions in the Norwegian field of power. Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) has been used to address this issue. The three main findings are these: firstly, our results show that the three…
Brigitte Le Roux and Henry Rouanet (with a foreword by Patrick Suppes): Geometric Data Analysis: From Correspondence Analysis to Structured Data Analysis Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2004. 475 pages, 155 Euros
To many sociologists, a book with the title Geometric Data Analysis may at first seem of little relevance to their own work. The subtitle, however – From Correspondence Analysis to Structured Data Analysis – should indicate otherwise. As is well known, multiple correspondence analysis was the preferred statistical tool of the late Pierre Bourdieu, with whom the two authors collaborated from the mid-1990s and onwards. The book gives a state-of-the…
Redaksjonsskifte
A New Model of Social Class? Findings from the BBC's Great British Class Survey Experiment
The social scientific analysis of social class is attracting renewed interest given the accentuation of economic and social inequalities throughout the world. The most widely validated measure of social class, the Nuffield class schema, developed in the 1970s, was codified in the UK's National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification (NS-SEC) and places people in one of seven main classes according to their occupation and employment status. This …
The Norwegian Field of Power Anno 2000
This article, in the line of Bourdieu (1989), belongs to the research domain about elites and the field of power. Using data from the Norwegian Power & Democracy survey on elites, conducted in 2000, it specifically seeks to uncover the main dimensions and fractions in the Norwegian field of power. Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) has been used to address this issue. The three main findings are these: firstly, our results show that the three…
Social Capital in the Field of Power: The Case of Norway
This paper analyses social capital structures in the field of power, based on data from the Norwegian Power and Democracy Survey on elites. Separating between objectified, institutionalised, embodied, and inherited social capital, and inspired by Bourdieu's approach, we analyse the relations between social capital and the other forms of capital by way of specific multiple correspondence analysis and ascending hierarchical cluster analysis. First,…
Class, Culture and Culinary Tastes: Cultural Distinctions and Social Class Divisions in Contemporary Norway
In this article we analyse class cultures by mapping out differences in 'original taste'; that is, respondents' classed preferences for food and drink. By employing Multiple Correspondence Analysis, we produce a relational model of tastes. Using three indicators of social class - occupational class, income and education - we find clear class divisions. The upper and middle classes exhibit diverse and what are typically regarded as 'healthy' taste…
Who you know: The classed structure of social capital
This article focuses on the social structuring of social capital, understood as resources embedded in social networks. The analysis integrates key theoretical-methodological insights from two distinct approaches concerned with social capital and inequality: the position-generator approach associated with Nan Lin and the spatial approach associated with Pierre Bourdieu. Empirically, we exploit the possibilities of survey data containing detailed i…
Emerging Cultural Capital in the City: Profiling London and Brussels
This essay examines how the contemporary city is being redefined as a fundamental crucible in which new and emerging modes of cultural capital are being forged. Drawing inspiration from the links Bourdieu draws between physical and social space, we use comprehensive quantitative surveys from Belgium and the UK to explore the accelerating interplay between large urban centres and the generation of 'cosmopolitan cultural capital'. We show a close a…
Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be considered as a position of economic power and internationally incompatible sources of information hinder compa…
Cultural divisions and time: Mapping diachronic homologies using class-specific MCA (CSA)
In this article, we present an alternative approach to study dimensional stability and change in cultural divisions across time. Drawing on recent developments in Geometric Data Analysis (GDA), we combine the use of two distinct statistical techniques: Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) and Class Specific MCA (CSA). Specifically, the approach allows for the systematic investigation of three key aspects: (i) whether and how the dimensionality …
The socioeconomic dimensions of racial inequality in South Africa: A social space perspective
It is well evidenced that South Africa is characterised by extreme socioeconomic inequality, which is strongly racialised. We offer an original sociological perspective, which departs from established perspectives considering the dynamics of vulnerability and poverty to focus on the structuring of classed and racialised privilege. We map how stocks of economic, cultural, and social capital intersect to generate systematic and structural inequalit…
Héritiers et outsiders: Sur la noblesse d'État norvégienne
Cet article traite de la contribution de la théorie des champs de Pierre Bourdieu à des études comparatives du champ du pouvoir dans différents pays. En retenant, comme cas empirique, l'exemple de la Norvège, il traite des difficultés méthodologiques que comporte la mise en évidence des structures de l'espace social et du champ du pouvoir. Ensuite, il insiste sur la différence essentielle, mais souvent négligée, entre généralisation empirique et …
Redaksjonsskifte
Brigitte Le Roux and Henry Rouanet (with a foreword by Patrick Suppes): Geometric Data Analysis: From Correspondence Analysis to Structured Data Analysis Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2004. 475 pages, 155 Euros
To many sociologists, a book with the title Geometric Data Analysis may at first seem of little relevance to their own work. The subtitle, however – From Correspondence Analysis to Structured Data Analysis – should indicate otherwise. As is well known, multiple correspondence analysis was the preferred statistical tool of the late Pierre Bourdieu, with whom the two authors collaborated from the mid-1990s and onwards. The book gives a state-of-the…
The Norwegian Field of Power Anno 2000
This article, in the line of Bourdieu (1989), belongs to the research domain about elites and the field of power. Using data from the Norwegian Power & Democracy survey on elites, conducted in 2000, it specifically seeks to uncover the main dimensions and fractions in the Norwegian field of power. Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) has been used to address this issue. The three main findings are these: firstly, our results show that the three…
Social Capital in the Field of Power: The Case of Norway
This paper analyses social capital structures in the field of power, based on data from the Norwegian Power and Democracy Survey on elites. Separating between objectified, institutionalised, embodied, and inherited social capital, and inspired by Bourdieu's approach, we analyse the relations between social capital and the other forms of capital by way of specific multiple correspondence analysis and ascending hierarchical cluster analysis. First,…
Héritiers et outsiders: Sur la noblesse d'État norvégienne
Cet article traite de la contribution de la théorie des champs de Pierre Bourdieu à des études comparatives du champ du pouvoir dans différents pays. En retenant, comme cas empirique, l'exemple de la Norvège, il traite des difficultés méthodologiques que comporte la mise en évidence des structures de l'espace social et du champ du pouvoir. Ensuite, il insiste sur la différence essentielle, mais souvent négligée, entre généralisation empirique et …
A New Model of Social Class? Findings from the BBC's Great British Class Survey Experiment
The social scientific analysis of social class is attracting renewed interest given the accentuation of economic and social inequalities throughout the world. The most widely validated measure of social class, the Nuffield class schema, developed in the 1970s, was codified in the UK's National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification (NS-SEC) and places people in one of seven main classes according to their occupation and employment status. This …
Response: Not So Fast: A Comment on Atkinson and Deeming's ‘Class and Cuisine in Contemporary Britain: The Social Space, the Space of Food and their Homology’
In a recent paper in The Sociological Review, Atkinson and Deeming argue that tastes in food are homologous to the social space, exactly as it was in Bourdieu's Distinction. This would involve differences in food tastes not only along the class hierarchy, but also a clear-cut divide by the relative weight of cultural and economic capital. However, Atkinson and Deeming base their claims on insufficient data analysis: They misinterpret their own co…
Erik Jørgen Hansen: Social mobilitet. Drøm, realitet, illusion
Øvst ved bordet?»: Ein analyse av symbolske kapitalhierarki ved Noregs Banksårsmiddag
Emerging Cultural Capital in the City: Profiling London and Brussels
This essay examines how the contemporary city is being redefined as a fundamental crucible in which new and emerging modes of cultural capital are being forged. Drawing inspiration from the links Bourdieu draws between physical and social space, we use comprehensive quantitative surveys from Belgium and the UK to explore the accelerating interplay between large urban centres and the generation of 'cosmopolitan cultural capital'. We show a close a…
Class, Culture and Culinary Tastes: Cultural Distinctions and Social Class Divisions in Contemporary Norway
In this article we analyse class cultures by mapping out differences in 'original taste'; that is, respondents' classed preferences for food and drink. By employing Multiple Correspondence Analysis, we produce a relational model of tastes. Using three indicators of social class - occupational class, income and education - we find clear class divisions. The upper and middle classes exhibit diverse and what are typically regarded as 'healthy' taste…
Questionable Research Practices and Misconduct Among Norwegian Researchers
This article presents results from the national survey conducted in 2018 for the project Research Integrity in Norway (RINO). A total of 31,206 questionnaires were sent out to Norwegian researchers by e-mail, and 7291 responses were obtained. In this paper, we analyse the survey data to determine attitudes towards and the prevalence of fabrication, falsification and plagiarism (FFP) and contrast this with attitudes towards and the prevalence of t…
Cultural divisions and time: Mapping diachronic homologies using class-specific MCA (CSA)
In this article, we present an alternative approach to study dimensional stability and change in cultural divisions across time. Drawing on recent developments in Geometric Data Analysis (GDA), we combine the use of two distinct statistical techniques: Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) and Class Specific MCA (CSA). Specifically, the approach allows for the systematic investigation of three key aspects: (i) whether and how the dimensionality …
Who you know: The classed structure of social capital
This article focuses on the social structuring of social capital, understood as resources embedded in social networks. The analysis integrates key theoretical-methodological insights from two distinct approaches concerned with social capital and inequality: the position-generator approach associated with Nan Lin and the spatial approach associated with Pierre Bourdieu. Empirically, we exploit the possibilities of survey data containing detailed i…
The socioeconomic dimensions of racial inequality in South Africa: A social space perspective
It is well evidenced that South Africa is characterised by extreme socioeconomic inequality, which is strongly racialised. We offer an original sociological perspective, which departs from established perspectives considering the dynamics of vulnerability and poverty to focus on the structuring of classed and racialised privilege. We map how stocks of economic, cultural, and social capital intersect to generate systematic and structural inequalit…
Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be considered as a position of economic power and internationally incompatible sources of information hinder compa…
Literary practices, capital structures and political position-taking: The Norwegian writers during World War II
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Social science (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Social capital (6 works) · Cultural capital (5 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · Politics (5 works)