Lars Mjøset
Biographic Data
| ID | 285104 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lars Mjøset |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lars |
| FAMILY NAME | Mjøset |
| SIGNATURE | MJØSET L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Stein Rokkan: Heltedyrkelse Eller Kritisk Videreføring
Typologimakerens redskaper: Stein Rokkan 100 år
De fleste som omtaler Rokkans komparativt historisk-sosiologiske forskning antar at forholdet mellom teoretiske og empiriske modeller var det samme i alle hans bidrag om variasjoner i de vesteuropeiske politiske systemene. Men et nærmere blikk på to av Rokkans aller siste arbeider på dette feltet tyder på at han endret mening. Det dreier seg om konferansebidraget “A Geoeconomic-Geopolitical Model of Sources of Variations across the Territories of…
The Making and Circulation of Nordic Models, Ideas and Images
Historical and social science literature has a long tradition of interest in the Nordic model and its permutations and developments. This chapter will make two straightforward and related claims. First, that ideas about the Nordic model circulated in British political circles in the period 1997 to 2010 in the field of healthcare, and second, that this Nordic model was a departure from the ‘traditional’ social democratic conception of Norden, inst…
Stein Rokkan’s Methodology of Macro-Historical Comparison
Stein Rokkan (1921–1979) left behind him an unfinished, ambitious macro-historical research project aiming to explain mobilization sequences, democratic resilience, and party systems in 16 Western European countries. This article explicates the comparative methodology behind this project with reference to a philosophy of social science framework. The main features of the methodology are a series of intermediate, substantive, methodological elemen…
The Nordic Varieties of Capitalism
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Capitalisms compared
Nordic social theory: Between social philosophy and grounded theory
Nordic social theory: Between social philosophy and grounded theory - 1
No fear of comparisons or context: On the Foundations of Historical Sociology
Exploring the role of comparative history in macro‐social inquiry, Theda Skocpol suggested, in the early 1980s, that historical sociology aimed to derive causal regularities in history without assuming a 'preconceived general model'. This triggered off a debate on the foundations of historical sociology. Starting from a sketch of the historical and theoretical background, this essay analyses the various positions that evolved in this debate. The …
A Case Study of a Case Study: Strategies of Generalization and Specification in the Study of Israel as a Single Case
Debates on 'case studies and generalization' have been too strongly committed to dualisms (general/specific, explanation/understanding) that polarize social science into natural-science-inspired and humanities-inspired camps. One should be aware of a third option, a pragmatist (participationist) attitude. Rather than relying on parallels with external academic fields, this attitude thinks about research with reference to the conduct of social sci…
Can Grounded Theory solve the Problems of its Critics
With reference to a typology distinguishing six notions of theory, grounded theory is a case of the explanation-based type of theory reflecting a pragmatist attitude. This essay evaluates the criticism waged against grounded theory. John Goldthorpe’s criticism, a side effect of his attempt to synthesize two standard notions of theory, leads him to establish an unbridgeable theory/context divide which, in the end, he cannot sustain. Grounded theor…
Sju teser om positivismekritikkens utfordringer ved århundreskiftet
Comparative Social Research, Vol. 20: The Comparative Study of Conscription in the Armed Forces
Stein Rokkan's Thick Comparisons
Among Nordic social scientists during the postwar period. Stein Rokkan made the clearly most important contribution to comparative historical sociology. This article distinguishes three phases of his work: a phase of early experiences in the 1950s, followed by two mature phases in the 1960s and 1970s. In both these phases Rokkan wanted to explain the diversity of European political systems, but in the second mature phase he developed a much broad…
Methodological Issues in Comparative Social Science, Vol. 16: Comparative Social Research
Industrial Development and Irish National Identity, 1922-1939
Book Notes
Wage formation in the Norwegian industry 1840–1985
Is there a common logic to wage formation in a market economy, no matter what institutions are affecting the labour market? Neoclassical economics would opt for a qualified yes: The labour market should in principle be analysed as any other market, regarding observed differences in labour-market performance as resulting from the influence of various factors on the ever-present forces of supply and demand. There are at least two ways of assessing …
The Decline of Social-Democratic State Capitalism in Norway
Norway has, together with Sweden, often been idealized as the most successful case of postwar social democracy. Indeed, in economic terms the achievements are even more striking than those of its larger neighbour. Beginning the century on the agrarian fringe of European capitalism, Norway has been transformed into
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Nordic economic policies in the 1970s and 1980s
Although the Nordic countries are small, open economies, they were able to benefit considerably from the expansion of the world economy during the “Golden Age” of the 1950s and 1960s. They achieved industrial diversification and consolidated welfare-state reforms. Throughout this period, several economic policy routines were institutionalized. These routines may be analyzed as parts of a specific economic policy model, determined by the economic …
Can Grounded Theory solve the Problems of its Critics
With reference to a typology distinguishing six notions of theory, grounded theory is a case of the explanation-based type of theory reflecting a pragmatist attitude. This essay evaluates the criticism waged against grounded theory. John Goldthorpe’s criticism, a side effect of his attempt to synthesize two standard notions of theory, leads him to establish an unbridgeable theory/context divide which, in the end, he cannot sustain. Grounded theor…
Stein Rokkan's Thick Comparisons
Among Nordic social scientists during the postwar period. Stein Rokkan made the clearly most important contribution to comparative historical sociology. This article distinguishes three phases of his work: a phase of early experiences in the 1950s, followed by two mature phases in the 1960s and 1970s. In both these phases Rokkan wanted to explain the diversity of European political systems, but in the second mature phase he developed a much broad…
No fear of comparisons or context: On the Foundations of Historical Sociology
Exploring the role of comparative history in macro‐social inquiry, Theda Skocpol suggested, in the early 1980s, that historical sociology aimed to derive causal regularities in history without assuming a 'preconceived general model'. This triggered off a debate on the foundations of historical sociology. Starting from a sketch of the historical and theoretical background, this essay analyses the various positions that evolved in this debate. The …
Norway's Full‐Employment Oil Economy ‐ Flexible Adjustment. or Paralysing Rigidities?1
Two stones may be told about Norwegian macroeconomic management since 1973. The first one is the flexible‐adjustment story: Norway defended full employment using oil revenues to manage structural change. to keep manpower in the primary sectors and create new employment opportunities in the welfare state. The second is the paralysing‐rigidifies story: Norway used oil revenues to shelter its manufacturing industries and low‐productivity agriculture…
Class and Gender: A Note on Class Structure in Norway and USA
This paper employs Wright's class-scheme and data from Nonvegian and American level of living surveys (1973/1980) to investigate the question of class and gender It is found that women to a larger degree than men occupy class positions with limited control over resources and little supervision A comparison with US data confirms the well-established finding that such inequality seems to be a general feature of Western capitalist societies. The mos…
A Case Study of a Case Study: Strategies of Generalization and Specification in the Study of Israel as a Single Case
Debates on 'case studies and generalization' have been too strongly committed to dualisms (general/specific, explanation/understanding) that polarize social science into natural-science-inspired and humanities-inspired camps. One should be aware of a third option, a pragmatist (participationist) attitude. Rather than relying on parallels with external academic fields, this attitude thinks about research with reference to the conduct of social sci…
Kultur-radikalisme
Kultur-radikalisme
Poetik 28: Lukács som litteraturkritiker. Om forholdet mellem Benjamin og Adorno
Poetik 28 Morten GiersingLukács som litteraturkritiker Lars MjósetOm forholdet mellem Benjamin og Adorno
The 'Subjective Factor' as a Problem: A Reply to Thomas Mathiesen
Class and Gender: A Note on Class Structure in Norway and USA
This paper employs Wright's class-scheme and data from Nonvegian and American level of living surveys (1973/1980) to investigate the question of class and gender It is found that women to a larger degree than men occupy class positions with limited control over resources and little supervision A comparison with US data confirms the well-established finding that such inequality seems to be a general feature of Western capitalist societies. The mos…
Nordic economic policies in the 1970s and 1980s
Although the Nordic countries are small, open economies, they were able to benefit considerably from the expansion of the world economy during the “Golden Age” of the 1950s and 1960s. They achieved industrial diversification and consolidated welfare-state reforms. Throughout this period, several economic policy routines were institutionalized. These routines may be analyzed as parts of a specific economic policy model, determined by the economic …
Book Notes
Book Notes
Book Notes
Book Notes
Book Notes
Norway's Full‐Employment Oil Economy ‐ Flexible Adjustment. or Paralysing Rigidities?1
Two stones may be told about Norwegian macroeconomic management since 1973. The first one is the flexible‐adjustment story: Norway defended full employment using oil revenues to manage structural change. to keep manpower in the primary sectors and create new employment opportunities in the welfare state. The second is the paralysing‐rigidifies story: Norway used oil revenues to shelter its manufacturing industries and low‐productivity agriculture…
Wage formation in the Norwegian industry 1840–1985
Is there a common logic to wage formation in a market economy, no matter what institutions are affecting the labour market? Neoclassical economics would opt for a qualified yes: The labour market should in principle be analysed as any other market, regarding observed differences in labour-market performance as resulting from the influence of various factors on the ever-present forces of supply and demand. There are at least two ways of assessing …
The Decline of Social-Democratic State Capitalism in Norway
Norway has, together with Sweden, often been idealized as the most successful case of postwar social democracy. Indeed, in economic terms the achievements are even more striking than those of its larger neighbour. Beginning the century on the agrarian fringe of European capitalism, Norway has been transformed into
Book Notes
Book Notes
Book Notes
Industrial Development and Irish National Identity, 1922-1939
Methodological Issues in Comparative Social Science, Vol. 16: Comparative Social Research
Stein Rokkan's Thick Comparisons
Among Nordic social scientists during the postwar period. Stein Rokkan made the clearly most important contribution to comparative historical sociology. This article distinguishes three phases of his work: a phase of early experiences in the 1950s, followed by two mature phases in the 1960s and 1970s. In both these phases Rokkan wanted to explain the diversity of European political systems, but in the second mature phase he developed a much broad…
Sju teser om positivismekritikkens utfordringer ved århundreskiftet
Comparative Social Research, Vol. 20: The Comparative Study of Conscription in the Armed Forces
Can Grounded Theory solve the Problems of its Critics
With reference to a typology distinguishing six notions of theory, grounded theory is a case of the explanation-based type of theory reflecting a pragmatist attitude. This essay evaluates the criticism waged against grounded theory. John Goldthorpe’s criticism, a side effect of his attempt to synthesize two standard notions of theory, leads him to establish an unbridgeable theory/context divide which, in the end, he cannot sustain. Grounded theor…
Nordic social theory: Between social philosophy and grounded theory
Nordic social theory: Between social philosophy and grounded theory - 1
No fear of comparisons or context: On the Foundations of Historical Sociology
Exploring the role of comparative history in macro‐social inquiry, Theda Skocpol suggested, in the early 1980s, that historical sociology aimed to derive causal regularities in history without assuming a 'preconceived general model'. This triggered off a debate on the foundations of historical sociology. Starting from a sketch of the historical and theoretical background, this essay analyses the various positions that evolved in this debate. The …
A Case Study of a Case Study: Strategies of Generalization and Specification in the Study of Israel as a Single Case
Debates on 'case studies and generalization' have been too strongly committed to dualisms (general/specific, explanation/understanding) that polarize social science into natural-science-inspired and humanities-inspired camps. One should be aware of a third option, a pragmatist (participationist) attitude. Rather than relying on parallels with external academic fields, this attitude thinks about research with reference to the conduct of social sci…
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