Anders Sevelsted
Biographic Data
| ID | 292848 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anders Sevelsted |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anders |
| FAMILY NAME | Sevelsted |
| SIGNATURE | SEVELSTED A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Copenhagen Business School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6820-3782 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Special issue: Moral elites
What's so new about social investment? Evidence from the history of the Danish welfare state
Social Investment is heralded as a new social policy logic that views present social expenditure in light of future benefits for a greater good. Seeking to qualify the discussion of the historical status and development of Social Investment logic(s), this article asks the question: Is the social investment logic new? Taking the critique of Social Investment as utilitarian as a starting point, we trace and analyse historical logics in the formativ…
Kampen om klassifikationerne: Økonomernes virke i den moralske elite
Økonomer har fra den statsvidenskabelige uddannelses oprettelse i 1848 udgjort en central del af den danske moralske elite, forstået som den del af eliten, der har bl.a. uddannelsesmæssige og organisatoriske ressourcer til at påvirke samfundets normative fundament. I artiklen gennemføres en karrierenetværksanalyse af data fra Kraks Blå Bog i perioden 1910-1923 til at skitsere en prosopografi (kollektiv biografi) af økonomerne som gruppe. Det vise…
Cultural Translations of Social Movements: A Field-Translation Interpretation of the Adoption Pattern of the Temperance Movement in the Danish Field of Moral Reform
Studies of the diffusion and translation of social movements has traditionally interpreted the adopting context of a movement as culturally homogenous and explained the adoption of a matter of similarity between transmitters and adopters. As a consequence, most existing theoretical and methodological approaches to diffusion and translation are ill-suited to interpret culturally fragmented cases in which adoption patterns do not reflect cultural s…
Civil society elites: Managers of Civic Capital
The article takes the first steps towards a general theory of civil society elites, a concept not fully developed in either elite or civil society research. This conceptual gap hampers academic and public understanding of the dynamics at the top of civil society. To address this, the authors rely on the theoretical framework of Pierre Bourdieu to build a theory of civil society elites as managers of civic capital. This role is illustrated through…
Deconsecration: Symbolic Sanctions, “Courts of Honour,” and the Cleansing of Denmark’s Who’s Who After the German Occupation, 1940–1945
How may elites experience a symbolic fall from grace? Elite scholarship has typically described how symbolic structures contribute to consecrate and reinforce existing power relations. Processes of deconsecration are, however, less well described. Deconsecration as a social process is distinct from déclassement , as well as from cultural or juridical processes of exclusion. It is the loss of the very status as “elite.” We address the question of …
Moral Elites and the De-Paradoxification of Danish Social Policy Between Civil Society and State (1849–2022)
The article argues that in Denmark during the past 150 years, moral elites have been central in settling paradoxes within social policy by developing 'classifications' of citizens and sectors: who are deserving of help and what sector (public or third) should provide care. Contrary to widely held beliefs, historically, there is no logical or practical connection between 'more deserving' and 'state support'. Theoretically, the article integrates e…
From Awkwardness to Action Christian Voluntarism in Denmark Beyond the Sector Model of Civil Society
Voluntarism: Promises of Proximity as Articulated by Changing Moral Elites
The article analyzes the varied meanings historically associated with concepts of voluntarism in relation to social relief as they were articulated by changing moral elites in Denmark from the late nineteenth century until the present. Concepts of voluntarism have historically constituted "normative counterconcepts" that link voluntary practices to desired futures in opposition to alternative modes of organizing. The "proximity" of voluntarism vi…
Degeneration, Protestantism, and Social Democracy: The Case of Alcoholism and “Illiberal” Policies and Practices in Denmark 1900–43
Through a case study of the emergence of rights-infringing “illiberal” policies and practices in the field of Danish alcohol treatment from 1900 to 1943, this article shows how new scientific ideas on “degeneration” as the cause of alcoholism and the use of force in treatment were adapted and promoted by Protestant revivalist groups and Social Democrats alike. The article analyzes how new scientific ideas resonated with the cultural ideals of Dan…
Protestant Ethics-In-Action: The Emergence of Voluntary Social Work in Copenhagen 1865-1915
This article shows how voluntary social work in late 19th/early 20th century Copenhagen emerged as the result of several creative re-interpretations of the cultural schemas of revivalist Protestantism as urban revivalists faced the social question. Informed by pragmatist cultural sociology, the concept of "collective soteriology" is introduced as a way of analyzing the Protestant reinterpretations in terms of doctrine, ideals of community, and re…
Pragmatisme, kreativitet og universalisme, et interview med Hans Joas
Review essay
Giv mig en økonom, og jeg skal rejse et marked?” Om fagøkonomiens performativitet og konstruktionen af et globalt marked for mikrofinans
Denne artikel argumenter for, at Callon og MacKenzies teorier om økonomisk performativitet bidrager til at forstå dels centrale sociale dynamikker på markeder, som i stigende grad får en teknisk-videnskabelig karakter, og dels hvordan økonomer bidrager til at konstruere sådanne. Artiklen introducerer centrale begreber og påstande fra de to forfattere og tester disse i en analyse af, hvordan et globalt marked for mikrofinans er blevet skabt. Analy…
Moral Elites and the De-Paradoxification of Danish Social Policy Between Civil Society and State (1849–2022)
The article argues that in Denmark during the past 150 years, moral elites have been central in settling paradoxes within social policy by developing 'classifications' of citizens and sectors: who are deserving of help and what sector (public or third) should provide care. Contrary to widely held beliefs, historically, there is no logical or practical connection between 'more deserving' and 'state support'. Theoretically, the article integrates e…
Civil society elites: Managers of Civic Capital
The article takes the first steps towards a general theory of civil society elites, a concept not fully developed in either elite or civil society research. This conceptual gap hampers academic and public understanding of the dynamics at the top of civil society. To address this, the authors rely on the theoretical framework of Pierre Bourdieu to build a theory of civil society elites as managers of civic capital. This role is illustrated through…
Protestant Ethics-In-Action: The Emergence of Voluntary Social Work in Copenhagen 1865-1915
This article shows how voluntary social work in late 19th/early 20th century Copenhagen emerged as the result of several creative re-interpretations of the cultural schemas of revivalist Protestantism as urban revivalists faced the social question. Informed by pragmatist cultural sociology, the concept of "collective soteriology" is introduced as a way of analyzing the Protestant reinterpretations in terms of doctrine, ideals of community, and re…
Voluntarism: Promises of Proximity as Articulated by Changing Moral Elites
The article analyzes the varied meanings historically associated with concepts of voluntarism in relation to social relief as they were articulated by changing moral elites in Denmark from the late nineteenth century until the present. Concepts of voluntarism have historically constituted "normative counterconcepts" that link voluntary practices to desired futures in opposition to alternative modes of organizing. The "proximity" of voluntarism vi…
What's so new about social investment? Evidence from the history of the Danish welfare state
Social Investment is heralded as a new social policy logic that views present social expenditure in light of future benefits for a greater good. Seeking to qualify the discussion of the historical status and development of Social Investment logic(s), this article asks the question: Is the social investment logic new? Taking the critique of Social Investment as utilitarian as a starting point, we trace and analyse historical logics in the formativ…
Cultural Translations of Social Movements: A Field-Translation Interpretation of the Adoption Pattern of the Temperance Movement in the Danish Field of Moral Reform
Studies of the diffusion and translation of social movements has traditionally interpreted the adopting context of a movement as culturally homogenous and explained the adoption of a matter of similarity between transmitters and adopters. As a consequence, most existing theoretical and methodological approaches to diffusion and translation are ill-suited to interpret culturally fragmented cases in which adoption patterns do not reflect cultural s…
Degeneration, Protestantism, and Social Democracy: The Case of Alcoholism and “Illiberal” Policies and Practices in Denmark 1900–43
Through a case study of the emergence of rights-infringing “illiberal” policies and practices in the field of Danish alcohol treatment from 1900 to 1943, this article shows how new scientific ideas on “degeneration” as the cause of alcoholism and the use of force in treatment were adapted and promoted by Protestant revivalist groups and Social Democrats alike. The article analyzes how new scientific ideas resonated with the cultural ideals of Dan…
Giv mig en økonom, og jeg skal rejse et marked?” Om fagøkonomiens performativitet og konstruktionen af et globalt marked for mikrofinans
Denne artikel argumenter for, at Callon og MacKenzies teorier om økonomisk performativitet bidrager til at forstå dels centrale sociale dynamikker på markeder, som i stigende grad får en teknisk-videnskabelig karakter, og dels hvordan økonomer bidrager til at konstruere sådanne. Artiklen introducerer centrale begreber og påstande fra de to forfattere og tester disse i en analyse af, hvordan et globalt marked for mikrofinans er blevet skabt. Analy…
Pragmatisme, kreativitet og universalisme, et interview med Hans Joas
Review essay
Protestant Ethics-In-Action: The Emergence of Voluntary Social Work in Copenhagen 1865-1915
This article shows how voluntary social work in late 19th/early 20th century Copenhagen emerged as the result of several creative re-interpretations of the cultural schemas of revivalist Protestantism as urban revivalists faced the social question. Informed by pragmatist cultural sociology, the concept of "collective soteriology" is introduced as a way of analyzing the Protestant reinterpretations in terms of doctrine, ideals of community, and re…
Degeneration, Protestantism, and Social Democracy: The Case of Alcoholism and “Illiberal” Policies and Practices in Denmark 1900–43
Through a case study of the emergence of rights-infringing “illiberal” policies and practices in the field of Danish alcohol treatment from 1900 to 1943, this article shows how new scientific ideas on “degeneration” as the cause of alcoholism and the use of force in treatment were adapted and promoted by Protestant revivalist groups and Social Democrats alike. The article analyzes how new scientific ideas resonated with the cultural ideals of Dan…
From Awkwardness to Action Christian Voluntarism in Denmark Beyond the Sector Model of Civil Society
Voluntarism: Promises of Proximity as Articulated by Changing Moral Elites
The article analyzes the varied meanings historically associated with concepts of voluntarism in relation to social relief as they were articulated by changing moral elites in Denmark from the late nineteenth century until the present. Concepts of voluntarism have historically constituted "normative counterconcepts" that link voluntary practices to desired futures in opposition to alternative modes of organizing. The "proximity" of voluntarism vi…
Moral Elites and the De-Paradoxification of Danish Social Policy Between Civil Society and State (1849–2022)
The article argues that in Denmark during the past 150 years, moral elites have been central in settling paradoxes within social policy by developing 'classifications' of citizens and sectors: who are deserving of help and what sector (public or third) should provide care. Contrary to widely held beliefs, historically, there is no logical or practical connection between 'more deserving' and 'state support'. Theoretically, the article integrates e…
Deconsecration: Symbolic Sanctions, “Courts of Honour,” and the Cleansing of Denmark’s Who’s Who After the German Occupation, 1940–1945
How may elites experience a symbolic fall from grace? Elite scholarship has typically described how symbolic structures contribute to consecrate and reinforce existing power relations. Processes of deconsecration are, however, less well described. Deconsecration as a social process is distinct from déclassement , as well as from cultural or juridical processes of exclusion. It is the loss of the very status as “elite.” We address the question of …
Kampen om klassifikationerne: Økonomernes virke i den moralske elite
Økonomer har fra den statsvidenskabelige uddannelses oprettelse i 1848 udgjort en central del af den danske moralske elite, forstået som den del af eliten, der har bl.a. uddannelsesmæssige og organisatoriske ressourcer til at påvirke samfundets normative fundament. I artiklen gennemføres en karrierenetværksanalyse af data fra Kraks Blå Bog i perioden 1910-1923 til at skitsere en prosopografi (kollektiv biografi) af økonomerne som gruppe. Det vise…
Cultural Translations of Social Movements: A Field-Translation Interpretation of the Adoption Pattern of the Temperance Movement in the Danish Field of Moral Reform
Studies of the diffusion and translation of social movements has traditionally interpreted the adopting context of a movement as culturally homogenous and explained the adoption of a matter of similarity between transmitters and adopters. As a consequence, most existing theoretical and methodological approaches to diffusion and translation are ill-suited to interpret culturally fragmented cases in which adoption patterns do not reflect cultural s…
Civil society elites: Managers of Civic Capital
The article takes the first steps towards a general theory of civil society elites, a concept not fully developed in either elite or civil society research. This conceptual gap hampers academic and public understanding of the dynamics at the top of civil society. To address this, the authors rely on the theoretical framework of Pierre Bourdieu to build a theory of civil society elites as managers of civic capital. This role is illustrated through…
What's so new about social investment? Evidence from the history of the Danish welfare state
Social Investment is heralded as a new social policy logic that views present social expenditure in light of future benefits for a greater good. Seeking to qualify the discussion of the historical status and development of Social Investment logic(s), this article asks the question: Is the social investment logic new? Taking the critique of Social Investment as utilitarian as a starting point, we trace and analyse historical logics in the formativ…
Special issue: Moral elites
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