Ingunn Marie Eriksen
Biographic Data
| ID | 307290 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ingunn Marie Eriksen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ingunn Marie |
| FAMILY NAME | Eriksen |
| SIGNATURE | ERIKSEN I M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian Social Research, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1936-8214 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Navigating critical phases in adversity in youth: Identification and reorientation
Sports participation as a reflection of social inclusion in youth: A holistic exploration of sport within young people’s lives
The Reproduction of Wealth Inequality: How Middle- and Upper-Class Parents Instil Financial Orientations in Their Children
The mechanisms propelling wealth inequality remain insufficiently understood. This paper aims to explore the transmission of parents' financial orientation to their children, shedding light on the processes of cultivation that contribute to the reproduction of privileges. Drawing on interviews with parents and their children in two contrasting communities in Norway, one middle-class and one upper-class community, we investigate how money is embed…
The formation of classed health lifestyles during youth: A two-generational, longitudinal approach
The topic of this article is the classed formation of health lifestyles in youth. Based on longitudinal interview data (41 youths, 17 of their parents) from two contrasting class contexts in Norway, we investigate how health lifestyles are reproduced across generations and during youth, focussing particularly on diet and physical activity. We find that young people's health lifestyles are powerfully shaped by social class and moulded over time in…
The gendered district effect: Psychosocial reasons why girls wish to leave their rural communities
The rural youth exodus has mostly been explained with the pull of\nthe city. In this mixed-method study, we explore whether young\npeople also experience a push to leave the rural community due\nto a lack of psychosocial thriving. The quantitative analysis of the\nUngdata-survey among young people aged 13–16 years (n =\n141,058) shows that girls imagine leaving more than boys, and\nalso fare worse on many indicators for psychosocial well-being.\n…
Inequalities in the making: The role of young people’s relational resources through the Covid-19 lockdown
Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, youth researchers have reported increased inequalities between young people, but the social processes that drive these changes are not well understood. In this paper, we draw on rich longitudinal interview data following the same participants from a year before and into the midst of national lockdown during the pandemic in Norway to explore the unfolding of classed and gendered responses that were trig…
Duty, discipline and mental health problems: Young people’s pursuit of educational achievement and body ideals
The last decades have seen an increase in mental health problems among young people in Western countries; this has been tied to increasing educational achievement pressure and body dissatisfaction. The purpose of this paper is to explore how young people talk about reaching educational and body ideals, whether there are shared cultural imperatives underlying youths’ drive to reach educational goals and body ideals, and how such imperatives relate…
Distribution of capital and school-related stress at elite high schools
We investigate school-related stress at two very different elite schools in Norway, using a mixed-methods approach. Schola Osloensis (SO) has a high-grade average and students come from backgrounds with large amounts of cultural capital. At Oslo Commercial School (OCS), students’ grades are average, while parents have large economic resources. Data are qualitative interviews of 35 students at each school, photographs taken by students with the mo…
What are youth sports for? Youth sports parenting in working-class communities
This paper explores youth sports parenting in the context of Norway, focusing on the orientations of parents living in predominantly working-class communities, specifically what they believe youth sports are for. Its particular focus is the ideas and resources that underpin the various positions parents in such communities take toward youth sports. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 19 parents of 13 and 14 year olds, we identify two orientati…
Class, parenting and academic stress in Norway: Middle-Class Youth on Parental Pressure and Mental Health
Mental health problems among young people have increased in recent decades, particularly among middle-class youth, a development often related to increasing achievement pressure. This paper explores how young people from the financial and cultural middle classes in Norway experience school stress and their parents’ values and practices concerning school achievement. Based on interviews with 53 boys and girls, aged 15–17, the study identifies 2 na…
Conceptualizing Well-being in Youth: The Potential of Youth Clubs
This study identifies key mechanisms in youth clubs for fostering well-being among vulnerable youths. We develop a framework to conceptualize prerequisites of well-being in youth, namely having a safe place to be, positive relations with others and possibilities for growth. This conceptualization maintains insights from psychological elements of well-being while bringing psychosocial theory of identity in youth into a sociological orientation. Un…
Tough femininities: Ethnic minority girls’ aggressive school opposition
This article addresses school resistance in ethnic minority girls. Girls’ school opposition is mostly described as covert. If described as hostile, it is rarely understood in terms of femininity. Through psychosocial analyses of extensive fieldwork and interviews with students in a Norwegian upper-secondary school, the article describes an affective practice in which young minority girls reject school aggressively. I argue that through their scho…
Relational aggression among boys: Blind spots and hidden dramas
Although boys too are involved in relational aggression, their experiences are overshadowed by the focus on relational aggression among girls. This paradox mirrors the empirical puzzle that forms the starting point for this article: while teachers saw relational aggression as a ‘girl problem’, we found a vast undercurrent of relational aggression among boys. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with staff and students in Norwegian sch…
What are youth sports for? Youth sports parenting in working-class communities
This paper explores youth sports parenting in the context of Norway, focusing on the orientations of parents living in predominantly working-class communities, specifically what they believe youth sports are for. Its particular focus is the ideas and resources that underpin the various positions parents in such communities take toward youth sports. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 19 parents of 13 and 14 year olds, we identify two orientati…
The formation of classed health lifestyles during youth: A two-generational, longitudinal approach
The topic of this article is the classed formation of health lifestyles in youth. Based on longitudinal interview data (41 youths, 17 of their parents) from two contrasting class contexts in Norway, we investigate how health lifestyles are reproduced across generations and during youth, focussing particularly on diet and physical activity. We find that young people's health lifestyles are powerfully shaped by social class and moulded over time in…
Relational aggression among boys: Blind spots and hidden dramas
Although boys too are involved in relational aggression, their experiences are overshadowed by the focus on relational aggression among girls. This paradox mirrors the empirical puzzle that forms the starting point for this article: while teachers saw relational aggression as a ‘girl problem’, we found a vast undercurrent of relational aggression among boys. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with staff and students in Norwegian sch…
Duty, discipline and mental health problems: Young people’s pursuit of educational achievement and body ideals
The last decades have seen an increase in mental health problems among young people in Western countries; this has been tied to increasing educational achievement pressure and body dissatisfaction. The purpose of this paper is to explore how young people talk about reaching educational and body ideals, whether there are shared cultural imperatives underlying youths’ drive to reach educational goals and body ideals, and how such imperatives relate…
Conceptualizing Well-being in Youth: The Potential of Youth Clubs
This study identifies key mechanisms in youth clubs for fostering well-being among vulnerable youths. We develop a framework to conceptualize prerequisites of well-being in youth, namely having a safe place to be, positive relations with others and possibilities for growth. This conceptualization maintains insights from psychological elements of well-being while bringing psychosocial theory of identity in youth into a sociological orientation. Un…
Class, parenting and academic stress in Norway: Middle-Class Youth on Parental Pressure and Mental Health
Mental health problems among young people have increased in recent decades, particularly among middle-class youth, a development often related to increasing achievement pressure. This paper explores how young people from the financial and cultural middle classes in Norway experience school stress and their parents’ values and practices concerning school achievement. Based on interviews with 53 boys and girls, aged 15–17, the study identifies 2 na…
The gendered district effect: Psychosocial reasons why girls wish to leave their rural communities
The rural youth exodus has mostly been explained with the pull of\nthe city. In this mixed-method study, we explore whether young\npeople also experience a push to leave the rural community due\nto a lack of psychosocial thriving. The quantitative analysis of the\nUngdata-survey among young people aged 13–16 years (n =\n141,058) shows that girls imagine leaving more than boys, and\nalso fare worse on many indicators for psychosocial well-being.\n…
Sports participation as a reflection of social inclusion in youth: A holistic exploration of sport within young people’s lives
Distribution of capital and school-related stress at elite high schools
We investigate school-related stress at two very different elite schools in Norway, using a mixed-methods approach. Schola Osloensis (SO) has a high-grade average and students come from backgrounds with large amounts of cultural capital. At Oslo Commercial School (OCS), students’ grades are average, while parents have large economic resources. Data are qualitative interviews of 35 students at each school, photographs taken by students with the mo…
Relational aggression among boys: Blind spots and hidden dramas
Although boys too are involved in relational aggression, their experiences are overshadowed by the focus on relational aggression among girls. This paradox mirrors the empirical puzzle that forms the starting point for this article: while teachers saw relational aggression as a ‘girl problem’, we found a vast undercurrent of relational aggression among boys. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with staff and students in Norwegian sch…
Tough femininities: Ethnic minority girls’ aggressive school opposition
This article addresses school resistance in ethnic minority girls. Girls’ school opposition is mostly described as covert. If described as hostile, it is rarely understood in terms of femininity. Through psychosocial analyses of extensive fieldwork and interviews with students in a Norwegian upper-secondary school, the article describes an affective practice in which young minority girls reject school aggressively. I argue that through their scho…
Conceptualizing Well-being in Youth: The Potential of Youth Clubs
This study identifies key mechanisms in youth clubs for fostering well-being among vulnerable youths. We develop a framework to conceptualize prerequisites of well-being in youth, namely having a safe place to be, positive relations with others and possibilities for growth. This conceptualization maintains insights from psychological elements of well-being while bringing psychosocial theory of identity in youth into a sociological orientation. Un…
Duty, discipline and mental health problems: Young people’s pursuit of educational achievement and body ideals
The last decades have seen an increase in mental health problems among young people in Western countries; this has been tied to increasing educational achievement pressure and body dissatisfaction. The purpose of this paper is to explore how young people talk about reaching educational and body ideals, whether there are shared cultural imperatives underlying youths’ drive to reach educational goals and body ideals, and how such imperatives relate…
Distribution of capital and school-related stress at elite high schools
We investigate school-related stress at two very different elite schools in Norway, using a mixed-methods approach. Schola Osloensis (SO) has a high-grade average and students come from backgrounds with large amounts of cultural capital. At Oslo Commercial School (OCS), students’ grades are average, while parents have large economic resources. Data are qualitative interviews of 35 students at each school, photographs taken by students with the mo…
What are youth sports for? Youth sports parenting in working-class communities
This paper explores youth sports parenting in the context of Norway, focusing on the orientations of parents living in predominantly working-class communities, specifically what they believe youth sports are for. Its particular focus is the ideas and resources that underpin the various positions parents in such communities take toward youth sports. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 19 parents of 13 and 14 year olds, we identify two orientati…
Class, parenting and academic stress in Norway: Middle-Class Youth on Parental Pressure and Mental Health
Mental health problems among young people have increased in recent decades, particularly among middle-class youth, a development often related to increasing achievement pressure. This paper explores how young people from the financial and cultural middle classes in Norway experience school stress and their parents’ values and practices concerning school achievement. Based on interviews with 53 boys and girls, aged 15–17, the study identifies 2 na…
Inequalities in the making: The role of young people’s relational resources through the Covid-19 lockdown
Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, youth researchers have reported increased inequalities between young people, but the social processes that drive these changes are not well understood. In this paper, we draw on rich longitudinal interview data following the same participants from a year before and into the midst of national lockdown during the pandemic in Norway to explore the unfolding of classed and gendered responses that were trig…
The gendered district effect: Psychosocial reasons why girls wish to leave their rural communities
The rural youth exodus has mostly been explained with the pull of\nthe city. In this mixed-method study, we explore whether young\npeople also experience a push to leave the rural community due\nto a lack of psychosocial thriving. The quantitative analysis of the\nUngdata-survey among young people aged 13–16 years (n =\n141,058) shows that girls imagine leaving more than boys, and\nalso fare worse on many indicators for psychosocial well-being.\n…
The formation of classed health lifestyles during youth: A two-generational, longitudinal approach
The topic of this article is the classed formation of health lifestyles in youth. Based on longitudinal interview data (41 youths, 17 of their parents) from two contrasting class contexts in Norway, we investigate how health lifestyles are reproduced across generations and during youth, focussing particularly on diet and physical activity. We find that young people's health lifestyles are powerfully shaped by social class and moulded over time in…
Navigating critical phases in adversity in youth: Identification and reorientation
Sports participation as a reflection of social inclusion in youth: A holistic exploration of sport within young people’s lives
The Reproduction of Wealth Inequality: How Middle- and Upper-Class Parents Instil Financial Orientations in Their Children
The mechanisms propelling wealth inequality remain insufficiently understood. This paper aims to explore the transmission of parents' financial orientation to their children, shedding light on the processes of cultivation that contribute to the reproduction of privileges. Drawing on interviews with parents and their children in two contrasting communities in Norway, one middle-class and one upper-class community, we investigate how money is embed…
Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (3 works)