Gunnar C Aakvaag
Biographic Data
| ID | 4174743 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gunnar C Aakvaag |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gunnar C |
| FAMILY NAME | Aakvaag |
| SIGNATURE | AAKVAAG G C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Fragmented and Critical? The Institutional Infrastructure and Intellectual Ambitions of Norwegian Sociology
Democratic State and Democratic Society: Institutional Change in the Nordic Model
After the optimism following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world has seen more of a democratic backlash. But despite the backlashes, in some societies the stability of democracy does not seem to be threatened. Why is this so? One common answer points to civic culture, a shared feeling of responsibility for the common fate of citizens. An alternative, to be explored in this volume, is that the stability of democratic rule is anchored in its int…
Positiv sosiologi. Fotnoter til en uutgravd sosiologi
Inspirert av det faghistoriske skillet mellom funksjonalisme og konfliktteori introduserer og forsvarer denne artikkelen et rammeverk for en positiv sosiologi; en sosiologi om det som fungerer godt i samfunnet. Jeg presenterer og kritiserer først den positive sosiologiens hovedkonkurrent, den kritiske sosiologien, hvorpå jeg lanserer et rammeverk for positiv sosiologi basert på tre pilarer: samtidsdiagnostisk, metodologisk og teoretisk optimisme.…
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Out of the doll’s house. From zero-sum to positive-sum social freedom
This article proposes that in order to be able empirically to follow Henrik Ibsen’s Nora out of the societal doll’s house, sociologists need to challenge the theoretical doll’s house of the zero-sum model of social freedom. When sociologists have not yet provided an adequate account of not only women’s emancipation but also the broader process of democratization of freedom in the West, it is at least partly because many are influenced by an inade…
Institutional differentiation and individual freedom
Despite being arguably the most important modern principle of social organization, institutional differentiation (ID) is to a large extent absent from the sociological debate over modern freedom, which is dominated by two other principles: the democratic rule of law and capitalist markets. In this article, I analyse the effects of ID on individual freedom. To bring ID into the debate, I describe the most important intermediary social processes th…
Tor Clausen: Klassiske blikk på fortiden, samtiden, fremtiden. Dilemmaer i går, i dag og i morgen belyst ut fra klassikerne Weber, Durkheim og Marx
Etter gullaldersosiologien: Et alternativ
Farvel til gullaldersosiologien
Social mechanisms and grand theories of Modernity - worlds apart
In this article I argue against the widespread opinion that social mechanisms and grand theories of Modernity are conflicting approaches to social theory. My main thesis is that even though they clearly differ, they exhibit complementary strengths and weaknesses. Hence, I argue for a cooperative solution to the question of their coexistence within sociology. I present what I call a Weberian solution to this query. More precisely, I claim that a g…
Positiv sosiologi – et svar til Magne Flemmen
Å sette samtiden på begrep: Noen utfordringer for en samtidsdiagnostisk sosiologi
Fra likhet og brorskap til frihet – Et forsvar for frihet som tema for empirisk samfunnsvitenskap
Målet med denne artikkelen er å stimulere til flere samfunnsvitenskapelige studier av frihet. Dette er viktig fordi frihet i overraskende liten grad har vært gjort til eksplisitt tema for empirisk samfunnsforskning – i hvert fall sammenlignet med likhet og brorskap (solidaritet). Mitt bidrag er av teoretisk karakter, nemlig å vise at det ikke finnes noen prinsipielle grunner til at frihet ikke kan legges under den empiriske lupen samt å utvikle e…
John R. Searle: Making the Social World. The Structure of Human Civilization
Demokrati som samtidsdiagnose
Individualisering – en sosiologisk modell
Individualization -a sociological modelThis article outlines a sociological model of individualization based on communications theory.I describe the model over four successive theoretical steps.(1) I start out with a critique of «culturalistic» conceptions of individualization and the need for an institutional perspective.(2) I go on to construct a fivefold typology of institutional perspectives of individualization.(3) At this stage we need a mo…
Sosiologi og frihet
My intention in this article is to make the category of freedom available to sociologists studying modern societies.First, I attempt to clear up some of the more general confusion and miscomprehension connected with the sociologist's sometimes vague and imprecise use of the concept by defining what freedom actually means.Second, I try to make sociologists aware of the richness of understandings of freedom embedded in different theoretical traditi…
Frihet og orden. En kommunikasjonsteoretisk løsning
FREEDOM AND ORDER. A Communication-Theoretical Solution.The problem of order is constitutive for sociology: how are we to explain the fact that social order and regular social patterns are based on the actions of free individuals?Talcott Parsons is the sociologist who, from the tradition of the classics, most persistently tried to answer this question.But Parsons' project failed.Either he could not connect the level of action with the level of so…
Social mechanisms and grand theories of Modernity - worlds apart
In this article I argue against the widespread opinion that social mechanisms and grand theories of Modernity are conflicting approaches to social theory. My main thesis is that even though they clearly differ, they exhibit complementary strengths and weaknesses. Hence, I argue for a cooperative solution to the question of their coexistence within sociology. I present what I call a Weberian solution to this query. More precisely, I claim that a g…
Institutional differentiation and individual freedom
Despite being arguably the most important modern principle of social organization, institutional differentiation (ID) is to a large extent absent from the sociological debate over modern freedom, which is dominated by two other principles: the democratic rule of law and capitalist markets. In this article, I analyse the effects of ID on individual freedom. To bring ID into the debate, I describe the most important intermediary social processes th…
Frihet og orden. En kommunikasjonsteoretisk løsning
FREEDOM AND ORDER. A Communication-Theoretical Solution.The problem of order is constitutive for sociology: how are we to explain the fact that social order and regular social patterns are based on the actions of free individuals?Talcott Parsons is the sociologist who, from the tradition of the classics, most persistently tried to answer this question.But Parsons' project failed.Either he could not connect the level of action with the level of so…
Positiv sosiologi. Fotnoter til en uutgravd sosiologi
Inspirert av det faghistoriske skillet mellom funksjonalisme og konfliktteori introduserer og forsvarer denne artikkelen et rammeverk for en positiv sosiologi; en sosiologi om det som fungerer godt i samfunnet. Jeg presenterer og kritiserer først den positive sosiologiens hovedkonkurrent, den kritiske sosiologien, hvorpå jeg lanserer et rammeverk for positiv sosiologi basert på tre pilarer: samtidsdiagnostisk, metodologisk og teoretisk optimisme.…
Sosiologi og frihet
My intention in this article is to make the category of freedom available to sociologists studying modern societies.First, I attempt to clear up some of the more general confusion and miscomprehension connected with the sociologist's sometimes vague and imprecise use of the concept by defining what freedom actually means.Second, I try to make sociologists aware of the richness of understandings of freedom embedded in different theoretical traditi…
Frihet og orden. En kommunikasjonsteoretisk løsning
FREEDOM AND ORDER. A Communication-Theoretical Solution.The problem of order is constitutive for sociology: how are we to explain the fact that social order and regular social patterns are based on the actions of free individuals?Talcott Parsons is the sociologist who, from the tradition of the classics, most persistently tried to answer this question.But Parsons' project failed.Either he could not connect the level of action with the level of so…
Individualisering – en sosiologisk modell
Individualization -a sociological modelThis article outlines a sociological model of individualization based on communications theory.I describe the model over four successive theoretical steps.(1) I start out with a critique of «culturalistic» conceptions of individualization and the need for an institutional perspective.(2) I go on to construct a fivefold typology of institutional perspectives of individualization.(3) At this stage we need a mo…
Demokrati som samtidsdiagnose
Positiv sosiologi – et svar til Magne Flemmen
Å sette samtiden på begrep: Noen utfordringer for en samtidsdiagnostisk sosiologi
Fra likhet og brorskap til frihet – Et forsvar for frihet som tema for empirisk samfunnsvitenskap
Målet med denne artikkelen er å stimulere til flere samfunnsvitenskapelige studier av frihet. Dette er viktig fordi frihet i overraskende liten grad har vært gjort til eksplisitt tema for empirisk samfunnsforskning – i hvert fall sammenlignet med likhet og brorskap (solidaritet). Mitt bidrag er av teoretisk karakter, nemlig å vise at det ikke finnes noen prinsipielle grunner til at frihet ikke kan legges under den empiriske lupen samt å utvikle e…
John R. Searle: Making the Social World. The Structure of Human Civilization
Etter gullaldersosiologien: Et alternativ
Farvel til gullaldersosiologien
Social mechanisms and grand theories of Modernity - worlds apart
In this article I argue against the widespread opinion that social mechanisms and grand theories of Modernity are conflicting approaches to social theory. My main thesis is that even though they clearly differ, they exhibit complementary strengths and weaknesses. Hence, I argue for a cooperative solution to the question of their coexistence within sociology. I present what I call a Weberian solution to this query. More precisely, I claim that a g…
Tor Clausen: Klassiske blikk på fortiden, samtiden, fremtiden. Dilemmaer i går, i dag og i morgen belyst ut fra klassikerne Weber, Durkheim og Marx
Institutional differentiation and individual freedom
Despite being arguably the most important modern principle of social organization, institutional differentiation (ID) is to a large extent absent from the sociological debate over modern freedom, which is dominated by two other principles: the democratic rule of law and capitalist markets. In this article, I analyse the effects of ID on individual freedom. To bring ID into the debate, I describe the most important intermediary social processes th…
Out of the doll’s house. From zero-sum to positive-sum social freedom
This article proposes that in order to be able empirically to follow Henrik Ibsen’s Nora out of the societal doll’s house, sociologists need to challenge the theoretical doll’s house of the zero-sum model of social freedom. When sociologists have not yet provided an adequate account of not only women’s emancipation but also the broader process of democratization of freedom in the West, it is at least partly because many are influenced by an inade…
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DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
Democratic State and Democratic Society: Institutional Change in the Nordic Model
After the optimism following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world has seen more of a democratic backlash. But despite the backlashes, in some societies the stability of democracy does not seem to be threatened. Why is this so? One common answer points to civic culture, a shared feeling of responsibility for the common fate of citizens. An alternative, to be explored in this volume, is that the stability of democratic rule is anchored in its int…
Positiv sosiologi. Fotnoter til en uutgravd sosiologi
Inspirert av det faghistoriske skillet mellom funksjonalisme og konfliktteori introduserer og forsvarer denne artikkelen et rammeverk for en positiv sosiologi; en sosiologi om det som fungerer godt i samfunnet. Jeg presenterer og kritiserer først den positive sosiologiens hovedkonkurrent, den kritiske sosiologien, hvorpå jeg lanserer et rammeverk for positiv sosiologi basert på tre pilarer: samtidsdiagnostisk, metodologisk og teoretisk optimisme.…
Fragmented and Critical? The Institutional Infrastructure and Intellectual Ambitions of Norwegian Sociology
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (9 works) · Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research (8 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (4 works) · Emile Durkheim and Sociology (3 works)