Kari Wærness
Biographic Data
| ID | 5814599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kari Wærness |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kari |
| FAMILY NAME | Wærness |
| SIGNATURE | WAERNESS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 167 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Changing Patterns of European Family Life: A Comparative Analysis of 14 Countries
On the rationality of caring
The feminist critique of sociological conceptualizations and theories that do not adequately reflect the position of women in society is highly relevant for understanding this shift or change of direction in social policy thinking. The new ideology that informal care is better than public care contributes to reinforce these problems. The recent trend in favour of more community care is at least in part a consequence of many people feeling that th…
Social Research, Political Theory and the Ethics of Care in a Global Perspective
In this chapter, the author aims to give a brief description of the field of 'research on care' in Scandinavia and then of how this research field in Scandinavia and Britain has developed since the 1970s. She presents the international theoretical discourse on gender and care and presents some thoughts from the emerging field, feminist ethics of care. The author argues that some of the experiences from development of this research field in Scandi…
Long-term care services in Norway
Norway is internationally known for providing one of the world's most universal and comprehensive long-term care services. This chapter focuses on older people and their main services. It provides a historical sociological analysis inspired by Abrams P. of the development of today's Norwegian long-term care services, tracing it back to its roots in the nineteenth century. The chapter utilizes welfare statistics showing development trends over tim…
Karin Widerberg (red.): I hjertet av velferdsstaten. En invitasjon til institusjonell etnografi
Kenneth Dahlgren og Hans Erik Næss (red.): Tanker om samfunn
Sosiologi, kvinneforskning og nye utfordringer fra de biologiske vitenskaper
Deprofessionalization of a female occupation: Challenges for the sociology of professions
This article argues that Norwegian public health nurses, after a long period of professionalization, have recently undergone a process of deprofessionalization. Public health nurses' jurisdiction has become heavily circumscribed. They have lost duties linked with power and respect in the local community and they have lost monopoly on duties originally ascribed to the profession. Despite these changes, this study indicates a conspicuous lack of op…
Shared or separate? Money management and changing norms of gender equality among Norwegian couples
Over the last generation the male breadwinner/housewife family has gradually become outdated as the dominant normative model for family households. The new ideal has become the adult worker family model, where gender equality defined as economic independence and sharing of household work and childcare between spouses/partners is the norm. The Nordic countries are the frontrunners of this development, and the Nordic welfare model is assumed to be …
Bokanmeldelser
National Context and Spouses' Housework in 34 Countries
By focusing on how national context and individual factors affect spouses’ absolute and relative contributions, social scientists are better able to understand couples’ organising and sharing of housework. Previous studies have suggested a linkage between female empowerment and the division of housework; however, documented effects have proven inconsistent. The authors propose that a less pronounced cross-national pattern for relative efforts ref…
Likestilling og husarbeid: Norden i komparativt perspektiv
Bokomtaler
«Vi vil vel være prototypen på likestilt økonomi». Om økonomiske forvaltningssystemer i norske barnefamiliehushold
Deprofesjonalisering av helsesøsteryrket
Skandinavisk forskning om velferd og omsorg – relevant for dagens utviklingsforskning
Noen refleksjoner omkring det velgende individ, feministisk omsorgsetikk og den sosiologiske tradisjonen
Bokomtaler
National Context, Individual Characteristics and Attitudes on Mothers' Employment: A Comparative Analysis of Great Britain, Sweden and Norway
This article examines how a general social process—the struggle toward gender equality—is reflected in the public opinion on mothers' employment in three different modern welfare states: Great Britain, Sweden and Norway. Viewing such attitudes as reponses to structural changes in women's relation to the labour market, the possible between- and within-country variations in these attitudes are hypothesized. The data are drawn from the International…
Fürsorgerationalität
Debatt: Kommentar til ”Till Kritiken av den Kvalitativa Metoden” av Margareta Bertilsson, Sociologisk Forskning 4, 1995
Som empirisk orientert sosiolog og kvinneforsker
Changing Patterns of European Family Life. A Comparative Analysis of 14 European Countries
Part I: Theoretical Background 1. Comparative Focus and Considerations Jens Qvortrup 2. Theories and Ideologies of Family Functions, Gender Relations and Human Reproduction Edmund Dahlstrom 3. Ideologies of Family Forms: Towards Diversity Rhona Rap 4. Place of Family in Complex Society Giovanni Sgritta Part II: Reproduction and Caregiving 5. Historical Changes in Family Reproductive Patterns Angelo Saporiti 6. Caregiving Kari Waerness 7. Socialis…
A More Symmetrical Family: A Greater Demand for Public Care
An analysis of different meanings of the concept "caring" is used to argue that the changes in the gender division of labor and the growth of the welfare state services which have taken place in Norwegian Society in recent years, has made informal care more of a complement rather than an alternative to public care services. Both theoretical considerations and empirical studies are used to argue that to some extent more symmetrical family relation…
Women in the Welfare State: The Case of Formal and Informal Old-Age Care
(1986). 7 Women in the Welfare State: The Case of Formal and Informal Old-Age Care. International Journal of Sociology: Vol. 16, No. 3-4, pp. 161-173
The Rationality of Caring
In order to find better models for caregiving work, an analysis of the concept of caring is developed in this article. The focus is on caring for dependents and it is argued that this kind of caring, typically a responsibility for women, is based on a specific kind of rationality. 'Rationality of caring' is different from scientific rationality which is aimed at controlling the environment. It also transcends the categories of rationality and ins…
National Context and Spouses' Housework in 34 Countries
By focusing on how national context and individual factors affect spouses’ absolute and relative contributions, social scientists are better able to understand couples’ organising and sharing of housework. Previous studies have suggested a linkage between female empowerment and the division of housework; however, documented effects have proven inconsistent. The authors propose that a less pronounced cross-national pattern for relative efforts ref…
National Context, Individual Characteristics and Attitudes on Mothers' Employment: A Comparative Analysis of Great Britain, Sweden and Norway
This article examines how a general social process—the struggle toward gender equality—is reflected in the public opinion on mothers' employment in three different modern welfare states: Great Britain, Sweden and Norway. Viewing such attitudes as reponses to structural changes in women's relation to the labour market, the possible between- and within-country variations in these attitudes are hypothesized. The data are drawn from the International…
Shared or separate? Money management and changing norms of gender equality among Norwegian couples
Over the last generation the male breadwinner/housewife family has gradually become outdated as the dominant normative model for family households. The new ideal has become the adult worker family model, where gender equality defined as economic independence and sharing of household work and childcare between spouses/partners is the norm. The Nordic countries are the frontrunners of this development, and the Nordic welfare model is assumed to be …
Changing Patterns of European Family Life. A Comparative Analysis of 14 European Countries
Part I: Theoretical Background 1. Comparative Focus and Considerations Jens Qvortrup 2. Theories and Ideologies of Family Functions, Gender Relations and Human Reproduction Edmund Dahlstrom 3. Ideologies of Family Forms: Towards Diversity Rhona Rap 4. Place of Family in Complex Society Giovanni Sgritta Part II: Reproduction and Caregiving 5. Historical Changes in Family Reproductive Patterns Angelo Saporiti 6. Caregiving Kari Waerness 7. Socialis…
The Invisible Welfare State: Women's Work at Home
Analysing welfare in terms of Allardt's three dimensions - Having, Loving, and Being - women's unpaid work at home seems particularly important for securing the welfare of the children, the sick, and the old on the Loving dimension. Increasing employment outside the home is necessary for increasing women's welfare on the Being dimension and their independence on the Having dimension. This cannot be realized without reducing the amount of women's …
Deprofessionalization of a female occupation: Challenges for the sociology of professions
This article argues that Norwegian public health nurses, after a long period of professionalization, have recently undergone a process of deprofessionalization. Public health nurses' jurisdiction has become heavily circumscribed. They have lost duties linked with power and respect in the local community and they have lost monopoly on duties originally ascribed to the profession. Despite these changes, this study indicates a conspicuous lack of op…
Fürsorgerationalität
Likestilling og husarbeid: Norden i komparativt perspektiv
The Invisible Welfare State: Women's Work at Home
Analysing welfare in terms of Allardt's three dimensions - Having, Loving, and Being - women's unpaid work at home seems particularly important for securing the welfare of the children, the sick, and the old on the Loving dimension. Increasing employment outside the home is necessary for increasing women's welfare on the Being dimension and their independence on the Having dimension. This cannot be realized without reducing the amount of women's …
Omsorgen som lönearbete - en begreppsdiskussion
Var går gränsen mellan ömsesidig omsorg, institutionaliserat omsorgsarbete och personliga tjänster? Vad innebär motsättningen mellan lönearbetets form och omsorgens innehåll för de kvinnor som ägnar sig åt den? Kari Waerness analyserar här de tre begreppen mot bakgrund av sin egen forskning om äldreomsorg
The Rationality of Caring
In order to find better models for caregiving work, an analysis of the concept of caring is developed in this article. The focus is on caring for dependents and it is argued that this kind of caring, typically a responsibility for women, is based on a specific kind of rationality. 'Rationality of caring' is different from scientific rationality which is aimed at controlling the environment. It also transcends the categories of rationality and ins…
Women in the Welfare State: The Case of Formal and Informal Old-Age Care
(1986). 7 Women in the Welfare State: The Case of Formal and Informal Old-Age Care. International Journal of Sociology: Vol. 16, No. 3-4, pp. 161-173
A More Symmetrical Family: A Greater Demand for Public Care
An analysis of different meanings of the concept "caring" is used to argue that the changes in the gender division of labor and the growth of the welfare state services which have taken place in Norwegian Society in recent years, has made informal care more of a complement rather than an alternative to public care services. Both theoretical considerations and empirical studies are used to argue that to some extent more symmetrical family relation…
Changing Patterns of European Family Life. A Comparative Analysis of 14 European Countries
Part I: Theoretical Background 1. Comparative Focus and Considerations Jens Qvortrup 2. Theories and Ideologies of Family Functions, Gender Relations and Human Reproduction Edmund Dahlstrom 3. Ideologies of Family Forms: Towards Diversity Rhona Rap 4. Place of Family in Complex Society Giovanni Sgritta Part II: Reproduction and Caregiving 5. Historical Changes in Family Reproductive Patterns Angelo Saporiti 6. Caregiving Kari Waerness 7. Socialis…
Debatt: Kommentar til ”Till Kritiken av den Kvalitativa Metoden” av Margareta Bertilsson, Sociologisk Forskning 4, 1995
Som empirisk orientert sosiolog og kvinneforsker
Fürsorgerationalität
National Context, Individual Characteristics and Attitudes on Mothers' Employment: A Comparative Analysis of Great Britain, Sweden and Norway
This article examines how a general social process—the struggle toward gender equality—is reflected in the public opinion on mothers' employment in three different modern welfare states: Great Britain, Sweden and Norway. Viewing such attitudes as reponses to structural changes in women's relation to the labour market, the possible between- and within-country variations in these attitudes are hypothesized. The data are drawn from the International…
Bokomtaler
Noen refleksjoner omkring det velgende individ, feministisk omsorgsetikk og den sosiologiske tradisjonen
Deprofesjonalisering av helsesøsteryrket
Skandinavisk forskning om velferd og omsorg – relevant for dagens utviklingsforskning
Bokomtaler
«Vi vil vel være prototypen på likestilt økonomi». Om økonomiske forvaltningssystemer i norske barnefamiliehushold
Likestilling og husarbeid: Norden i komparativt perspektiv
Bokanmeldelser
National Context and Spouses' Housework in 34 Countries
By focusing on how national context and individual factors affect spouses’ absolute and relative contributions, social scientists are better able to understand couples’ organising and sharing of housework. Previous studies have suggested a linkage between female empowerment and the division of housework; however, documented effects have proven inconsistent. The authors propose that a less pronounced cross-national pattern for relative efforts ref…
Shared or separate? Money management and changing norms of gender equality among Norwegian couples
Over the last generation the male breadwinner/housewife family has gradually become outdated as the dominant normative model for family households. The new ideal has become the adult worker family model, where gender equality defined as economic independence and sharing of household work and childcare between spouses/partners is the norm. The Nordic countries are the frontrunners of this development, and the Nordic welfare model is assumed to be …
Sosiologi, kvinneforskning og nye utfordringer fra de biologiske vitenskaper
Deprofessionalization of a female occupation: Challenges for the sociology of professions
This article argues that Norwegian public health nurses, after a long period of professionalization, have recently undergone a process of deprofessionalization. Public health nurses' jurisdiction has become heavily circumscribed. They have lost duties linked with power and respect in the local community and they have lost monopoly on duties originally ascribed to the profession. Despite these changes, this study indicates a conspicuous lack of op…
Kenneth Dahlgren og Hans Erik Næss (red.): Tanker om samfunn
Karin Widerberg (red.): I hjertet av velferdsstaten. En invitasjon til institusjonell etnografi
Long-term care services in Norway
Norway is internationally known for providing one of the world's most universal and comprehensive long-term care services. This chapter focuses on older people and their main services. It provides a historical sociological analysis inspired by Abrams P. of the development of today's Norwegian long-term care services, tracing it back to its roots in the nineteenth century. The chapter utilizes welfare statistics showing development trends over tim…
On the rationality of caring
The feminist critique of sociological conceptualizations and theories that do not adequately reflect the position of women in society is highly relevant for understanding this shift or change of direction in social policy thinking. The new ideology that informal care is better than public care contributes to reinforce these problems. The recent trend in favour of more community care is at least in part a consequence of many people feeling that th…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (13 works) · Law (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Norwegian (4 works)