Morten Frederiksen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 258470 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Morten Frederiksen |
| PRENOMES | Morten |
| SOBRENOME | Frederiksen |
| ASSINATURA | FREDERIKSEN M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5550-0537 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 132 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Cultural Resistance to Policy Change
Social policy research posits that people adapt to policy change by aligning their preferences and institutional expectations through habituation. At face value, this policy feedback theory conflicts with theories of moral economy, which suggests that people share durable cultural repertoires regarding the meaning of the good life and good society. Deploying a large number of qualitative interviews, this study analyzes whether and how people resi…
Embedded and exterior practices of cross-sector co-production
Embedded and exterior practices of cross-sector co-production
Cross-sector co-production involving voluntary organisations in the production and delivery of social services has been adopted across many welfare states. Economic and demographic changes have led to increased involvement of volunteer initiatives in different welfare policy fields. How different field properties enable, constrain, and shape co-production practices remains, however, under researched. In this article, we address this shortcoming i…
Navigating educational success
This paper explores modes of expectation among care‐experienced young people when navigating educational success. Luhmann's theoretical framework is used to conceptualise experiences of educational success and the role of uncertainty. We identify three modes of expectation: trust, risk and danger. To illustrate these modes, we draw on selected examples from an interview study with 28 care‐experienced young people focusing on their experiences of …
The politics of insufficiency
In the public and scientific discourse on welfare innovation and new public governance, community coproduction is thought to combine the best elements of the public and voluntary sectors, hence creating better and more efficient responses to social need. However, coproduction also blurs sectoral boundaries, potentially mixing incompatible practices, values and goals. In this paper, we investigate how volunteers and public sector employees experie…
Speaking on behalf of the vulnerable? Voluntary translations of citizen needs to policy in community co-production
Vulnerable citizens often depend on volunteers or others to translate their needs into relevant concerns for policy makers. This is particularly so in the context of co-production of public service provision. However, knowledge of how this translation works in practice is scarce. Based on a qualitative study of co-production activities targeting vulnerable elderly citizens and refugees, this paper explores volunteers’ translations of citizen need…
Secrets, trust, and transparency
Secrecy is usually considered destructive to trust. However, people are often involved in conflicting social commitments in which transparency to one trustor may violate the trust of others. Georg Simmel suggests that secrecy can serve important social purposes; consequently, strategically balancing transparency and secrecy can be conducive to social cooperation and building intersubjective trust. This is particularly the case for trusted interme…
Cold comfort
Climate change alters species distributions by shifting their fundamental niche in space through time. Such effects may be exacerbated by increased inter-specific competition if climate alters species dominance where competitor ranges overlap. This study used census data, telemetry and stable isotopes to examine the population and foraging ecology of a pair of Arctic and temperate congeners across an extensive zone of sympatry in Iceland, where s…
The European Values Study 2017
The European Values Study (EVS) was first conducted in 1981 and then repeated in 1990, 1999, 2008, and 2017, with the aim of providing researchers with data to investigate whether European individual and social values are changing and to what degree. The EVS is traditionally carried out as a probability-based face-to-face survey that takes around 1 hour to complete. In recent years, large-scale population surveys such as the EVS have been challen…
Deservingness put into practice
The increased comparative research on perceptions of public welfare deservingness studies the extent to which different subgroups of citizens are deemed worthy or unworthy of receiving help from the welfare state. The concept of deservingness criteria plays a crucial role in this research, as it theorizes a universal heuristic that citizens apply to rank people in terms of their welfare deservingness. Due to the mainly quantitative nature of the …
On the inside of generalized trust
Generalized trust correlates strongly with many desirable institutional and societal characteristics and for this reason, variations in the level of generalized trust have been the object of intense scrutiny. However, the subjective contents of generalized trust have only been the object of theoretical, rather than empirical, investigation. This article adds some first, key insights into this issue and provides findings which fundamentally questi…
Varieties of Scandinavian universalism
Attitudes research shows that the Scandinavian, universal welfare regime receives strong popular support. Why the inhabitants consider this universal model of welfare appropriate is, however, all but unknown. This paper explores the level of welfare attitudes and welfare legitimacy to investigate the cultural standards of worth which justify the universal welfare state to people in Sweden and Denmark. A total of 115 qualitative interviews conduct…
Trust
Trust has become an increasingly important concept in social theory. In particular, what it means to trust, how trust is at all possible, and whether trust is fundamentally rational or irrational is much contested. The relevance of trust as both concept and empirical phenomenon has been linked to the development trajectory of modernity, since increasing individualism and disintegration of traditional norms and roles seems to suggest that trust is…
Og hvis vi så ikke må – jamen hvordan skulle vi vide det?’ Kommunalt kontrolarbejde med socialt bedrageri
Kontrolopgaver er i stigende grad en del af offentlig forvaltning, ikke mindst en del af den kontrolindsats, der udføres inden for den kommunale forvaltning af offentlige ydelser. Vi ved imidlertid meget lidt om hvordan dette kontrolarbejde udføres, hvilke typer afgørelser, der knytter sig til det, og hvordan det forandrer borgernes retstilling som modtagere af offentlige ydelser. Denne artikel bygger på en mindre etnografisk undersøgelse af en s…
Constraining institutions, committed employees
To sustain a welfare state requires a high level of institutional legitimacy among citizens. Survey researchers have effectively investigated the legitimacy of both institutional goals and the distribution of benefits and burdens associated with these institutions. However, the legitimacy of institutional procedures remains largely unresearched. This paper contributes in this area by investigating citizens’ perceptions of the delivery of welfare …
Danish Welfare State
Trusting the other or taking a chance? An investigation of chance and trust temporalities
Theories of modernity and risk society argue that increasing levels of risk fundamentally alter or lower the level of trust in society. In this article we argue that this assumption is based in a fallacious theoretical link between trust and risk. Rather than calculative assessment of risk and specific events, trust directs anticipation towards process. First, we outline dominant approaches to trust as a question of actions and uncertainty of out…
Education and trust
Contemporary research on trust has come to assume that education has a universal positive effect on trust. Using the survey item that has dominated the trust literature -'whether one believes most people can be trusted or one can never be too careful' - education is often found to be one of the strongest predictors of trust, more important than age, income, wealth, health or any another individual characteristic. Thus there are indeed reasons to …
The Danish Welfare State
The Danish Welfare State analyzes a broad range of areas, such as globalization, labor marked, family life, health and social exclusion, the book demonstrates that life in a modern welfare state is changing rapidly, creating both challenges and possibilities for future management.
Mobilitet i den frivillige sektor. En panelanalyse af danskernes frivillige engagement fra 2004 til 2012
Den sociologiske forskning i frivilligt arbejde har længe været optaget af at afklare hvilke faktorer, der afgør om et menneske engagerer sig i civilsamfundet eller ej. En række forskellige teorier tilskriver den afgørende betydning til henholdsvis de frivilliges normer, ressourcer eller netværk. I en dansk kontekst er dette spørgsmål hidtil kun blevet adresseret ved hjælp af tværsnitsdata. I denne artikel undersøger vi betydningen af disse forsk…
Dangerous, Commendable or Compliant
The interdependencies and conflicts between civil society and welfare states are of continuing interest and controversy among civil society researchers. Particularly, issues of motivation, collaboration, management, and institutional contexts have been subject to extensive scrutiny. Less prominent on this research agenda, the issue of public perceptions and legitimacy is highly relevant to the conversation on welfare state and civil society. This…
Relational trust
While the cognitive, behavioural and emotional aspects of trust are widely investigated within trust research, the relational character of trust remains underdeveloped. Nonetheless, many social scientific theories of trust underscore that trust is fundamentally a relational phenomenon. This article presents a theoretical investigation of the relational characteristics of interpersonal trust within Pierre Bourdieu's relational social theory. The a…
Mainstreaming Effects on Volunteering? The Case of Denmark
The aim of this article is to investigate whether and to what extent changes in the structural preconditions for volunteering have had an effect on the relative importance of ‘classic predictors’ of volunteering within two areas: (1) socio-economic and status variables that function as resources for civic engagement and (2) value orientations that guide volunteering. Arguably, upward changes in the level of human capital, such as education, or ch…
Trust in the face of uncertainty
Contemporary trust research regards trust as a way of dealing with uncertainty and risk. Predominantly, it suggests that trust reduces uncertainty by means of risk assessment and rational calculation. However, phenomenological research proposes that trust is an alternative way of relating to uncertainty rather than a way to reduced uncertainty. This paper investigates these propositions in an interview study on intersubjective trust. The study fo…
Calculativeness and trust
Oliver Williamson's characterisation of calculativeness as inimical to trust (Williamson, O. E. [1993]. Calculativeness, trust, and economic organization. The Journal of Law and Economics, 36 , 453-486) contradicts most sociological trust research. However, a similar argument is found within trust phenomenology. This paper reinvestigates Williamson's argument from the perspective of L gstrup's phenomenological theory of trust. Contrary to William…
Deservingness put into practice
The increased comparative research on perceptions of public welfare deservingness studies the extent to which different subgroups of citizens are deemed worthy or unworthy of receiving help from the welfare state. The concept of deservingness criteria plays a crucial role in this research, as it theorizes a universal heuristic that citizens apply to rank people in terms of their welfare deservingness. Due to the mainly quantitative nature of the …
Relational trust
While the cognitive, behavioural and emotional aspects of trust are widely investigated within trust research, the relational character of trust remains underdeveloped. Nonetheless, many social scientific theories of trust underscore that trust is fundamentally a relational phenomenon. This article presents a theoretical investigation of the relational characteristics of interpersonal trust within Pierre Bourdieu's relational social theory. The a…
Varieties of Scandinavian universalism
Attitudes research shows that the Scandinavian, universal welfare regime receives strong popular support. Why the inhabitants consider this universal model of welfare appropriate is, however, all but unknown. This paper explores the level of welfare attitudes and welfare legitimacy to investigate the cultural standards of worth which justify the universal welfare state to people in Sweden and Denmark. A total of 115 qualitative interviews conduct…
Education and trust
Contemporary research on trust has come to assume that education has a universal positive effect on trust. Using the survey item that has dominated the trust literature -'whether one believes most people can be trusted or one can never be too careful' - education is often found to be one of the strongest predictors of trust, more important than age, income, wealth, health or any another individual characteristic. Thus there are indeed reasons to …
Calculativeness and trust
Oliver Williamson's characterisation of calculativeness as inimical to trust (Williamson, O. E. [1993]. Calculativeness, trust, and economic organization. The Journal of Law and Economics, 36 , 453-486) contradicts most sociological trust research. However, a similar argument is found within trust phenomenology. This paper reinvestigates Williamson's argument from the perspective of L gstrup's phenomenological theory of trust. Contrary to William…
Trust in the face of uncertainty
Contemporary trust research regards trust as a way of dealing with uncertainty and risk. Predominantly, it suggests that trust reduces uncertainty by means of risk assessment and rational calculation. However, phenomenological research proposes that trust is an alternative way of relating to uncertainty rather than a way to reduced uncertainty. This paper investigates these propositions in an interview study on intersubjective trust. The study fo…
Dimensions of trust
Georg Simmel is the seminal author on trust within sociology, but though inspired by Simmel, subsequent studies of intersubjective trust have failed to address Simmel's suggestion that trust is as differentiated as the social relations of which it is part. Rather, trust has been studied within limited sets of exchange or work relations. This article revisits Simmel's concept of trust as social form in order to investigate this differentiation. Fr…
The European Values Study 2017
The European Values Study (EVS) was first conducted in 1981 and then repeated in 1990, 1999, 2008, and 2017, with the aim of providing researchers with data to investigate whether European individual and social values are changing and to what degree. The EVS is traditionally carried out as a probability-based face-to-face survey that takes around 1 hour to complete. In recent years, large-scale population surveys such as the EVS have been challen…
On the inside of generalized trust
Generalized trust correlates strongly with many desirable institutional and societal characteristics and for this reason, variations in the level of generalized trust have been the object of intense scrutiny. However, the subjective contents of generalized trust have only been the object of theoretical, rather than empirical, investigation. This article adds some first, key insights into this issue and provides findings which fundamentally questi…
Dangerous, Commendable or Compliant
The interdependencies and conflicts between civil society and welfare states are of continuing interest and controversy among civil society researchers. Particularly, issues of motivation, collaboration, management, and institutional contexts have been subject to extensive scrutiny. Less prominent on this research agenda, the issue of public perceptions and legitimacy is highly relevant to the conversation on welfare state and civil society. This…
Trusting the other or taking a chance? An investigation of chance and trust temporalities
Theories of modernity and risk society argue that increasing levels of risk fundamentally alter or lower the level of trust in society. In this article we argue that this assumption is based in a fallacious theoretical link between trust and risk. Rather than calculative assessment of risk and specific events, trust directs anticipation towards process. First, we outline dominant approaches to trust as a question of actions and uncertainty of out…
Cultural Resistance to Policy Change
Social policy research posits that people adapt to policy change by aligning their preferences and institutional expectations through habituation. At face value, this policy feedback theory conflicts with theories of moral economy, which suggests that people share durable cultural repertoires regarding the meaning of the good life and good society. Deploying a large number of qualitative interviews, this study analyzes whether and how people resi…
Navigating educational success
This paper explores modes of expectation among care‐experienced young people when navigating educational success. Luhmann's theoretical framework is used to conceptualise experiences of educational success and the role of uncertainty. We identify three modes of expectation: trust, risk and danger. To illustrate these modes, we draw on selected examples from an interview study with 28 care‐experienced young people focusing on their experiences of …
Distrust and Mistrust
The latest Danish wave of the European Values Study shows an increase in the prevailing culture of social trust. Low social trust characterises only a minority of the population. This study investigates who maintains low social trust in a Danish environment of high social trust, in comparison with the low trust majority of Austria. The study pursues the interplay between social positions and dispositions through Multiple Correspondence Analysis. …
Embedded and exterior practices of cross-sector co-production
Cross-sector co-production involving voluntary organisations in the production and delivery of social services has been adopted across many welfare states. Economic and demographic changes have led to increased involvement of volunteer initiatives in different welfare policy fields. How different field properties enable, constrain, and shape co-production practices remains, however, under researched. In this article, we address this shortcoming i…
Cold comfort
Climate change alters species distributions by shifting their fundamental niche in space through time. Such effects may be exacerbated by increased inter-specific competition if climate alters species dominance where competitor ranges overlap. This study used census data, telemetry and stable isotopes to examine the population and foraging ecology of a pair of Arctic and temperate congeners across an extensive zone of sympatry in Iceland, where s…
Constraining institutions, committed employees
To sustain a welfare state requires a high level of institutional legitimacy among citizens. Survey researchers have effectively investigated the legitimacy of both institutional goals and the distribution of benefits and burdens associated with these institutions. However, the legitimacy of institutional procedures remains largely unresearched. This paper contributes in this area by investigating citizens’ perceptions of the delivery of welfare …
And mistrust take the hindmost
While most countries are experiencing stable or declining rates of generalized trust, this has not been the case in the Nordic countries, where levels of generalized trust have continued to increase. In the Danish case, trust increased by 50 per cent in the period from 1981 to 2008. This article investigates this puzzling development by testing the dominant socialization, status, and institutional theories on trust development. Using the Danish 1…
Distrust and Mistrust
The latest Danish wave of the European Values Study shows an increase in the prevailing culture of social trust. Low social trust characterises only a minority of the population. This study investigates who maintains low social trust in a Danish environment of high social trust, in comparison with the low trust majority of Austria. The study pursues the interplay between social positions and dispositions through Multiple Correspondence Analysis. …
Dimensions of trust
Georg Simmel is the seminal author on trust within sociology, but though inspired by Simmel, subsequent studies of intersubjective trust have failed to address Simmel's suggestion that trust is as differentiated as the social relations of which it is part. Rather, trust has been studied within limited sets of exchange or work relations. This article revisits Simmel's concept of trust as social form in order to investigate this differentiation. Fr…
Relational trust
While the cognitive, behavioural and emotional aspects of trust are widely investigated within trust research, the relational character of trust remains underdeveloped. Nonetheless, many social scientific theories of trust underscore that trust is fundamentally a relational phenomenon. This article presents a theoretical investigation of the relational characteristics of interpersonal trust within Pierre Bourdieu's relational social theory. The a…
Mainstreaming Effects on Volunteering? The Case of Denmark
The aim of this article is to investigate whether and to what extent changes in the structural preconditions for volunteering have had an effect on the relative importance of ‘classic predictors’ of volunteering within two areas: (1) socio-economic and status variables that function as resources for civic engagement and (2) value orientations that guide volunteering. Arguably, upward changes in the level of human capital, such as education, or ch…
Trust in the face of uncertainty
Contemporary trust research regards trust as a way of dealing with uncertainty and risk. Predominantly, it suggests that trust reduces uncertainty by means of risk assessment and rational calculation. However, phenomenological research proposes that trust is an alternative way of relating to uncertainty rather than a way to reduced uncertainty. This paper investigates these propositions in an interview study on intersubjective trust. The study fo…
Calculativeness and trust
Oliver Williamson's characterisation of calculativeness as inimical to trust (Williamson, O. E. [1993]. Calculativeness, trust, and economic organization. The Journal of Law and Economics, 36 , 453-486) contradicts most sociological trust research. However, a similar argument is found within trust phenomenology. This paper reinvestigates Williamson's argument from the perspective of L gstrup's phenomenological theory of trust. Contrary to William…
And mistrust take the hindmost
While most countries are experiencing stable or declining rates of generalized trust, this has not been the case in the Nordic countries, where levels of generalized trust have continued to increase. In the Danish case, trust increased by 50 per cent in the period from 1981 to 2008. This article investigates this puzzling development by testing the dominant socialization, status, and institutional theories on trust development. Using the Danish 1…
The Danish Welfare State
The Danish Welfare State analyzes a broad range of areas, such as globalization, labor marked, family life, health and social exclusion, the book demonstrates that life in a modern welfare state is changing rapidly, creating both challenges and possibilities for future management.
Mobilitet i den frivillige sektor. En panelanalyse af danskernes frivillige engagement fra 2004 til 2012
Den sociologiske forskning i frivilligt arbejde har længe været optaget af at afklare hvilke faktorer, der afgør om et menneske engagerer sig i civilsamfundet eller ej. En række forskellige teorier tilskriver den afgørende betydning til henholdsvis de frivilliges normer, ressourcer eller netværk. I en dansk kontekst er dette spørgsmål hidtil kun blevet adresseret ved hjælp af tværsnitsdata. I denne artikel undersøger vi betydningen af disse forsk…
Dangerous, Commendable or Compliant
The interdependencies and conflicts between civil society and welfare states are of continuing interest and controversy among civil society researchers. Particularly, issues of motivation, collaboration, management, and institutional contexts have been subject to extensive scrutiny. Less prominent on this research agenda, the issue of public perceptions and legitimacy is highly relevant to the conversation on welfare state and civil society. This…
Danish Welfare State
Trusting the other or taking a chance? An investigation of chance and trust temporalities
Theories of modernity and risk society argue that increasing levels of risk fundamentally alter or lower the level of trust in society. In this article we argue that this assumption is based in a fallacious theoretical link between trust and risk. Rather than calculative assessment of risk and specific events, trust directs anticipation towards process. First, we outline dominant approaches to trust as a question of actions and uncertainty of out…
Education and trust
Contemporary research on trust has come to assume that education has a universal positive effect on trust. Using the survey item that has dominated the trust literature -'whether one believes most people can be trusted or one can never be too careful' - education is often found to be one of the strongest predictors of trust, more important than age, income, wealth, health or any another individual characteristic. Thus there are indeed reasons to …
Trust
Trust has become an increasingly important concept in social theory. In particular, what it means to trust, how trust is at all possible, and whether trust is fundamentally rational or irrational is much contested. The relevance of trust as both concept and empirical phenomenon has been linked to the development trajectory of modernity, since increasing individualism and disintegration of traditional norms and roles seems to suggest that trust is…
Og hvis vi så ikke må – jamen hvordan skulle vi vide det?’ Kommunalt kontrolarbejde med socialt bedrageri
Kontrolopgaver er i stigende grad en del af offentlig forvaltning, ikke mindst en del af den kontrolindsats, der udføres inden for den kommunale forvaltning af offentlige ydelser. Vi ved imidlertid meget lidt om hvordan dette kontrolarbejde udføres, hvilke typer afgørelser, der knytter sig til det, og hvordan det forandrer borgernes retstilling som modtagere af offentlige ydelser. Denne artikel bygger på en mindre etnografisk undersøgelse af en s…
Constraining institutions, committed employees
To sustain a welfare state requires a high level of institutional legitimacy among citizens. Survey researchers have effectively investigated the legitimacy of both institutional goals and the distribution of benefits and burdens associated with these institutions. However, the legitimacy of institutional procedures remains largely unresearched. This paper contributes in this area by investigating citizens’ perceptions of the delivery of welfare …
Varieties of Scandinavian universalism
Attitudes research shows that the Scandinavian, universal welfare regime receives strong popular support. Why the inhabitants consider this universal model of welfare appropriate is, however, all but unknown. This paper explores the level of welfare attitudes and welfare legitimacy to investigate the cultural standards of worth which justify the universal welfare state to people in Sweden and Denmark. A total of 115 qualitative interviews conduct…
On the inside of generalized trust
Generalized trust correlates strongly with many desirable institutional and societal characteristics and for this reason, variations in the level of generalized trust have been the object of intense scrutiny. However, the subjective contents of generalized trust have only been the object of theoretical, rather than empirical, investigation. This article adds some first, key insights into this issue and provides findings which fundamentally questi…
Deservingness put into practice
The increased comparative research on perceptions of public welfare deservingness studies the extent to which different subgroups of citizens are deemed worthy or unworthy of receiving help from the welfare state. The concept of deservingness criteria plays a crucial role in this research, as it theorizes a universal heuristic that citizens apply to rank people in terms of their welfare deservingness. Due to the mainly quantitative nature of the …
The European Values Study 2017
The European Values Study (EVS) was first conducted in 1981 and then repeated in 1990, 1999, 2008, and 2017, with the aim of providing researchers with data to investigate whether European individual and social values are changing and to what degree. The EVS is traditionally carried out as a probability-based face-to-face survey that takes around 1 hour to complete. In recent years, large-scale population surveys such as the EVS have been challen…
Speaking on behalf of the vulnerable? Voluntary translations of citizen needs to policy in community co-production
Vulnerable citizens often depend on volunteers or others to translate their needs into relevant concerns for policy makers. This is particularly so in the context of co-production of public service provision. However, knowledge of how this translation works in practice is scarce. Based on a qualitative study of co-production activities targeting vulnerable elderly citizens and refugees, this paper explores volunteers’ translations of citizen need…
Secrets, trust, and transparency
Secrecy is usually considered destructive to trust. However, people are often involved in conflicting social commitments in which transparency to one trustor may violate the trust of others. Georg Simmel suggests that secrecy can serve important social purposes; consequently, strategically balancing transparency and secrecy can be conducive to social cooperation and building intersubjective trust. This is particularly the case for trusted interme…
Cold comfort
Climate change alters species distributions by shifting their fundamental niche in space through time. Such effects may be exacerbated by increased inter-specific competition if climate alters species dominance where competitor ranges overlap. This study used census data, telemetry and stable isotopes to examine the population and foraging ecology of a pair of Arctic and temperate congeners across an extensive zone of sympatry in Iceland, where s…
The politics of insufficiency
In the public and scientific discourse on welfare innovation and new public governance, community coproduction is thought to combine the best elements of the public and voluntary sectors, hence creating better and more efficient responses to social need. However, coproduction also blurs sectoral boundaries, potentially mixing incompatible practices, values and goals. In this paper, we investigate how volunteers and public sector employees experie…
Navigating educational success
This paper explores modes of expectation among care‐experienced young people when navigating educational success. Luhmann's theoretical framework is used to conceptualise experiences of educational success and the role of uncertainty. We identify three modes of expectation: trust, risk and danger. To illustrate these modes, we draw on selected examples from an interview study with 28 care‐experienced young people focusing on their experiences of …
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