Per Koren Solvang
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 322577 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Per Koren Solvang |
| PRENOMES | Per Koren |
| SOBRENOME | Solvang |
| ASSINATURA | SOLVANG P K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6494-3417 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Managing Stigma and Perpetuating Ableism: How Frontline Workers Navigate Disclosure When Encouraging Employers to Hire Disabled People
Although disability disclosure is extensively researched, little is known about how professionals disclose disability on behalf of others. This article examines how frontline workers involved in active labour market policies (ALMPs) employ stigma management strategies when encouraging employers to hire disabled people. As employer engagement is central to ALMPs, disclosure emerges as a critical site for analysis. The study draws on group intervie…
Distributed decision-making for lumbar spine surgery: A qualitative interview study with patients and neurosurgeons
Lower back pain with or without radiating leg pain is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Several treatment options are available, and this article aims to understand better the decision-making involved in selecting appropriate treatments. A qualitative interview study was conducted with patients with lumbar spinal disorders and neurosurgeons specialising in spine surgery. Both groups of participants were asked to reflect on the decision-mak…
Users' Perspectives on the Organization of Rehabilitation Services – A Focus Group Study of User Organization Representatives in Norway
BACKGROUND: User organizations for people with disabilities in Norway work for social equality and participation, and quality of health services for people with disabilities, chronic illnesses and reduced functional capacity. Consideration of the experiences from user representatives is necessary when determining the quality and appropriateness of the rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation services constitute the provision and delivery of intang…
The unexpected other: Challenges and strategies after acquired impairment
People experiencing traumatic brain injury or multitrauma will often live with problems in functioning for a profound period in life. A situation of great complexity emerges involving both the experience of an impaired body and the experience of a changed social position. This article addresses the intricate relations between the altered body, personal ambitions, and social surroundings in the first 2-3 years after an injury. The conceptual frame…
Reframing disability in the labour market: Narratives of value told by employers
This article addresses how employers privileging disability-specific experience and impairment-related competencies in hiring practices reframe disability from a limited ability to work to a valuable human resource. It is based on the analysis of 14 in-depth interviews with disabled and non-disabled Norwegian employers that privilege hiring people with disabilities. Applying Boltanski and Thévenot’s theory of justification, it is argued that empl…
User involvement in the making: Positions and types of knowledge enacted in the interaction between service users and researchers in user panel meetings
BACKGROUND: Numerous studies of user involvement in research have been conducted. However, there is a lack of studies applying observational methods and addressing the concrete practice of involvement. OBJECTIVE: To determine what knowledge types and competences users apply when involved in the research process through user panel meetings. DESIGN: User panel meetings in a qualitative project in rehabilitation were sound-recorded and transcribed v…
Returning to work or working on one's rehabilitation: Social identities invoked by impaired workers and professionals in health care and employment services
For persons with a long-term illness or impairment, return-to-work decisions involve considerations about work capacity, opportunities in the labour market, the impact of injuries, further treatment requirements, physical and cognitive rehabilitation, and mental health recovery. These considerations are undertaken by the affected individuals as well as by professionals in health care and employment services. Drawing upon institutional theories of…
Rethinking long-term condition management: An actor-level framework
To understand the complexities of managing long-term conditions and develop appropriate responses, micro-, meso- and macrolevels must be considered. However, these levels have not been combined in a single analytical framework of long-term condition management (LTCM). This article aims to describe a framework of LTCM practice and research that combines societal levels and key agents. The actor-level framework, based on the works of Abram De Swaan…
The urge to work: Normative Ordering in the Narratives of People on Long-Term Sick Leave
This study analyses the narratives of people on long-term sick leave due to low back pain. We draw upon the theory of justification - as developed by the French sociologists Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot - to investigate how the informants’ narratives evoke and rely upon three ‘orders of worth’. These are the industrial order concerning being a productive citizen, the domestic order of home and family, and the civic order positioning the cit…
Between art therapy and disability aesthetics: A sociological approach for understanding the intersection between art practice and disability discourse
What emerges as art and how it is categorised are parts of a collective process taking place in art worlds and involving a wide array of social actors. In this article, the relation between four ways of framing the intersection of disability and art is discussed. These frames are art therapy, outsider art, disability art, and disability aesthetics. The article suggests the frames and the way they relate to each other as important discourses in or…
Reimagining the Human Service Relationship
This book helps professionals find new ways to foster trust and collaboration. Rethinking providing and receiving services in child welfare, addiction treatment, mental health, doctoring, palliative care, and more, it proves through everyday examples that these goals cannot be met without quality, interpersonal interaction.
Accessibility and diversity: Deaf space in action
How disabled people gather and share common experiences is empirically not a well-addressed issue in discussions about disability identity and unity. Among Deaf people, there is a long tradition for meeting in transnational contexts. Based on an intensive multi sited fieldwork at several transnational events, the article presents some examples of how deaf people negotiate social positions as Deaf that value difference. They gather as a community …
The encyclopedia of disability
This five volume Encyclopedia of disability represents a landmark in US American and international efforts to establish the study of disability as an interdisciplinary field of knowledge.Volume 1Á4 contains AÁZ entries.The fifth volume contains a collection of what are labeled primary sources, a large number of excerpts from texts both classic and present, and a collection of visual images depicting disability.The general editor of the four volum…
Developing an ambivalence perspective on medical labelling in education: Case dyslexia
There are several social actors involved in the process of constructing the social meaning of dyslexia—namely, parents, teachers, educational authorities and organisations representing dyslectics. Some of these actors emphasise the constructive social powers related to the dyslexia label, while others perceive dyslexia as diagnostic reasoning counter productive to the learning processes. In the discussion of this paradox, this article uses sociol…
Bokomtaler
Service Provision for an Independent Life
How is an independent daily life possible for disabled people when relying upon professional service provision and the bureaucratic gate-keeping systems of the welfare state? This article discusses this question in relation to an interview study. Eighteen mobility disabled and 20 service providers in one local setting in Norway were interviewed. We point out at least three categories regarding how independence is interpreted among the disabled: t…
Bokomtaler
An Evaluation of Divorce Support Groups: A Qualitative Approach
The purpose of this study was to evaluate support groups among divorced people. Eleven females and seven males participated in three groups. The participants were interviewed, and some themes were considered. Among these were what it had meant for the subjects to participate in a group, what were the most important functions of the group, and if the participants had benefited psychologically from participating in the group. Four therapeutic facto…
The emergence of an us and them discourse in disability theory
The changing social position of people with disabilities can be studied through the changing importance of three discourses: (1) normality/deviance, (2) equality/inequality, and (3) us/them. The normality/deviance discourse represents questions about rehabilitation and integration. The equality/inequality discourse represents the struggle for economic welfare and equal rights. Finally, the us/them discourse represents a valuing of disability as a…
Velferdsstatens problemlogikk i lys av en debatt om dysleksi
The Scandinavian welfare state represents a dilemma between problem identification and normalization. In the article, this dilemma is discussed through the case of learning disabilities in reading and writing. This issue is debated both internationally and in Scandinavia. A tradition based in biology makes the concept of dyslexia essential. As opposed to this, a tradition based in the humanities stresses social conditions as the cause of the prob…
Service Provision for an Independent Life
How is an independent daily life possible for disabled people when relying upon professional service provision and the bureaucratic gate-keeping systems of the welfare state? This article discusses this question in relation to an interview study. Eighteen mobility disabled and 20 service providers in one local setting in Norway were interviewed. We point out at least three categories regarding how independence is interpreted among the disabled: t…
Between art therapy and disability aesthetics: A sociological approach for understanding the intersection between art practice and disability discourse
What emerges as art and how it is categorised are parts of a collective process taking place in art worlds and involving a wide array of social actors. In this article, the relation between four ways of framing the intersection of disability and art is discussed. These frames are art therapy, outsider art, disability art, and disability aesthetics. The article suggests the frames and the way they relate to each other as important discourses in or…
The emergence of an us and them discourse in disability theory
The changing social position of people with disabilities can be studied through the changing importance of three discourses: (1) normality/deviance, (2) equality/inequality, and (3) us/them. The normality/deviance discourse represents questions about rehabilitation and integration. The equality/inequality discourse represents the struggle for economic welfare and equal rights. Finally, the us/them discourse represents a valuing of disability as a…
Accessibility and diversity: Deaf space in action
How disabled people gather and share common experiences is empirically not a well-addressed issue in discussions about disability identity and unity. Among Deaf people, there is a long tradition for meeting in transnational contexts. Based on an intensive multi sited fieldwork at several transnational events, the article presents some examples of how deaf people negotiate social positions as Deaf that value difference. They gather as a community …
Returning to work or working on one's rehabilitation: Social identities invoked by impaired workers and professionals in health care and employment services
For persons with a long-term illness or impairment, return-to-work decisions involve considerations about work capacity, opportunities in the labour market, the impact of injuries, further treatment requirements, physical and cognitive rehabilitation, and mental health recovery. These considerations are undertaken by the affected individuals as well as by professionals in health care and employment services. Drawing upon institutional theories of…
The urge to work: Normative Ordering in the Narratives of People on Long-Term Sick Leave
This study analyses the narratives of people on long-term sick leave due to low back pain. We draw upon the theory of justification - as developed by the French sociologists Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot - to investigate how the informants’ narratives evoke and rely upon three ‘orders of worth’. These are the industrial order concerning being a productive citizen, the domestic order of home and family, and the civic order positioning the cit…
Developing an ambivalence perspective on medical labelling in education: Case dyslexia
There are several social actors involved in the process of constructing the social meaning of dyslexia—namely, parents, teachers, educational authorities and organisations representing dyslectics. Some of these actors emphasise the constructive social powers related to the dyslexia label, while others perceive dyslexia as diagnostic reasoning counter productive to the learning processes. In the discussion of this paradox, this article uses sociol…
Velferdsstatens problemlogikk i lys av en debatt om dysleksi
The Scandinavian welfare state represents a dilemma between problem identification and normalization. In the article, this dilemma is discussed through the case of learning disabilities in reading and writing. This issue is debated both internationally and in Scandinavia. A tradition based in biology makes the concept of dyslexia essential. As opposed to this, a tradition based in the humanities stresses social conditions as the cause of the prob…
An Evaluation of Divorce Support Groups: A Qualitative Approach
The purpose of this study was to evaluate support groups among divorced people. Eleven females and seven males participated in three groups. The participants were interviewed, and some themes were considered. Among these were what it had meant for the subjects to participate in a group, what were the most important functions of the group, and if the participants had benefited psychologically from participating in the group. Four therapeutic facto…
The emergence of an us and them discourse in disability theory
The changing social position of people with disabilities can be studied through the changing importance of three discourses: (1) normality/deviance, (2) equality/inequality, and (3) us/them. The normality/deviance discourse represents questions about rehabilitation and integration. The equality/inequality discourse represents the struggle for economic welfare and equal rights. Finally, the us/them discourse represents a valuing of disability as a…
Bokomtaler
Service Provision for an Independent Life
How is an independent daily life possible for disabled people when relying upon professional service provision and the bureaucratic gate-keeping systems of the welfare state? This article discusses this question in relation to an interview study. Eighteen mobility disabled and 20 service providers in one local setting in Norway were interviewed. We point out at least three categories regarding how independence is interpreted among the disabled: t…
Bokomtaler
Developing an ambivalence perspective on medical labelling in education: Case dyslexia
There are several social actors involved in the process of constructing the social meaning of dyslexia—namely, parents, teachers, educational authorities and organisations representing dyslectics. Some of these actors emphasise the constructive social powers related to the dyslexia label, while others perceive dyslexia as diagnostic reasoning counter productive to the learning processes. In the discussion of this paradox, this article uses sociol…
The encyclopedia of disability
This five volume Encyclopedia of disability represents a landmark in US American and international efforts to establish the study of disability as an interdisciplinary field of knowledge.Volume 1Á4 contains AÁZ entries.The fifth volume contains a collection of what are labeled primary sources, a large number of excerpts from texts both classic and present, and a collection of visual images depicting disability.The general editor of the four volum…
Accessibility and diversity: Deaf space in action
How disabled people gather and share common experiences is empirically not a well-addressed issue in discussions about disability identity and unity. Among Deaf people, there is a long tradition for meeting in transnational contexts. Based on an intensive multi sited fieldwork at several transnational events, the article presents some examples of how deaf people negotiate social positions as Deaf that value difference. They gather as a community …
Reimagining the Human Service Relationship
This book helps professionals find new ways to foster trust and collaboration. Rethinking providing and receiving services in child welfare, addiction treatment, mental health, doctoring, palliative care, and more, it proves through everyday examples that these goals cannot be met without quality, interpersonal interaction.
Between art therapy and disability aesthetics: A sociological approach for understanding the intersection between art practice and disability discourse
What emerges as art and how it is categorised are parts of a collective process taking place in art worlds and involving a wide array of social actors. In this article, the relation between four ways of framing the intersection of disability and art is discussed. These frames are art therapy, outsider art, disability art, and disability aesthetics. The article suggests the frames and the way they relate to each other as important discourses in or…
The urge to work: Normative Ordering in the Narratives of People on Long-Term Sick Leave
This study analyses the narratives of people on long-term sick leave due to low back pain. We draw upon the theory of justification - as developed by the French sociologists Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot - to investigate how the informants’ narratives evoke and rely upon three ‘orders of worth’. These are the industrial order concerning being a productive citizen, the domestic order of home and family, and the civic order positioning the cit…
User involvement in the making: Positions and types of knowledge enacted in the interaction between service users and researchers in user panel meetings
BACKGROUND: Numerous studies of user involvement in research have been conducted. However, there is a lack of studies applying observational methods and addressing the concrete practice of involvement. OBJECTIVE: To determine what knowledge types and competences users apply when involved in the research process through user panel meetings. DESIGN: User panel meetings in a qualitative project in rehabilitation were sound-recorded and transcribed v…
Returning to work or working on one's rehabilitation: Social identities invoked by impaired workers and professionals in health care and employment services
For persons with a long-term illness or impairment, return-to-work decisions involve considerations about work capacity, opportunities in the labour market, the impact of injuries, further treatment requirements, physical and cognitive rehabilitation, and mental health recovery. These considerations are undertaken by the affected individuals as well as by professionals in health care and employment services. Drawing upon institutional theories of…
Rethinking long-term condition management: An actor-level framework
To understand the complexities of managing long-term conditions and develop appropriate responses, micro-, meso- and macrolevels must be considered. However, these levels have not been combined in a single analytical framework of long-term condition management (LTCM). This article aims to describe a framework of LTCM practice and research that combines societal levels and key agents. The actor-level framework, based on the works of Abram De Swaan…
Reframing disability in the labour market: Narratives of value told by employers
This article addresses how employers privileging disability-specific experience and impairment-related competencies in hiring practices reframe disability from a limited ability to work to a valuable human resource. It is based on the analysis of 14 in-depth interviews with disabled and non-disabled Norwegian employers that privilege hiring people with disabilities. Applying Boltanski and Thévenot’s theory of justification, it is argued that empl…
The unexpected other: Challenges and strategies after acquired impairment
People experiencing traumatic brain injury or multitrauma will often live with problems in functioning for a profound period in life. A situation of great complexity emerges involving both the experience of an impaired body and the experience of a changed social position. This article addresses the intricate relations between the altered body, personal ambitions, and social surroundings in the first 2-3 years after an injury. The conceptual frame…
Users' Perspectives on the Organization of Rehabilitation Services – A Focus Group Study of User Organization Representatives in Norway
BACKGROUND: User organizations for people with disabilities in Norway work for social equality and participation, and quality of health services for people with disabilities, chronic illnesses and reduced functional capacity. Consideration of the experiences from user representatives is necessary when determining the quality and appropriateness of the rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation services constitute the provision and delivery of intang…
Distributed decision-making for lumbar spine surgery: A qualitative interview study with patients and neurosurgeons
Lower back pain with or without radiating leg pain is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Several treatment options are available, and this article aims to understand better the decision-making involved in selecting appropriate treatments. A qualitative interview study was conducted with patients with lumbar spinal disorders and neurosurgeons specialising in spine surgery. Both groups of participants were asked to reflect on the decision-mak…
Managing Stigma and Perpetuating Ableism: How Frontline Workers Navigate Disclosure When Encouraging Employers to Hire Disabled People
Although disability disclosure is extensively researched, little is known about how professionals disclose disability on behalf of others. This article examines how frontline workers involved in active labour market policies (ALMPs) employ stigma management strategies when encouraging employers to hire disabled people. As employer engagement is central to ALMPs, disclosure emerges as a critical site for analysis. The study draws on group intervie…
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