Marco Rubio – The Story of an Immigrant Son
May 22nd, 2013
By Tor G. Jakobsen Who is this young Cuban American with dark brown eyes, who all of a sudden has ...
The Psychology of Compensation
May 15th, 2013
By Joachim Vogt Isaksen Why do certain people seem overly inclined to seek power and dominance? When people discover they ...
The Lucifer Inside Us
May 13th, 2013
By Tor G. Jakobsen In the Bible the character Lucifer is known as a fallen angel and the main antagonist ...
Does Son Preference Affect Rape and Illegal Trafficking of Women in India?
May 8th, 2013
By Xenia Anna Gläser, Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), University of Göttingen & Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati, NTNU One of ...
Norway’s Political Institutions – An Overview
May 6th, 2013
By Tor G. Jakobsen Norway is a constitutional monarchy (i.e., the king is the head of state) with a parliamentary ...
Simultaneous Equations – An Introduction
May 1st, 2013
By Tor G. Jakobsen Many models in social science are simultaneous in nature. This is especially true for economics, where ...
The Sociological Imagination: Thinking Outside the Box
April 29th, 2013
By Joachim Vogt Isaksen “Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without ...
Determining Causality
April 24th, 2013
By Tor G. Jakobsen An essential question for students of the social sciences is: «How do we know that X ...
Political Science: The ECPR General Conference 2013 in Bordeaux
April 22nd, 2013
The beautiful culturally-rich French City of Bordeaux will play host to the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), which will ...
The J-curve – James C. Davies’ Theory of Revolutions
April 17th, 2013
By Tor G. Jakobsen In 1962, Davies presented his J-curve theory. He stated that revolutions are most likely to occur ...
The New Health Module in the European Social Survey
April 15th, 2013
By Terje A. Eikemo At each round of the survey, multi-national teams of researchers are selected to contribute to the ...
Civilizations in the 21st Century – Does Samuel Huntington’s Theory Hold Water?
April 10th, 2013
By Lars-Erik Wilsher When the biggest conflicts and wars end, they are usually followed by a change of paradigms in ...
Impacts of the Economic Crisis: Ph.D. Course at NTNU
April 8th, 2013
The Department of Sociology and Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) announces a Ph.D.-course on ...
The Logic behind Statistical Inference – Sample Theory, Population Size, and Stochastic Model Theory
April 3rd, 2013
By Tor G. Jakobsen According to sample theory the size of our sample greatly influences our ability to generalize ...
The Socio-Economic Relevance of Jellyfish – A Study by the Janus Project
April 1st, 2013
By Jennifer Bailey (NTNU), Jarle Mork (NTNU), & Øyvind Knutsen (SINTEF) Jellyfish populations have exploded in many Norwegian fjords in ...
Greed and Grievance in Scottish Regionalism – Alex Salmond’s Framing of the Independence Debate
March 27th, 2013
By Eline Kvamme Hagen With a referendum on Scottish independence set to take place in 2014, the ongoing debate about ...
The Rise of Christ
March 25th, 2013
By Tor G. Jakobsen Christianity is at present the world’s largest religion with more than 2.1 billion followers. It is ...
How Statistics is Useful in Social Science – An Example from the Kalmar War
March 20th, 2013
By Tor G. Jakobsen, NTNU The goal of scientific research is to make conclusions that go beyond the collected data. ...
Tigers – The Story of How the Hunter became the Hunted
March 18th, 2013
Also known as Felis Tigris, the tiger is the mightiest of all felines. It is known to be more cunning, ...
Competition for Romanian Oil in the Interwar period
March 13th, 2013
By Artur Lakatos Following World War I and the great Unification, Romania experienced a serious increase in size and ...
What’s Wrong with Bayesianism
March 11th, 2013
By Lars P. Syll, University of Malmö Neoclassical economics nowadays usually assumes that agents that have to make choices under ...
The Massacre in Sétif: How Peace Celebrations Ended in Bloodbath in French Algeria
March 6th, 2013
By Håkon Tranvåg On 8 May 1945, Europe celebrated a long desired peace after six years of war. So too ...
People Who Think Their Opinions are Superior
March 4th, 2013
By Tor G. Jakobsen We have all encountered them; persons who are fully convinced that their opinions and moral standings ...
The Cats that Fought in World War II – The Swasticats
March 1st, 2013
By Tor G. Jakobsen It is maybe not the most well-known fact among the general public. Even so, truth is ...
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