Kevin Ayers (re)discovered
On (re)discovering Kevin Ayers Some of his music is very intense, and has great complexity and depth (Kevin Ayers, 1972 concert) Why pick up Kevin Ayers? Well, he died 68 years old in February and I was sad by this news. His songs are not closed, not polished, but open, or opening up […]
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side A more mature – and in a way, more genuinely frightening – version of this Doors song can be heard here (Rhino records RL 523104):
What a bringdown
Don’t you know when a head’s dead, Cream asks in this recording, in the song “What a bringdown”, on their Goodbye album, 1969, an amazing bit of forecast on later events. The song tells of the many marry pranks of the sixties prankster, and yet, their whole purpose was dying down. The head had […]
Taping the times
I have always been interested in tape recorders. In fact this was where I started my life as an audiophile, 16 years old, investing in a Radionette Multirecorder in 1968. This was a smart, youthful, portable device for its time – see more advertisments here. It came with a microphone, so I used it for […]
Gender equality survey research – updated information
I 2007 ledet jeg en undersøkelsesundersøkelse kalt “Likestilling og livskvalitet” i Norge (med Helge Svare og Cathrine Egeland). Det var en “state of the art” type detaljundersøkelse av kjønn i / likhet. Nasjonalt i Norge ble det brukt i politiske dokumenter som hvitboken om menn (Mannsmeldingen) og av likestillingskommisjonen (Skjeie-utvalget). Internasjonalt spredte det seg […]
Masculinities, Gender Equality and Violence
This paper examines new data on how gender equality affects interpersonal violence. Link to paper here.
Social forms analysis
My 1997 dr. philos. thesis “Gender, Patriarchy and Capitalism – A Social Forms Analysis” has now been transferred from my old web page. Due to size, it is published in two parts. GPC thesis part 1 GPC thesis part 2 Part one includes my research areas and the main analysis of today’s gender system, along […]
Why was the researcher Isaac Rubin killed?
The excellent researcher, social economist Isaac Illitch Rubin died in Siberia, after many years of persecution from the Stalinist regime, in 1937. He died 48 years old. Why did that happen? Cf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaak_Illich_Rubin Why did he die? Why was he persecuted? Rubin were among those who thought one should read Marx, before making a judgement. […]
Photo safari – winter in Oslo
At the night of February 5, I went outside to take some shots of the very special snowfall over the last hours (using a small compact camera). Since the temperature was around zero Celsius, the snow had clung to everything like a kind of glaze. These pictures are taken from my home, first looking towards […]
Quoting Goffman
The quote is from Erving Goffman’s pathbreaking book Stigma (1963). Goffman, along with Robert Merton and some others, belong to my top shelf of American sociologists. Goffman deserves to be read “with” the text, not too critically “against”. Of course he was not a grand theorist, e g a social class theorist – that was […]