Norwegian version
Pål Csaszni Halvorsen

Pål Csaszni Halvorsen

About

Pål Csaszni Halvorsen has a PhD in sociology, and currently works on a project about cultural life in Norway during the German occupation (1940-1945) and treatment of writers in the purge after the occupation.

Halvorsen has been visiting researcher at the Center for Cultural Sociology ved Yale university and at Eötvös Lorand University in Budapest. His research has been published in Gender and Education, Journal of Youth Studies og Nordic Journal of Cultural Policy.

Currently he serves as the president for the Norwegian Sociological Association (2024-2026).

Fields of study

Academic disciplines

History   Nordic literature   Sociology   Social sciences

Subject areas

Sociology of culture   Sociology of literature   Social theory   Class analysis

Scientific publications

Hjellbrekke, Johannes; Halvorsen, Pål Csaszni ; Jakobsen, Kjetil Ansgar; Arneberg, Sofie (2025). Literary practices, capital structures and political position-taking: The Norwegian writers during World War II. Poetics. Vol. 109.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2025.101981

Halvorsen, Pål (2024). Egalitarian Consecration. The making of egalitarian Norway and historical elite institutions. ISBN: 978-82-450-4945-9. 149 p. Fagbokforlaget.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3135902

Halvorsen, Pål ; Ljunggren, Jørn (2020). A new generation of business masculinity? Privileged high school boys in a gender egalitarian context. Gender and Education. Vol. 33.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2020.1792845

Halvorsen, Pål (2020). A sense of unease: elite high school students negotiating historical privilege. Journal of Youth Studies. Vol. 25.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2020.1844169

Halvorsen, Anne; Halvorsen, Pål (2019). Managerial responses to expectations about innovation in municipal welfare services. Støkken, Anne Marie (Ed.). Tjenesteutvikling ved ulike former for samarbeid. p. 45-60. Fagbokforlaget.

Halvorsen, Pål (2019). Egalitarian Criticism. How Norwegian Literary Critics Conceive and Communicate Quality. Nordisk kulturpolitisk tidsskrift (NKT). Vol. 22.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2660439



These publications are obtained from Cristin. The list may be incomplete