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).
Field of study
Sociology of culture Sociology of literature Social theory Class analysis
Research groups
Publications and research
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
Jakobsen, Kjetil Ansgar;
Halvorsen, Pål Csaszni
(2024).
Special issue: ‘Authoritarianism and culture’.
Acta Sociologica.
Vol. 67.
https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993241232810
Halvorsen, Pål
(2024).
Egalitarian Consecration. The making of egalitarian Norway and historical elite institutions.
ISBN: 9788245049459.
149 p.
Fagbokforlaget.
https://doi.org/10.55669/oa3702
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, 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, 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
