- E-maillisa.solvberg@uib.no
- Phone+47 55 58 38 35
- Visitor AddressDepartment of SociologyRosenbergsgaten 395020 BergenRoom207
- Postal AddressPostboks 78025020 Bergen
My research interests are cultural class analysis, social inequality, symbolic boundaries and hiring processes.
In my PhD project – Gatekeeping mechanisms in the workforce: The importance of class, culture and lifestyle in recruitment processes in the Norwegian upper class – I investigate how recruitment and hiring processes take place at the top of the hierarchy, and which aspects that characterize them.
Scientific presentations
'How the Elite Hire: Class, Culture, and Lifestyle in Recruitment Practices in the Norwegian Upper Class', lecture at «Teacher's Day», Sydneshaugen skole, University of Bergen, January 26th 2024.
'How the Elite Hire', presentation for Communitas – the student organization for sociology at UiB, University of Bergen, November 6th 2023.
‘Sports and health (e)valuations in elite hiring’, Qualitative Workshop, Management & Organizations Department, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, October 31st 2023.
‘Sports and health (e)valuations in elite hiring’, Kultur-, ulikhet- og demokratinettverket (KUD), Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Bergen, September 20th 2023.
‘Sports and health (e)valuations in elite hiring’, workshop, Centre for the Study of Professions, OsloMet, Oslo, August 21st 2023.
‘From Symbolic to Social Boundaries: Investigating What People Say Versus What People Do in Elite Hiring Processes’, Culture & Ethnography Workshop, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, May 11th 2023.
'From Symbolic to Social Boundaries: Investigating What People Say Versus What People Do in Elite Hiring Processes', Chicago Ethnography Conference, Loyola University, Chicago, April 15th 2023.
'Elite sorting in an "egalitarian" society', Professions, authority and meritocracy workshop, Nedre Foss gård / Centre for the Study of Professions, OsloMet, Oslo, December 5th 2022.
'Elite Sorting in an “egalitarian” society', Bourdieu, Work & Inequalities conference, National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts, Paris, November 16th 2022.
'Elite sorting in an “egalitarian” society', Elites, Power and Inequalities summer school, Observatory of Swiss Elites, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lausanne, June 24th 2022.
'Gatekeeping mechanisms in the workforce: The importance of class, culture and lifestyle in recruitment processes in the Norwegian upper class', Norwegian network for research on class, NOVA, OsloMet, april 20th 2022.
'The Class(ifi)ed Body: Carnal Distinctions in the Upper Class', Vinterseminaret, Norwegian Sociological Association, Hafjell, February 2nd 2018 (with Vegard Jarness, UiB).
Features
"Slik blir du sentralbanksjef", Morgenbladet (07.01.2022).
"The soft skills that help elite men achieve financial jobs", eFinancialCareers (30.11.2021).
"Ein veltrena kropp gir menn fortrinn i karrieren", interview, Kilden kjønnsforskning (26.04.2018).
Other presentations
'Sosiologi: hva, hvorfor og hvordan', Open day, Ulrike Pihls hus, UiB, January 21st 2019.
'Masteroppgaven og masterprosessen', introduction for the new Master's students, Department of Sociology, UiB, August 23rd 2018 (with Caroline Lotten Söderlind, UiB).
'Sosiologien i arbeid', Career Lunch - What Can You Become as a Sociologist?, Det Akademiske Kvarter, April 26th 2018.
Teaching:
MET102: Methods in the Social Sciences, University of Bergen, autumn 2016 - 2021 (seminar leader).
Supervision:
2020-present: 7 bachelor's students.
- (2021). Constructions of the ideal elite employee: A content analysis of job advertisements for positions in the Norwegian upper class. Current Sociology. 18 pages.
- (2019). Assessing Contradictions: Methodological Challenges when Mapping Symbolic Boundaries. Cultural Sociology. 178-197.
- (2018). Class, body and culture: physical activity and symbolic boundaries in the upper class. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning. 5-25.
More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)
Education
M.A., Sociology, University of Bergen, 2017
B.A., Sociology, University of Bergen, 2015
B.A., Media Studies, University of Bergen, 2013
Related Professional Experience
Visiting scholar, Management & Organizations Department, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, jan. - june 2023.
PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Bergen, jan. 2022 - .
Lecturer/Coordinator for MET102, University of Bergen, aug. 2019 - dec. 2021.
Research assistant/Coordinator for MET102, University of Bergen, aug. 2017 - aug. 2019.
Seminar leader in MET102, Universitetet i Bergen, aug. 2016 - may 2017.
Seminar leader in SOS116, Universitetet i Bergen, jan. 2016 - mai 2016.
Professional memberships and pro bono
Research contact, Olsvikåsen upper secondary school, The Holberg Prize School Project, jan 2024 - .
Member, Department Council, Department of Sociology, University of Bergen, aug. 2023 -.
Substitute, The Equality Committee, University of Bergen, may - dec. 2022.
Reviewer: American Journal of Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Current Sociology.
2nd substitute, Department Council, Department of Sociology, University of Bergen, 2022.
Project assistant for Marit Skivenes, Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, University of Bergen, 2019.
Head of Norwegian Sociological Association – division for Western Norway, june 2018 - dec. 2020.
Board member, Norwegian Sociological Association – division for Western Norway, jan. 2018 - may 2018.