Roar Hagen

Roar Hagen

Professor

77 64 43 34

roarh@sv.uit.no

Biografiske data
CURRICULUM VITAE (Brief)

ROAR HAGEN

BORN: 10.07.1952. Oslo, Norway.

Occupation: Professor at Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tromsø
Tel Work: 77 64 43 34, Mobile: 95 77 97 39
Email: roar.hagen@sv.uit.no

ACADEMIC DEGREES
Dr. Philos. University of Tromsø; Tromsø, Norway. 1996.

Cand. Polit. University of Tromsø; Tromsø, Norway. 1982.


EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Professor of Sociology, University of Tromsø. 2004.

Associate professor, University of Tromsø. 1996.

Reseacher positions: The new money society, NFR 1989-1993, Alternative futures, NFR 1987-1989.

Doctoral scholarship, NFR 1984-1987.


VISITING FELLOWSHIPS

Centre for advanced study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Univ. of Oslo. Participant to the research group Understanding the Role of Water in History and Development. 2008(Autumn)-2009(Spring)

Aalborg Universitet, Department of Pedagogy, 3 weeks, Spring 2004.

Copenhagen Business School, Department of policy and leadership. 1 month. 2004.

Fakultät für Soziologi, University of Bielefeld , Tyskland. 1998 -1999. 8 months.

The European University, Florence, Italy. 1987. 6 months.


TEACHING

POST-GRADUATE COURSES

Lectures at PhD-courses in general theory and theory of society: Solidarity and integration in late modernity, (3 days) Department of sociology, University of Copenhagen, March 2008.
Full day seminar at Danish University of Pedagogy, November 2006, Graduate School for ”Integration, Production and Welfare”.
Ph.D Course on Economic Sociology, September 2001, Copenhagen .

PhD-course in qualitative methods and methodology: at SVF, UiT in August 2006 and 2007, and at Department of Pedagogy and Department of Sociology, Aalborgs University, March 2004.


UNDER-GRADUATE COURSES

Courses at all levels and several topics, mainly general theory in sociology and theory of society. In later years main activity has been at the master level.


ADMINISTRATION
Head of Department of sociology, UiT 2000-2002, member of Faculty board and National board of sociology. Member of the board, Department of sociology, UiT 2002 - 2008.
Arranged doctoral courses:
Department of sociology, Faculty of social science, UiT, 1998: ”System or action”, with invited foreign guest.
Department of sociology, Faculty of social science, UiT, August 2005: Scandinavian network conference and PhD- course, Systemteoriens anvendelse og anvendbarhet , 30 participants, 17 papers.
Faculty of social science, UiT August 2007: Abduction as research strategy. Approximate 40 participants, 16 submitted and 15 accepted papers.
Co-editor of Acta Sociologica vol. 43. 1. 2000 Special issue on Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory.
Served as member of the advisory editorial board of: Distinktion, Soziale Systeme, Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning and Sosiologisk tidsskrift.
Coordinator for the working group on theory and method by the Scandinavian congress of sociology, 1997 – 2004. From 2008 co-ordinating a new working group on research strategies.

POST-GRADUATE RESEARCH SUPERVISION

Ph.D: 6. Four have submitted their dissertations, two degrees awarded, one dissertation is being assessed.

Masters: 17

DISSERTATION COMMITTEES

10, nine external, mainly at the universities of Copenhagen and Oslo.

Verv
Member of the board of the Department of sociology, Editorial advisory board of: Distinktion, Soziale Systeme, and Sosiologisk tidsskrift.

Forskningsinteresser
• General theory: A concept of collective rationality
My main interest is in a theory of collective action in modern society. The assumption is that the dynamics of collective action is poorly understood in the social sciences because they lack concepts to account for the rational aspects of collective action. The development of the three concepts of collective rationality, solidarity as a medium and collective power is central to this undertaking.

• Theory of society: Solidarity as a medium of integration in functionally differentiated societies
The three concepts of collective rationality, rational solidarity and collective power enables a new approach to empirical research on integration of the function systems of modern society, like the economy, politics, education, law, medical treatment and science, and processes of inclusion and exclusion of individuals into these systems of communication


• Theory of science: Methodological constructivism
The aim is to demonstrate how an epistemological constructivism opens up a new kind of reflection on all the elements of the scientific research process, not only as social but scientific constructions. At the centre is a reorientation of the relationship between theoretical and empirical research, structuring the research process in four phases each connecting a specific research question with logics of research.

These topics are related: The lack of a concept of collective rationality is an obstacle to empirical research on forms of integration in modern society, and to appreciate the scope for rational collective action in modern society. To create a concept of collective rationality, one has first to discern the epistemic obstacle that explains why sociological theories replace the distinction of individual and collective rationality, with the distinction of individual rationality and social norms. Through the research logic of abduction new scientific concepts are constructed which enables new empirical observations.

Forskningsprosjekter
Research projects:

Water and collective power (with prof. Terje Tvedt and the research group on Understanding the role of water in history and development at CAS): Water and water management is to be used as a case to develop and demonstrate the fruitfulness of the concept of collective power.

Freedom and solidarity (with Dr. Maria Appel Nissen, Aalborg University): Empirical and theoretical research on how the Nordic welfare state is a model for how the state may transform constraint to freedom through solidarity.

Publikasjoner
BOOKS

Nyliberalismen og samfunnsvitenskapene. Universitetsforlaget. 2006.

Rasjonell solidaritet. Universitetsforlaget. 1999


ARTICLES

Sosiologi og kritikk. Sosiologisk årbok. 2008. nr. 1-2.
Kronikk i Morgenbladet: Hva er det moderne samfunnet? 06.05.06.
"Niklas Luhmann." in Klassisk og moderne samfunnsteori, edited by Heine Andersen and Lars Bo Kaspersen. København. 2005.
"Rational Choice." in Klassisk og moderne samfundsteori, edited by Heine Andresen og Lars Bo Kaspersen. København: Hans Retizel Forlag. 2005
What is wrong with systems theory? A medley of recurring themes and persistent problems in the legacy of Niklas Luhmann’s sociological theory. Paper at the conference “The Opening of Systems Theory”, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen 23.-25.5. 2003.
“Kommunikasjon og solidaritet – og Bøygen.” Svar til Lars Bugge. Aktuell debatt. ." Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning:455-469. 2003.
"Positivismekritikkens positivisme." Sosiologisk Årbok. 2002.
Socialist society and functional differentiation, i Druzboslovne Razprave, vol. xvii, nr 37.-38. August-September 2001.
Rational Solidarity and Functional Differentiation, Acta Sociologica vol. 43. 1. 2000