Master Truls Tunby Kristiansen disputerer for ph.d. –graden i humaniora og
samfunnsvitenskap, studieretning sosiologi, og vil offentlig forsvare avhandlingen:
“Det norske samfunnet som handlingsdyktig fellesskap - Svikt og endring etter 22. juli-terroren”
Kort sammendrag av avhandlingen:
The dissertation investigates the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Norway on July 22, 2011, and asks how Norwegian society dealt with the realization of readiness and protection failure. The realization prompts action towards avoiding failure in the future, and the dissertation develops a systems-theoretical model of society as a community capable of collective action, to capture this process. Through analyses of four empirical cases – the failure of the authorities to secure the government buildings in Oslo, the police's failure in protecting the people on Utøya, the failure in constructing a national memorial site, the mass media´s failure in providing an ethically sound news coverage and public sphere around the events – the dissertation shows how failure may be a starting point for processes of designing new institutions to ensure better problem solving in the future, and how this process is shaped by a fundamental conflict between individual and collective rationality.
Bedømmelseskomité:
Lektor/professor dr.scient.pol. Gorm Harste, Aarhus Universitet (førsteopponent)
Lektor/Associate Professor Ph.d. Maria Appel Nissen, Aalborg universitet, (andreopponent)
Professor Gunnar C. Aakvaag, Institutt for samfunnsvitenskap (leder av komiteen)
Disputasleder:
Instituttleder Marcus Buck, Institutt for samfunnsvitenskap
Prøveforelesning over oppgitt emne holdes den 27. november kl. 10:15, samme sted:
«Hvordan kan sosiologer gi en helhetlig beskrivelse av moderne samfunn?»