EAN: 9783319877327

APPROACHES TO SOCIAL INEQUALITY AND DIFFERENCE ...

The book aims to explain the emergence of the Norwegian-and to some extent  the
Scandinavian-welfare state in historical and anthropological terms. Halvard Vike argues that
particular forms of political grassroots mobilization contributed heavily to what he calls a
low level of gravity state-a political order in which decentralized institutions make it
possible to curtail centralizing forces. While there is a large international literature on the
Nordic welfare states  there is limited knowledge about how these states are embedded in local
contexts. Vike's approach is based on an ethnographic practice which may be labeled in and out
of institutions. It is based on ethnographic work in municipal assemblies  local bureaucracies
political parties  voluntary organizations  and various informal contexts.

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