Marianne Nordli Hansen (born 1957) is a Norwegian sociologist. She is a professor of sociology at the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...

Career and work

She earned the Mag.Art. degree in sociology at the University of Oslo in 1984 and was a researcher at the

Norwegian Institute for Social Research The Norwegian Institute for Social Research ( no, Institutt for samfunnsforskning, ISF) is a private social science research institute based in Oslo, Norway. It was founded in 1950 by Vilhelm Aubert, Arne Næss, Eirik Rinde, and Stein Rokkan ...

until 1996, when she became an associate professor of sociology at the University of Oslo. She was promoted to full professor in 1999. She is known for her research on social stratification, education, social class, economic inequalities, and elites. She received the Article of the Year – Scandinavian University Press Academic Journal Prize in 2011.

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Norwegian sociologists Norwegian women sociologists Academic staff of the University of Oslo Norwegian academics University of Oslo alumni 1957 births Living people {{Norway-sociologist-stub