Dag Østerberg (9 November

1938 Events January * January 1 – state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Saf ...

– 22 February

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

) was a Norwegian sociologist, philosopher and musicologist. He was born in

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to police officer Erling Østerberg and Jørgine Sofie Kleven. He was a central contributor to the so-called

positivism Positivism is a philosophical school that holds that all genuine knowledge is either true by definition or positivemeaning '' a posteriori'' facts derived by reason and logic from sensory experience.John J. Macionis, Linda M. Gerber, ''Soci ...

debate in the 1960s and 1970s. From 1981 to 1991 he was appointed professor in sociology at the

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. Among his works are ''Metasosiologisk Essay'' from 1963, ''Makt og materiell'' from 1971, and a biography of

Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary criticism, literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th ...

from 1993. His 1966 work '' Forståelsesformer. Et filosofisk bidrag'' (Forms of Understanding: A Philosophical Contribution) was selected for the Norwegian Sociology Canon in 2009–2011.

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1938 births 2017 deaths People from Trondheim Norwegian sociologists 20th-century Norwegian philosophers Norwegian musicologists Academic staff of the University of Oslo 21st-century Norwegian philosophers {{Norway-sociologist-stub