Fredrik Engelstad

Fredrik Engelstad (born 12 March 1944) is a Norwegian sociologist. He has written several books.

He is the son of writer Carl Fredrik Engelstad and physician Vibeke Engelstad, and a nephew of archivist Sigurd Engelstad. He is married to professor Irene Johnson.^[1]

Engelstad earned the mag.art. degree in 1974 and the dr.philos. degree in 1989.^[2] He was director of the Norwegian Institute for Social Research from 1986 to 2007.^[3] From 1990 to 2007 he held a part-time position as Professor of Sociology at the University of Oslo. He became a full-time Professor of Sociology at the University of Oslo in 2008 and became Professor Emeritus in 2014.^[4][5]

He has been a Visiting Fellow at Yale University (1981), the University of California, Berkeley (1993), the University of Chicago (1996) and the Northwestern University (2006).^{[citation needed]}

Honours[]

• Member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, 2009
• Honorary Prize of the Norwegian Sociological Association, 2004^[6]

Selected works[]

• Fredrik Engelstad, ed. (1999) Om makt. Teori og kritikk. Oslo: AdNotam Gyldendal
• Fredrik Engelstad, Carl Erik Grenness, and (1998), Samfunn og vitenskap. Oslo: AdNotam Gyldendal
• Fredrik Engelstad (1992), Kjærlighetens irrganger. Sinn og samfunn i Bjørnsons og Ibsens diktning. Oslo: Gyldendal
• Fredrik Engelstad (1990), Likhet og styring. Deltakerdemokratiet på prøve. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget
• Dag Østerberg and Fredrik Engelstad (1992), Samfunnsformasjonen. 3. edition. Oslo: Pax

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