Ottar Hellevik (born 20 June 1943) is a Norwegian sociologist of political scientist. He was the most frequently read textbook writer on sociological methodology in Norway during his time.
Hellevik was a research fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo and took the mag.art. degree in sociology in 1969 with the thesis Stortinget – en sosial elite?. He was hired at the University of Oslo in 1971, became a professor of political science in 1986 and has also served as dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences.[1] He is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[2]
Hellevik's textbooks on the methodology of sociology and political science (especially quantitative methods) include Forskningsmetode i sosiologi og statsvitenskap, Introduction to Causal Analysis and Sosiologisk metode. During his time, his books were the most widely read on the subject in the Nordic countries altogether.[1]
Hellevik also specialized in opinion research, holding a part-time job as research director at the gallup institute MMI from 1984.[1] His book Nordmenn og det gode liv (1996) summarized ten years of opinion collecting through the program Norsk Monitor.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Ottar Hellevik". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian Nynorsk). 22 January 2023. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
- ^ "Medlemmer - Klassen for humaniora og samfunnsvitenskap - Norske medlemmer" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
- ^ Høst, Sigurd (1997). "Smaksprøver fra Norsk Monitor". Norsk Medietidsskrift (book review) (in Norwegian). 4 (2): 140–142. doi:10.18261/ISSN0805-9535-1997-02-16.