• From political sports to sports politics: on political mobilization of sports issues 

      Seippel, Ørnulf; Dalen, Håvard Bergesen; Sandvik, Morten Renslo; Solstad, Gerd Marie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      How and why do sports issues turn into politics? The aim of this paper is to explore how politicization of sports might happen, to show how social movement theory might contribute to such understandings and to contribute ...
    • Social networks and gender in organized youth sports 

      Dalen, Håvard Bergesen; Seippel, Ørnulf (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Sports are social, and the sociability of sports (e.g. individual experiences, group cohesion or generalised social trust) and its consequences (e.g. enjoyment, inclusion, or social capital) depends on the social networks ...
    • Social status and sport: A study of young Norwegians 

      Seippel, Ørnulf Nicolay; Dalen, Håvard Bergesen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      In this article, we study social status associated with sport. First, we examine the extent to which sport gives social status to Norwegian youths and athletes, how sport does so compared to other status markers and how ...