Public lectures by Prof. Guðmundur Ævar Oddsson
Professor Guðmundur Ævar Oddsson of the University of Akureyri, Iceland, will be lecturing as part of the Erasmus+ mobility program at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences:
- 12:00, Tuesday, Room Kristó – ”The Power of Sociology: Introducing Sociology to Undergraduates and Beyond”
- 2:00 pm, Tuesday, Faculty Conference Room – ”To be or not to be Armed: Icelandic Police Students’ Attitudes towards Routinely Arming an Unarmed Police Service”
- 8:15 am, Wednesday, Room 3446-47 – ”Subjective Social Status in Turbulent Times: USA, Germany, and Iceland in a Comparative Perspective”.
Dr. Oddsson is a Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Akureyri, Iceland. He earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Missouri, Columbia, in 2014 and was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northern Michigan from 2014 to 2017. His research focuses on social control, deviance, and class inequality, with a particular emphasis on the subjective dimensions of class. Oddsson has published in journals such as Acta Sociologica, Current Sociology, Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, and The Sociological Quarterly. Oddsson is the lead author of the textbook, The Power of Sociology: Grasping Our Unequal World, forthcoming with SAGE Publications.
All welcome!