Police Science

Guðmundur Ævar Oddsson

Professor
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Location

  • A209
  • Sólborg

Specialisation

Deviance Class Analysis Social Control
Research portal - Guðmundur Ævar Oddsson 

General information

Courses 2025 - 2026

EIR0110100
Qualitative research
ÍLB0176250
Rural communities in Iceland: An international perspective
FGL0176190
Social Structure and Stratification
ÞJF0176110
Introduction to social science
ABR0276090
Crime and Deviance
ÍLB0176190
Rural communities in Iceland: An international perspective
FGL0176190
Social Structure and Stratification

Education

2014
University of Missouri, Ph.D. Sociology
2009
University of Missouri, MA Sociology
2006
University of Akureyri, BA Social and economic development

Career

2023
University of Akureyri, Professor of Sociology
2017 - 2023
University of Akureyri, Associate Professor
2014 - 2017
Northern Michigan University, Assistant Professor
2007 - 2014
University of Missouri, Adjunct
2011 - 2012
University of Akureyri, Adjunct
2004 - 2007
University of Akureyri Research Center, Researcher

Research

2026
The Power of Sociology. Book
2025
Workers’ Descriptive Representation in the United Socialist Party, 1938–1968. Journal article
2025
To be or not to be armed: Icelandic police students’ attitudes towards routinely arming an unarmed police service. Journal article
2024
Book Review: Civilization, Modernity, and Critique: Engaging Jóhann P. Árnason’s Macro-Social Theory DunajĽubomír, SmithJeremy, and MertelKurt (eds.), Civilization, Modernity, and Critique: Engaging Jóhann P. Árnason’s Macro-Social Theory , Abingdon/London: Routledge, 2023, pp. 274. Journal article
2024
Flexible education reform and Iceland’s police staffing crisis. Journal article
2022
Political stringency, infection rates, and higher education students' adherence to government measures in the Nordic countries and the UK during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak. Journal article
2022
Class in Iceland. Journal article
2021
Mannekla lögreglu og mjúk löggæsla í dreifbýli. Journal article
2021
The COVID-19 International Student Well-being Study. Journal article
2021
Innihaldsgreining. Book chapter
2021
Jacks (and Jills) of all Trades: The Gentle Art of Policing Rural Iceland. Journal article
2020
Einkenni þeirra sem sjá sig í millistétt eða ofar í íslenska stéttakerfinu. Journal article
2020
Iceland as a microcosm of the effects of educational reform on police students' social background. Book chapter
2019
Stéttagreining og íslenskar stéttarannsóknir. Journal article
2018
Class Imagery and Subjective Social Location During Iceland’s Economic Crisis, 2008–2010. Journal article
2017
Opportunity beliefs and class differences in subjective status injustice during the Great Recession in Iceland.
2016
Neoliberal Globalization and Heightened Perceptions of Class Division in Iceland. Journal article
2015
Runaway Icelanders: Globalization, Collapse, and Crime. Journal article
2014
Classlessness as Doxa: Late Modernity and Changing Perceptions of Class Division in Iceland. Dissertation
2014
Quantitative Methods in Studying Deviance. Book
2013
Policing class and race in urban America. Journal article
2012
Representations of Classlessness in a Small, Homogeneous, and Egalitarian Society. Journal article
2012
Þekkingarsamfélög eða skyndimenntunarstaðir?
2011
Hugmyndir um stéttleysi Íslendinga. Journal article
2010
Class awareness in Iceland. Journal article
2010
Stéttavitund Íslendinga í kjölfar efnahagshruns. Journal article
2009
Class awareness in Iceland. Dissertation
2006
Peripheral localities and innovation policies: learning from good practices between the Nordic countries. Book
2006
Skíðaferðir til Akureyrar. Book
2006
Sports, media and stereotypes. Report
2004
Könnun á félagslegri stöðu heyrnarlausra: unnið fyrir Félagsmálaráðuneytið. Book
2002
Fríhöfn í Hrísey. Dissertation