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

ABR0276090
Crime and Deviance
FGL0176190
Social Structure and Stratification
ÍLB0176250
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

2025
Workers’ Descriptive Representation in the United Socialist Party, 1938–1968
2025
To be or not to be armed: Icelandic police students’ attitudes towards routinely arming an unarmed police service
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.
2024
Flexible education reform and Iceland’s police staffing crisis
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
2022
Class in Iceland
2021
Mannekla lögreglu og mjúk löggæsla í dreifbýli
2021
The COVID-19 International Student Well-being Study
2021
Innihaldsgreining
2021
Jacks (and Jills) of all Trades: The Gentle Art of Policing Rural Iceland
2020
Einkenni þeirra sem sjá sig í millistétt eða ofar í íslenska stéttakerfinu
2020
Iceland as a microcosm of the effects of educational reform on police students' social background
2019
Stéttagreining og íslenskar stéttarannsóknir
2018
Class Imagery and Subjective Social Location During Iceland’s Economic Crisis, 2008–2010
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
2015
Runaway Icelanders: Globalization, Collapse, and Crime
2014
Classlessness as Doxa: Late Modernity and Changing Perceptions of Class Division in Iceland
2014
Quantitative Methods in Studying Deviance
2013
Policing class and race in urban America
2012
Representations of Classlessness in a Small, Homogeneous, and Egalitarian Society
2012
Þekkingarsamfélög eða skyndimenntunarstaðir?
2011
Hugmyndir um stéttleysi Íslendinga
2010
Class awareness in Iceland
2010
Stéttavitund Íslendinga í kjölfar efnahagshruns
2009
Class awareness in Iceland
2006
Peripheral localities and innovation policies: learning from good practices between the Nordic countries
2006
Skíðaferðir til Akureyrar
2006
Sports, media and stereotypes
2004
Könnun á félagslegri stöðu heyrnarlausra: unnið fyrir Félagsmálaráðuneytið
2002
Fríhöfn í Hrísey