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Dag Østerberg –Determination Through RupturesThe Dialectics of Post-PositivismDepartment of Sociology, University of Oslo, Norway This short biography sketches the professional itinerary of Professor Dag Østerberg (1938–), a colleague very well known, respected and much quoted in his native Norway, as well as on the Nordic scene and beyond, as a sociologist, philosopher and musicologist. Østerberg's academic career spans the years as a student from 1957, magister 1961, doctorate 1973, and employment as assistant, associate and professor (in 1981). During several decades of not being employed he devoted his time to free study and writing. In practising a ‘frugal freedom’, he maintained his independence as an intellectual, upholding his original programme as a ‘critic of society’ and of sociology as a whole. The biography is written along Bourdieuvian lines, in seeking to understand his career through the various fields he has passed through. Unlike many others, he has had the boldness of spirit to withdraw, time and again, from situations and fields that did not fit with his programme. A critical spirit, he was one of the initiators of the local Norwegian Positivismusstreit, and, although in changing form, has maintained like stands ever since a critical, interpretive sociology, ‘post-positivism’. The best known of his English books is Metasociology(1987).
Key Words: biographic method • critical theory • metasociology • Østerberg • Sartre • socio-materiel
Acta Sociologica, Vol. 49, No. 1,
19-28 (2006) |
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