Alexi Gugushvili
Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology and Human Geography
University of Oslo
I study how social origins and mobility shape health, wellbeing, and political attitudes. My research spans health inequalities, disability, support for far-right parties, and public perceptions of the war in Ukraine. I combine large-scale register data, cross-national surveys, and experimental methods.
Research highlights
Health inequalities & social mobility
How perceived and objective social mobility affects mortality, wellbeing, and health behaviours at the population level.
Inequality, politics & far right
Investigating how downward mobility and inequality of opportunity shape political attitudes and support for radical parties.
Disability & social outcomes
Whether welfare states equalise outcomes for people with disabilities, and the effects of anti-discrimination legislation.
Post-Soviet societies & collective memory
European perspectives on Russia's war in Ukraine, perceptions of Stalin, and how geopolitical events reshape mobility perceptions.
Social stratification & intergenerational mobility
Objective and subjective intergenerational mobility, their causes and consequences for wellbeing, health behaviours, and political attitudes.
Reproducibility & open science
Large-scale collaborative projects assessing the reproducibility and robustness of empirical findings in the social sciences.
Recent publications
Nature, 652, 151–156
The Lancet Regional Health – Europe, 48, 101113
Social Forces, 104(2), 688–709
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 66(3), 357–378
Political Behavior