AASociAdvances in Applied Sociology2165-4328Scientific Research Publishing10.4236/aasoci.2014.42009AASoci-42988ArticlesSocial Sciences&Humanities Applied Social Anthropology in the Researcher’s Own Society ansPetter Sand1*University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway* E-mail:hans.p.sand@uia.no0602201404025358November 6th, 2013December 6th, 2013 December 14th, 2013© Copyright 2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. 2014This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Professor Arne Martin Klausen (1927-) is the only social anthropologist in Norway who has tried to analyse the culture of the country as a whole. In doing this, he has explored several central themes of the country’s culture; like egalitarianism, the class journey, the strong tradition for development aid to poor countries, connected to a so-called humanitarian super-power which in its turn was an extension of Christian mission, the very wide-spread newspaper reading; however self-centered to national and local issues and finally, the collision between an elitist Olympic culture with Norwegian egalitarianism. Klausen also tried to tie some threads together in editing a collection of essays on Norwegian culture.

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