| dc.description.abstract | This thesis draws mainly on the theoretical constructs of capital and field of power, developed by Bourdieu, to explore climate change attitudes of holders of different types of capital who are considered positioned within the field of power in Norway. Two hypotheses are formulated and tested: (i) there is an association between the type of capital (economic or cultural) possessed within the field of power and climate change attitudes (acceptance or denial) and (ii) the association between the type of capital (economic or cultural) possessed within the field of power in Norway and climate change attitudes (acceptance or denial) is mediated by environmental values. The methodology employed is a secondary analysis of existing data. An analysis of an existing national survey dataset, provided by a collaborative research team from the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) and the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM-UiO) (Kaltenborn, B.P.; Krange, O.; Skogen, K.; Syse, K.L.), was conducted for the purposes of this master thesis. The statistical analysis in the thesis involves data cleaning, missing value analysis, imputation of the missing data with the use of the R-package missForest, descriptive statistics, (nonlinear) categorical principal component analyses (CATPCA), chi-square tests of independence, linear and logistic regression, and logistic-regression based mediation analyses through the SPSS PROCESS tool. This study aimed at contributing to the body of social research on climate change denial in Norway. Bourdieu’s sociology provides valuable insights and understanding into the matter: through its relational philosophy, Bourdieu’s sociology shifts one’s vision of the social world towards structures of relations, and through the concept of the field of power, it offers a valuable interpretation of the reality of power relations, while mechanisms, through which our efforts for addressing climate change evolve, are revealed. | eng |