Victor Shammas
Sociologist · Associate Professor, University of Bergen
Victor Shammas is a sociologist. He is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Bergen and holds a PhD from the University of Oslo (2017). His work moves across political economy, critical theory, comparative penology, and digital sociology, with articles in Punishment & Society, British Journal of Criminology, Constellations, and Capital & Class. He also writes the newsletter Theory Brief. → Research: victorshammas.com
Research Notes
- What Is Hermeneutic AI?
July 3, 2026
Hermeneutics is the discipline of interpretation: the art and theory of understanding texts, actions, and forms of life. It runs from the exegesis of scripture through philosophers Wilhelm Dilthey and Hans-Georg Gadamer to the interpretive turn in the social sciences — the insistence, as anthropologist Clifford Geertz put it, that the study of culture is “not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning.”