In my new blog post for the @lseblogs.bsky.social, I explore whether exhaustion with rapid societal change is linked to something more unsettling: ressentiment - a bitterness that seeps into social life. Evidence from Germany connects it to right-wing populism. blogs.lse.ac.uk/researchings...

What studying ressentiment tells us about bitterness and politics in times of change - Researching Sociology @ LSE

Katja Schmidt investigates the emotional cost of rapid societal change, highlighting the delicate boundary between fatigue, frustration, and hostility in contemporary politics. Drawing on original sur...

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With conscription again under debate, @ivancanzio.bsky.social and I examined how conscription was institutionalized across 18 European countries and assessed how its suspension was associated with men’s early-career occupational placement.

SocArXivBot@socarxivbot.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Does Mandatory Military Service Shape Men's Occupational Choices? Evidence from the Suspension of Conscription Across Europe: https://osf.io/2eaby

Businesses, associations, and places of worship are key aspects of immigrant community life. Why do some groups build dense organizational ecologies but others don’t? A new analysis of 25,117 ethnoreligious organizations in 4900 communities suggests that culture—not social structure—drives density

Wie unterscheiden sich die liberaldemokratischen Werte von Migranten und Nicht-Migranten in Europa? Dr. Gülzau, Prof. Helbling und Dr. Sandra Morgenstern veröffentlichen dazu einen Artikel im European Journal of Political Research 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Wer kann in unserer Gesellschaft wie autonom über seine Arbeitszeit entscheiden? Der Soziologe Aljoscha Jacobi rückt in unserem Thesenpapier die Frage der Zeitsouveränität in den Mittelpunkt: https://zentrum-neue-sozialpolitik.org/publikation/thesenpapier-zeit/

In der neuen Ausgabe der Internationalen Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie (Paragrana) schreibe ich zusammen mit @martinmettin.bsky.social über die Negative Anthropologie der Leistungsgesellschaft... www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

🚨 New publication in JEMS: "Whom do we naturalise? A factorial survey on naturalisation preferences in Germany." How do ordinary Germans evaluate hypothetical naturalisation applications—considering factors like language proficiency, employment, and country of origin?

Whom do we naturalise? A factorial survey on naturalisation preferences in Germany

This article presents the findings of a novel survey experiment that investigates public attitudes towards naturalisation applicants in Germany. By employing vignettes of hypothetical applicants, t...

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👷‍♀️💥New Working Paper 📈 📊 Why is the gender gap growing? Using original survey data from Germany, I take a cohort-based look at socio-cultural attitudes by gender – and propose theoretical explanations for the emerging divide. 🔗 osf.io/preprints/so...

Interview with @pmlersch.bsky.social about romantic partners' similarity in wealth. See also our pre-print 👉 osf.io/preprints/so...

DIW Berlin@diw.de · last yr.

Wie beeinflusst #Vermögen die Wahl des Partners? Finden Reiche immer zu Reichen & Arme zu Armen? Dazu forscht @pmlersch.bsky.social am DIW Berlin. Im Interview erklärt er, wie die Partnerwahl #Ungleichheit schafft & warum das ein Problem ist. Zur #Geschichte: www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c.... #DIW100

Good news! My paper "Under-or overexpansion of education? Trends in qualification mismatch in the United Kingdom and Germany, 1984–2017" is now available as an ungated postprint: www.econstor.eu/handle/10419...

🔎 Why are female-dominated jobs less likely to offer flexible working-time arrangements, despite policies designed to support work-life balance? In our latest #EUIResearch interview @mhamjediers.bsky.social explains how gendered views on caregiving & work commitment shape this gap 📌 buff.ly/zCw9Hj8

'Our findings suggest that to counter the radical right’s growing popularity in the working class, left-wing parties...should reclaim the language of class politics & economic antagonism that formed the heart of the left tradition.' Should be obvious by now... braveneweurope.com/linus-westhe...

Linus Westheuser, Thomas Lux - The German left has lost its monopoly on class consciousness - Brave New Europe

Class identity still matters in politics, the problem is that the left has forgotten how to activate it. Linus Westheuser is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Humboldt University Berlin. Thomas Lux is a Po...

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Und heute dann so Frankus-Walter? Gibt’s da Regeln?

Call for Abstracts: @gknies.bsky.social, @andreasklaerner.bsky.social, and I are organizing a Special Session on “Subjective Well-Being and Geographies of Discontent in Rural Europe” (S32) at #ERSA2025 in Athens. Submission Deadline: February 25, 2025. ersa.eventsair.com/ersa2025/cal...

We stumbled onto this puzzle in @heejungchung.bsky.social work who laid the groundwork for most of this. Also 10/10 can recommend working with Maik and Tabea :) Links and fancy graphs with key findings 👇

Maik Hamjediers@mhamjediers.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢 Flexible working supposedly addresses women's work-family conflicts but is less prevalent in women-dominated occupations. @aljoschajacobi.bsky.social, @tabeanaujoks.bsky.social & I explore why and how this has changed over past decades Out in @socialindicators.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s112...

Zweite Auflage von „Jenseits von Kohle und Stahl“ incoming?

Daniel Meyer@d4meyer.bsky.social · 3y ago

Schon mal vorab zur Kenntnis: Im Rahmen einer Kooperation mit dem DIW haben wir die SOEP-Fallzahlen in den Braunkohleregionen – auf jetzt 2.889 Personen – aufgestockt. Die Daten werden der Wissenschaft mit der 2022er (v39) SOEP-Core-Version zur Verfügung gestellt. #SOEPcoal

UK Government has effectively banned foreign post-doc researchers & scientists.

Hello Bluesky community! I'm very happy to share a new paper in ESR with @betthaeuser.bsky.social & Anette Fasang with y'all: We use German Microcensus data to study the prevalence of parental non-standard work contracts and schedules and their relationship with children's education 🧐⬇️

Bastian Betthaeuser@betthaeuser.bsky.social · 3y ago

📣New paper with @natrinh.bsky.social & A. Fasang in the Eur. Sociol. Rev.   👉Key findings: About half of all children in Germany have a parent with a non-standard work contract or schedule. But only mothers' non-standard schedules are associated with children’s education   doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

Do universal welfare states make social trust? Do means-testing ones break social trust? Using 2002-2019 cross-national data from Europe my short answer is: it depends on whom welfare-state programs are targeting! For a more detailed answer go and read my new JESP article: doi.org/10.1177/0958...

Das ist ja auch sehr spannend für Fragen der Polarisierung: wer ist Überzeugungstäter. Tolle Studie wegen dieser neuen Perspektiven.

Andreas Hövermann@andreashoev.bsky.social · 3y ago

Relativ groß ist aber das Vertrauen der AfD-Wählenden in die AfD: 48% derjenigen, die im Juli ´23 angaben, AfD wählen zu wollen, äußerten "großes"/"sehr großes" Vertrauen in die AfD ➡️ viele überzeugte AfD-Wählende. (nur Vertrauens-Wert der Grünen-Wählenden in die Grünen ist größer: 58%). 3/

”Schluss mit prekärer Wissenschaft!” www.swr.de/swraktuell/b...

Öffentlicher Dienst: ver.di weitet Warnstreiks in BW aus - Aktionen an vielen Unis und Hochschulen

Die Gewerkschaft ver.di Baden-Württemberg weitet die Warnstreiks im öffentlichen Dienst aus. Den Auftakt machen Beschäftigte und studentische Hilfskräfte.

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I’ve been on here for a couple of weeks now and am just very glad no one tried to cancel Jürgen Habermas or something along those lines. Thanks for the rhetorical disarmament dear timeline.

@schechtlm.bsky.social und ich zeigen (osf.io/preprints/so...), dass das deutsche Erbschafts- und Schenkungssteuerrecht in Verbindung mit geschlechterspezifischem elterlichen Transferverhalten zu einem Gender-Tax-Gap führt. Erklärt hier: www.zeit.de/geld/2023-10... #GenderSky #Sociology

Erbschaftssteuer: Warum Frauen weniger erben und trotzdem mehr Steuern zahlen

Egal, wie reich Frauen werden, Männer sind im Schnitt reicher. Das liegt nicht nur am Gender-Pay-Gap, sondern auch daran, wie die deutsche Steuer Frauen diskriminiert.

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After it has been established that 'racial identification' is quite fluid (Agadjanian 2022), now 19% of respondents in France are suddenly being 'reborn' with French citizenship. These are indeed interesting times for sociologists...

Haley McAvay@haleymcavay.bsky.social · 3y ago

Thrilled that our article with Louise Caron and Mirna Safi is now online in the American Sociological Review! Using French panel data, we show that foreign-origin respondents unexpectedly switch to "French by birth" citizenship declarations over time. (1/4) @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social polisky

The call for #ESPAnet2024 stream conveners is out now. the location is Tampere, Finland, 28-30 August 2024. The event is organised by @helsinkiuni and @TampereUni jointly. DL 1st December 2023 and information can be found from our website espanet-tampere2024.org

Man erzählt sich auf den Straßen Berlins, dass ihr spannende neue Daten und Methoden enthalten sein könnten.

Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt@fgz-risc.bsky.social · 3y ago

Wie steht es um den #Zusammenhalt in Deutschland? Wir haben nachgefragt – bei mehr als 12.000 Menschen! Am 8.11. werden die Ergebnisse im „Ersten #Zusammenhaltsbericht des FGZ“ vorgestellt. Bis dahin teasern wir hier schonmal die Themen des Berichts an... fgz-risc.de/bibliothek/z...