In my new article, I compare female same-sex and different-sex parent couples and find that female same-sex couples divide paid work more equally. In East Germany, both couple types are relatively egalitarian; in West Germany, different-sex couples remain more specialized ▶️ doi.org/10.5771/0038...

What happens when two sociologists turn their analytical lens on parenting itself? In this edition of Ideas, Allison Daminger and Nina Bandelj dissect the “emotional economy” of modern parenting—arguing that today’s exhaustion is socially produced. press.princeton.edu/ideas/from-i...

Alisia Bauer and I ran a cross-national survey experiment to test whether name-based status and gender cues actually work as intended, and what else rides along with them—especially age and ethnicity. Results are now out in @actasociologica.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

NEW: Léa Pessin, Kevin Munger, "Beyond Text: Using AI-Generated Visual Conjoints to Study Gender and Housework Attribution" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

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Postdoc position with Wiebke Schulz at Uni Bremen on gender inequalities in access to and consequences of AI. Applications due 25 June. www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

New research from @mhamjediers.bsky.social, @ppraeg.bsky.social, and @a-gugushvili.bsky.social investigates whether large-scale geopolitical shocks causally reshape how individuals perceive their intergenerational mobility. Read this article open access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Only 9.9% of top Sociology articles from 2019-2024 provided replication packages. And ≈ half of those with replication packages could not be verified due to missing or incomplete materials. www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

NEW ARTICLE by CREST Sociology's Patrick Präg in Social Science Research: "Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and perceived intergenerational mobility in Czechia and Uruguay. An unexpected event during survey design study" OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

Bad news for capricorns: they earn less than other zodiac signs Good news for capricorns: it's not due to their zodiac sign

Do waitresses receive the same occupational prestige as waiters? Using German gendered occupational titles, we find that feminine job titles receive slightly lower prestige than masculine ones, especially among male-domindated occupations. Out now in Social Forces. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12 Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

New paper out in Annual Review of Sociology with @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social #W.Foley and @l-sage.bsky.social "Luck and Predictability in the Life Course" We take stock of what we know about luck and its role in shaping life-courses and inequality www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Luck and Predictability in the Life Course

There is an emerging recognition among sociological theorists that luck may play a substantial role in life course achievement. There is also a nascent empirical literature that finds life outcomes to...

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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.

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

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 · 3mo ago

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

The 'Treiman Constant' (occupations ranked in the same order in most nations [r=0.91 of national vs SIOPS scale]) "may be the only universal sociologists have discovered" (Hout & DiPrete, 2006) With recent occupational prestige measures, I took a very brief revisit; make out of it, what you want.

"Black fathers’ military service increased children’s probability of earning a bachelor’s degree by 53 percent compared with children of Black nonveterans" Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

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NEW: Paula Fomby, Patricia van Hissenhoven Flórez, "Fathers’ Military Service and Children’s College Attainment" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

Knife crime! Pronouns! Meat bans! Some political issues lead to "hotter", more emotional and polarizing debates than others. We show how these "trigger points" reveal a contested structure of moral expectations and how they get weaponized by polarization entrepreneurs. OA @bjsociology.bsky.social 🧵

Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”

Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordi...

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NEW: Marie Labussière, Thijs Bol, "Are Occupations “Bundles of Skills”? Identifying Latent Skill Profiles in the Labor Market Using Topic Modeling" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

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This figure is the one that is actually embarrassing for sociology:

NEW: Vida Maralani, Camille Portier, Berkay Özcan, "Early Childhood Investments and Women’s Work Outcomes across the Life Course" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

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Why does a worse candidate win? Or an inferior song dominate? New article with @alexgelas.bsky.social, @pantelispa.bsky.social & Gaël Le Mens. We show that often once A becomes even slightly more popular than B, people choose A much more often. www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

📢 In this Social Forces article, I introduce occupational elitism as a novel measure of social closure: the share of upper-class background workers within an occupation. Its consequences for earnings stratification can be examined using a social closure theory lens. 🔓 doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

Interesting paper by @natrinh.bsky.social, @dariatisch.bsky.social, & @schechtlm.bsky.social on how the Germans assess division of intergenerational transfers among siblings academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

For a change, something we made ourselves: Together with my colleagues Tobias Roth, Andreas Horr, and @nataliebackes.bsky.social, we examined ethnic rent penalties. Do migrants pay higher rents for comparable housing than natives with similar characteristics? direct.mit.edu/euso/article...

Migrant rent penalties in the German housing market

Abstract. We investigate whether migrants pay higher rents for comparable housing than natives with similar characteristics using nationally representative data from the 2018 German Microcensus. The d...

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Now officially published in jpeaceresearch.bsky.social. Link to full-text: academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-... #PoliticalScience #PoliticalPsychology

Gizem Arikan@gizemarikan.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🎉 Very happy to share that our paper with Judit Ralbovszki got accepted at the Journal of Peace Research! Most research focuses on the effect of terrorism on majority attitudes, but what about the minorities who often become targets of backlash?

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From November 2025 - Anti-Immigrant Bias in the Choice Between Punitive and Rehabilitative Justice - https://cup.org/49vUfVa - @riazsascha.bsky.social & @mhamjediers.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Mine and @pengzell.bsky.social paper "How Robust Are Country Rankings in Educational Mobility?" was published in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social yesterday edu.nl/y7ct3 More details in the future, but for now short explanation of what we did, and the origin story of the paper. [Thread below]

How Robust Are Country Rankings in Educational Mobility?

Article: How Robust Are Country Rankings in Educational Mobility? | Sociological Science | Posted December 11, 2025

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I’m hiring a postdoc! Flexible in terms of details, but I’m looking for someone to collaborate with on research about labor market inequality. I’ll review applications as they come in and the posting just went up here: apply.interfolio.com/178873