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Dingeman Wiertz

@dingemanwiertz.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in Quantitative Social Science at UCL, interested in civic engagement, religion, ethnic integration, residential mobility, quant methods. profiles.ucl.ac.uk/67454-dingeman-w…

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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 18h
After extensive qualitative fieldwork (n=1), I can report that this is a pretty great job 🧑‍🎓😀 If you work on #Climate, #Environment and #CausalInference, I highly recommend applying for this Assistant Professor position @sriucl.bsky.social 👇 🚨Deadline: October 30
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Come and join us @sriucl.bsky.social We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science with a research agenda on the environment and/or climate change, and expertise in causal inference. See full details and apply 👉🏼 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL Social Research Institute recruitment poster for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science at the Centre for Quantitative Social Science. Applications close 30 October 2026.
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We are growing! This year we’re excited to welcome new lecturers @zsofiaboda.bsky.social and @lukaslehner.bsky.social who will add to our team of Quantitative Social Science expertise
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Zsófi Boda @zsofiaboda.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
last minute PhD opportunity on stereotypes, social networks, and social inequalities at @ucl.ac.uk @ioe.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social, two fully funded 4-year positions are available! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Excited to join University College London as Assistant Professor in Economics and Social Policy. @sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
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Christiaan Monden @cmonden.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Do you have some exciting research ideas? Apply for a three-year postdoc position in sociology at Nuffield College starting September 2027. Apply by 21/9. www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
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Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Sociology (two posts) - Nuffield College Oxford University
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Aron Szekely @aronszekely.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Wonderful to receive this award with @aksoyundan.bsky.social at INAS! It's for our paper that (we hope) sheds some light on a tragic and sociologically puzzling phenomenon.
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
We are so proud of our brilliant Social Sciences with Data Science BSc student, Daniel Jones, taking up a @uclsocialdata.bsky.social summer internship at @financialtimes.com. One of his first contributions 👇
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Ministers look at restricting cash payments as disability benefits bill soars
Rise in claims since 2019 has been driven by mental health and neuro-developmental conditions
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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
📢 Open positions! I’m recruiting 2 postdocs + 3 PhD positions at C³S, @goetheuni.bsky.social in #ClimateJustice, environmental inequality, #Demography & #ComputationalSocialScience 🌍📊💻 3–4 years + strong support for training🎒 Deadline: 23 June 2026 More: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen...
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
👋 Meet the Sociological Science Accelerator (SSA), a network for collaborative experimental sociology. Members propose research ideas 💡, the community votes 🗳️to select projects, and winning studies run across multiple labs/online using shared protocols. experimentalsociology.github.io
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Sociological Science Accelerator
The Sociological Science Accelerator coordinates rigorous, reproducible experimental sociology across a global network.
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
A postdoc position is now available in my project Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity. Start date flexible within the next 12 months, apply by 9 May. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
We'll miss @ruettenauer.bsky.social and be ever grateful for his service. Happy that part of UCL travels with him and please be in touch.
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
If you're a current or recent PhD student based in London and using quantitative methods...we're currently recruiting TAs for next year, get in touch!
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Kerstin Ostermann @kostermann.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Looking for a measure of #neighborhoods, micro or macro #segregation? I've got something for you! My newly published paper in Sociological Methods & Research presents a machine-learning-based algorithm to delineate neighborhoods with grid-cell or point data: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Example for the two staged unsupervised machine learning algorithm using point data as input. Backlayer maps depict Hamburg. The map shows neighborhoods in different sizes and forms, sometimes following administrative borders (black lines) sometimes not. Three differently colored neighborhood types are displayed, each representing a different social group of residents.xample for the two staged unsupervised machine learning algorithm using 500x500m grid cells as input. Backlayer maps depict Hamburg. The map shows large neighborhoods in different sizes and forms, sometimes following administrative borders (black lines) sometimes not. Three differently colored neighborhood types are displayed, each representing a different social group of residents.
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Eric Schneider @ericbschneider.com · 23/02/2026
What is child stunting — and how has it changed over the last 200 years? Stunting means being too short for one’s age due to chronic undernutrition and disease in early life. It’s one of the clearest markers of cumulative deprivation in childhood. 1)
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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
A new publication at www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... We find that religious markers (esp. beards) can reduce perceived trustworthiness in Turkey. (That's why you often see me clean shaven ;-)
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Religious markers reduce perceived trustworthiness in a Muslim-majority country | PNAS
First impressions often hinge on visible cues, leading people to infer the trustworthiness of strangers from their appearance and dress. While reli...
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Kasimir Dederichs @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
📊 Analytical Sociologists: just over one week left to submit your abstract for this year’s INAS conference at Nuffield College 📚 We look forward to your contributions! 📄✨ www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research... @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social @sociologyoxford.bsky.social
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INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University
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Kasimir Dederichs @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
In this preprint, we (@ruettenauer.bsky.social, David Kretschmer and I) ask and address two questions: (i) How does immigrant-native #segregation vary across urban areas in Europe? (ii) Which urban area- and country-level characteristics are consistently linked to segregation? Check it out ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Today we’re celebrating 10 years of SRI! This afternoon we’ll come together to share reflections on the past 10 years, showcase our strengths in research and education, and look to the future for our Institute 🎉🎈🥳
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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
📢 Analytical sociology is coming home! Call 4 INAS26 is open 🌍 1-3Jul26 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social (☔) ☢️ Deadline: 1Feb26 🦹 Organisers: @aksoyundan.bsky.social , @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social, D Kretschmer, @awaldendorf.bsky.social Info: tinyurl.com/yc2tusjx
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INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University
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Bank of England Research @boeresearch.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Staff Working Paper 1147 by B Tracey (BoE) & N van Horen (BoE) shows FTB home purchases rose sharply after 2013 when the deposit requirement was reduced from 10% to 5% by HTB. Gains were concentrated among FTBs unlikely to have relied on family support. 🔗 www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-pape...
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Credit constraints and the redistribution of housing wealth
Staff working papers set out research in progress by our staff, with the aim of encouraging comments and debate.
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Kasimir Dederichs @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Humbled to have received the biennial ‘Best Dissertation Award’ of the German Academy of Sociology at this year’s conference in Mainz! It was a pleasure to present a summary of my thesis. Grateful for all the support and guidance I received over the last years. #AkadSoz25 #sociology
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Dingeman Wiertz @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
A reminder that there is about 1 week left to apply for these 2 positions in Quantitative Social Science @sriucl.bsky.social! Application deadline: 10 October. Further details in the link below.
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UCL Sociology Network @uclsociology.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Are you a UCL Sociologist? Apply to join UCL Sociology Network's Coordinating Group. Contribute to the Network’s wide-ranging programme of activities and share news of important sociological developments tinyurl.com/2ut5dttz
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Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Welcome to @aksoyundan.bsky.social, who has joined us as Associate Professor in Sociology! 🎉 His research covers religious behaviour, cooperation and trust 🤝 Game theory, statistical and computational methods are amongst his research tools 💻🎲 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/people/ozan-...
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Ozan Aksoy
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PNAS Nexus @pnasnexus.org · 17/09/2025
A Dutch study explores a key barrier to social integration: strong in-group preferences. One hopeful exception: young people don’t have strong preferences for people of their own ethnicity when it comes to sports activities. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Street soccer championship in The Hague, Netherlands, 2010.
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Dingeman Wiertz @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
New paper, using conjoint experiments to study ingroup preferences across multiple settings (neighborhoods, civic orgs, sports clubs) and social dimensions (age, ethnicity, education). We also link people's choices in the experiments to the real-world contexts they are embedded in. More info 👇
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
🚨 New pre-print with @sergioloiacono.bsky.social We ran 3 large-scale experiments in 🇬🇧to investigate how perceived asylum-seeking legality, public preferences for refugee relocation, and inclusionary attitudes are shaped by symbolic and strategic boundaries doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Excited and grateful to launch my ERC project #SOCIO-CLIMP 🌍🌤️ The project explores how #ClimateChange and #EnvironmentalHazards unequally affect different socio-demographic groups 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 across Europe — combining spatial climate data with demographic detail to uncover patterns of #ClimateInjustice.
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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Do people have less #Kids because of the #ClimateCrisis? 🌍👶 In our preprint, @katyaoivanova.bsky.social and I find that environmentalists are less likely to have kids in their 20s and 30s... But by their early 40s, the gap closes. Maybe it's rather about #Postponement? 🕰️ 🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 03/09/2025
Thrilled to have started a new chapter in my career at @sriucl.bsky.social & Quantitative Social Science (QSS) centre @ucl.ac.uk this week. Absolutely love my supportive colleagues & the inspiring environment ❤️ We're hiring 2 new lecturers in QSS – come and join us ➡ www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Brittle bridges: ethnic segregation across and within civic organizations doi.org/10.1093/esr/... Paper in @europeansocreview.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social and Associate Member @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social
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Brittle bridges: ethnic segregation across and within civic organizations
Abstract. Civic organizations are often depicted as vehicles for social integration: Since they gather people around common interests and have relatively l
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Dingeman Wiertz @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
We have 2 posts available in our Quantitative Social Science centre at @sriucl.bsky.social. It is a wonderful place to work, with great colleagues, exciting degrees, and good promotion prospects. The posts are open to anyone working in the broad space covered by our centre. Deadline + link 👇
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Who remains single? Educational gradients in long-term singlehood across ethnic groups doi.org/10.1111/jomf... Paper in @jmfncfr.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social postdoc @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social Associate Member Evelina Akimova and Fellow Nan Dirk de Graaf
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Shout out to my @sriucl.bsky.social colleague @ruettenauer.bsky.social who's doing an amazing job at bringing methods to the people His recent output includes two handbook chapters (spatial + panel data), a DiD paper, and a treasure trove of teaching materials online: ruettenauer.github.io
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UCL Sociology Network @uclsociology.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Is there a religious revival in England? @sriucl.bsky.social's David Voas raises questions about a recent report claiming that Gen Z is leading a rise in church attendance after decades of religious decline. It appears the devil is in the data. Read more here: tinyurl.com/2zptnnw3
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Is there really a religious revival in England? Why I’m sceptical of a new report
In Anglican and Catholic churches, average weekly attendance is down about 20% from pre-pandemic levels.
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Selcan Mutgan @selcanmutgan.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
🧵1/8 In our new #OA article, we studied the drivers of ethnic school segregation. Research on segregation often points to parental preferences, but what if it's not just about what parents want, but also what options they actually have? 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf027
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Dingeman Wiertz @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Hurray!
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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Very exited to share the amazing 🚀line-up for our QSS and CLS Seminar series @sriucl.bsky.social🎓 Weekly talks on #SocialScience topics like #Inequality, #Protests, #Migration, #EducationalMobility, #Ethnicity, and #Eugenics 📊 Wednesdays, 1–2pm (hybrid). Register: forms.microsoft.com/e/fHEP73Jdmz
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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
📢 My paper w Aron Szekely on honour-based violence is published online (Open Access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... We explain this puzzling phenomenon applying game-theory and testing it using large-scale data on norms and actual femicides. @sriucl.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social
Details of the publication with abstract which reads: Honor killings, which occur when women are perceived to have broken purity norms and bring “dishonor” to their family, pose profound moral and societal problems and underrecognized sociological puzzles. Given the immense cost, why do families murder their own daughter,
niece, or cousin? Conversely, given the tragic consequences, why are norms broken in the first place? Drawing on accounts of honor killings, we characterize the key actors, actions, and incentives, and develop two interlinked theoretical models, one on norm-enforcement
and another on norm-breaking. The former specifies the conditions under which honor norms should hold, the latter, counterintuitively, predicts that honor killings occur most frequently when honor norms are contested; not when they are strictest. Analyzing data from 24 countries and ~26,000 individuals and building a unique dataset of honor killings from Turkey, we find support for the hypotheses. Honor norms are stronger when laws offer leniency for honor killings, families’ loss of reputation is more consequential, and community cohesion is higher. Actual killings have an inverse-U-shaped link with the prevalence of honor norms. Our work advances the theoretical understanding of honor norms and killings and offers one of the most
comprehensive empirical analyses of the factors influencing honor killings.Figure 1 from the paper. Within-Family Interaction and Probabilities of Interaction Outcomes
Note: Panel A shows an interaction within a family. Panel B shows the probability of breaking a norm (p2) in the game tree in panel A; the probability of the existence of an honor norm in the repeated norm-enforcement game (p1, i.e., conditions given in Hypotheses 1, 2, and 3 obtain); and the probability of honor killing (p3), which is the product of the former two probabilities, as a function of repeated norm-enforcement game parameters.Figure 3 from the paper. Support for Honor Killings; Coefficients from Multilevel Regressions with Random Intercepts for Countries
Data source: PEW (2013) World Muslims Survey.
Note: N (response) = 26,458. N (country) = 24. Countries that adopted laws that allow leniency for honor-based violence: Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Niger, Palestinian Territories. Countries that have adultery laws: Afghanistan, Pakistan.Figure 5 from the paper. Results of Poisson Models Predicting the Monthly Number of Honor Killings
Note: Predictive margins for the association between support for honor norms and honor killings (top panel) and the average marginal effect of passing law 6284 according to support for honor norms (bottom panel).
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Tim Müller @timmueller.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Happy to share that this article is now published (after a long time)! It’s often claimed that welfare generosity attracts immigration. But looking at flows between 160 countries, I found little support. Other factors like GDP or democracy matter more. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
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Evidence for the welfare magnet hypothesis? A global examination using exponential random graph models
Abstract. The welfare magnet hypothesis states that welfare generosity in destination countries is a migration pull factor. However, supporting evidence is
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Toni Rodon @tonirodon.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🚨New article🔥 🗳️ What helped close the turnout gender gap after female enfranchisement? ▶️ We study a 1933 lottery that assigned newly enfranchised women as poll officers and its impact on their voting in 1936. One of my favourite projects! 🎉 @upf.edu @politiquesupf.bsky.social
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UCL Sociology Network @uclsociology.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social is looking for a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Sociology, to support the institute's strong research profile in sociology as well as the delivery of its new MSc in Sociology. Application deadline: 17 April. Further details in the link below.
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Dingeman Wiertz @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Can participation in volunteer activities reduce older people’s reliance on antidepressants? In a new study with HP Qvist & @jeevitha-q.bsky.social, we explore this, merging longitudinal survey data with register data on antidepressant prescriptions. Link: tinyurl.com/3brw3fy3 @sriucl.bsky.social
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Does volunteering reduce antidepressant use among older adults? Longitudinal register-based evidence from Denmark
Antidepressant use among older adults has surged in recent years. This is concerning since antidepressants have serious side effects and limited effic…
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Nora Waitkus @norawaitkus.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
🚨Three more days to apply!🚨 Two full time PhD positions on economic inequalities, broadly defined 💸💰📈🎓 E13, 100%, 4+1 years in Heidelberg 🏰 adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...
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Stellenausschreibungen an der Universität Heidelberg
Infosystem der ZUV
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UCL Sociology Network @uclsociology.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
New research by @sriucl.bsky.social's David Voas in @sfjournal.bsky.social provides novel evidence on what has been happening to religion in the U.S. Contrary to claims that religion is changing rather than declining, David shows that secularization has so far been understated: shorturl.at/I6FD9
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Invisible secularity: American theism beyond belief
Abstract. It is often asserted that religion is changing rather than declining and that the usual indicators give a misleading impression of growing secula
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UCL Sociology Network @uclsociology.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Social norms of revenge exist across the world. How do such norms emerge and stabilize, given the severe societal costs associated with them? @sriucl.bsky.social visitor Aron Szekely provides answers in a hybrid seminar on Wed 12 February 13:00-14:00. Link to register: shorturl.at/4qToO
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The emergence of revenge social norms | IOE - Faculty of Education and Society
Social norms of revenge can be found across the world. How do norms of revenge emerge and stabilise? Aron Szekely offers insights.
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Dingeman Wiertz @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
New paper out. Have greatly enjoyed working together on this with @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social! Further details and link to the paper can be found in Kasimir’s thread.
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Brittle bridges: ethnic segregation across and within civic organizations academic.oup.com/esr/advance-... Paper in European Sociological Review by #NuffieldCollege Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social and Associate Member @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social #Sociology #SocSky
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Brittle bridges: ethnic segregation across and within civic organizations
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