Everyday interests expressed in leisure, media consumption, or cultural practices, increasingly intersect with political orientations, making them strong signals of individuals’ political identities. ...

Site web de l'axe sciences sociales computationnelles du CREST-CNRS. Cours et tutoriels pour l'analyse des données numériques en sciences sociales.

DN Debatt. Ny databas visar att Sverige och svenskar har blivit rikare och samtidigt mer jämlikt vad gäller förmögenheter, skriver fyra nationalekonomer.

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...

A longstanding debate in the sociology of religion has focused on how religious pluralism affects religious participation. Existing research shows mixed findings, often relying on macro-level measure...

Digitization and advances in natural language processing have transformed how sociologists can measure, model, and interpret social life through text. We provide an overview of computational text anal...

When does a theory genuinely explain how a social phenomenon has come about? Much sociological theory invokes general causal categories – norms, institutions, ...

Secularization is a key concept in the social scientific study of religion, yet its meaning remains ambiguous due to varied definitions produced in the literature. This article aims to provide a data...

The 8th European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN 2026) will take place on 11–15 August 2026 in Norrköping, Sweden, hosted by the Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS), Linköping University. The conference brings together scholars and ...

The Complete Network of Sweden - Swereg.net - is a research project concerned with the extraction and analysis of the complete network of social exposure between all individuals in Sweden.

Article: Wide Social Influence and the Emergence of the Unexpected: An Empirical Test Using Spotify Data | Sociological Science | Posted October 23, 2025

Scientific Reports - Anatomy of a Swedish population-scale network

Religious decline is happening around the world. Here, the authors show that countries are at different stages of a common global sequence of decline in religious participation, personal importance of religion, and religious belonging.

The International Network of Analytical Sociology is an association of sociologists who identify with the Analytical Sociology approach to social explanation.