My guest this week is Fabrizio Bernardi (@fabriberna.bsky.social), a Sociologist at UNED in Madrid who works on educational inequality, social mobility, and social demography. He’s also the editor at ...

In different articles and interviews, the historian Carlo Ginzburg, a founder of the field of micro-history and author of fundamental books such as The Cheese and the Worms, explains that chance ... R...

In different articles and interviews, the historian Carlo Ginzburg, a founder of the field of micro-history and author of fundamental books such as The Cheese and the Worms, explains that chance ... R...

Does luck play any role in shaping social inequality?In this episode, Nicoletta Balbo, from the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University, interviews Fabrizio Bernardi from UNE...

Contemporary genomic studies of complex traits, such as genome-wide association studies and polygenic index (PGI) analyses, frequently include the ...

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...

Publishes original articles in all fields of sociology ranging in length from short research notes up to major reports. It provides a resource of state-of-the-art quantitative and comparative researc...

I created a kind of academic game and ask some colleagues in social stratification and social demography four short questions: I received answers from 15 colleagues: 6 women and 9 ... Read more

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The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) recognizes the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated.

Manuel T. Valdés, Nadia Steiber and Laura Zilian are project leaders for ‘Gendered STEM Pathways: The Role of Family in Women's Field Choice and Career Persistence’

Abstract. While the association between apprenticeship dropout and negative labour market consequences is well documented, the causal link and social strat

Abstract. The expansion of higher educational systems in Western countries in the latter half of the 20th century is central to the reversal of the gender

Abstract. When a child moves home multiple times, the consequences for the adult they will later become can be substantial. This study investigates how fre

Abstract. The integration paradox—the positive association between absolute education and perceived discrimination among more visible immigrant groups—has

(Commenti) Piergiorgio Corbetta è stato per decenni il cuore, il motore dell'Istituto Cattaneo di Bologna, che ha diretto dal 1989 al 1994 e poi dal 1997 al 2002, diventandone poi direttore di ricerca...

Abstract. This study examines the implications for gender equality of the increasing prevalence of heterosexual couples in which the woman is more highly e

Abstract. The production of public goods, which are fundamental to well-functioning societies, requires the payment of taxes, but taxpayers have clear ince

El mes pasado fue inaugurado en Madrid el campus de la Universidad Francisco Marroquín, una casa de estudios guatemalteca completamente desconocida en España más allá de un reducido círculo de profeso...

Abstract. Research in social stratification has long posited that the direct effects of social origin on destination are diminished for individuals with hi