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Sociological Science is a general interest, open access sociology journal committed to the highest standards of rigor and relevance. We aim to be the flagship journal for social scientists committed to advancing a general understanding of social processes.

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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 23h
"Although young women still lag behind young men, particularly mothers, our findings show steady convergence and challenge the narrative of stalled progress." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: Oliver Lipps, Daniel Oesch, Roujman Shahbazian, "No Stalled Revolution: The Closing Gender Gap in Early Careers in Europe and the United States" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13-44-1159
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"It has become more difficult for developing countries to offset migratory losses with the spillovers from circulation." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: Andrew C. Herman, Jens Peter Andersen, Mathias Wullum Nielsen, "Developing Countries Face Falling Circulation Rates and Rising Migration Losses in Science " sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13-43-1132
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Why do natural resources fuel ethnic conflict in some ethnic homelands but not others?" Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: Wali Reheman, "Ethnopolitical Exclusion and Resource Conflict." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"In the US, overwork migrated up the class structure, and its hourly wage association turned from penalty to premium...Neither is supported as a broad durable pattern [in China]." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
NEW: Chen Ouyang, "Overwork Without Premium: The Persistent Class Gradient of Long Hours in China, 2006–2023." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13-41-1079/
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"College-educated individuals seem to reject effort-based meritocracy while strongly supporting skill- and education-based meritocracy." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NEW: Joanne W. Golann, Karen Phelan Kozlowski, Kara Mitchell Brennan, "Social Class Differences in Parenting? Revisiting Classed Childrearing through a Video-Ethnography of Mealtime" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13-40-1046/
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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
NEW: Yifan Shen, "Men’s Labor-Market Decline and the Rising Correlation between Spouses’ Earnings in the United States" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13-39-1018/
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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
NEW: Hye Won Kwon, Jani Erola, "Access to Higher Education and Support for Meritocracy: Effort, Skill, and Education as Components of Merit" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"We find that [wealth] stratification declined along several dimensions, with education being the main exception." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"Through simulations, stylized examples, and an empirical application, the article shows that explicitly defining the quantity of interest and selecting appropriate models is essential for valid interaction analysis." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"We extend the canonical mathematical framework to derive skill-specific return trajectories, incorporating two key parameters governing declines in (a) human capacity to learn and (b) skill relevance over the life course." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
NEW: Jake Burchard, Lisa A. Keister, "Decoupling Inequality and Stratification in the American Wealth Distribution, 1989–2022" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
NEW: Josep Serrano-Serrat, "Quantities of Interest for Interactions and the Pitfalls of Assuming Linear Treatment Effects" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
NEW: João M. Souto-Maior, Mitchell L. Stevens, "Bending the Heckman Curve: Competing Declines in Learning Capacity and Skill Relevance Over the Life Course" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"[T]ypicality strongly predicts selection when goals and categories misalign but becomes irrelevant when they align well." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"[W]e found that the ideology-engagement association is significantly larger than the ideology-attention association." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
NEW in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social: PhD Candidate Emma Williams-Baron & Prof. Aliya Saperstein use the NLSY79 to explore the best ways to operationalize race/ethnicity in the study of inequality in the labor market, health, and education. doi.org/10.15195/v13...
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A Roadmap for Inequality Research: Transparency, Intersectionality, and Multiple Measures of Race
Article: A Roadmap for Inequality Research: Transparency, Intersectionality, and Multiple Measures of Race | Sociological Science | Posted July 9, 2026
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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
NEW: Alex Tyulyupo, Balázs Kovács, "Categorical Engagement and the Contingent Nature of Typicality Effects" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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Torkild Hovde Lyngstad @torkildl.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
@sociologicalsci.bsky.social it is!
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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I have a new paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social w/ the briliant @aybukeatalay.bsky.social and @aliaelkattan.com We show that what we pay attention to online is a lot more politically diverse than what public engagement signals would suggest... sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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Information Diets Are More Diverse in Attention Than in Engagement
Article: Information Diets Are More Diverse in Attention Than in Engagement | Sociological Science | Posted July 21, 2026
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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
NEW: Christopher Barrie, Aybuke Atalay, Alia ElKattan, "Information Diets Are More Diverse in Attention Than in Engagement" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
NEW: Emma Williams-Baron, Aliya Saperstein, "A Roadmap for Inequality Research: Transparency, Intersectionality, and Multiple Measures of Race" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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The Double Bind of Precarious Work: Creating Need and Undermining Support
Article: The Double Bind of Precarious Work: Creating Need and Undermining Support | Sociological Science | Posted July 1, 2026
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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
NEW: Beza Taddess, Luyin Zhang, Sam Trejo, "Leveraging Genomic Data to Document Within-Race Attractiveness Penalties Among Black Americans" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Teacher sorting and inequalities in student achievement: Unequal exposures and differential returns to teacher qualifications doi.org/10.15195/v13... Paper in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow @saidhassan.bsky.social
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Said Hassan @saidhassan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
New paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social on teacher sorting and the impact of teacher qualifications on student achievement. Read more here:
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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
NEW: Tyler Woods, Kristen Harknett, Daniel Schneider, "The Double Bind of Precarious Work: Creating Need and Undermining Support" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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The Double Bind of Precarious Work: Creating Need and Undermining Support
Article: The Double Bind of Precarious Work: Creating Need and Undermining Support | Sociological Science | Posted July 1, 2026
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"teacher-induced learning inequalities are mainly driven by unequal exposure to highly qualified teachers, rather than unequal returns to qualifications." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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Teacher Sorting and Inequalities in Student Achievement: Unequal Exposures and Differential Returns to Teacher Qualifications
Article: Teacher Sorting and Inequalities in Student Achievement: Unequal Exposures and Differential Returns to Teacher Qualifications | Sociological Science | Posted June 30, 2026
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
"Women who attended high school in metropolitan areas hold a clear BA advantage, but not women who attended nonmetropolitan high schools, where girls earn higher grades than boys yet attain bachelor’s degrees at similar rates." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
NEW: Said Hassan, "Teacher Sorting and Inequalities in Student Achievement: Unequal Exposures and Differential Returns to Teacher Qualifications" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
NEW: April Sutton, Bernardo Mackenna, Bolun Zhang, Amanda Bosky, "The Exception to Women’s Advantage: How Rurality, Red Counties, and the Local Economy Shape Gender Gaps in Educational Attainment" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"Using AI-generated photorealistic images, we systematically vary the tidiness of domestic spaces, room type, source of mess, socioeconomic status, and the gender and race/ethnicity of occupants" Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"First-difference models reveal a consistent negative association between rising local wealth inequality and declining upward income mobility for children from low-income families, but no comparable association for their high-income peers." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"These findings demonstrate a novel configuration of labor market inequality, in which pay rose in low-wage jobs, but underlying inequality structures in the economy persisted." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"We find that considering how the child’s great-grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins shape care availability, and modeling their influence using more flexible models, provides small yet significant improvements in predictive ability" Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 22/06/2026
"If it bleeds, it leads"—many people assume crime news is just about chasing clicks. After interviewing 58 crime journalists across 40 newsrooms, I found something more complicated. My first dissertation paper is live at @sociologicalsci.bsky.social 🧵 sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
Clickbait Crime News? Metrics and Professional
Authority in Local Newsrooms
Jonathan Ben-Menachem
Columbia University
Abstract: Existing research on newsroom metrics documents how journalists construct compatibility
between discordant professional and commercial evaluation frameworks. This study examines the
underexplored case where metrics validate existing practices. Drawing on interviews with 58 crime
journalists in 40 U.S. newsrooms, I find that reporters whose work consistently performed well on
audience metrics often defended professional evaluation criteria. Editors facilitated this defense

through brokerage, absorbing commercial logics so reporters could experience their work as profes-
sionally guided. Market position structured interpretive responses: reporters could avoid metrics,

override them, selectively appropriate them, or integrate them into practice. The transition from
pageview to subscription regimes reshaped whether concordance was experienced as contaminating
or legitimating. Even under concordance, journalists defended professional evaluation criteria.
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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
NEW: Manuel Schechtl, Florencia Torche, "Changing Opportunity: Rising Local Wealth Inequality and Growing Class Gaps in Income Mobility" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
NEW: Soohyun Roh, Nathan Wilmers, "Declining Inequality and Persistent Inequality Structures" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Had a blast at the @sociologicalsci.bsky.social conference at @stanfordsoc.bsky.social last week, which allowed me to both gaze at Rodins & argue that sociologists should try to run our departments as if we believe scholarship on how to have equitable organizations.
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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
NEW: Nicolás Soler, Tom Emery, Agnieszka Kanas, "Family Networks and Childcare Choices: A Predictive Machine Learning Approach" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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Family Networks and Childcare Choices: A Predictive Machine Learning Approach
Article: Family Networks and Childcare Choices: A Predictive Machine Learning Approach | Sociological Science | Posted June 2, 2026
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
"I show that the seemingly innocuous decision to restrict analyses to data where different income groups’ policy support differs (i.e., a preference gap exists) introduced Simpson’s paradox" Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
"[A]n individual whose taste profile in general includes more legitimate tastes is perceived more favorably in terms of status and qualities but less favorably in terms of sociability" Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
"Applying our approach to a major Dutch cultural controversy, we show that the inclusion of negative interactions provides a new empirical picture of the dynamics of online polarization." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
NEW: Anna Keuchenius, Petter Törnberg, Justus Uitermark, "Echo Chambers Are Defined by Conflict, Not Isolation" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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Peter K. Enns @peterenns.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Sharing a video based on my recent @sociologicalsci.bsky.social article: youtu.be/5OAXBmBmQEY. The prominent finding that U.S. policy ignores average citizens and lower income groups results because of Simpson’s paradox. More here: medium.com/p/b60d0440e756.
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Responsiveness to the Lowest Income Group
YouTube video by Peter Enns
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Opinion Today @opiniontoday.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
How a Seemingly Innocuous and Intuitive Methodological Choice Confused a Generation of Research on Policy Responsiveness. (@peterenns.bsky.social @sociologicalsci.bsky.social) sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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