NEW: Stacey and Williams, "The Intergenerational Reach of Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences: Associations with Children’s Emotional Support and Cognitive Stimulation" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

"We identify a social-influence mechanism that widens individuals’ behavioral repertoires and breaks the link between individuals’ initial preferences and the collective outcomes they jointly bring about." This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

NEW: Martin Arvidsson, Peter Hedström, Marc Keuschnigg, "Wide Social Influence and the Emergence of the Unexpected: An Empirical Test Using Spotify Data" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

"We develop a test for complex contagion...and then use it to examine whether empirical data from a country-scale randomized controlled viral marketing field experiment show evidence of complex contagion." This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

NEW: Jaemin Lee, David Lazer, Christoph Riedl, "Complex Contagion in Social Networks: Causal Evidence from a Country-Scale Field Experiment" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

This important paper shows a precipitous drop in girls' achievement in recent years, closing a third of the gap with boys. Covid doesn't seem to be the smoking gun, but tiktok may be

"This article documents a surprising reversal in the long-standing gender gap in academic achievement." This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

NEW: Mood, "Equalization through Deterioration: The Shrinking Gender Gap in Swedish School Grades" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

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NEW: Elias Nosrati, "The Political Economy of Optimal Taxation" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

"Interpretations of Topbot as measuring perceived income decile or subjective social status ... are untenable, and empirical claims made on these bases should be revisited." Important intervention relevant to many ppl studying the origins of political party support.

"Consonant with findings of low reliability and high, non-random non-response when a “Don’t know” option is available, the interviews highlight that Topbot is worded ambiguously, leading to varied interpretations and often puzzlement." This week in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

"We find a...positive effect of using streaming platforms on the diversity of cultural consumption as well as on cosmopolitanism, on three domains, music, movies, and TV shows." This week in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

How do respondents interpret the classic ISSP ladder question that is usually deemed to measure subjective social status? In a whole heap of different ways, according to Lewis Anderson @dspi-oxford.bsky.social

Quite amazed by the articles that @sociologicalsci.bsky.social puts out on a regular basis -- this one here by Lewis Anderson: imaginative, bold, well-informed, an incredible eye for detail, this will really be moving the field forward doi.org/10.15195/v12...

A thoughtful and well-argued critique of the common measure of subjective social status, increasingly used in survey-based studies of populism ⬇️

NEW: Anderson, "An Unreliable Ladder: Top–Bottom Self-Placement, Subjective Social Status, and Political Preferences sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

Reposting with correct link! sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

NEW: Samuel Coavoux, Abel Aussant, "Streaming Platforms, Filter Bubbles, and Cultural Inequalities. How Online Services Increase Consumption Diversity" sociologicalscience.com/streaming-pl...

Highly original new paper on union organising. More good work from @hanashepherd.bsky.social and co. #industrialrelations

NEW: Hana Shepherd, Rebecca Roskill, Suresh Naidu, Adam Reich, "Workplace Networks and the Dynamics of Worker Organizing" doi.org/10.15195/v12.a23

NEW: Yinxian Zhang, Di Zhou , "One Sentiment, Multiple Interpretations: Contrasting Official and Popular Anti-Americanism in China" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

I am a huge fan of "what is this kind of argument and how can you do it right?" papers. I collect them and I've tried to write a couple, and think they can be tremendously useful especially for teaching. A new, useful addition to this set just arrived from @sociologicalsci.bsky.social:

NEW:Fabian Kratz, "Rising Educational Divides in Attitudes: How Polarization across Cohorts Can Mask Age-Related Polarization." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

Great work by some great thinkers. Excited to see it in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social of all places.

This is great stuff! Time to start using the f-word again.

NEW Andrés Castro Araújo, Nicolás Restrepo Ochoa, "How to Make a Functionalist Argument." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

NEW: Shoudeng Zhang, "Outlier or Not? The Birth Order Effects on Educational Attainment in China" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

"These findings highlight the continued relevance of everyday political diversity in tempering partisan divisions and nuance worries about partisan echo chambers." This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

NEW: Delia Baldassarri, Jona de Jong, "Partisanship Meets Social Networks: How Politically Heterogeneous Acquaintances and Close Relationships Buffer Partisan Animosity" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

NEW: Kristinn Már Ársælsson, John Gastil, "Who Learns from Deliberative Minipublics? Identity-Based Differences in Knowledge Gains across Thirteen Citizens' Initiative Review Experiments" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

NEW: Wei-hsin Yu, Kuo-Hsien Su, "Evaluation Criteria and Women's Attainment of Elite STEM Education: Evidence from College Admission Records." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

New paper with Rebecca Johnson (@rebeccaj.bsky.social) on parental perceptions of using algorithms to allocate scarce resources in schools, now out in Sociological Science (@sociologicalsci.bsky.social):

NEW: Rebecca A. Johnson, Simone Zhang, "Predictive Algorithms and Perceptions of Fairness: Parent Attitudes Toward Algorithmic Resource Allocation in K-12 Education." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

NEW: Cristobal Young, Benjamin Cornwell, Barum Park, Nan Feng, "Inequality and Social Ties: Evidence from 15 U.S. Data Sets" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

Excellent new paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social by Matissa Hollister, Nicole Denier, @xavierst-denis.bsky.social examines heterogeneity in a treatment condition (past job mobility) across different occupations. Why is this important? 2 reasons... sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

"We find significant socioeconomic differences between cisgender and noncisgender responses, with cisgender individuals generally faring better." This week in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

NEW: Christina Pao, Christopher A. Julian, D’Lane Compton, Danya Lagos, Lawrence Stacey, "Demographic Differences in Responses to a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

Hot off the presses! I would say go talk about it with your friends, but everything we find leads us to expect that you won't.

We have correct the link to pdf of Keslintürk, Kiley and Vaisey. Our apologies. sociologicalscience.com/download/vol...

NEW: Turgut Keskintürk, Kevin Kiley, Stephen Vaisey, "What Are You Talking about? Discussion Frequency of Issues Captured in Common Survey Questions" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

NEW: Matissa Hollister, Nicole Denier, Xavier St-Denis, "Do Employers Care about Past Mobility? A Field Experiment Examining Hiring Preferences in Technology and Non-Technology Jobs." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

NEW: Ying Zhong, Valentin Thouzeau, Nicolas Baumard, "Literary Fiction Indicates Early Modernization in China Prior to Western Influence." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

NEW: Jeremy Senn, Jörg Stolz, "The Sequential Rise of Female Religious Leadership." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

NEW: Jeremy Senn, Jörg Stolz, "The Sequential Rise of Female Religious Leadership."

"We show that women have higher commuting costs and, as a result, their labor markets are smaller and their job opportunities are more limited." This month in our journal @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

NEW: Silvia Avram, "Commuting and Gender Differences in Job Opportunities."

"[W]e propose ME inequality as a summary measure of a nominal or ordinal independent variable’s holistic effect [and] a total ME measure that quantifies the comprehensive effect of an independent variable across all outcome categories." This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

Are you tired of analyzing your nominal and ordinal variables like its the 1950s? Then read @sociologicalsci.bsky.social today and see if ME inequality and total ME are right for you. We develop new methods for summarizing effects for nominal/ordinal independent and dependent variables.

NEW: Trenton D. Mize, Bing Han, "Inequality and Total Effect Summary Measures for Nominal and Ordinal Variables."