How are contemporary cleavage structures stabilized in times of declining mass social and political organizations?

In this new paper with @davidattewell6.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social, we suggest that homogeneous social (educational) networks provide part of the answer.

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6/ “Class-based network segregation, economic inequality, and redistributive preferences across societies.” DOI: doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

5/ Overall, redistributive attitudes are shaped not only by class position, but also by the composition of social networks and by structural inequality.
Network segregation matters most in contexts of low to moderate inequality.

4/ National inequality significantly moderates these associations. In highly unequal countries, class differences in redistributive preferences narrow:
Working-class support stays stable with homogeneous networks, while service-class support increases redistributive preferences.

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These patterns reflect distinct relational experiences:
Working-class networks expose individuals to greater economic vulnerability, reinforcing redistributive preferences.
Service-class networks strengthen class, increasing distance from those in despair, reducing demand for redistribution.

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Micro-level findings (Figure 1):
Within the working class, having predominantly same-class networks is associated with higher support for redistribution.
Within the service class, homogeneous networks are linked to lower support.

Class-based network segregation, economic inequality, and redistributive preferences across societies Abstract. Rising economic inequality has renewed interest in how class-based social networks shape redistributive preferences across societies. While previ

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My new article in European Sociological Review (@europeansocreview.bsky.social) examines how class-based network segregation and national-level inequality shape support for redistribution, using data from 32,717 individuals across 31 countries.
DOI: doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
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Wide Social Influence and the Emergence of the Unexpected: An Empirical Test Using Spotify Data Article: Wide Social Influence and the Emergence of the Unexpected: An Empirical Test Using Spotify Data | Sociological Science | Posted October 23, 2025

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New paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social with @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social and Peter Hedström! We identify a social-influence mechanism that widens individuals' behavioral repertoires and breaks the link between individuals' initial preferences and the collective outcomes they bring about.

At BIGSSS we are currently looking for two PhD students (four years of DAAD funding) in our program Contentious Politics in the Digital Age (CoPoDi). Apply until 27 October 2025, more information here: www.bigsss-bremen.de/static/uploa...

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Insights from the ESS ICOS Cities Panel Diana Zavala-Rojas and Agustin Blanco Bosco (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) delivered a survey method webinar on 17 September 2025.

Find out more about the implementation of a climate change panel #survey fielded in Munich 🇩🇪 and Paris 🇫🇷 in 2023-24.

Diana Zavala-Rojas and Agustin Blanco Bosco (@upf.edu 🇪🇸) presented findings from a three-wave longitudinal survey that explored views on #climate change policies.

Project description: UNPACK departs from three empirical observations about child poverty. First, child poverty rates in Spain are consistently higher than would be expected by its economic development. Second, child poverty rates have not decreased with economic growth since the end of the Great Recession, while adult poverty rates do, even if slightly. Third, recent policy reforms targeted at combatting inequality and reducing poverty have resulted in improvements in employment and several welfare and equity indicators, but appear to have limited impact on child poverty reduction. High child poverty rates in Spain, and more widely Southern Europe, have been traditionally associated with weak labour markets and underdeveloped social protection systems that poorly target families with children. However, neither improving labour market prospects nor the introduction of new policy initiatives appear to impact child poverty rates. This project seeks to approach this puzzle by (a) further exploring child poverty trends in Spain and (Southern) Europe, (b) extending the literature on child poverty and labour markets with particular attention to poverty dynamics, and (c) analysing the design and outcomes of recent poverty reforms in Southern Europe targeted at reducing child poverty. In doing so, the project seeks to further our understanding of the determinants of disappointing child poverty trends in Spain and Europe, and elaborate relevant policy proposals

October 1st we will publish the call for a funded PhD student to work @demosocupf.bsky.social in the project 'Unpacking the Puzzle of Child Poverty: Why Child Poverty Persists Despite Economic Recovery and Declining Inequality', funded by the Spanish Research Agency. Interested? Get in touch!

📣We have exciting news!📣 that the first partial release of the international ISSP 2022 Family and Changing Gender Roles V data file (ZA10000_v1.0.0), which includes data from 22 ISSP member countries is now available for download online via GESIS Search at:
search.gesis.org/research_dat...

In this new study, Kenneth Nelson and I find that higher social assistance - which raises the income floor for the most disadvantaged - can strengthen public support for ambitious but regressive climate measures like fossil fuel taxes.
Open access @reggovjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/rego...

<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a detrimental effect on people's mental health. Drawing on the palliative function of ideologies, we suggest that people rely on system-justif...

Correlational & experimental evidence from China finds that during the COVID pandemic, system justification was associated with an increased sense of personal control, decreased anxiety and negative affect, and increased positive affect. #palliative
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...

Predatory Financialization. Paul Krugman, Understanding Inequality: Part V - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality Part V of Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman’s series “Understanding Inequality,” which originally appeared on his Substack newsletter.

How has Wall Street increased income and wealth disparities? @pkrugman.bsky.social explains why the financialization of the U.S. economy has been a major driver of inequality.
stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/predatory-fi...

Social mobility, self-selection, and the persistence of class inequality in electoral participation
doi.org/10.1111/1468...
Paper in @bjsociology.bsky.social by Giacomo Melli and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellows Nan Dirk de Graaf & Geoffrey Evans

Proper thread after the summer break– but if you were looking for a beach read about political reasoning in today's working class, look no further: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Integrating Generative Artificial Intelligence into Social Science Research: Measurement, Prompting, and Simulation - Thomas Davidson, Daniel Karell, 2025 Generative artificial intelligence (AI) offers new capabilities for analyzing data, creating synthetic media, and simulating realistic social interactions. This...

Attn: the special issue of SMR on Generative AI in Sociology is now online. The whole issue is fire, but the introduction by @thomasdavidson.bsky.social and Danny Karell is a must read, covering prompting, measurement, and simulations. It's a road map for soc sci research in the genAI era. +

From our new issue: "Field of Education and Political Behavior: Predicting GAL/TAN Voting" by Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, and Jonne Kamphorst. #APSRNewIssue www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Policing queer and disabled identities. Innovative research with administrative data by @emanuelemurgolo.bsky.social @demosocupf.bsky.social @upf.edu

Research Handbook on Partnering across the Life Course Research Handbooks in Sociology series Edited by Dimitri Mortelmans, Centre for Population, Family and Health (CPFH), University of Antwerp, Belgium, Laura Bernardi, Swiss Center of Expertise in Life Course Research (LIVES), University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and Brienna Perelli-Harris, Department of Social Statistics and Demography, University of Southampton, UK Publication Date: April 2025 ISBN: 978 1 80392 337 6 Extent: 394 pp This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com.

📚 NEW BOOK - open access!

Leading scholars explore how individual life trajectories, societal norms, and legal frameworks are shaping modern #relationships.

Co-edited by CPC member @briennaph.bsky.social

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@bspsuk.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social

The Table 2 Fallacy: Presenting and Interpreting Confounder and Modifier Coefficients Abstract. It is common to present multiple adjusted effect estimates from a single model in a single table. For example, a table might show odds ratios for

writing another review where I point to the Table 2 Fallacy (doi.org/10.1093/aje/... and doi.org/10.1017/psrm...) and say stop interpreting every single coefficient

Latest income inequality estimates from the LIS Database.
Find more indicators here:
▶️Inequality and Poverty Key Figures www.lisdatacenter.org/lis-ikf-weba...
▶️DART dart.lisdatacenter.org
▶️Our World in Data (OWID) inequality explorers
www.lisdatacenter.org/data-access/...

Is there a gender youth gap in far-right voting and cultural attitudes across EU countries? 🚻🇪🇺

With Amy Alexander and Nicholas Charron, we have a new Gender Update out in @ejpgjournal.bsky.social. We find much cross-country variation, but... 🧵

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Immigration and welfare state sustainability: whose perception is affected by fiscal cost cues? Who reacts politically to fiscally costly immigration? A political economy tradition holds that reactions depend on economic self-interest, whereas a social psychology tradition emphasizes generali...

Political trust is likely in global decline. What are the consequences? Our experiment suggests low-trusters more often accept info saying immigration threatens the welfare state. Trust matters more than most economic, cultural, and contextual factors - with @finseraas.bsky.social & Atle Haugsgjerd

📢📢 PUB DAY!

Ever wondered how low emission zones affect academic performance?

You are lucky! Our new #OA paper in Population & Environment with amazing @marespadafor.bsky.social and @conteristo.bsky.social within the Mapineq project explores this.

🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s111...

Curious? Read on!

It's amazing, I use it all the time. It supports plenty of packages as well.

Hello there 👋🏼 I decided to migrate here from Twitter. I won't delete my account, but probably it will be slowly falling into disuse.