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Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 13d

📢 Calling all Oxford academics doing sociological research!

If you’re faculty, a researcher or DPhil student at @ox.ac.uk or Oxford Brookes, join our community for collaboration & knowledge exchange across sociology & related fields 🎓

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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 16d

🚨 Job alert: Postdoc at NYU Abu Dhabi. You’ll uncover how group boundaries form online using virtual experiments + digital trace data and work with a fantastic trio: Mario Molina, Minsu Park & Blaine Robbins. Apply by 1 Nov 2025. 👇🏼

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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 19d

Thank you @sociologyoxford.bsky.social !

Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 19d

Welcome to @aksoyundan.bsky.social, who has joined us as Associate Professor in Sociology! 🎉

His research covers religious behaviour, cooperation and trust 🤝

Game theory, statistical and computational methods are amongst his research tools 💻🎲

www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/people/ozan-...

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www.sociology.ox.ac.uk

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Nora Waitkus @norawaitkus.bsky.social · Sep 4

🎉Big news! My ERCStG proposal SOCDEBT has been selected for funding @erc.europa.eu!
📚I’ll study how household debt is stratified across countries & over time; how people strategize, evaluate, and morally judge debt(ors).
🙏I'm truly indebted to all my friends, colleagues & mentors for your support!

European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 4

The new ERC Starting Grant - funded projects include:

✴️ redefining false memories

✴️ making artificial touch feel more natural and realistic

✴️ how aging reshapes human tissues

✴️ ADHD in adults vs childhood

✴️ how plants shield from excessive sun exposure

Discover more 👉 buff.ly/APfNmCK

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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 27d

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰

Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).

You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!

#sociology

More 👇

jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology

jobportal.ku.dk

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Zach Parolin @zparolin.bsky.social · Jul 31

Bocconi University in Milan is hiring in sociology at any level (open rank). Ideal candidate might focus on inequality, social policy, computational, labor markets, or similar. Happy to answer questions about my time there for anyone considering applying. More details: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu

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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · Jul 23

Micro-macro transformation process, rather fittingly for @ic2s2.bsky.social, is apparent.

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Christiaan Monden @cmonden.bsky.social · Jul 23

Ready to make plans for the academic year 2026/27? Why not visit us: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research...

Sociology Visitorships - Nuffield College Oxford University

The Nuffield College Sociology Group invites applications for a Visitorship at the College during the 2026-27 academic year (between early October 2026 and late June 2027).

www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk

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Nadia Steiber 〽️ @nadiasteiber.bsky.social · Jul 18

⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at‬ invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods

Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · Jul 18

Yes but you'll need to fill in several forms and pass a test after an online training

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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · Jul 18

That was the intended effect ;-)

Thanks Per! No problem and see you soon.

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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · Jul 18

why not MemeBear?

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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · Jul 18

Goodbye to a real one. @aksoyundan.bsky.social mentored, collaborated, and somehow made difference-in-difference estimators funny. We’ll miss all three.

Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · Jul 17

We had our farewell to @aksoyundan.bsky.social at UCL yesterday!

Ozan has been such a big part of our journey, from building our Quant Sociology group to being an incredible mentor and collaborator along the way.

We’ll miss his presence & humour a lot, but we’re excited to see what he does next 👀

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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · Jul 18

🤭🤭 thanks Tobi!

If we managed to get admin rights for our UCL PCs we will manage everything!

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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · Jul 18

Thanks Ben. I am looking forward to understanding better why politics fails while sociology thrives ;)

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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · Jul 18

It was hell of 9 years at now a world-leading place for (quant) social sciences and sociology. Forever grateful to my colleagues at @sriucl.bsky.social and we will remain in touch. 😓😓

Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · Jul 17

We had our farewell to @aksoyundan.bsky.social at UCL yesterday!

Ozan has been such a big part of our journey, from building our Quant Sociology group to being an incredible mentor and collaborator along the way.

We’ll miss his presence & humour a lot, but we’re excited to see what he does next 👀

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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · Jul 18

New pastures @rensec.bsky.social not too far away.

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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · Jul 18

You must have missed our dear IOE building.

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UCL Sociology Network @uclsociology.bsky.social · Jun 23

Why do people resort to the brutal measure of killing their own daughters, sisters, or cousins when they feel their family honour is tarnished? @aksoyundan.bsky.social and @aronszekely.bsky.social offer novel insights based on game theory and data on honour killings & honour norms.

Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · Apr 12

📢 My paper w Aron Szekely on honour-based violence is published online (Open Access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

We explain this puzzling phenomenon applying game-theory and testing it using large-scale data on norms and actual femicides.

@sriucl.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social

Details of the publication with abstract which reads: Honor killings, which occur when women are perceived to have broken purity norms and bring “dishonor” to their family, pose profound moral and societal problems and underrecognized sociological puzzles. Given the immense cost, why do families murder their own daughter,
niece, or cousin? Conversely, given the tragic consequences, why are norms broken in the first place? Drawing on accounts of honor killings, we characterize the key actors, actions, and incentives, and develop two interlinked theoretical models, one on norm-enforcement
and another on norm-breaking. The former specifies the conditions under which honor norms should hold, the latter, counterintuitively, predicts that honor killings occur most frequently when honor norms are contested; not when they are strictest. Analyzing data from 24 countries and ~26,000 individuals and building a unique dataset of honor killings from Turkey, we find support for the hypotheses. Honor norms are stronger when laws offer leniency for honor killings, families’ loss of reputation is more consequential, and community cohesion is higher. Actual killings have an inverse-U-shaped link with the prevalence of honor norms. Our work advances the theoretical understanding of honor norms and killings and offers one of the most
comprehensive empirical analyses of the factors influencing honor killings.

Figure 1 from the paper. Within-Family Interaction and Probabilities of Interaction Outcomes
Note: Panel A shows an interaction within a family. Panel B shows the probability of breaking a norm (p2) in the game tree in panel A; the probability of the existence of an honor norm in the repeated norm-enforcement game (p1, i.e., conditions given in Hypotheses 1, 2, and 3 obtain); and the probability of honor killing (p3), which is the product of the former two probabilities, as a function of repeated norm-enforcement game parameters.

Figure 3 from the paper. Support for Honor Killings; Coefficients from Multilevel Regressions with Random Intercepts for Countries
Data source: PEW (2013) World Muslims Survey.
Note: N (response) = 26,458. N (country) = 24. Countries that adopted laws that allow leniency for honor-based violence: Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Niger, Palestinian Territories. Countries that have adultery laws: Afghanistan, Pakistan.

Figure 5 from the paper. Results of Poisson Models Predicting the Monthly Number of Honor Killings
Note: Predictive margins for the association between support for honor norms and honor killings (top panel) and the average marginal effect of passing law 6284 according to support for honor norms (bottom panel).

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TCRU at UCL IOE @tcru-ucl.bsky.social · Jun 26

New job vacancy at TCRU! For a Lecturer (Teaching) in Social Psychology - 2.5 year post (www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...).

Please share widely! @sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social @bps-social-psych.bsky.social

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · Jun 20

Have written up some of my thoughts about the increasingly sinister use of 'non-UK born' and 'white British' in the British press. The obsession with 'white British' citizens over other British citizens harms all of us and needs to be called out.

benansell.substack.com/p/who-counts

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Aron Szekely @aronszekely.bsky.social · Jun 11

Thrilled to share the following video of the master's level honours degree: the Social and Political Sciences track of the Allievi Program.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=X047...

Discover the Allievi Program in Social and Political Sciences at Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin

YouTube video by Collegio Carlo Alberto

www.youtube.com

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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · Jun 9

a "heterodox" critique of sociology is just a critique in search of its orthodoxy. in this short post, I argue that criticism of sociology should be substantive, with *actual* implications for practice.

Criticism of Sociological Orthodoxy Needs to be Substantive
tkeskinturk.github.io/blog/orthodoxy

a snippet from the post, saying:

"Critiques like this, mostly coming from the Heterodox Academy quarters of academia, share a familiar structure. They contend that sociology is “politically captured,” yet when it is time to say what scholars should actually do differently, the prescriptions are procedural (new review boards, special grants, and viewpoint-diversity pledges), rather than intellectual."

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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · Jun 10

I couldn't check the data, but if I did I'd look at: is there a secular upward or downward trend in P over time (if so Polya) or there are momentary but somwehat stable shifts in P which goes back and fort (if so multilevel)

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Christiaan Monden @cmonden.bsky.social · Jun 9

1-year opportunity for a Departmental Lecturer in Sociology at @sociologyoxford.bsky.social for the academic year 25/26. This position has a focus on life course research and quant methods. Apply by 27/6. tinyurl.com/2tydswwj

Job Details

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