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Population Europe @populationeu.bsky.social · Jul 21

Despite popular perception, there is no clear evidence of a broad rightward shift among young men.

New study by @nennstielr.bsky.social & @hudde.bsky.social explores political divides btw young men and women - looking back as far as 1990 and using data from 32 EU countries.

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Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World @sociusjournal.bsky.social · Jul 18

❌ “No” still isn’t heard equally.

Drs. @nennstielr.bsky.social and @saraalice.bsky.social’s #Socius study using #Eurobarometer shows men across the EU are less likely to reject “no means yes.” Rejection rises with #GenderEquality and stronger #ConsentLaws.

Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

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Richard Nennstiel @nennstielr.bsky.social · Jul 10

📊 We use Eurobarometer 544 data from @gesis.org and the EU Gender Equality Index data from @eurights.bsky.social / EIGE to dig into consent perceptions across 25,824 respondents in the EU 🇪🇺.
👉 doi.org/10.1177/23780231251351676

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Richard Nennstiel @nennstielr.bsky.social · Jul 10

Women consistently reject this myth more than men — but in countries with higher gender equality and “only yes means yes” consent laws, these gender gaps are smaller.
Published in @sociusjournal.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social
👉 doi.org/10.1177/23780231251351676

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Richard Nennstiel @nennstielr.bsky.social · Jul 10

🚨 New paper out! 🚨
We use Eurobarometer data to explore how strongly people across the EU reject the “no means yes” rape myth.
Gender gaps persist, but shrink with higher gender equality and “only yes means yes” laws.
w/ @saraalice.bsky.social l (@unibe.ch)
👉 doi.org/10.1177/23780231251351676

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Richard Nennstiel @nennstielr.bsky.social · Jul 2

📊 Using ÜGK data from Switzerland
📄Published in ERVET (@springernature.com @sbfi.admin.ch )
w/ @tamaragutfleisch.bsky.social (@mzesunimannheim.bsky.social)
👉 doi.org/10.1186/s40461-025-00187-3

Bridging the gap: gender-specific preferences in STEM occupations in vocational education and training - Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training

Women’s underrepresentation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) has been widely studied, particularly in the context of general and tertiary education. However, less is known a...

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Richard Nennstiel @nennstielr.bsky.social · Jul 2

Women are less likely to pursue STEM in VET than men — with a gender gap of 48 percentage points (!) among those choosing VET occupations.
Existing explanations (achievement, values, self-concept) help explain gender gaps better for academic routes than for VET.
👉 doi.org/10.1186/s40461-025-00187-3

Bridging the gap: gender-specific preferences in STEM occupations in vocational education and training - Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training

Women’s underrepresentation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) has been widely studied, particularly in the context of general and tertiary education. However, less is known a...

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Richard Nennstiel @nennstielr.bsky.social · Jul 2

🚨 We analyze gender gaps in STEM aspirations across educational pathways in Switzerland.
Gender gaps are larger in vocational (VET) routes than in academic pathways — and existing theories explain less of these gaps among students aspiring VET.
👉 doi.org/10.1186/s40461-025-00187-3

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Richard Nennstiel @nennstielr.bsky.social · Jul 1

Published in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility (RSSM), Special Issue “The Growing Gender Divide in Educational Credentials: Trends, Causes and Consequences” edited by Claudia Buchmann.
Findings highlight persistent gendered penalties despite educational gains.
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Richard Nennstiel @nennstielr.bsky.social · Jul 1

We use Swiss census data (1970–2000) and structural surveys (2011–2020) from @statdatach.bsky.social to study how equal educational credentials translate into unequal labor market outcomes for women and men. 🇨🇭
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Richard Nennstiel @nennstielr.bsky.social · Jul 1

🚨 New paper published in RSSM @isa-rc28.bsky.social🚨
We explore how gender differences in occupational status have evolved in Switzerland across five decades, as women have attained increasingly higher educational qualifications.
w/ Rolf Becker (@unibe.ch)
👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

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Nicole Schwitter @nschwitter.bsky.social · Jun 23

🧠🚀 What happens when early-career social scientists use ChatGPT for academic writing? Clearer and more coherent text - but no boost to depth, originality, rigour, or literature use, according to our field experiment.
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MZES Uni Mannheim @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social · Jun 23

❗ Hier das working paper zu diesem Thema von Marc Ratkovic, Thomas Gschwend, @wendering.bsky.social, Kevin Bauer, @annakurella.bsky.social, Oliver Rittmann, @melinscribe.bsky.social, @nschwitter.bsky.social:

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(PDF) Harnessing GPT for Enhanced Academic Writing: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Early-Career Researchers in the Social Sciences

PDF | Large Language Models (LLMs) bring both risk and opportunity to scholarly communication, yet their effects on expert‐level research remain... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on R...

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Torkild Hovde Lyngstad @torkildl.bsky.social · Jun 17

HOW IMPORTANT IS SOCIAL BACKGROUND FOR SES? A major issue in social stratification/class mobility research is the effect of one's social origins (or class background) on socioeconomic outcomes. Our new paper tackles this question using two research designs. Preview: It's not that important.
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Richard Nennstiel @nennstielr.bsky.social · Jun 17

Thank you! It is political ideology (measured by left-right self-placement)

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Alexia Katsanidou @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social · Jun 16

Paper on the ideology gender gap with Eurobarometer data from @gesis.org by @nennstielr.bsky.social and
@hudde.bsky.social . Most interesting finding: while young women are becoming more left-wing in 11 countries, in 5 of them young men are also becoming more right-wing (DK, FI, SE, FR and LT)

Is there a growing gender divide among young adults in regard to ideological left–right self-placement? Evidence from 32 European countries

Abstract. Growing gender differences in political ideology among young people are a major concern because of their potential long-term societal implication

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Céline Teney @cteney.bsky.social · Jun 16

Another great reason to submit manuscripts to @europeansocreview.bsky.social 🙃

Ansgar Hudde @hudde.bsky.social · Jun 16

On a side note: this was the best review experience I have ever had, extremely constructive & efficient.

From submission to acceptance in less than 3 months!! 😱🎉

@europeansocreview.bsky.social

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Richard Nennstiel @nennstielr.bsky.social · Jun 16

Based on over 466k respondents aged 20–29 from:
📊 #Eurobarometer surveys
📊 @ess-survey.bsky.social (European Social Survey)
We used APC models + trend graphs to unpack youth gender gaps in political ideology across Europe.
More details here 👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
@europeansocreview.bsky.social

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Richard Nennstiel @nennstielr.bsky.social · Jun 16

🚨 Are young women becoming more left-wing & young men more right-wing?
We analyzed 32 European countries (1990–2023).
📊 Some show growing gaps—others don’t.
📊 Gaps tend to be bigger where gender equality is higher.
w/ @hudde.bsky.social
👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.bsky.social · Jun 16

interesting paper by @nennstielr.bsky.social and @hudde.bsky.social on the gender divide in the left-right self-placement. There is no clear trend across all countries, increases in some countries, in others stability academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

Countries classified by the development of gender gaps in left–right self-placement over time.
Source: World Country Polygons, EB (1990–2023), our own calculations.

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Martin Neugebauer @neugebauer.bsky.social · Jun 12

🧠🎓 Signal or substance?
What do employers really see in a university degree?
Our new paper in @europeansocreview.bsky.social dives into “sheepskin effects” using a factorial survey experiment.
With @jpheisig.bsky.social & @thijsbol.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

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DIPF @dipfaktuell.bsky.social · Jun 11

📘 Ein neuer Sammelband von Tilman Drope, Sabine Reh und Kai Maaz @dipfaktuell.bsky.social nimmt soziale Bildungsungleichheit aus verschiedenen theoretischen, historischen und empirischen Blickwinkeln in den Fokus.
Alle Infos zu dem im Waxmann-Verlag erschienen Band:
bit.ly/4kAT3lZ

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Julian Seuring @julseu.bsky.social · Jun 6

Thesis successfully defended!
It was more of an ultramarathon than a sprint. After all these years, with a few breaks and detours here and there, I finally reached the final stretch and crossed the finish line. A big thank you to all the wonderful people who supported and cheered me on.

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Hans Gerhardt @hgerhardt.bsky.social · Apr 15

KDLBRECODE - new Stata module for recoding German occupational classifications available on SSC

kldbrecode provides crosswalk tables for various translations between German KldB and ISCO. Moreover, translations to BIBB occupational fields and Ebner & Rohrbach-Schmidt prestige scale are supported.

GitHub - hagerhardt/kldbrecode: kldbrecode - Stata module to translate German Classifications of Occupations (KldB)

kldbrecode - Stata module to translate German Classifications of Occupations (KldB) - hagerhardt/kldbrecode

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Ansgar Hudde @hudde.bsky.social · Apr 15

Ab in den Druck!🎉

Mein Buch „Wo wir wie wählen: Politische Muster in Deutschlands Nachbarschaften“ ab 18.06. bei Campus

Eine politische Landkarte🇩🇪 basierend auf Wahldaten, Sozialstruktur & Eindrücken vor Ort

Jetzt vorbestellen—in eurer Lieblingsbuchhandlung oder hier www.campus.de/buecher-camp...

Das Bild zeigt die Rückseite des Covers:

Hat sich Deutschland politisch auseinandergelebt? Grenzen sich Anhänger der unterschiedlichen politischen Gruppen auch räumlich vermehrt voneinander ab? Finden wir politisch typische und untypische Orte eher in den Metropolen, in den mittleren und kleineren Städten oder auf dem Land? In Ost- oder in Westdeutschland? Mit einem einzigartigen Datenschatz zum Wahlverhalten in allen 94.000 Wahlbezirken Deutschlands geht Ansgar Hudde diesen Fragen nach und entdeckt: Die Mehrheit der Deutschen lebt nicht in politischen Blasen, sondern in Nachbarschaften, deren Wahlverhalten grob dem Bundestrend entspricht.

Das Buch verknüpft die Analyse von Wahlergebnissen mit sozialstrukturellen Daten und Gesprächen vor Ort und zeichnet dadurch kenntnisreich Lokalporträts ausgewählter deutscher Orte. Hudde identifiziert vier Wahlmuster in Deutschlands Nachbarschaften: das politische Typischdeutschland, vor allem in westdeutschen Klein- und Mittelstädten, das Konservativ-Wahlmuster im ländlichen Bayern, das AfD-trifft-Linke-Wahlmuster in Ostdeutschland jenseits der Großstadtzentren und das Grün-Links-Wahlmuster in den zentrumsnahen Vierteln von Metropolen und Universitätsstädten. Wer diese Wahlmuster kennt und ein Bild von den charakteristischen Orten und Nachbarschaften vor Augen hat, kennt nicht nur Deutschlands politische Landkarte, sondern gewinnt auch ein tieferes Verständnis der Bundesrepublik insgesamt. Eine aufschlussreiche Analyse, die auch die Bundestagswahl 2025 einschließt!

»Ansgar Hudde entwickelt in seinem Buch eine Kartografie des Wahlverhaltens, die eindrücklich zeigt: Orte und Regionen machen einen Unterschied. Deutschland tickt sehr anders, je nachdem, wo man sich befindet. Eine willkommene Landkarte zur Navigation durch die politische Landschaft.« Steffen Mau

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Alex Patzina @patzinaalex.bsky.social · Apr 14

Come and work with us in beautiful Bamberg! @uni-bamberg.de

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions!

www.uni-bamberg.de/fileadmin/ab...

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