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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 8d

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

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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

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

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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · Sep 1

a new working paper: osf.io/vsr5b

I propose a three-stage model of cohortization where dynamics of cohort learning and political sorting serve as complementary engines of aggregate political change.

I apply this to the case of the killing of George Floyd & the BLM.

it's also my job market paper!

Generational Imprinting: How Political Events Shape Cohorts

Turgut Keskintürk
August, 2025

How, and for whom, do political events translate into enduring political change? This article advances a three-stage model of cohortization, in which salient events produce age differential changes in attitudes, elite cues drive identity-congruent political sorting, and life-course timing regulates whether these attitude changes remain persistent over time. Focusing on the killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020 as a quasi-natural experiment, I test this model by analyzing attitudes toward U.S. law enforcement among non-Hispanic White Americans using five surveys that collectively span from 2016 to 2024. The findings consistently show that Democrats and Independents became strongly unfavorable toward law enforcement—much more so among younger than older individuals. Moreover, the changes persisted for younger individuals, while fading among older individuals, leading to cohort-led polarization. This article integrates two classic—though largely partial—theories of political learning, offering a model for understanding how salient events can realign generational divides.

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Satu Helske @satuhelske.bsky.social · Aug 27

Come work on my new research project! We are studying whether and how #parentalLeave is shared in different types of families, how the use of parental leave has changed in different families since the 2000s, and how parents’ social environments influence their leave uptake.

#research #hiring

INVEST Research Flagship Centre @invest-flagship.bsky.social · Aug 25

We’re hiring!

Join @utu.fi & INVEST Research Flagship Centre as a #SeniorResearcher ( #postdoc ) or #DoctoralResearcher in the #SHARELEAVE project on parental leave and social inequality. 🌍👶

🗓 Apply by Sept 22 at 4 pm (Finnish time) 👉 ats.talentadore.com/apply/erikoi...

#hiring #openvacancies

Senior researcher or doctoral researcher

The Faculty of Social Sciences, INVEST Flagship Research Centre at the University of Turku invites applications for contract-based, fixed term senior researcher or doctoral researcher position from 1....

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · Aug 19

✨ The IAS Seminar Series returns for the Fall 2025 semester with a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all!

#AcademicSky #Sociology #CSS

Poster for the Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS) Programme Autumn 2025 at Linköping University. The text explains that the seminars feature international scholars, are open to all, and will be broadcast on Zoom.

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Selcan Mutgan @selcanmutgan.bsky.social · Aug 7

📢 IAS is looking for new PhD students!
There are still 3 more weeks to apply! deadline: August 31st.

Read more: liu.se/en/work-at-l...

#Sociology #AcademicSky

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Petter Holme @pholme.bsky.social · Jul 24

I'm happy to be a part of netreg.se . . A project to use register data to study the entire social network of Sweden. Check out our poster at IC2S2 today.

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The Complete Network of Sweden - Swereg.net - is a research project concerned with the extraction and analysis of the complete network of social exposure between all individuals in Sweden.

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Lars Leszczensky @leszczensky.bsky.social · Jul 4

🤔 Curious how religion & gender shape teens’ free time?

In @sociusjournal.bsky.social, David Kretschmer and I show:
Muslim girls do more housework 🏠, but are least active in sports 🏃‍♀️ and going out 🎉 than Muslim boys and non-Muslims.

Gaps shrink as they enter adulthood. 🔄

👉 doi.org/10.1177/2378...

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Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social · Jun 29

@selcanmutgan.bsky.social et al. find that ethnic school segregation in Sweden is largely a downstream consequence of “the ethnic segregation of the housing market and the geographic distribution of schools.” @europeansocreview.bsky.social

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Ethnic preferences, opportunity structures, and the school segregation process

Abstract. Previous research has shown that parents often have strong ethnicity-related school preferences, and it has been suggested that these preferences

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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · Jun 24

a new article in Political Psychology: osf.io/rhf4q

we argue that studies of belief change have an identifiability problem much like the APC problem: the composition of change (who changed or how much they changed) is observationally confounded.

with @pablobellode.bsky.social & @stephenvaisey.com:

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · Jun 24

🚨🎓 We’re looking for new PhD students!
The area of specialization is open, but successful applicants should demonstrate a clear interest in themes that align with ongoing research at @iasliu.bsky.social
📅 Deadline: 31.08.2025
💼 Fully funded positions
How to apply 👉 liu.se/en/work-at-l...

PhD student in Analytical Sociology

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Selcan Mutgan @selcanmutgan.bsky.social · Jun 9

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In our new #OA article, we studied the drivers of ethnic school segregation.
Research on segregation often points to parental preferences, but what if it's not just about what parents want, but also what options they actually have?

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf027

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Selcan Mutgan @selcanmutgan.bsky.social · Jun 10

Tracking+choice also seem to be driven by the previous school's diversity, nbhd, and other factors that affect ability. Last week, I listened to Susanne Böller's excellent presentation on within-school sorting in primary schools (in Germany). That may have consequences as well. Tough one! :)

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Selcan Mutgan @selcanmutgan.bsky.social · Jun 10

Oh, it's been a while since I read this paper. Thanks for bringing it up—I hadn't been thinking about it in this context. Indeed, ability tracking in this case would introduce an additional constraint (or perhaps it's the primary constraint that eliminates certain options?)

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Selcan Mutgan @selcanmutgan.bsky.social · Jun 10

My educated guess(!): several opportunity constraints apply to residential choices as well, but within group inequalities and population structure also play a significant role in that process. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

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Selcan Mutgan @selcanmutgan.bsky.social · Jun 10

Thanks Katja! Would be great to see replication in other contexts! If there are strict school catchment areas in place with no school choice policy but clear quality/compositional differences between schools, I guess one would have to study residential market using similar methodologies.

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Selcan Mutgan @selcanmutgan.bsky.social · Jun 10

There's some evidence that some high-income families living in lower-income nbhds move just before their child starts school. But, I would hesitate to make strong claims about their impact on school segregation. That is the current project, hopefully I will have some answers in the future 🤞

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Selcan Mutgan @selcanmutgan.bsky.social · Jun 10

It is even less clear how these residential moves eventually affect school choices and school segregation over time. In this paper journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... we used matching models: school quality (controlling for ses) doesn't change significantly after a residential move before school.

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Selcan Mutgan @selcanmutgan.bsky.social · Jun 10

Some families moved (before school) to areas with schools with a larger share of immigrant populations, some did not. The pattern was almost a normal distribution (for the difference between immigrant pop in schools in new and old neighborhood). residential market is also a different beast!

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Selcan Mutgan @selcanmutgan.bsky.social · Jun 10

Thanks Kerstin! Indeed, one often assumes that parents choose schools when selecting a residential area. There is no easy answer to this question :) During the review process, we analyzed data from two cohorts of 1st graders (before they started school), and the results were mixed.

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Selcan Mutgan @selcanmutgan.bsky.social · Jun 9

Thanks, Rob! If you end up reading it, feel free to reach out with any comments/questions. I keep thinking about and working on the same issues.

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Selcan Mutgan @selcanmutgan.bsky.social · Jun 9

Thanks, Dieuwke! Great to hear that the paper resonates with you!

Selcan Mutgan @selcanmutgan.bsky.social · Jun 9

8/8 This work is the result of a (very) long process, and I’m happy that it’s finally found such an excellent home. @europeansocreview.bsky.social

w/ Peter Hedström & @martinarvidsson.bsky.social

Please share and read more about it here: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf027

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Selcan Mutgan @selcanmutgan.bsky.social · Jun 9

7/8 Although we focus on school segregation and a specific type of opportunity constraint, we believe this paper will be useful to scholars exploring similar questions about choice and segregation more broadly.

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Selcan Mutgan @selcanmutgan.bsky.social · Jun 9

6/8 Even when families have certain ethnic preferences, these play a limited role on the resulting school segregation because families' school choices are shaped by a narrow, often homogeneous set of nearby options.

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