Sociological Science

My first paper is out in #SociologicalScience!
With Jörg Stolz and Ruud Luijkx, we found robust evidence of ideological #bias in #secularization research: researchers' own religiosity is correlated with their probability of finding evidence of religious decline in their publications.
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NEW: Valeria Rainero, Jörg Stolz, Ruud Luijkx, The Faith Factor. How Scholars’ Religiosity Biases Research Findings on Secularization sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

"[T]he main drivers of place-based disparities in achievement lie outside of elementary schools."

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NEW: Geoffrey T. Wodtke, Kailey White, Xiang Zhou, "Poor Neighborhoods, Bad Schools? A High-Dimensional Model of Place-Based Disparities in Academic Achievement" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

"[W]hile respondents generally attribute high levels of blame for wrongdoing, greater fragmentation decreases the blame directed at core firms and heightens audiences’ uncertainty about responsibility."

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"We review methodological issues that affect the estimates of the size of religiously unaffiliated populations and their change over time."

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NEW: Matthew Conrad, Conrad Hackett: "How Measurement Changes Can Exaggerate the Growth of Religious “Nones” " sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

NEW: Carly R. Knight, Adam Goldstein, "Ambiguous Actorhood: Twenty-First Century Firms and the Evasion of Responsibility" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

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NEW: AJ Alvero, Dustin S. Stoltz, Oscar Stuhler, Marshall A. Taylor, "Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

Looks like a fascinating new paper on cultural tastes, likes, and elite distinction

"[I]ndividuals reporting the highest educational attainment are now overrepresented among categorical tolerants, suggesting that CT may increasingly function as an elite cultural strategy consistent with contemporary forms of status display"

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NEW: Omar Lizardo, "The Forward March of Categorical Tolerance in the United States" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

NEW: Martin Eiermann, Maria Fitzpatrick, Katharine Sadowski, Christopher Wildeman, "How Do (Human) Child Welfare Workers Respond to Machine-Generated Risk Scores?" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

How Robust Are Country Rankings in Educational Mobility? Article: How Robust Are Country Rankings in Educational Mobility? | Sociological Science | Posted December 11, 2025

Mine and @pengzell.bsky.social paper
"How Robust Are Country Rankings in Educational Mobility?" was published in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social yesterday edu.nl/y7ct3
More details in the future, but for now short explanation of what we did, and the origin story of the paper.
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NEW: Ely Strömberg, Per Engzell, "How Robust Are Country Rankings in Educational Mobility?" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

NEW: Ian Lundberg, "The Causal Impact of Segregation on a Disparity: A Gap-Closing Approach." sociologicalscience.com/article-v12-...

NEW: Josef Brüderl, Ansgar Hudde, Marita Jacob, "What You Need to Know When Estimating Monthly Impact Functions: Comment on Hudde and Jacob, “There’s More in the Data!” "https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12-34-862

NEW: Ramina Sotoudeh, Ginevra Floridic, "Pathways to Independence: The Dynamics of Parental Support in the Transition to Adulthood" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

"The political ascent of Donald Trump between mid-2015 and the presidential election of November 2016 was not associated with a decline in support for the legalization of undocumented immigrants but the opposite."

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NEW: Mariano Sana, "Public Support for the Legalization of Undocumented Immigrants during the 2016 Presidential Campaign." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

Another great piece appearing in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social! Sociology

If you think that major companies mostly utilize their power across borders, think again. Here a paper on Denmark showing strong connection to government of the top 50 companies.

"We find a highly connected network core of ∼275 directors...We find a large political premium for directors in very large companies."

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NEW: Lasse Folke Henriksen, Jacob Aagard Lunding, Christoph Houman Ellersgaard, Anton Grau Larsen, "The Hardcore Brokers: Core-Periphery Structure and Political Representation in Denmark’s Corporate Elite Network" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

"Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences are associated with the emotional support and cognitive stimulation of children."

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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."

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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."

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