Edvin Syk

Excited to share a new #OA study with @dariatisch.bsky.social and @schechtlm.bsky.social🎉We show that while most people prefer equal inheritance, wealthy individuals are more willing to support unequal transfers when they help preserve wealth across generations ➡️ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Reminder that all three books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use (and the fourth will be, too)

Photo of Amanda outside the lecture hall.

Amanda Almstedt Valldor is right this minute defending her dissertation in Lecture Hall 3 at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social.

Wishing her the best of luck!

#DissertationDefense #PhD #SOFI #Sociology

Collage of portrait photos. - Edvin Syk, Amanda Almstedt Valldor, Xiaojie Xu, Madeleine Eriksson Kirsch, Tünde Lénárd, Allison Geerts

This spring, several PhD candidates at SOFI will defend their dissertations.
- @edvinsyk.bsky.social – April 4
- Amanda Almstedt Valldor – April 25
- Xiaojie Xu – May 2
- Madeleine Eriksson Kirsch – May 28
- Tünde Lénárd – May 30
- @allisongeerts.bsky.social – June 12
Best of luck to all candidates!

Portrait photo of Roujman Shahbazian.

Congratulations @roujman.bsky.social, PhD in Sociology, who has been appointed Associate Professor at SOFI! Roujman Shahbazian began his doctoral studies here in 2013 and has been an active researcher at the institute ever since.

Glad you like it! It posts something random from the archive if there are no new papers since the last post, so that's probably why

Field of study, political attitudes, and support for the radical right in Sweden and Europe This study uses three different surveys to investigate the links between various educational fields, radical right support, and political opinions. Lo…

Field of study, political attitudes, and support for the radical right in Sweden and Europe

Very interesting paper by Amanda Valldor, sociologist at SOFI
at Stockholm Uni

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Do we understand the social processes we think we do, particularly for the vulnerable groups? Paper out now: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#computationalsocialscience #machinelearning #sociology #lifecourse

Occupational Earning Potential: A new measure of social hierarchy applied to Europe https://share.osf.io/preprint/E024F-FE9-A87 Social stratification is interested in unequal life chances and assumes the existence of a hierarchy of more or less advantageous occupations. Yet occupations a #sociology

Depending on your system you could do

ls > data_list.csv

From a terminal in the folder

If you're around Barcelona next week, come by the methods section on Saturday at the ECSR meeting and learn more about this really cool (shameless self promo) new measure of R-squared in multilevel models 👇

Submitting almost two hours before grant DL… what’s wrong with me, not taking it to the max?? All the hunger, momentum & ambition gone?

🪧 social scientists!

Who would like to visit Centre LIVES @unil.bsky.social or #UNIGE in 2025? 🇨🇭📈🏔️

Travel and accommodation grants of up to CHF 3,000 are available for research stays of at least 2 months ➡️ see 🔗 for details and apply by 15th November 2024
www.centre-lives.ch/en/appel/liv...

Here are a few lists of sociologists in no particular order. Slant towards German and quantitative sociologists. #socsky
go.bsky.app/Kr3Rj1D
go.bsky.app/EAwwzdk
go.bsky.app/EAwwzdk
go.bsky.app/Ugw67cP
go.bsky.app/9WAVGNd
go.bsky.app/4aZkRmJ
go.bsky.app/81Hby5t

Thanks for this!

i'm on the lookout for ethnographies or general sociological work studying statistics as a field and how it relates to other academic disciplines. pointers appreciated! #statistics

Has someone checked in on the "death of class" debate lately? Is the death of class dead?

github.com/zed-industri...

Social stratification:

Is the probability of intergenerational occupational inheritance - i.e., *micro-occ. to micro-occ.* - the same along parental occupational ranking/hierarchy? I assume not, or "it's complicated", but any reference in this direction would be appreciated!

🤔 How should we view class/occupational maturity?

a) Does it happen after a certain age?

b) Or is it an ongoing stabilization process; not a fixed state?

These questions are explored in a new study w. Bihagen & Kjellsson. Read 🧵 or the article 👇

scholar.google.com/citations?vi...

Bye, RStudio/Posit! - Yihui Xie | 谢益辉 Who is down? Me. After more than 10 years at RStudio/Posit, the time has come for me to explore other opportunities. A little over two weeks ago, I was told that I was laid off and my last day would &...

Yihui Xie, who authored or co-authored many widely used R packages including rmarkdown, shiny, knitr, and bookdown, has been laid off by Rstudio/Posit. (His blog post describes the separation as amicable.) He's looking for work, someone is going to be very lucky to get him yihui.org/en/2024/01/b...

Updating my syllabus again! Please suggest some good readings on 1) value change/postmaterialism and 2) the supposed decline of social capital

Really happy that my article with Jakob Molinder, “Incomes and income inequality in Stockholm, 1870–1970: Evidence from micro data” has been published in Explorations in Economic History! Using a new sample of about 38,000, we provide new evidence and perspectives on the importance of jobs..

Help needed:

Are there any studies that have examined what one unit on the ISEI scale amounts to in terms of income?

#sociology

I like the cloud

I also have five if you need any more

Haha äntligen något som enar, fantastiskt

“ALL THEORY WORTH READING ARISES FROM REFLECTION ABOUT DATA. Write this phrase on your computer. Paste it on the bathroom mirror. Mention it softly while making love. ‘All theory worth reading arises from reflection about data.’”

– Andy Abbott ❤️

#sociology #sts #philsci #philsky #theorizing