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Does violence back home still shape refugees’ plans after reaching safety?
#Y_Kosyakova #A_Ette @SchwSilvia show that especially short-term spikes in violence strongly affects Ukrainian refugees’ intentions to settle abroad!

Read it at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag008

📢New paper!
With French data on the grandchildren of immigrants #LGDrouhot #mathieu_kf @mathieuichou.bsky.social #L_Caron provide rare insights into long-term integration processes!
Despite substantial convergence, lasting disadvantages persist for specific groups!

doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag004

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Bringing economic & family sociology into the digital era, @yanghu.co.uk & @yueqiansoc.bsky.social analyze longitudinal data from @usociety.bsky.social to reveal how the use of online banking shape couples' money management and financial decisions

doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag002

A college on every cape: gender equality, gender segregation and local college openings Abstract. The expansion of higher educational systems in Western countries in the latter half of the 20th century is central to the reversal of the gender

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Using new data on the establishment of Norwegian colleges 1969–1992 linked to individual register data, #ARogne #TKnutsen @modals.li revisit the role of local access to higher education in shaping gendered educational outcomes!

doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf060

The long-term effects of childhood residential mobility on social capital Abstract. When a child moves home multiple times, the consequences for the adult they will later become can be substantial. This study investigates how fre

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Does moving often as a child weaken social capital later in life?
#RValente #MVacchiano find a more complex picture: childhood moves reduce place attachment, but can strengthen personal agency, supporting social capital in adulthood!

🔥 #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag001

Beyond absolute education: relative educational attainment and perceived discrimination among immigrants Abstract. The integration paradox—the positive association between absolute education and perceived discrimination among more visible immigrant groups—has

New at ESR: The integration paradox reconsidered!

@frankvantubergen.bsky.social shows that higher perceived discrimination is not driven by education alone
What matters is relative premigration education and status loss, pointing to education as a positional resource!
➡ doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf054

An experimental study on institutions and social norms of tax payment Abstract. The production of public goods, which are fundamental to well-functioning societies, requires the payment of taxes, but taxpayers have clear ince

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How do institutions and social norms affect tax payment?
@lucaspasin.bsky.social #Aaszekely @squazzoni.bsky.social find that in low-quality institutions contexts, social norms can trigger vicious cycles of evasion, even when evasion is socially disapproved
doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf057

Educational hypogamy and gender equality within couples: a review of competing hypotheses and evidence from the Generations and Gender Survey Abstract. This study examines the implications for gender equality of the increasing prevalence of heterosexual couples in which the woman is more highly e

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Does educational hypogamy promote gender equality—or does it reflect who selects into these unions?
🌟New #OpenAccess study by @nadiasteiber.bsky.social and #CSiegert constrasts optimistic, pessimistic, and selection-based narratives of hypogamy within couples!
👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

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Labour market insecurity matters beyond jobs!
@vincentrramos.bsky.social @ann-berrington.bsky.social show that unemployment, underemployment, and temporary work are all linked to higher parental co-residence, especially among advantaged young adults!

doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf058

Family ideals in Italy and Spain: towards the end of the traditional Southern European family model? Abstract. This study explores what constitutes an ideal family in Italy and Spain, questioning the prevailing view that they are homogenous and traditional

Are family ideals in Southern Europe still “traditional”?

🚩New at ESR: experimental evidence by @arnsteinaassve.bsky.social #A_Adserà @bastianelli-e.bsky.social #AMencarini reveals a far more modern picture, with Spain showing more postmodern ideals than Italy!

at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf055

Professors in the media: dynamics of cumulative advantage, reputation, and gender Abstract. Translation of science to a general public is increasingly important in modern academia. Yet, there is little knowledge on whether and why scient

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Why do some professors appear in the media far more than others?
#RH_Heiberger @BasHofstra #S_Unger find both patterns of cumulative advantage & gender inequality, with men more likely to become “short-listed”!

➡️ Read it ungated at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf037

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Fragmentation or integration? Ethnic diversity and the structural cohesion of adolescent social networks Abstract. This paper addresses a key yet untested proposition in social cohesion research: ethnic diversity fragments social networks and leads to an overa

How is ethnic diversity linked to the cohesion of social networks?

@glorenz.bsky.social & #C_Rjosk analyse >1,300 adolescent friendship networks to examine how connectivity varies with ethnic diversity, and its consolidation with gender and SES.

👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf051

Does more education lower the barriers to social mobility? An analysis of three birth cohorts during a period of educational expansion in Brazil Abstract. Research in social stratification has long posited that the direct effects of social origin on destination are diminished for individuals with hi

🌟New paper out at ESR!

Does more education mean more mobility?

Evidence from Brazil by #A_Salata #SY_Cheung shows otherwise!

🚩As university access expanded, its equalizing power faded!

➡️Read the full article at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf049

new ESR article

Public or employer based childcare —which should governments prioritise?

@AnneKronberg #A_Gerlach find that policy should first expand public childcare, ease access for less-edu parents, and only then support employer-sponsored schemes
#OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf044

Attitudes towards education spending when facing a fiscal trade-off: an analysis of stakeholders Abstract. Public investment in education is popular in advanced countries. This paper examines whether such public support prevails when individuals are as

Are citizens supportive of public spending on education when it requires paying more taxes?

#ID_Özel #S_Parrado #K_Yıldırım new paper says: No!
Yet evaluations of one’s own children’s schooling reduce this cost sensitivity!

➡️Read the full paper at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf043

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Stressful discrimination: two field experiments on social interaction Abstract. Interactional incidents are a common object of survey studies on perceived discrimination and of field experiments on discrimination in social in

🚩New experimental evidence at the European Sociological Review!

#Martin_Aranguren advances the conceptualization of discrimination, addressing it as a stressor and highlighting its environmental origin!!

Read the full article at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf047

Volume 41, Issue 5, October 2025 of @europeansocreview.bsky.social is out!

A very nice collection of interesting papers (almost all open access). Browse the index and find your next read

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How are cultural tastes stratified? Evidence from library borrowing for the entire population of Denmark Abstract. Research shows that cultural tastes are socially stratified. Yet, most of this research relies on small-sample surveys and includes only a few di

➡️New paper out with amazing data: library borrowings of the entire population of Denmark!
If cultural tastes are always stratified, the type of stratification depends on the wider inequalities within a context
#EH_Blaabæk #S_Friedman #MM_Jæger #A_Reeves

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Beyond the ‘integration paradox’: educational attainment similarly predicts gender discrimination among women and ethnic discrimination among minorities Abstract. Highly educated individuals of immigrant origins perceive more ethnic discrimination than their less educated counterparts—a now well-established

📢 New OA Paper

Does education similarly foster reports of discrimination for women and ethno-racial minorities?

@chlolv.bsky.social and co-authors try to answer this question, extending previous findings on the integration paradox with French survey data.

📃Read at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

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🚀✨The Editorial Board of ESR is growing!

We’re happy to welcome PeterFallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social

( ROCKWOOL Foundation, Denmark) as a new Associate Editor!!

We are thrilled to welcome Peter to the Editorial Board and look forward to working together!

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🚀We are extremely grateful for the high quality support we receive each year from our reviewers, and have created a Best Reviewer Award to acknowledge this even more!
It is with great pleasure that we congratulate 2025 winners: @saidhassan.bsky.social, @katyaoivanova.bsky.social &
#Nicole_Schwitter

The deadline for submissions to the special issue honoring Richard Breen has been postponed to August 31st

Targets of police attention. Discrimination in pedestrian stop-and-search of young people in Germany and France Abstract. Surprisingly little is known about pedestrian stops targeting young people on the streets of European cities. Relying on a cross-country evaluati

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Do police discriminate by gender and ethnicity in pedestrian stops of young people?

@a_schwarzenbach finds little evidence of gender or ethnic bias in German cities, but shows gendered ethnic discrimination in French cities!

Read at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf006

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Volume 41 Issue 1 | European Sociological Review | Oxford Academic Publishes original articles in all fields of sociology ranging in length from short research notes up to major reports. It provides a resource of state-of-the-art quantitative and comparative researc...

First issue of 2025 is out! New research findings -most #openaccess- at academic.oup.com/esr/issue/41/1
With contributions by @frankvantubergen.bsky.social @aliciagsierra.bsky.social @martinkolk.bsky.social @nellageurts.bsky.social @jochemvannoord.eu & many more (not found in BS, sorry if they are)

What role do media-related party cues play in shaping selective news exposure?

Analysing political communication on Twitter and panel data @sebstier.bsky.social @pascalsiegers1 @MattEagle09 investigate the nexus between radical right populist parties and the media!

doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcae051

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