💸🚨I am hiring 2 Postdocs for my ERC-funded project SOCDEBT on #debt dynamics across countries. One position: #SocialStratification + strong quantitative skills. The other: qualitative research and #EconomicSociology. waitkus.github.io/SOCDEBT/ 🚨💸
📊 Analytical Sociologists: just over one week left to submit your abstract for this year’s INAS conference at Nuffield College 📚
We look forward to your contributions! 📄✨ www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research... @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social @sociologyoxford.bsky.social
In this preprint, we (@ruettenauer.bsky.social, David Kretschmer and I) ask and address two questions: (i) How does immigrant-native #segregation vary across urban areas in Europe? (ii) Which urban area- and country-level characteristics are consistently linked to segregation? Check it out ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Looking forward to the 18th INAS conference! Next year's edition will take place at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social. Check out Ozan's post below for more details.
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Humbled to have received the biennial ‘Best Dissertation Award’ of the German Academy of Sociology at this year’s conference in Mainz! It was a pleasure to present a summary of my thesis. Grateful for all the support and guidance I received over the last years. #AkadSoz25 #sociology
Street soccer championship in The Hague, Netherlands, 2010.
A Dutch study explores a key barrier to social integration: strong in-group preferences. One hopeful exception: young people don’t have strong preferences for people of their own ethnicity when it comes to sports activities. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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Overall, our paper underscores the pervasiveness of ingroup preferences. It’s difficult to tackle segregation by just targeting meeting opportunities. Measures to support preference change are also needed (e.g., programs promoting tolerance and acceptance).
Experiment 3 shows that respondents prefer their ingroups to a similar degree, regardless of whether the composition of their entire club or the team is concerned (with whom they would spend most time). This suggests that segregation likely ‘adds up’ at each decision node in the setting selection.
These ingroup preferences are stronger among individuals who are currently part of neighborhoods or civic organizations with larger proportions of ingroup members.
Older individuals prefer settings where more people are above 50 and Dutch people without a migration background prefer settings with fewer people of Turkish or Moroccan origin. The only exception are individuals without university education, who display no ingroup preferences regarding education.
For example, respondents with a college degree were on average willing to travel 6 minutes further from their neighborhood to key amenities or from their home to a civic organization if that would mean the respective setting had 75 instead of 25% college-educated members.
Experiments 1 & 2 then showed that people consistently prefer settings with more ingroup members. These preferences are sizable and our experimental setup allows us to express them in terms of additional travel time they are willing to incur.
First, we asked respondents about the composition of their current neighborhoods and organizations and the composition of the people they regularly interact with. For all dimensions studied (age, ethnicity, education), segregation is stronger in civic organizations vis-à-vis neighborhoods.
We fielded survey modules including three conjoint experiments in two high-quality samples of the population in the Netherlands (LISS and TRIAL). What are the findings?
We identify ingroup preferences using a set of conjoint experiments, looking at how individuals choose between neighborhoods and civic organizations (e.g., sports clubs, cultural associations) with different social compositions.
Many people live their lives in social bubbles, i.e., segregated settings that offer little opportunity for intergroup contact. Such segregation may emerge from ingroup preferences or opportunity constraints. Both are difficult to distinguish by only looking at the social settings people end up in.
New Open Access paper published in PNAS Nexus! “Ingroup preferences, segregation, and intergroup contact in neighborhoods and civic organizations” with my co-authors Rob Franken, @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social, and Jochem Tolsma. doi.org/10.1093/pnas... Thread below.
Honored that my thesis was selected for the second place of this year's ECSR best thesis award. I feel very grateful for everyone who supported me during this journey! 😊
Excited and grateful to launch my ERC project #SOCIO-CLIMP 🌍🌤️
The project explores how #ClimateChange and #EnvironmentalHazards unequally affect different socio-demographic groups 🧑🤝🧑 across Europe — combining spatial climate data with demographic detail to uncover patterns of #ClimateInjustice.
@kasimirdederichs.bsky.social just presented our paper on #ResidentialSegregation 🏘️ across Europe at #ECSR in Cologne.
Very impressed by a packed Residential Segregation session at the end of the conference🧐 - cool #ECSR crowed😎
Ready to make plans for the academic year 2026/27? Why not visit us: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research...
Inviting everyone to this term's Nuffield #Sociology Seminar starting next week. Looking forward to a series of great speakers! @jwied.bsky.social @cdiehl.bsky.social Eva Jaspers @marioluissmall.bsky.social Christina Eller @mivich.bsky.social and Malte Döhne. @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social
Das Bild zeigt das Cover des Buchs
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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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
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🎉ECSR Conference 2025 is coming to Cologne!🎉
📅 3-5 September 2025
📅 Abstract deadline: Jan 31st
ℹ️ Details: ecsr2025.eu
I'm happy to be on the organizing team.
Theme: "Demography & Social Inequality" – but submissions from *all* sociology fields, methodical approaches etc. are welcome.
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Thus, additional efforts are necessary to improve intergroup relations through civic life. More in the paper...
