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Selcan Mutgan
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Assistant Professor @ Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping U.
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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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kbkarlson.bsky.social
🎓 New paper accepted today, on the intergenerational educational mobility among immigrants in Denmark!

At first glance, immigrants seem more mobile than natives – but this is largely a data illusion. Poor register data quality drives the pattern.

w/ @rlandersoe.bsky.social

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November 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
selcanmutgan.bsky.social
If you are at the ODISSEI conference, check out our poster (#47) from the netreg.se project. @eliscl.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 10:53 AM
selcanmutgan.bsky.social
Grateful to have received 4.7M funding from the Swedish Research Council (VR) for our project on understanding preschool attendance and its effects on educational inequalities in Sweden. Excited to work with an excellent team of Eriks: @erikrosenqvist.bsky.social and Erik Liss.
November 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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mhbodell.bsky.social
So excited to announce that I have been awarded a SEK2.7M Project Grant from @riksjubileumsfond.bsky.social to study the dynamics of meaning divergence! 🎉
October 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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iasliu.bsky.social
🚀 Introducing our new Postdoctoral Fellow!
A warm welcome to Sabrina Mai who joins SweCSS as our new Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Social Science:
5 minutes with Sabrina Mai
Meet Sabrina Mai, an expert in fields including Disasters and Risk, and Social Networks. Her research focuses on organisational behavior in the context of risk and disasters. In her free time she grea...
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October 30, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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New paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social with @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social and Peter Hedström! We identify a social-influence mechanism that widens individuals' behavioral repertoires and breaks the link between individuals' initial preferences and the collective outcomes they bring about.
Wide Social Influence and the Emergence of the Unexpected: An Empirical Test Using Spotify Data
Article: Wide Social Influence and the Emergence of the Unexpected: An Empirical Test Using Spotify Data | Sociological Science | Posted October 23, 2025
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October 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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isa-rc28.bsky.social
NYU Abu Dhabi is recruiting a 3-year Postdoctoral Associate for a Computational Social Science project on the coevolution of ingroup bias and group boundaries.
For more details and to apply, please visit: apply.interfolio.com/173544.
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October 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Economics Seminars" by Pascaline Dupas, Amy Handlan, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Seré, Haoyu Sheng, Justin Wolfers, and Seminar Dynamics Collective. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Gender Differences in Economics Seminars
(Forthcoming Article) - We assess whether men and women are treated differently when presenting their economics research. We collected data across thousands of seminars, job market talks and conferenc...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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erc-segue.bsky.social
In this article, @javiersanmillan.bsky.social @clementinecttn.bsky.social and Maarten van Ham compare the spatiotemporal patterns of income vs. wealth segregation, affluence and poverty in the Netherlands. Using geo-coded register microdata, they show that...

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From Flux to Capital: Distinguishing Patterns of Income and Wealth Segregation in the Netherlands
Who are “the rich” and how should their residential patterns be studied? In society, the rich are defined not only by their high income but also—and perhaps more importantly—by their high wealth. How...
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October 17, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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crestsociology.bsky.social
✨CREST Sociology is hiring ✨

Assistant or Associate Professor in Computational Sociology

Details here: www.shorturl.at/E57le
October 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Gambetta & Origgi on the LL Game, in which agents prefer to deliver and receive (!) low quality.

This paper is absolutely savage but also feels uncomfortably relevant to parts of academia outside of Italy 👀

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Abstract We investigate a phenomenon which we have experienced as common when dealing with an assortment of Italian public and private institutions: people promise to exchange high-quality goods and services, but then something goes wrong and the quality delivered is lower than had been promised. While this is perceived as ‘cheating’ by outsiders, insiders seem not only to adapt to, but to rely on this outcome. They do not resent low-quality exchanges; in fact, they seem to resent high-quality ones, and are inclined to put pressure on or avoid dealing with agents who deliver high quality. The equilibrium among low-quality producers relies on an unusual preference ranking which differs from that associated with the Prisoners’ Dilemma and similar games, whereby self-interested rational agents prefer to dish out low quality in exchange for high quality. While equally ‘lazy’, agents in our low-quality worlds are oddly ‘pro-social’: for the advantage of maximizing their raw self-interest, they prefer to receive low-quality goods and services, provided that they too can in exchange deliver low quality without embarrassment. They develop a set of oblique social norms to sustain their preferred equilibrium when threatened by the intrusion of high quality. We argue that high-quality collective outcomes are endangered not only by self-interested individual defectors, but by ‘cartels’ of mutually satisfied mediocrities.
October 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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benjarvis.bsky.social
New article w/ @jenjirayahirun.bsky.social: Exogamous 2nd gen immigrants in Sweden live further from parents than do endogamous immigrants, but closer than natives. But in terms of residential choices, exogamous immigrants are least likely to move near parents.
Exogamy, Proximity to Parents, and the Residential Choices of 1.5‐ and Second‐Generation Immigrants in Sweden
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October 10, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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sociologicalsci.bsky.social
NEW: Mood, "Equalization through Deterioration: The Shrinking Gender Gap in Swedish School Grades" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
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September 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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kbkarlson.bsky.social
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

More 👇

jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology
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September 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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tkeskinturk.bsky.social
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.
September 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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satuhelske.bsky.social
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
August 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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iasliu.bsky.social
✨ 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.
August 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
selcanmutgan.bsky.social
📢 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
August 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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pholme.bsky.social
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.
netreg.se
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.
netreg.se
July 24, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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leszczensky.bsky.social
🤔 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...
July 4, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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@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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June 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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tkeskinturk.bsky.social
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:
June 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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iasliu.bsky.social
🚨🎓 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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June 24, 2025 at 9:08 AM
selcanmutgan.bsky.social
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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
June 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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womensforuminas.bsky.social
The Women’s Forum for analytical Sociology will begin at 2:30 pm at the Interchurch center at Columbia University. Looking forward!
June 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM