Sociological Science
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Sociological Science is a general interest, open access sociology journal committed to the highest standards of rigor and relevance. We aim to be the flagship journal for social scientists committed to advancing a general understanding of social processes.
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...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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...
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"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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This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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...
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October 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
"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."
This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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...
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October 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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...
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"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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This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
NEW: Jaemin Lee, David Lazer, Christoph Riedl, "Complex Contagion in Social Networks: Causal Evidence from a Country-Scale Field Experiment" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
October 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
"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."
This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
NEW: Jaemin Lee, David Lazer, Christoph Riedl, "Complex Contagion in Social Networks: Causal Evidence from a Country-Scale Field Experiment" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
October 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
NEW: Jaemin Lee, David Lazer, Christoph Riedl, "Complex Contagion in Social Networks: Causal Evidence from a Country-Scale Field Experiment" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
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This important paper shows a precipitous drop in girls' achievement in recent years, closing a third of the gap with boys.
Covid doesn't seem to be the smoking gun, but tiktok may be
Covid doesn't seem to be the smoking gun, but tiktok may be
October 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
This important paper shows a precipitous drop in girls' achievement in recent years, closing a third of the gap with boys.
Covid doesn't seem to be the smoking gun, but tiktok may be
Covid doesn't seem to be the smoking gun, but tiktok may be
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"This article documents a surprising reversal in the long-standing gender gap in academic achievement."
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This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
NEW: Mood, "Equalization through Deterioration: The Shrinking Gender Gap in Swedish School Grades" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
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October 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
"This article documents a surprising reversal in the long-standing gender gap in academic achievement."
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This month in our journal, @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
NEW: Mood, "Equalization through Deterioration: The Shrinking Gender Gap in Swedish School Grades" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
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@sociologicalsci.bsky.social is an awesome journal. Nothing less. #sociology
September 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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NEW: Elias Nosrati, "The Political Economy of Optimal Taxation" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
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September 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
NEW: Elias Nosrati, "The Political Economy of Optimal Taxation" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
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"Interpretations of Topbot as measuring perceived income decile or subjective social status ... are untenable, and empirical claims made on these bases should be revisited."
Important intervention relevant to many ppl studying the origins of political party support.
Important intervention relevant to many ppl studying the origins of political party support.
NEW: Anderson, "An Unreliable Ladder: Top–Bottom Self-Placement, Subjective Social Status, and Political Preferences sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
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September 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
"Interpretations of Topbot as measuring perceived income decile or subjective social status ... are untenable, and empirical claims made on these bases should be revisited."
Important intervention relevant to many ppl studying the origins of political party support.
Important intervention relevant to many ppl studying the origins of political party support.
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"Consonant with findings of low reliability and high, non-random non-response when a “Don’t know” option is available, the interviews highlight that Topbot is worded ambiguously, leading to varied interpretations and often puzzlement."
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This week in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
NEW: Anderson, "An Unreliable Ladder: Top–Bottom Self-Placement, Subjective Social Status, and Political Preferences sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
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September 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"Consonant with findings of low reliability and high, non-random non-response when a “Don’t know” option is available, the interviews highlight that Topbot is worded ambiguously, leading to varied interpretations and often puzzlement."
This week in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
This week in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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"We find a...positive effect of using streaming platforms on the diversity of cultural consumption as well as on cosmopolitanism, on three domains, music, movies, and TV shows."
This week in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
This week in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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September 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
"We find a...positive effect of using streaming platforms on the diversity of cultural consumption as well as on cosmopolitanism, on three domains, music, movies, and TV shows."
This week in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
This week in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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How do respondents interpret the classic ISSP ladder question that is usually deemed to measure subjective social status?
In a whole heap of different ways, according to Lewis Anderson @dspi-oxford.bsky.social
In a whole heap of different ways, according to Lewis Anderson @dspi-oxford.bsky.social
NEW: Anderson, "An Unreliable Ladder: Top–Bottom Self-Placement, Subjective Social Status, and Political Preferences sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
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September 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
How do respondents interpret the classic ISSP ladder question that is usually deemed to measure subjective social status?
In a whole heap of different ways, according to Lewis Anderson @dspi-oxford.bsky.social
In a whole heap of different ways, according to Lewis Anderson @dspi-oxford.bsky.social
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Quite amazed by the articles that @sociologicalsci.bsky.social puts out on a regular basis -- this one here by Lewis Anderson: imaginative, bold, well-informed, an incredible eye for detail, this will really be moving the field forward
doi.org/10.15195/v12...
doi.org/10.15195/v12...
September 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Quite amazed by the articles that @sociologicalsci.bsky.social puts out on a regular basis -- this one here by Lewis Anderson: imaginative, bold, well-informed, an incredible eye for detail, this will really be moving the field forward
doi.org/10.15195/v12...
doi.org/10.15195/v12...
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A thoughtful and well-argued critique of the common measure of subjective social status, increasingly used in survey-based studies of populism ⬇️
NEW: Anderson, "An Unreliable Ladder: Top–Bottom Self-Placement, Subjective Social Status, and Political Preferences sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
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September 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
A thoughtful and well-argued critique of the common measure of subjective social status, increasingly used in survey-based studies of populism ⬇️
NEW: Anderson, "An Unreliable Ladder: Top–Bottom Self-Placement, Subjective Social Status, and Political Preferences sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
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September 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
NEW: Anderson, "An Unreliable Ladder: Top–Bottom Self-Placement, Subjective Social Status, and Political Preferences sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
Reposting with correct link! sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
September 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Reposting with correct link! sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
NEW: Samuel Coavoux, Abel Aussant, "Streaming Platforms, Filter Bubbles, and Cultural Inequalities. How Online Services Increase Consumption Diversity" sociologicalscience.com/streaming-pl...
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September 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
NEW: Samuel Coavoux, Abel Aussant, "Streaming Platforms, Filter Bubbles, and Cultural Inequalities. How Online Services Increase Consumption Diversity" sociologicalscience.com/streaming-pl...
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Highly original new paper on union organising. More good work from @hanashepherd.bsky.social and co. #industrialrelations
NEW: Hana Shepherd, Rebecca Roskill, Suresh Naidu, Adam Reich, "Workplace Networks and the Dynamics of Worker Organizing" doi.org/10.15195/v12.a23
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August 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Highly original new paper on union organising. More good work from @hanashepherd.bsky.social and co. #industrialrelations
NEW: Hana Shepherd, Rebecca Roskill, Suresh Naidu, Adam Reich, "Workplace Networks and the Dynamics of Worker Organizing" doi.org/10.15195/v12.a23
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August 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
NEW: Hana Shepherd, Rebecca Roskill, Suresh Naidu, Adam Reich, "Workplace Networks and the Dynamics of Worker Organizing" doi.org/10.15195/v12.a23
NEW: Yinxian Zhang, Di Zhou , "One Sentiment, Multiple Interpretations: Contrasting Official and Popular Anti-Americanism in China" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
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August 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
NEW: Yinxian Zhang, Di Zhou , "One Sentiment, Multiple Interpretations: Contrasting Official and Popular Anti-Americanism in China" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
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I am a huge fan of "what is this kind of argument and how can you do it right?" papers. I collect them and I've tried to write a couple, and think they can be tremendously useful especially for teaching. A new, useful addition to this set just arrived from @sociologicalsci.bsky.social:
How to Make a Functionalist Argument
Article: How to Make a Functionalist Argument | Sociological Science | Posted August 14, 2025
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August 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I am a huge fan of "what is this kind of argument and how can you do it right?" papers. I collect them and I've tried to write a couple, and think they can be tremendously useful especially for teaching. A new, useful addition to this set just arrived from @sociologicalsci.bsky.social:
NEW:Fabian Kratz, "Rising Educational Divides in Attitudes: How Polarization across Cohorts Can Mask Age-Related Polarization." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
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August 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
NEW:Fabian Kratz, "Rising Educational Divides in Attitudes: How Polarization across Cohorts Can Mask Age-Related Polarization." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
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Great work by some great thinkers. Excited to see it in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social of all places.
NEW Andrés Castro Araújo, Nicolás Restrepo Ochoa, "How to Make a Functionalist Argument." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
August 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Great work by some great thinkers. Excited to see it in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social of all places.