Wintersemester 2023/24
Analytical Sociology: Theory and Empirical Applications
Seminar in Cooperation with the Academy of Sociology,
San Servolo, 20.-23. November 2023
Monday, 20. November
Welcome
Josef Brüderl
Opening Presentation: Is Social Research Really Not Better Than Alchemy?
Katrin Auspurg, Josef Brüderl
Mixed empirical evidence on age-happiness trajectories: It is not due to hidden researcher decisions, but to unclear estimands and mis-specified models
Josef Brüderl, Fabian Kratz
Should Critical Realism Become the Methodological Foundation of Analytical-Empirical Sociology?
Karl-Dieter Opp
Coleman’s Diagram: Some Comments
Werner Raub
Parallel Sessions
Session A
Cognitive Differentiation and Collateral-Stratification. Effects of Stringent Ability Tracking on the (De-)Coupling of Cognitive and Social Influences on Educational Success.
Hartmut Esser
Riding the Learning Curve: An Exploration of Achievement and SES Disparities within the German Educational Tracking System
Richard Nennstiel
Social classes and educational decisions – A direct test of a rational choice theory for explaining educational differentials
Rolf Becker
Marrying young or well-equipped? On the trade off between marriage costs and the duration of engagement in Egypt
Christoph Bühler
How (Not) To Fix Online Dating - An Empirical Assessment Using Computational and Experimental Methods
Renata Topinkova, Carsten Schwemmer
Social corrections and meta-norms in online interactions
Eugenia Polizzi di Sorrentino, Biljana Meiske, Amalia Alvarez-Benjumea, Giulia Andrighetto
Session B
Becoming WUNC: How Issue Change Can Improve Social Movement Success
Marcel Kappes
Beyond Proximity: Clustering of Organic Neighborhoods Using a Two-Stage Unsupervised Learning Approach
Kerstin Ostermann
Advancing the measurement of inequality: a new scale expressing occupations’ earnings potential in Germany and Sweden
Erik Bihagen , Oliver Lipps, Daniel Oesch, Roujman Shahbazian
Complex Networks and the Development of Pre-Modern Institutions: How Cumulative Network Processes Contributed to a Lack of Innovation in the Medieval Hansa
Bernd Wurpts
Understanding Students' Study Success Beliefs: The Influence of Learning Environment and Discrimination from a Gender and Field of Study Perspective
Antje Stefani, Isabelle Fiedler
Intergroup contact vs competitive threat: Does immigration change immigration votes? Evidence from Switzerland using objective municipality-level panel data from 2010 to 2020
Sebastian Mader, Matthias Grossrieder, Sarah Kuhn
Tuesday, 21. November
Scientific Misconduct: Beliefs, attitudes, behaviors and their determinants from a large-scale survey of scientists (plus a discussion of data accessibility)
Heiko Rauhut (et al.)
Social Status, Empathy, and Religious Background. A Study on Honest Behavior With Lost Wallets in Two Cities
Andreas Diekmann, Felix Ries
Fast, cheap, and any good? An empirical assessment of the quality of online-access panels in survey research
Katrin Auspurg, Thomas Wöhler
The Cost of Widowhood: A Matching Study of Process and Event
Zachary Van Winkle, Thomas Leopold
The long-term effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on adolescent well-being
Martin Neugebauer, Alexander Patzina, Hans Dietrich, Malte Sandner
Changes in the Latent and manifest benefits of work (LaMB) during Job loss and Unemployment
Sebastian Bähr, Matthias Collischon
Double socialization, justice perceptions, and the female support of radical right parties
Bernhard Kittel, Sandra Bohlmann
Military Service and Immigrants' Integration: Evidence from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries
Nan Zhang, Melissa Lee
Liberal and radical equality of opportunity
Michael Grätz, Alicia Garcia Sierra
Technological revolution: A new world, a new society in the making
Dirk Helbing
Wednesday, 22. November
Assessing reproducibility in observational social science research
Laura Schächtele, Daniel Krähmer, Andreas Schneck
Filling two needs with one deed: How reminders can improve survey quality
Ole Brüggemann, Thomas Hinz, Julia Lang, Susanne Strauß, Nick Zubanov
Does information increase the acceptance of carbon taxes? Results from a randomized survey experiment
Henning Best, Katrin Auspurg, Christiane Bozoyan, Andreas Diekmann, Claudia Schmiedeberg
Three decades of observing environmental concern in international comparison
Axel Franzen, Sebastian Bahr
Umwelteinstellungen und Umwelthandeln. Mixed-Methods-Anwendungen auch für analytische Soziolog:innen
Sandra Walzenbach
A norm-nudge intervention to promote the adoption of reusable packaging solutions
Gian Luca Pasin, Giulia Andrighetto, Eugenia Polizzi di Sorrentino, Vito Trianni
Double standards in the legitimacy of promotion decisions? A Survey Experiment on Fairness Perceptions of Job Promotions of Natives and Migrants in Germany, the UK, and the U.S.
Martin Abraham, Andreas Damelang, Jan Gniza, Tobias Wolbring
The impact of telework and flextime on mobility behavior before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland
Fabienne Wöhner
The “Greta”-Experiment
Johannes Weyer
Thursday, 23. November
Cultural participation and cultural preferences: Decomposing genetic and environmental contributions using German twin data
Dave Balzer, Marie Schlosser
Merit, Need, Entitlement? Investigating Fairness of Housing Evaluations
Felix Wolter
Between two paradoxes. Perceptions of (un-)equal wages among women and men
Claudia Diehl, Susanne Strauß, Julia Lang
The Impact of COVID-19 on Inequality Perceptions and its Consequences for Tax Preferences
Fabian Kalleitner, Laila Schmitt, Monika Mühlböck, Bernhard Kittel
Poster Session
Monday
Can economic games predict criminal behavior
Vincent Oberhauser, Denis Ribeaud, Manuel Eisner, Heiko Rauhut
Finding Love in the Ivory Tower and Plugging the Leaky Pipeline? How Academia's Homogamous Relationships Shape Careers
Antonia Velicu, Manon Fauvelais, Julia Jerke, Heiko Rauhut, and Bruno Lemaitre
Do collective agreements and works councils narrow immigrant-native wage gaps for disadvantaged immigrant groups? Novel evidence from German linked employer-employee data
Florian Zimmermann, Eric Fong, Tobias Wolbring
Skills or Certificates? How the Institutionalization of Vocational Training Moderates the Wages of Horizontal and Vertical Mismatches in the Early Career
Kevin Ruf
Do people really fall for it? - A laboratory study on sharing passwords with strangers
Anna Lena Fehlhaber
Unraveling Normative Conflicts - Negotiation of Norms in the Subreddit r/AmItheAsshole
Felix Ries Poster award silver
Who wants to believe? An Exploratory Study of UFO Sightings in the US
Nico Sonntag, Stella Marceta
Analysis of the Usage Behavior of Students of ChatGPT: A Mixed-Methods Study
Sammie Jo Douglas Salar
Minimum Wage, Parenting Quality and Children’s Well-Being in Germany
Hazal Halistoprak, Alexander Patzina, Stefani Scherer
Social Body Weight Norms: A Population-Based Profile in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States
Liliya Leopold
What Really Matters: Ethical Decisions in Triage Situations
Peer Keßler, Ivar Krumpal
Employment instability, spousal labour supply, and material deprivation: does early childcare availability make a difference for young couples?
Raffaele Grotti, Davide Gritti, Stefani Scherer
Examining the association of land cover with life satisfaction using deep learning
Sebastian Bahr
Wednesday
Do Gender differences in Smoking and Drinking Behavior contribute to the Gender Wage Gap?
Matthias Collischon, Lisa-Marie Duletzki Poster award silver
The Role of Generalized Trust and Control in the Employment of Domestic Help – an Experimental Case Study for Germany and UK
Martin Abraham, Natascha Nisic, Miriam Trübner, Hanna Walch, Anja Wunder
Effects of uncertainty about intentions to stay and return on the human capital investments of refugees
Silvia Schwanhäuser, Yuliya Kosyakova, Herbert Brücker, Stefan Liebig, Kseniia Gatskova
This is the way – Is it the way? On the measurement invariance of different scaling choices
Martina Kroher, Sebastian Lang
Do fixed-term contracts ease hiring in uncertain times (the Covid-19 pandemic)?
Christian Hohendanner, Alexander Patzina
Different methods, but same results? A comparison of Causal Forest and Propensity Score Matching on health disparities between natives and migrants.
Sandra Jaworeck, Manuel Holz
Network Footprints: An Experiment on Brokerage and Information Diffusion
Francesco Renzini, Flaminio Squazzoni
How Do Women and Men Expect Their Co-Workers to React to Perceived Unfairness of Wages? Evidence from a Factorial Survey Experiment among Employees in German Firms
Ole Brüggemann, Julia Lang
Culture and the Mechanisms of Cooperation: The Interplay of Group Identity and Retaliatory Honor in Social and Economic Exchange
Max Otto
Fit for Fight? A Factorial Survey Experiment on Gender Discrimination in the German Armed Forces
Alisia Bauer Poster award gold