Wintersemester 2024/25
Analytical Sociology: Theory and Empirical Applications
Seminar in Cooperation with the Academy of Sociology,
San Servolo, 18.-21. November 2024
Monday, 18. November
Welcome
Katrin Auspurg
Opening Presentation: Moderation analysis is not as easy as you might have thought
Katrin Auspurg, Josef Brüderl, Lena Jost
Explaining Educational Differentials: Towards an Interventional Perspective
Fabian Kratz, Jannis Burkhard, Annabell Daniel
Fundamentals of human interaction: type reciprocity
Siegwart Lindenberg, Jaap A. Denissen, Eric van Damme
Social pressure and conformity in the loss domain
Roger Berger, Marcel Günther, Peer Keßler, Max Lutz-Perleberg
Theories of Middle Range: Merton, Boudon and Variants of Analytical Sociology
Hartmut Esser
Listening to an Authoritarian Neighbor: Russian Propaganda in China after 2022
Alexander Libman, Ming Ma, Genia Kostka, Daniil Romanov
Are we all Cistercians now? The cultural legacy of religious order
Nico Sonntag
Transport Choices on the Way to University - Combining Survey Responses and Google Maps Data
Sandra Walzenbach, Thomas Hinz
From Parenthood to Planet Care? The Evolution of Environmental and Climate Concerns during Family Formation
Gundula Zoch, Nicole Kapelle
It takes two to court: Partnership formation in the context of forced migration
Irena Kogan, Carlos Palomo Lario, Stefanie Heyne, Jana Kuhlemann
The Impact of Migration Background Salience on National Belonging:
Evidence from a Field Experiment during the European Football Championship
Nicole Schwitter, Nan Zhang
Tuesday, 19. November
Parallel sessions
Session A
Pay transparency, fairness, and work effort: Experimental evidence from China
Nick Zubanov, Valeria Galchenko
The Gender-Equality Paradox in Management
Margit Osterloh, Katja Rost, Malte Döhne
Employment, Gender Equality and Fertility: A Couple Approach
Stefani Scherer, Giovanni Minchio, Agnese Vitali
The gender bias in performance evaluation:
Does it matter if the presenter is human or an avatar?
Axel Franzen und Fabienne Woehner
Homophily vs. Hypergamy in Friendship Choice: An Agent-Based Model
Anastasiia Kuznetsova, Anna Sokolova
The Norm and the Preference of Reciprocity – the special role of pre- and postpaid incentives for the target persons’ participation at social scientific surveys
Rolf Becker, Sara A. Möser, David V.Glauser
The Impact of Unemployment on Social Trust: Evidence from German Panel Data
Laura Pohlan, Matthias Collischon, Alexander Patzina
The Role of Polygenic Indices in Inequality of Opportunity
Michael Grätz, Sonia Petrini
Session B
The subjective structure of social class in Europe (1990-2023)
Richard Nennstiel, Marta Veljkovic
Where do norms come from? Maybe from your neighbors
Christoph Bühler, Andreas Diekmann, Anna Lena Fehlhaber
Incipient change: The experience of gender-inclusive language in Germany
Anica Waldendorf
Equal Housing for Everyone? (Weak) Double Standards for Migrants in Fairness of Housing Evaluations
Felix Wolter
Unpacking Welfare Chauvinism: Do Claimants’ Ethnic Background and Phenotype Influence Natives’ Support for Welfare Policies?
Toni Gamundí, Javier G. Polavieja, Francisco Herreros
The effect of social media use on adolescents’ subjective well-being:
Longitudinal evidence from Switzerland
Sebastian Mader, Damiano Costantini, Annette Fahr, Marina Delgrande Jordan
Framing Social Threats: Analyzing Topics and Sentiments in 30 Years of Swiss Media Coverage of Extremism
Anina Schwarzenbach
Simplifying Sociology: An Empirical Study on Readability and Its Impact on Sociological Research
Carsten Schwemmer, Manuel Holz, Sandra Jaworeck, Sebastian Block
Wednesday, 20. November
Redifining Age: Policy Implications of Subjective Age
Bruno Frey, Andre Briviba
Pretty Hireable? The causal effects of physical attractiveness and migration background on hiring discrimination in Germany
Joshua Hellyer, Johanna Gereke, Emily Hellriegel, Reinhard Schunck, Susanne Veit, Eva Zschirnt
Coupled Inequalities? Gender, Educational Assortative Mating and Cognitive Health in Later Life
Ariane Bertogg
Improving the quality of education in developing countries:
An experimental evaluation of teacher training programs in El Salvador
Ben Jann, Carla Coccia, Martina Jakob, Aymo Brunetti, Konstantin Büchel
Does Improved Upward Social Mobility Foster Frustration and Conflict? A Large-Scale Online Experiment Testing Boudon’s Model
Andreas Diekmann, Joel Berger, Stefan Wehrli
Reexamining Inter-generational Class Mobility Estimates: The Overlooked Effect of Intra-generational Mobility
Roujman Shahbazian, Erik Bihagen
Horizontal and vertical occupational mobility and their consequences for subjective well-being
Steffen Hillmert, Dominik Becker
What works as a signal of social status? The value of attributes, assets, and behavior
Alisia Bauer, Anna Zamberlan, Katrin Auspurg, Guillermina Jasso
Thursday, 21. November
Is modern science running out of steam as two scientometric studies published in Nature suggest? Applying and adapting multiverse-style methods to uncover uncertainty in bibliometric research
Christian Leibel, Lutz Bornmann
Does Specialization Matter? Analyzing the Link Between Research Focus and Academic Career Success
Lisa Wunsch, Mark Lutter
Marginalized Pathways Toward Outgroup Trust: Beyond Universal Impacts of Globalization
Christopher Swader, Jan Mewes, Giuseppe Giordano
The Effects of Friendship on Subjective Well-Being: Analyzing Panel Data Using Asymmetric Fixed Effects Models
Theresa Dicks, Dave Balzer
Poster Session
Tuesday
The Influence of Regionality on Meaning Making – A Discourse Analysis on Peatland Rewetting in Germany using Structural Topic Modeling (STM)
Charlotte Schröder, Jens Jetzkowitz
Natural Peer Effects in Patience: Experimental Evidence from Adolescents in Vocational Schools
Sabine Neuhofer, Kerstin Grosch, Martin G. Kocher
Tossing a coin: Preferences for random allocation in triage decisions
Peer Keßler, Anatol-Fiete Näher, Ivar Krumpal
About Lying and Cheating: Deviant Behavior in the COVID-19-Pandemic
Alexander Helbing, Ivar Krumpal
Beyond Partisanship: The Effects of Salient Issue Positioning on Interpersonal Interaction
Nelly Buntfuß
Preferences, Income and Investment: A socio-economic Model of Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Change
Malte Grönemann
The Competetive Advantage of Certain Sanctioning Institutions
Vincent Oberhauser, Iain D. Couzin, Mohammad Salahshour
The short-, medium- and long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the job quality of essential and non-essential workers
Felix Rahberger, Matthias Collischon, Matthias Kelsch, Alexander Patzina
Education as a protective shield against the negative unemployment effect? – Causal analysis of a buffer effect
Lena Jost
Marketing Women’s Reproductive Health on TikTok: An Exploratory Study Using Computational Methods
Renata Topinkova, Tomas Ruiz
Can emotions be contagious? – An Empirical Test to Measure Location-based Emotional Contagion
Lea Schwan, Leonie Sattler
Informing about gender inequality: Beliefs about the gender wage gap and support for gender equality policies
Ole Brüggemann, Jule Adriaans, Sandra Bohmann, Fabian Kalleitner, Cristóbal Moya
Priority of Needs? A Summary of Results from Laboratory Experiments
Bernhard Kittel
Wednesday
Reproduce Me if You Can: Correlates of Reproducibility in Observational Social Science Research
Daniel Krähmer, Laura Schächtele
Working Hours across Cohorts: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis
Marcos Consuegra
Fear, trust, and infection: Exploring the causal dynamics of public perception trends and COVID-19 infection activity
Manuel Holz, Jochen Mayerl, Peter Kriwy, Julia Gränitz
Boosting the H-Index: The Role of Self-Citation in Gender Differences Among Professors
Lina Spagert
Evolutionary dynamics of moral beliefs
Max Otto
Learning about poverty and preferences for redistribution: results from a survey experiment in Italy
Olga Griaznova, Daniela Bellani, Nevena Kulic, Franceso Scervini
What is "The Name of the Game?" Revisiting the mechanisms behind context frames in social dilemmata
Felix Ries
Digital Inequality and Social Media: Profiling Luxembourg's Youth in the Context of the Digital Divide
Charlotte Haußmann, Gilles Scheifer, Robin Samuel
Dragons Soaring to Success – Zodiac Sign, Education, and Wages of Immigrants from Chinese Societies in Germany
Florian Zimmermann
Measuring Climate Change Scepticism
Michael Friedrich, Henning Best
Does the Mode Really Matter? Mode Effects in Factorial Survey Experiments within Establishment Surveys
Sophie Hensgen, Joe Sakshaug, Alex Patzina