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Acta Sociologica
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  • Letter from the incoming editors

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      Authors: Mikael Carleheden, Jonas Toubøl
      Pages: 3 - 4
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 3-4, February 2023.

      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2023-01-20T11:12:12Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221146750
      Issue No: Vol. 66, No. 1 (2023)
       
  • Who deserves to be sanctioned' A vignette experiment of ethnic
           discrimination among street-level bureaucrats

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      Authors: Silje Fekjær, Einar Øverbye, Lars Inge Terum
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      To study discrimination in labour/housing markets, and among street-level bureaucrats in the welfare state, present both theoretical and methodological challenges. In the sociological study of discrimination, experiments have seldom been used to study how street-level bureaucrats make their decisions. The context of decision-making is different in the state and in markets, but experimental methods can provide new knowledge of how perceptions of deservingness may potentially lead to discrimination in the welfare state. Using a vignette experiment on Norwegian street-level bureaucrats (N = 645), we investigate if their perceptions of recipients’ ethnic background, and perceived ‘unfavourable’ behaviour, affect the propensity to impose a time-limited termination of unemployment benefits due to non-compliance with activity requirements. The experiment finds that the propensity to terminate the unemployment benefit was initially less for the recipient with an ethnic minority name, compared to the recipient with an ethnic majority name. However, when information about ‘unfavourable’ behaviour was added to the vignette, the propensity to sanction the ethnic minority recipient strongly increased. The results suggest that perceived deservingness-traits are crucial for understanding possible discrimination when street-level bureaucrats face ethnic minorities in the welfare state. Ethnic markers interact with markers of ‘deservingness’. Theoretical and methodological implications when studying potential discrimination among street-level bureaucrats are discussed.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2023-02-15T04:40:08Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993231156486
       
  • Searching for lasting biculturalism: An Imitation Game inquiry

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      Authors: Otto Erik Alexander Segersven
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      This article uses a novel method—the Imitation Game—to search for lasting ethnic biculturalism. I address the case of Finland-Swedes and the Finnish-speaking majority in Finland. While it is known that most Finland-Swedes are fluent in two languages, Swedish and Finnish, the question remains whether they are fluent in two respective cultures. The Imitation Game investigates biculturalism and alternative acculturation paths as a function of cultural competences. As part of a mixed-methods analysis, I introduce the Group Relations Graph as a comparative framework to pinpoint acculturation paths based on whether members of the minority can exhibit competence in minority and majority culture. The findings display acculturation as a dynamic process of multiple concurrent acculturation paths: the studied groups are assimilated with respect to values and experiences, and separated in terms of knowledge and linguistic style. Finland-Swedes are a powerful minority group with both the resources and the intention to maintain a unique Finland-Swedish culture, yet in terms of cultural competences they appear indistinguishable from the Finnish-speaking majority—except for within the context of an ethnic enclave institution. Ultimately, the article posits a pessimistic assessment for the possibility of lasting biculturalism and, by extension, a multicultural society.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2023-02-14T07:18:54Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993231156488
       
  • It's not all about the peers: Reintroducing school context to the school
           segregation literature

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      Authors: Solveig T Borgen
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      This paper investigates the effect of attending immigrant-dense schools on student outcomes, which consists of the joint effect of immigrant peers and school context. The sorting of students into schools is not random, and a large immigrant peer effect literature uses school fixed effects to eliminate selection bias. However, keeping schools fixed also eliminates the effect of the school context and is accordingly unsuited to estimate the total effect of attending immigrant-dense schools. By using both a value-added approach and by drawing on application data to manage selection bias, this paper demonstrates that attending immigrant-dense upper secondary schools in Norway increases student dropout, even though a school fixed effects model indicates no detectable immigrant peer effects. These findings suggest that immigrant-dense schools affect students in other ways than through mere peer exposure, and that research on the consequences of school segregation should take into account the effect of both school context and peers.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2023-02-03T08:53:30Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993231154128
       
  • Big data, big problems: Why scientists should refrain from using Google
           Trends

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      Authors: Alexandra Franzén
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      Google Trends has for over a decade been used by researchers in medicine and the social sciences who want to use information about internet searches to gain new data and insights concerning medical and social issues. A similar tool by the same company, Google Flu Trends, was abolished by Google in 2015 due to serious problems with accuracy; raising larger questions about the quality of the data provided, not only by Google, but by all platforms collecting big data. In this article, I use an unplanned experiment to test the reliability and replicability of Google Trends. The results strongly indicate that scientists in all fields should refrain from using the tool Google Trends when conducting research.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2023-01-30T09:21:37Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221151118
       
  • A downside to high aspirations: Immigrants’ (non-)success in
           tertiary education

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      Authors: Daniel Klein, Martin Neugebauer
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      While many studies document the ambitious educational choices of immigrants across Europe, researchers have only recently begun to investigate the consequences of these ambitious choices. Our article extends this emerging literature by focusing on immigrants’ success throughout tertiary education in Germany. We argue that after the transition into tertiary education, immigrants lose their advantages over native students regarding higher aspirations while retaining or even increasing their disadvantages regarding academic achievements, which ultimately results in a higher risk of dropping out. Analyses based on data from the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) confirm our hypotheses. Net of socioeconomic background and prior academic achievements, immigrants enter tertiary education with similar aspirations as their native peers. At the same time, immigrants, especially those of Turkish origins, have lower grades and competency levels. Furthermore, immigrants continue to receive lower grades during tertiary education and have a considerably higher risk of dropping out. We conclude that immigrants’ high aspirations enable them to enroll in tertiary education at comparably low levels of academic achievement but ultimately increase the risk of academic failure. We discuss possible policy measures to improve the situation of immigrants.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2023-01-18T07:07:48Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221148897
       
  • Mindset as a potential link between family background and high-school
           achievement

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      Authors: Elin Svensen
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      The link between students’ family background and their school achievement is well documented. The recent literature has also investigated how social and emotional skills and mindsets relate to educational outcomes. Here I examine how mindset—that is, whether students believe more in that intellectual abilities are fixed or capable of growth—is related to family background and school achievement in Norway. I find that students with higher-educated parents have lower levels of a fixed mindset on entering high school. I also estimate heterogeneity in this association using multilevel modeling. The predicted level of students’ fixed mindset is low for higher-performing middle-school students, irrespective of parents’ education. Furthermore, low middle-school performance predicts higher levels of a fixed mindset, particularly for students with lower-educated parents. A higher level of fixed mindset on entering high school is related to lower achievement after the first year. The results suggest that students’ belief in “natural talent” is a mechanism worthy of further investigation as it is more malleable than the mechanisms traditionally used to explain differences in academic performance according to family background.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2023-01-02T10:34:55Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221145427
       
  • Researching high-skilled migrants between social stratification and
           methodological nationalism

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      Authors: Gregor Schäfer
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      Methodological nationalism as a critique of container-based and nation-state-focused theory and empirical research is currently strongly anchored within migration studies, where it was initially developed. While this has led to extensive literature and critical engagement with methodological nationalism, and ways to circumvent the national trap in many (sub-)disciplines, it has not much penetrated theories of social stratification. This conceptual paper will address this gap by discussing the social positioning of high-skilled migrants in contemporary stratified societies. This exemplary discussion will bring together a critical perspective of methodological nationalism on class and milieu theory. It will also confront the critique of methodological nationalism with the question of the origin of social power and dominance, which are the foundation of stratification theories. This article will specifically draw on Pierre Bourdieu's concept of social space and its derivative. Emphasis will also be given to Michael Vester's development of social milieu to highlight blind spots according to the critique of methodological nationalism. This paper shows that these theories have not grasped high-skilled migration thoroughly. It also outlines that migrant theories and their critique of methodological nationalism inadequately address the source of symbolic hierarchy and the formation of social stratification. Thus, both theoretical strands would benefit from a deeper conversation with each other.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2023-01-02T10:33:34Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221145405
       
  • Effective subunits in ineffective systems: Simultaneous tight and loose
           coupling in higher education data use

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      Authors: Jose Eos Trinidad, Assumpta Nina San Andres, Peter Louise Garnace, Stanley Guevarra
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      Higher education institutions are pressured to use data for university rankings, accreditation, decision making, and technical support of students and faculty. However, these organizations also experience barriers and resistance to such data-driven aspirations. Rather than simply focusing on the whole organization, this research attends to variations in organizational subunits and asks what processes help and hinder data use. It pays attention to the puzzle of how data use variation can lead to effective subunits just as data fragmentation contributes to ineffective systems. Although universities may create centralized coordinating bodies, the structural and cultural bases of loosely coupled university subunits may upset these efforts. Using the case of a university attempting to centralize its data systems, we employ in-depth interviews of senior and mid-level administrators to understand why technical changes happen within specific subunits even as only ceremonial changes happen for the larger organization. This suggests new insights for interrogating how loose and tight coupling can co-exist in the same organization.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2023-01-02T10:32:15Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221145369
       
  • A need to be recognised: On the importance of shared semantics for young
           adults while not in education or employment

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      Authors: Vesa Välimäki, Sanna Aaltonen, Päivi Honkatukia
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      Young adults who are not in education or work are often depicted as deviating from the norm of gainful employment that is still widely shared across the Nordic countries. While it has been argued that young adults feel that they are being blamed for their NEET situation, this article seeks to identify the variety of interpretations they have of their situation and what kind of explanations can be proposed for the differences. Theoretically, perspectives from Axel Honneth's recognition theory are combined with Thomas Scheff's sociological work on shame to discuss the variations in the sentiments of young adults. Based on this framework, the article illuminates how young adults use the shared semantics available within their immediate circles to enable them to feel worthy of recognition despite their depicted deviation from the norm of gainful employment. Additionally, the article contributes to sociological debates on Honneth's recognition theory – especially its ambiguous concept of shared semantics – by making sense of the role of communities and institutions as providers of shared semantics. The findings are based on an abductive analysis of 35 in-depth interviews with young Finnish adults aged 18–29 who have been or are currently outside of education or employment.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-12-19T02:52:03Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221145350
       
  • Divorce among exogamous couples: The role of language convergence

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      Authors: Jan Saarela, Martin Kolk, Caroline Uggla
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      This is the first study to use longitudinal population register data to illustrate that marital stability may relate to the adoption of the spouse's language. The paper draws on theories of boundary shifting and boundary crossing to examine two main ancestral groups in Finland, Finnish speakers and Swedish speakers, between whom intermarriage is common. Administrative changes in how the question about language/ethnicity was registered between the censuses of 1975 and 1980 make it possible to distinguish between persons who are concordant or discordant on the main language used and ethnic affiliation. Using data on the entire married population, and adjusting for several individuals and couple characteristics, we estimate the couples’ divorce risk as a function of language convergence with Cox regressions. Discordance in terms of adopting the Finnish language used by the partner is associated with a higher divorce risk, as compared with couples who are exogamous in terms of both language use and ethnic affiliation. Adopting the Swedish language, on the other hand, is associated with a slightly reduced divorce risk. Thus, these data provide some evidence that marital stability may relate to language convergence.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-12-09T07:54:50Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221129814
       
  • Are women from man-older unions economically disadvantaged following
           separation' Sweden 1997–2015

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      Authors: Caroline Uggla, Eleonora Mussino, Siddartha Aradhya
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      Separation often leads to worse economic consequences for women than for men. However, little is known about how economic consequences of separation play out for different groups of women. Women who are younger than their male partner are generally assumed to have lesser agency, but evidence mostly comes from contexts with low gender equality. Here, we examine women's benefit recipiency as a function of the partner age gap of their dissolved union. Using register data from Sweden, we examine whether women from man-older unions suffer greater economic disadvantage after separation, and whether patterns differ for ancestral Swedes and women with migrant background. Results from logistic regression models suggest that, post-separation, the uptake of social and housing benefits increases for nearly all groups of women. However, these data do not show any consistent disadvantages of women from man-older unions. Among ancestral Swedes, patterns differed by benefit type, and among women of African/Middle Eastern origin, benefit recipiency increases were inversely U-shaped to the age gap. Social norms do not appear to explain economic costs of separation, but may explain why the risk of separation itself differed between ancestral Swedish women and women with migrant background.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-12-05T05:27:00Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221136050
       
  • Sweden's ‘complicated’ relationship with genocide recognition

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      Authors: Daniel Fittante
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      Scholars have unpacked the rhetorically nuanced ways political actors alter state narratives in resisting pressure to comply with international norms. But many of these rhetorical strategies apply in other contexts, where there exists sufficient norm ambiguity, too. For example, in response to Turkey's long-standing denialism, many governments have been asked to recognise the Armenian Genocide (or 1915 Genocide of Christians in the Ottoman Empire). But, because there exists no clear international norm about recognising genocides perpetuated by other states, even some of the most unlikely government officials adapt their rhetoric to resist recognition and pursue ulterior foreign policy objectives. Building on Dixon's rhetorical adaptation framework, this article argues that, between 1999 and 2021, Swedish political actors often adapted their rhetoric in ways similar to Turkish officials as a result of the normative ambiguity of states recognising the Armenian Genocide. In explaining why Sweden consistently resisted Genocide recognition efforts, this analysis focuses on its larger foreign policy commitments of spreading democracy in Turkey and managing the Syrian refugee crisis.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-12-01T07:34:18Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221141587
       
  • Migration and partisan identification as British Unionists or Irish
           Nationalists in Northern Ireland

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      Authors: Thoroddur Bjarnason, Ian Shuttleworth, Clifford Stevenson, Eerika Finell
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      The notion that mobility weakens collective norms and increases tolerance has a long pedigree in sociology. In this article, we examine the association of migration with partisan identification as British Unionists or Irish Nationalists in Northern Ireland, a region where the overlap of opposing religious and national identities is reflected in the residential segregation of its population. In representative samples of the population, we find that Irish Nationalist identification among Catholics and British Unionist identification among Protestants was lower among people not born in Northern Ireland and return migrants from beyond the British Isles. Having lived in the Republic was associated with more Nationalist identification among Catholics but less Unionist identification among Protestants and others. Moreover, having lapsed from the family religion is associated with decreased partisan identification. While international migration has in many countries led to increased tensions, conflict and the ascendance of exclusionary national populist movements, our results thus suggest that mobility beyond the British Isles has contributed to less nation–state conflict in Northern Ireland.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-11-25T08:04:42Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221136979
       
  • Biopolitical and juridical creations of the quarantine hotel: A discourse
           analysis of the Norwegian case

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      Authors: Lars Erik Løvaas Gjerde
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      The quarantine hotel is one of several political instruments used to control the spread of Covid-19 in diverse countries, from Norway to China. I apply discourse analysis to map the discursive struggle to define the quarantine hotel in Norway. The government and other key political actors channel a biopolitical discourse constituting the quarantine hotel as necessary to protect the Norwegian population from imported contagion. This discourse's meaning is contested by a juridical counter-discourse articulated by lawyers and travellers, which constitutes the quarantine hotel as imprisonment/internment and a breach of rights. Travellers tend to combine this with a biopolitical counter-discourse, dismissing the quarantine hotel's biopolitical properties, strengthening the juridical critique. These discourses are important resources in a transnational, ongoing struggle, where the prize is the legitimacy of the politics of Covid-19, and the very ordering of the post-pandemic world.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-11-24T06:12:34Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221136038
       
  • Book Reviews: Modern Folk Devils: Contemporary Constructions of Evil by
           Martin Demant Frederikson and Ida Harboe Knudsen

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      Authors: Nachman Ben-Yehuda
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-11-24T06:11:34Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221136024
       
  • Book Review: War, Survival Units and Citizenship: A Neo-Eliasian
           Process-Relational Perspective by Lars Bo Kaspersen

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      Authors: Andrew Linklater
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-11-17T05:45:30Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221136034
       
  • Book Review: The Racialized Social System by Ali Meghji

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      Authors: Mary Romero
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-11-17T05:44:58Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221136033
       
  • Book Review: The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global
           Transformation of Rebellion by Mark R. Beissinger

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      Authors: Mami Fouad
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-11-17T05:44:28Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221136032
       
  • Book Review: Revolutionary Social Democracy: Working-Class Politics Across
           the Russian Empire (1882–1917) by Eric Blanc

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      Authors: Jóhann Páll Árnason
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-11-17T05:43:50Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221136030
       
  • Book Review: Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare
           State by Elisabeth Anderson

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      Authors: Till Hilmar
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-11-17T05:43:18Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221136028
       
  • Book Review: The New Patriarchs of Digital Capitalism: Celebrity Tech
           Founders and Networks of Power by Ben Little and Allison Winch

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      Authors: Henri Koskinen
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-11-17T05:42:48Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221136027
       
  • Book Review: Sandinista Narratives: Religion, Sandinismo, and Emotions in
           the Making of the Nicaraguan Insurrection and Revolution by Jean-Pierre
           Reed

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      Authors: George Lawson
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-11-17T05:42:11Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221136026
       
  • Book Review: Making a Scene: Urban Landscapes, Gentrification, and Social
           Movements in Sweden by Kimberly A. Creasap

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      Authors: Miguel A. Martínez
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-11-17T05:41:39Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221136025
       
  • The long reach of class origin on financial investments and net worth

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      Authors: Philipp M Lersch, Olaf Groh-Samberg
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      In this study, we argue that parents’ class position may influence the type and timing of their offspring's investments in financial assets. These investments may facilitate net worth accumulation beyond direct transfers, contributing to the intergenerational reproduction of social positions. We test these expectations using retrospective life history and prospective panel data for 14 countries from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. We apply discrete-time event history analyses to examine the first financial investments’ timing over the life course and conduct a mediation analysis of net worth. We find that individuals from advantaged parental classes are more likely to invest in stocks and mutual funds. When considering horizontal differentiation, managerial classes with relatively more economic capital than cultural capital are more likely to invest in financial assets. However, we do not find robust evidence for distinct timings of financial investments by parental class. Advantaged parental class is positively associated with net worth in later life. However, this association cannot be explained by the specific investments of individuals from advantaged parental classes.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-10-31T07:07:40Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221129792
       
  • Young people’s job-search strategies in the German apprenticeship
           market: Who relies on referrals by strong ties and why'

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      Authors: Matthias Flohr, Paula Protsch
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      Social capital is often regarded as an important resource when searching for a job. However, unlike in the general labor market, in youth labor markets, leveraging network contacts does not necessarily enhance young people’s chances compared to formal job-search methods. Who then uses referrals by strong ties to support their school-to-work transitions' Drawing on the German National Educational Panel Study, we focus on noncollege-bound students searching for apprenticeship places. We investigate whether parental referrals are more likely to be used as a compensation strategy for limited opportunities due to regional conditions and lower levels of schooling and whether this search strategy entails a trade-off in terms of higher dropout risks. Our results indicate that in regions with poor regional labor market conditions, young people use parental referrals more often and also increasingly find apprenticeship places via referrals. Moreover, using referrals does not result in higher dropout risks. Lower-educated school leavers are also more likely to use referrals but they do not benefit from this search channel more than higher-educated youth. We conclude that social contacts can at least partly compensate for poor opportunities due to regional market conditions.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-08-08T06:44:17Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221115544
       
  • Is there a welfare trap' Duration dependence in social assistance
           recipiency among young Finns

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      Authors: Ilari Ilmakunnas
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      The probability of social assistance exit decreasing over time is called negative duration dependence. This is one of the most debated aspects of social assistance receipt. This study analyses duration dependence among young adults in Finland and aims to show how social assistance receipt per se affects the likelihood of exiting social assistance. It also examines whether parental recipiency is associated with duration dependence. While the intergenerational transmission of social assistance has received extensive research attention, there is a scarcity of evidence on whether parental recipiency is associated with social assistance exits and duration effects. This study uses full monthly history of social assistance receipt between the ages of 19 and 29 years. The analyses are based on Finnish register data and conducted using discrete-time event-history models (pooled logistic, random-effect logistic and fixed-effect logistic). The findings indicate that controlling for all time-invariant characteristics significantly reduces but does not completely remove duration dependence among young adults. They also show that those whose parents received social assistance are less likely to exit social assistance. In models controlling for all time-invariant characteristics, parental social assistance receipt is also linked with stronger duration dependence. The implications of these findings are discussed.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-07-29T07:26:22Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221102510
       
  • Labour leaders as identity entrepreneurs: Identity formation in the
           Swedish trade union movement in the 1920s

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      Authors: Jenny Jansson
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      This article explores how cohesive labour movements are created. Although overlooked by previous research, strategic labour leaders that act as identity entrepreneurs can play a decisive role in class formation processes. Using the Swedish trade union movement during the crucial period from 1910 through the 1930s as a case, I examine the labour leaders’ strategic actions to create cohesiveness in the movement. Being pressured by emerging left-wing organizations in the 1910s, Swedish labour leaders realized that the Trade Union Confederation needed a strong organizational identity. The threat of the fragmentation of the trade union movement into different organizations fighting over the same members made the leaders formulate and implement a strategy for cohesion. Through an extensive education campaign to teach trade union members the aim and meaning of the reformist union movement, the leaders hoped to solve the fragmentation problem. This article indicates not only that labour leaders actively managed identity formation in the Swedish case, but also that internal education served as a means for creating cohesiveness in the movement.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-07-29T06:42:37Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221116253
       
  • Long-term scarring from institutional labelling: The risk of NEET of
           students from schools for learning disability in Germany

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      Authors: Laura Menze, Heike Solga, Reinhard Pollak
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      This article demonstrates the disadvantages that students leaving special needs schools (Förderschule) face in their school-to-work transition in Germany. We analyse whether the institutional label of ‘having attended a special needs school’ – beyond and above low school attainment – results in scarring effects for students’ chances of integration into training and employment after leaving school. We focus on students classified as having learning disability (Lernbehinderung), the largest group among students with special educational needs (SEN) and examine their NEET risk compared to equally low-attaining students from general schools at age 20/21. The analyses are based on rare longitudinal data for SEN students, the German National Educational Panel Study. Employing matching and regression techniques, we find that the label of ‘having attended a special needs school’ does generate long-term scars above and beyond low school attainment. However, this is only the case for school leavers with a lower secondary school certificate but not for those without school certificate.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-07-29T06:42:12Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221114257
       
  • Towards a renewed understanding of barriers to immigrant parents’
           involvement in education

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      Authors: Josefine Jahreie
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      This article investigates Danish and Norwegian early childhood education and care teachers’ expectations of immigrant parents’ involvement in kindergarten. The findings are interpreted in terms of the multifaceted interplay between social class relations, culture, migration and hegemonic ideals of intensive parenting and concerted cultivation. By taking the early childhood education and care teachers’ standpoint, the article contributes a renewed understanding of previous reports of barriers to immigrant parents’ involvement in their children's education. Based on early childhood education and care teachers’ accounts, I identify three key tensions: (1) conflicting perceptions of responsibility, (2) conflicting perceptions of children's roles and how to communicate with children and (3) conflicting perceptions of what kindergarten is and what constitutes valuable knowledge. The findings suggest the existence of a distinct Nordic adaptation to intensive parenting, contradicting parts of the dominant understandings of concerted cultivation found in more school-oriented curricular contexts, such as the UK and France, while still maintaining the original key characteristics of concerted cultivation.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-07-29T06:41:58Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221110870
       
  • Not all men, nor all women: Strength of gender identification and social
           spending preferences in Sweden

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      Authors: Mikael Goossen
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      The gender gap in welfare state attitudes is the tendency of men to be less positive toward an encompassing welfare state than women. To study attitudinal gender differences at the individual level, this paper synthesizes prior explanations, focused on self-interest and norms, with a social identity perspective, centered on the process of social identification with a gender group. With representative survey data (n = 1515), covering social spending preferences in Sweden, this study uses a psychometric instrument to gauge the emotional and psychological centrality of gender to individuals’ concept of self—thus distinguishing between men and women with different degrees of attachment to their gender group (strength of gender identification). The results show a strong gender identification is negatively related to social spending preferences for men, but not for women. The findings are discussed in the light the influence of gender norms and masculinity threat, highlighting the structuring and normative implications of social policy for gender differences in attitudes toward the Swedish welfare state.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-07-29T06:40:58Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221108920
       
  • Book Review: Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility
           Among India’s Professional Elite by Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen

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      Authors: Megan Tobias Neely
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-07-29T06:36:56Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221098960
       
  • Book Review: Pandemic Surveillance by David Lyon

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      Authors: Ole B. Jensen
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-07-20T04:10:10Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221111991
       
  • Book Review: Diversity Regimes: Why Talk is Not Enough to Fix Racial
           Inequality at Universities by James M. Thomas

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      Authors: Stephanie M. Ortiz
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-07-20T04:09:51Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221104169
       
  • Formal commitments versus actual practices' Narratives as tools of
           epistemic governance in the debate over Finnish forestry

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      Authors: Marja H Sivonen, Jukka Syväterä
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      Nation states often end up adopting practices that are incongruent with their formal commitments to international efforts, such as mitigation of climate change. Although the necessity of a transfer towards carbon-neutral societies is widely understood, such decoupling is a challenge to transition. This study analyses the political discourse in the Finnish media from 2017 to 2018 around the European Union's Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) Regulation. The discourse embodies a contradiction, as the Finnish government sought to justify its aim to log a record amount of forest while officially pledging to climate change mitigation. The forest industry and the government launched a major lobbying campaign to influence the regulation calculations to be adopted by the European Union. Several representatives of the scientific community rose to oppose the government's plan of action by distributing scientific knowledge on the negative climate effects caused by extensive forestry; a vigorous public debate around the correct ways to use this natural resource ensued. Our analysis identifies three prevailing narratives, each portraying and resolving the contradiction in a distinct way. We argue that narratives work as tools of epistemic governance and demonstrate how policy actors selectively weave scientific knowledge into such narratives.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-05-11T07:13:21Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221099618
       
  • Co-occurring occupations among siblings in Norway

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      Authors: Stian A Uvaag
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      According to class theory, social class boundaries are akin to social mobility patterns. This study explores these patterns by looking at co-occurring occupations among siblings. The author uses data from Norway's population-wide registers to analyze occupational co-occurrences among siblings across 98 occupations. The association is analyzed in relative terms: how often occupations are held by both siblings compared to what would be expected if there was no statistical association between siblings’ occupations. The Mobility Network Clustering Algorithm (MONECA) identifies groups of occupations that are strongly connected. The analysis shows that siblings tend to have the same occupation. Furthermore, non-manual and manual occupations are identified as two separate groups of strongly connected occupations. The analysis also shows a more differentiated structure in occupations, with increased tendencies for siblings to be in more narrow subgroups of the occupational structure. In the non-manual group, occupations in management, finance, business, and sales form a separate cluster from administrative workers, the professions, and cultural-artistic occupations. Beyond this, the occupational structure is differentiated into smaller subgroups.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-04-26T06:33:49Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221095985
       
  • Political changemakers in Norway: The strategies and political ideas of
           welfare providers

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      Authors: Signe Bock Segaard
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      This article contributes to the knowledge of interest groups’ political power. It examines how interest groups shape political debates and decision-making, and what strategies are most successful to this end, through an in-depth case study analysis of the Norwegian transposition of the revised EU policy on public procurement. The case is unique as it illustrates a policy process that changed direction at the eleventh hour, embodies an ideational fight between different views of a good society, and—surprisingly—concludes in favour of non-profit interests. Based on hearing statements, media items, transcripts from the final parliamentary debate on the matter, and interviews with leaders of interest groups, the article demonstrates that the ability to coordinate action and frame and control the public and political debate was a vital power resource for non-profit interests, who did so using a broad range of both direct and indirect strategies. The political ideas advanced through these two strategies were nearly identical; however, the indirect strategy was more personified and strongly emphasised normative conflict.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-03-30T06:08:01Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221088785
       
  • Elites on Equality: Room for Gender Balance and Ethnic Diversity in
           Leadership Positions'

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      Authors: Mari Teigen, Arnfinn H. Midtbøen, Rune Karlsen
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      Access to resources, wealth, and power positions varies systematically with membership in social categories. This article asks what role the elites themselves – as holders of power and regulators of access to influential positions – can play in maintaining, but also changing, the demographic composition of elites. Drawing on a unique survey among the entire Norwegian elite, we investigate what holders of elite positions believe are the main causes of gender imbalance and lack of ethnic diversity, and whether their beliefs influence their willingness to implement measures to promote gender equality and ethnic diversity. In line with expectations drawn from the literatures on policy representation and critical frame analysis, we find a strong, positive relationship between the belief in the importance of institutionalized causes of inequality and the willingness to introduce ameliorative measures to increase diversity. Conversely, we find a negative relationship between the belief in individualized explanations, such as the lack of qualifications, and the willingness to introduce measures. As elites are key holders of power, the findings imply that how elites view the causes of categorical inequality has strong bearings on the room for structural change.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-01-31T03:07:43Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993211070192
       
  • Cultural reproduction in Finland: Symmetric intergenerational transmission
           of cultural orientations

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      Authors: Jarmo Kallunki
      First page: 26
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      Cultural reproduction has attracted the attention of cultural sociologists over the last few decades. While a body of research has shown that the orientation to highbrow culture is transmitted from parents to their children, research on the transmission of other cultural orientations has been scarce. In this paper, I study the intergenerational transmission of three cultural orientations—highbrow, popular, and crafts—in Finland. The data were derived from a nationally representative sample (N  =  1425) surveyed in Finland in 2018, and it was analysed with regression techniques. For the respondent, I target current cultural participation, and for the parents I rely on retrospective data targeting joint cultural participation with the respondent during their childhood. I show that there is symmetric transmission of cultural orientation, namely that the respondent's current orientation is most tightly associated with the same orientation that they practiced with their parents, suggesting symmetric cultural reproduction in Finland. Additionally, parents’ overall cultural participation is associated with their children's overall cultural participation. I reflect on the findings in the light of past and current research on cultural practices and suggest directions for future research.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-01-31T10:52:15Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993211070980
       
  • Resisting or maintaining gender inequality' Wedding traditions among
           Norwegian millennials

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      Authors: Anne Lise Ellingsæter
      First page: 44
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      Historically, wedding traditions have reflected unequal power dynamics between women and men. Anglo-American studies suggest that despite growing gender equality in society and preferences for egalitarian marriages among young adults, wedding traditions perpetuate patriarchal ideas. This article explores this puzzle in the Nordic context. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with Norwegian millennials, 27 women and men, who were soon to be married or had been recently. How this new generation navigates three wedding traditions rooted in gender inequality — the male marriage proposal, the gendered division of wedding planning and women's change of surname — was investigated by identifying gender dynamics at the institutional, interactional and individual level. The study makes two main contributions to the literature. First, it brings new insights into whether and how wedding traditions are maintained or resisted in a Nordic context, extending existing Anglo-American research. Second, representing a novel empirical lens to the Nordic context, the study also advances knowledge about the progress in gender equality in a hitherto little studied domain.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-01-31T10:52:33Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221074826
       
  • Professional talk on cybervetting: Accounting for a contested practise

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      Authors: Christel Backman, Anna Hedenus
      First page: 59
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      Even though recruiters’ practise of searching for information online during recruitment and selection has been a contested practise, owing to the risk of discrimination and privacy intrusions as well as poor evidence for its ability to predict work performance, it is used in recruitment. In this article, our aim is to understand how ‘professional talk’ is used as a discursive resource to legitimize contested practises such as the practise of cybervetting by recruiters. The study is based on interviews with 37 recruiters in Sweden, all of whom had experience of cybervetting jobseekers. We found that professional talk was linked to objectivity and being unemotional, having knowledge about recruitment methods and the ability to distinguish between relevant and irrelevant information. In relation to the theory on professional talk, our study contributes with empirical evidence for the normative function of professional talk. Using cybervetting, as a case of legitimizing controversial practises, we provide a theoretical contribution to the theory on professional talk by illustrating how professional talk not only fills a disciplinary function by restraining a practise but also by enabling, legitimizing and providing discursive frames for how it can be performed.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-03-25T05:11:30Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221088741
       
  • Understanding the immigrant-native gap in childcare use: An empirical
           exploration for 21 European countries

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      Authors: Wim Van Lancker, Emmanuele Pavolini
      First page: 74
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      In this contribution, we examine whether and why there is a gap in the use of formal childcare services between immigrant and native families across 21 European countries. We focus on three sets of potential determinants: (1) social class, education and labour market position; (2) immigrant-specific factors such as norms in the region of origin, citizenship acquisition and length of stay in the country of residence; and (3) contextual factors such structural constraints impeding access to childcare and traditional norms on motherhood in the region of origin. Drawing on data from the 2010 ad hoc module of the EU Labour Force Survey, we find evidence for an immigrant-native gap in formal childcare use. Adjusted for social class position, education and maternal employment, immigrant families are less likely to use childcare compared to native families across European countries. However, there are important cross-country differences in the size of this gap. The study also provides evidence for immigrant-specific explanations: acquiring citizenship and staying longer in the country of residence increases the probability to use childcare, while the strength of traditional norms in the region of origin reduces the probability to use childcare. Finally, we find that structural barriers to childcare use negatively affect childcare use for both native and immigrant families. Removing barriers to childcare use in terms of availability and affordability will benefit everyone.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-05-25T06:19:40Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221102506
       
  • Science, religion, and nonreligion: Engaging subdisciplines to move
           further beyond mythbusting

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      Authors: Rebecca Catto, James Riley, Fern Elsdon-Baker, Stephen H. Jones, Carola Leicht
      First page: 96
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.
      Within the last 20 years sociological research on science and religion has provided new insights that challenge myths regarding conflicts between science and religion. Gaps in pre-existing work have been identified resulting in major shifts in the field. In particular, research has employed more mixed methods, widened its scope to become more international, and expanded to include nonreligion. Building upon these developments and critiques, this chiefly conceptual article explores a way to move forward by combining three fields of research in a novel way: the sociology of religion, the sociology of nonreligion, and the Public Understanding of Science (PUS). These subfields all touch on relevant and interrelated topics. Sociology of religion contributes to parceling out aspects of belief, identity, and practice; focuses on lived experience along with positionality, normative commitments, and culture. The sociology of nonreligion draws more detailed attention to the association between science and secularism. Finally, including research on PUS provides resources for understanding trust in, and engagement with science dialogically, as well as lessons for effective public engagement.
      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-08-08T06:44:30Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221116248
       
  • Book Review: COVID-19: Social Inequalities and Human Possibilities by J.
           Michael Ryan and Serena Nanda

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      Authors: Jing Zhang
      First page: 111
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-07-20T03:50:01Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221095318
       
  • Book Review: Post-Democracy: After the Crises by Colin Crouch

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      Authors: Alon Helled
      First page: 112
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-07-20T03:50:49Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221108485
       
  • Book Review: The New Handbook of Political Sociology by Thomas Janoski,
           Cedric de Leon, Joya Misra, and Isaac William Martin

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      Authors: Kristinn Már Ársælsson
      First page: 114
      Abstract: Acta Sociologica, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Acta Sociologica
      PubDate: 2022-07-20T03:50:20Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00016993221102052
       
 
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