{"title":"Social Background Effects on Educational Outcomes-New Insights from Modern Genetic Science.","authors":"Tina Baier, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad","doi":"10.1007/s11577-024-00970-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11577-024-00970-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sociological theory and empirical research have found that parents' socioeconomic status and related resources affect their children's educational outcomes. Findings from behavior genetics reveal genetic underpinnings of the intergenerational transmission of education, thus altering previous conclusions about purely environmental transmission mechanisms. In recent years, studies in molecular genetics have led to new insights. Genomic data, polygenic scores, and other facets of sociogenomics are increasingly used to advance research in social stratification. Notably, the 2018 discovery of \"genetic nurture\" suggested that parents' genes influence children above and beyond the genes they directly transmitted to their children. Such indirect genetic effects can be interpreted as consequences of parental behavior, which is itself influenced by the parents' genetics and is essential for their children's environment. Indirect genetic effects fit hand in glove with the sociological literature because they represent environmental transmission mechanisms. For instance, parenting behaviors, which are partly influenced by parents' genes, shape children's home environments and possibly their later educational outcomes. However, current findings based on more sophisticated research designs demonstrate that \"genetic nurture\" effects are actually much smaller than initially assumed and hence call for a reevaluation of common narratives found in the social stratification literature. In this paper, we review recent developments and ongoing research integrating molecular genetics to study educational outcomes, and we discuss their implications for sociological stratification research.</p>","PeriodicalId":46893,"journal":{"name":"Kolner Zeitschrift Fur Soziologie Und Sozialpsychologie","volume":"76 3","pages":"525-545"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11485211/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142477504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jennifer Fitzgerald, Kathryn Schauer, Rachel Janie O’Neal, Pavel Bačovský
{"title":"„Dazugehören“: Zugehörigkeitsempfindungen und demokratische Werte","authors":"Jennifer Fitzgerald, Kathryn Schauer, Rachel Janie O’Neal, Pavel Bačovský","doi":"10.1007/s11577-023-00908-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11577-023-00908-0","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract What explains support for democracy? We ask this question in the context of scholarly assertions that democratic values are weakening among citizens of long-time democracies, most notably among young people. We leverage a panel survey of young Swedes to explore the development of pro-democratic sentiments over time. Investigating whether belonging—specifically, feeling “at home” in Sweden, the municipality, and the neighborhood—strengthens support for democracy, we find that it does positively influence principled support for democracy. In relative terms, we find the impact of belonging to be stronger than that of well-known predictors such as socio-economic status and social capital. Our analysis stands to inform scholarship on democratic values and to illuminate the implications of belonging for political behavior. It also offers insight into the ways that societal integration in the form of belonging can develop among young democratic citizens: through feeling integrated into a range of social communities.","PeriodicalId":46893,"journal":{"name":"Kolner Zeitschrift Fur Soziologie Und Sozialpsychologie","volume":"2020 13","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135636947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Religiöse Diversität, Islam und Integration in Westeuropa – Analyse symbolischer, sozialer und institutioneller Grenzdynamiken","authors":"Matthias Koenig","doi":"10.1007/s11577-023-00911-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11577-023-00911-5","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Religious diversity and, in particular, the presence of Islam is often perceived as a threat to national solidarity and social cohesion across Western Europe. Reviewing and synthesizing compartmentalized research literature on religion and immigrant integration, this article scrutinizes symbolic, social, and institutional boundary processes and their underlying micro-level mechanisms. First, it showcases the relative brightness of religiously coded symbolic boundaries that is sustained by anti-Muslim prejudices among the majority as well as by the intergenerational transmission of Muslim religiosity. Second, it discusses whether and how religious differences translate into social boundaries, through both discrimination and religiously based (self-)segregation on the labor market, in education, and in social networks. Third, it traces how interactive sequences of Muslims’ claims for recognition and public policy responses have led to institutional boundary shifts under the influence of constitutional law and European human rights and anti-discrimination directives. The article concludes by discussing scenarios of how macro-level processes of symbolic, social, and institutional boundary transformation interrelate, thus raising broader questions on religious diversity and integration in Western European nation-states.","PeriodicalId":46893,"journal":{"name":"Kolner Zeitschrift Fur Soziologie Und Sozialpsychologie","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136033177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thoughts on Integrating Evolutionary Analysis into Sociological Action Theory","authors":"Andreas Tutić","doi":"10.1007/s11577-023-00907-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11577-023-00907-1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract It is explored if and to what extent two approaches in behavioral sciences, which are promising with respect to an evolutionary grounded, integrative action theory, are actually compatible. These two approaches are, on the one hand, evolutionary psychology, which conceptualizes human nature as a collection of evolved psychological mechanisms, each being functionally specialized with respect to a specific problem of adaptation. And on the other hand, the dual-process perspective, which holds that human behavior is driven by the interplay of two qualitatively distinct types of cognitive processes: Autonomous, fast, and associative Type 1 processes, which operate outside of the consciousness of the actor, on the one hand, and controlled, slow, and rule-based Type 2 processes of which the actor is aware. Notably, both of these approaches have descendants in modern sociological action theory, i.e., goal-framing theory (Lindenberg 2008, 2009) and the model of frame-selection (Esser 2001; Kroneberg 2011). It is argued that evolutionary psychology and the dual-process perspective are largely compatible, thereby giving rise to an evolutionary grounded, integrative action theory. Accordingly, Type 1 processes can be traced back to evolutionary old cognitive modules, which humans share with other species and which are highly efficient at solving specific problems of adaptation in a stable environment. In contrast, Type 2 processes of higher cognition are distinctly developed in humans and highly effective at dealing with a rapidly changing life space.","PeriodicalId":46893,"journal":{"name":"Kolner Zeitschrift Fur Soziologie Und Sozialpsychologie","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134886685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Katrin Auspurg, Claudia Schmiedeberg, Christiane Bozoyan, Andreas Diekmann, Fabian Thiel, Henning Best
{"title":"Umstieg auf öffentliche Verkehrsmittel und finanzielle Entlastung durch das 9-Euro-Ticket","authors":"Katrin Auspurg, Claudia Schmiedeberg, Christiane Bozoyan, Andreas Diekmann, Fabian Thiel, Henning Best","doi":"10.1007/s11577-023-00918-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11577-023-00918-y","url":null,"abstract":"Zusammenfassung Die Einführung des 9‑Euro-Tickets (9ET) im Sommer 2022 stellte für Politik und Forschung ein aufschlussreiches Realexperiment dar. Wir untersuchen auf Basis von Daten aus einer bundesweiten Online-Befragung im Juli 2022 (1347 Befragte, quotiert), wer das Ticket nachgefragt und wie sich die Mobilität gruppenspezifisch verändert hat. Dabei legen wir den Fokus auf Einkommens- und Stadt-Land-Unterschiede: Wurden insbesondere niedrige Einkommensgruppen durch das 9ET finanziell entlastet? Welche regionalen Unterschiede sind in der Nutzung allgemein und für den Umstieg von motorisiertem Individualverkehr auf den ÖPNV zu beobachten? Inwieweit sind diese Unterschiede durch die in städtischen und ländlichen Regionen unterschiedliche ÖPNV-Infrastruktur bedingt? Unsere Daten zeigen, dass das 9ET von niedrigen Einkommensgruppen etwas und von Bewohnern von Großstädten deutlich häufiger genutzt wurde als von anderen Gruppen. Auch von der Umwandlung von ÖPNV-Zeitkarten in ein günstigeres 9ET und der entsprechenden Kostenerstattung profitierten diese beiden Bevölkerungsgruppen besonders. Der Effekt der Wohnlage bleibt unter statistischer Kontrolle soziodemografischer Variablen bestehen, schwächt sich aber mit Berücksichtigung der Qualität der ÖPNV-Infrastruktur deutlich ab. Neben zusätzlichen Fahrten kam es auch zur Substitution von Autofahrten: Etwa 10 % der Befragten in unserem Sample gaben an, die Pendelstrecke vom Auto (als Verkehrsmittel der Wahl im Mai) mit Gültigkeit des 9ET im Juni auf den ÖPNV umgestellt zu haben. Auch dies betrifft vornehmlich Stadtbewohner, während im ländlichen Raum der schlechtere Ausbau der ÖPNV-Infrastruktur eine Barriere darstellte.","PeriodicalId":46893,"journal":{"name":"Kolner Zeitschrift Fur Soziologie Und Sozialpsychologie","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135735229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discriminatory Residential Preferences in Germany—A Vignette Study","authors":"Felix Wolter, Or Cohen Raviv, Maila Mertens","doi":"10.1007/s11577-023-00906-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11577-023-00906-2","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The article focusses on the generating mechanisms of residential segregation for the demand side of housing markets, i.e., discriminatory residential preferences of inhabitants regarding the composition of their neighborhood. The data stem from an online survey among a random sample of the population of a mid-sized German city. In a vignette experiment, respondents were asked to rate example residential settings with respect to their attractiveness. The settings varied regarding the ethnic and religious composition of the neighborhood and other neighborhood characteristics that are positively or negatively related to residential attractiveness. We find that respondents have discriminatory residential preferences toward migrants and the presence of a Muslim community in the neighborhood. One-half of the migrant effect is mitigated if other positively connoted residential characteristics exist. We take this as an indication for statistical discrimination. This does not hold for the “Muslim community” effect. Discrimination gets stronger with higher levels of perceived economic group-threat from migrants. We further find evidence for a cultural group-threat and for the contact hypothesis: religious people are more discriminatory than nonreligious people, and real-life contact with migrants entails less discrimination.","PeriodicalId":46893,"journal":{"name":"Kolner Zeitschrift Fur Soziologie Und Sozialpsychologie","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134961771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Are the Reasons Why Female University Graduates Are Less Likely to Venture Into Self-Employment than Male University Graduates?","authors":"Ulrike Köpke, Eva Schmitt-Rodermund","doi":"10.1007/s11577-023-00909-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11577-023-00909-z","url":null,"abstract":"Zusammenfassung Warum wagen Frauen seltener den Schritt in die Selbstständigkeit als Männer? Die vorliegende Untersuchung fokussiert auf die Umsetzung einer Selbstständigkeit durch Hochschulabsolventinnen und -absolventen und untersucht, welche Faktoren mit der Geschlechterlücke einhergehen. Die Auswahl der Prädiktoren basiert auf dem theoretischen Modell von Eccles et al. (1983), welches in der Tradition eines „Erwartung × Wert-Modells“ unter Einbeziehung sozialer, psychologischer, demografischer und ökonomischer Einflüsse die berufliche Wahlentscheidung beleuchtet. Sowohl über die Zeit hinweg stabile Merkmale, wie die Selbstständigkeit der Eltern, der fachspezifische Studienabschluss und das Big Five-Persönlichkeitsprofil, als auch dynamische und durch Lebensumstände beeinflusste Faktoren, wie Arbeits- und Lebensziele, wurden untersucht. Die Datengrundlage bildete die zweite Welle des DZHW (Deutsches Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung) Absolventenpanel 2009 ( N = 2465). Um den Einfluss der Prädiktoren auf die Geschlechterdifferenzen zu analysieren, wurden logistische Regressionsmodelle berechnet, die zum einen den Einfluss insgesamt und zum anderen den geschlechterseparierten Einfluss auf die Wahrscheinlichkeit der Umsetzung einer Selbstständigkeit untersuchen. Die Ergebnisse belegen, dass Frauen nach wie vor seltener beruflich selbstständig sind als Männer. Geschlechtsspezifische Auswertungen zeigen weiterhin, dass bei Absolventinnen vor allem Arbeits- und Lebensziele und bei Männern die Vorbildrolle der Eltern dazu führt, unternehmerisch tätig zu sein. Absolventinnen, denen ein sicherer Arbeitsplatz eher unwichtig und eine Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie weder besonders wichtig noch besonders unwichtig ist, zeigen eine höhere Wahrscheinlichkeit, selbstständig tätig zu sein, während diese Arbeits- und Lebensziele für Absolventen weniger entscheidend sind. Die Ergebnisse zeigen aber auch, dass Absolventinnen und Absolventen hinsichtlich ihres unternehmerischen Persönlichkeitsprofils gleichermaßen gut für eine berufliche Selbstständigkeit ausgestattet sind. Das Papier schließt mit Überlegungen, wie die berufliche Selbstständigkeit insbesondere bei Hochschulabsolventinnen gefördert werden kann.","PeriodicalId":46893,"journal":{"name":"Kolner Zeitschrift Fur Soziologie Und Sozialpsychologie","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135690845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}