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Big data, big problems: Why scientists should refrain from using Google Trends 大数据，大问题:为什么科学家应该避免使用谷歌趋势

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Acta Sociologica Pub Date : 2023-01-30 DOI: 10.1177/00016993221151118

Alexandra Franzén

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Letter from the incoming editors 新任编辑的来信

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Acta Sociologica Pub Date : 2023-01-20 DOI: 10.1177/00016993221146750

M. Carleheden, Jonas Toubøl

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A downside to high aspirations: Immigrants’ (non-)success in tertiary education 志向远大的不利因素：移民在高等教育中的（非）成功

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Acta Sociologica Pub Date : 2023-01-17 DOI: 10.1177/00016993221148897

Daniel Klein, Martin Neugebauer

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Mindset as a potential link between family background and high-school achievement 心态是家庭背景和高中成绩之间的潜在联系

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Acta Sociologica Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1177/00016993221145427

Elin Svensen

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Researching high-skilled migrants between social stratification and methodological nationalism 社会分层与方法论民族主义之间的高技能移民研究

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Acta Sociologica Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1177/00016993221145405

Gregor Schäfer

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Effective subunits in ineffective systems: Simultaneous tight and loose coupling in higher education data use 无效系统中的有效子单元:高等教育数据使用中的同时紧耦合和松耦合

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Acta Sociologica Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1177/00016993221145369

J. E. Trinidad, Assumpta Nina San Andres, Peter Louise Garnace, Stanley Guevarra

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A need to be recognised: On the importance of shared semantics for young adults while not in education or employment 需要认识到：关于共享语义对年轻人的重要性，而不是在教育或就业中

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Acta Sociologica Pub Date : 2022-12-18 DOI: 10.1177/00016993221145350

V. Välimäki, Sanna Aaltonen, Päivi Honkatukia

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Divorce among exogamous couples: The role of language convergence 异族通婚夫妇的离婚:语言趋同的作用

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Acta Sociologica Pub Date : 2022-12-08 DOI: 10.1177/00016993221129814

J. Saarela, Martin Kolk, Caroline Uggla

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Are women from man-older unions economically disadvantaged following separation? Sweden 1997–2015 从男性年龄较大的工会中分离出来的妇女在经济上处于不利地位吗?瑞典1997 - 2015

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Acta Sociologica Pub Date : 2022-12-04 DOI: 10.1177/00016993221136050

Caroline Uggla, Eleonora Mussino, S. Aradhya

{"title":"Are women from man-older unions economically disadvantaged following separation? Sweden 1997–2015","authors":"Caroline Uggla, Eleonora Mussino, S. Aradhya","doi":"10.1177/00016993221136050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993221136050","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":47591,"journal":{"name":"Acta Sociologica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44850586","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}

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Sweden's ‘complicated’ relationship with genocide recognition 瑞典与承认种族灭绝的“复杂”关系

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Acta Sociologica Pub Date : 2022-11-30 DOI: 10.1177/00016993221141587

Daniel Fittante

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