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Codebook for the $PEQUIV File 1984-2010: CNEF Variables with Extended Income Information for the SOEP
Get PDFCodebook for the $PEQUIV File 1984-2008: CNEF Variables with Extended Income Information for the SOEP
Get PDFReplication files for "The long reach of class origin on financial investments and net worth"
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Lersch, Philipp M. & Groh-Samberg, Olaf (2022): The Long Reach of Class Origin on Financial Investments and Net Worth. Acta Sociologica published online. doi: 10.1177/0001699322112979
Politische Demobilisierung und der Wohlfahrtsstaat
No full textThe issue of felon disenfranchisement has grown considerably over the past two decades. The following thesis places (criminal) disenfranchisement in the US, and those affected, firmly in the sphere of political economic studies. That is, this work takes the issue of felon disenfranchisement in the United States as a case in point regarding the relationship of political (de)mobilization and the welfare state. Utilizing a multi-method approach, this study contextualizes the place of political participation within welfare policy, integrates correctional systems into a welfare state framework, and reports on the detailed political and economic preferences of those removed from the electorate on account of felon disenfranchisement policy. This study is to the knowledge of the author the first to approach this issue from the political-economic lens of welfare state studies. In what follows, I illustrate the significance of political agency for the welfare state, as well as the role which welfare policy plays in fostering that same political agency. In addition, I provide a new framework for conceptualizing the welfare state, enveloping those services previously omitted from the accounting of welfare state effort into one coherent structure. Finally, this work provides detailed quantitative and qualitative data on the preferences of the politically disenfranchised not previously recorded. In particular, the evidence strongly suggests that the political demobilizaiton of low-income workers through the institutionalization of criminal disenfranchisement is of special interest to political scientists and scholars of the welfare state in general. In addition, it is argued that such policies may in fact benefit particular interests in the Democratic party and negatively impact the Republican party. Far from removing these voices from public discourse, the state may indeed benefit from their particular preferences - themselves products of their experiences with the state. In as much, the politically demobilized clients of the social corrections tier should be viewed not as destructive to democracy, but instructive to welfare policy oversight and development
Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Get PDFBegriff und Vorstellung des »Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalts« deuten auf einen komplexen Gegenstand, der in all seinen Facetten von einer einzigen Disziplin kaum gefasst werden kann. Um die sozialen Herausforderungen der Gegenwart zu analysieren, ist daher ein interdisziplinäres Zusammenwirken erforderlich. Das im Jahr 2020 neu gegründete »Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt« nimmt diese Aufgabe an. Die Autor_innen dieses Bandes gehen den Leitfragen des Instituts nach Begriff, Entstehungsbedingungen, Gefährdungen und Wirkungen gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalts nach. Die Themen reichen von neuen sozialen Konflikten über das Auseinanderdriften von Stadt und Land bis hin zum Populismus und zunehmenden Antisemitismus.
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Incorporating status bias into prejudice research
No full textIs prejudice against social groups rooted in intergroup distinctions or in the groups' low status? Whereas much research has focused on the former idea, this dissertation examines the latter. This form of prejudice is of particular concern as it puts members of disadvantaged groups at further disadvantage through prejudice and discrimination targeted against them. To consider this form of prejudice, I propose incorporating status bias, the tendency to prefer high-status groups over low-status groups, into prejudice research. Building on Social Dominance Theory, I conceptualize status bias as rooted in objective group status, consistent with the idea that it reinforces actual group-based inequalities. Throughout seven empirical studies using various study designs and methods, this dissertation examines status bias and its contributions to two major issues in prejudice research: the ideological foundations of prejudice and its reduction through intergroup contact. The results demonstrate that status bias forms group evaluations jointly with other biases and varies in its strength across evaluations of different kinds of target groups. Moreover, distinguishing between status bias and ingroup bias is promising for the study of the ideological foundations of prejudice, particularly SDO and RWA. Both ideologies were previously thought to motivate ingroup bias; however, this research did not differentiate it from status bias. The results reveal that SDO was not associated with stronger ingroup bias; instead, it was associated with stronger status bias, suggesting that incorporating the distinction between the biases into research on the ideological foundations of prejudice is a promising approach. Furthermore, distinguishing between status bias and ingroup bias can improve the assessment of the effectiveness of interventions to reduce prejudice. As such, intergroup contact was associated with weaker ingroup bias but stronger status bias. This pattern has previously been unobserved due to the lack of distinction between biases. Together, the findings demonstrate the merit of incorporating status bias into different fields of prejudice research
Weiterbildung in Deutschland. Kontinuierliche Teilnahme und der Einfluss von Einstellungen und Persönlichkeit.
No full textFurther training is understood as any professionally-oriented course or formalized work-related learning activity; it takes place after leaving formal education and entering the labor market. A large body of literature mainly based on cross-sectional research shows that access to and participation in further training is predominantly determined by two factors, individual level of education and occupational status. This research departs from previous work and its cross-sectional focus on socio-economic stratifiers by adopting a longitudinal modelling strategy and incorporating psychological and social psychological factors into sociological research. I focus on the case of Germany and employ data drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel study. There are two main theoretical and empirical contributions of this dissertation. (1) Further training is viewed from the perspective of life course sociology; recurrent engagement across adulthood is phrased as prolonged educational careers which extend beyond formal schooling. Sequence and cluster analyses show that participation in training varies by educational background and previous training experience, underlining a two-fold path-dependency. Additionally, results align with the life course concept of cumulative advantage/disadvantage. Frequent and continuous participation in training is associated with higher occupational status and more favorable labor market positioning in terms of stable full-time employment; whereas training abstainers and irregular participants are over-represented among marginally and unemployed. (2) Further training is conceptualized as a function of demographics, socio-economic and work-related factors. However, this is extended by incorporating two more subjective mechanisms which subtly are at play in determining participation in training: attitudes and personality. (a) Framed in terms of rational choice theory, training attitudes represent subjective evaluations of the perceived training utility (qualification or adaptation); a general career orientation and different forms of perceived training constraints are also taken into account. Findings from random-effects panel regressions reveal that adaptation utility and career orientation facilitate training, while perceived constraints reduce the training likelihood, everything else equal. For low educated individuals, positive evaluations of the adaptive capacities of training and strong career orientation can be interpreted as an equalizer in access to training; their training propensity is no longer significantly different from similar highly qualified individuals. (b) Personality traits are understood as a productive set of non-cognitive skills which drive behaviors and determine socio-economic life outcomes like educational performance, labor market participation and status attainment. In the context of further training, specifically two traits matter in increasing training participation: openness to new experiences and internal control beliefs. In light of these findings this dissertation concludes that further training is an extension of previous educational and occupational stratification. However, there are exceptions; low educated individuals with positive assessments of the utility of training seem to overcome the educational barrier in access to further training. Also, attitudes and personality should be systematically considered in training research as this research shows that these softer qualities may prove more effective in reducing unequal training chances over the life course
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