ABSTRACT This article compares methodological trends in nationally and internationally oriented s... more ABSTRACT This article compares methodological trends in nationally and internationally oriented sociology using data from the articles of three Nordic sociological journals: one international (Acta Sociologica), one Finnish (Sosiologia), and one Danish (Dansk Sociologi). The data consists of 943 articles in total: 353 published in Acta Sociologica, 277 in Sosiologia and 313 in Dansk Sociologi over the period 1990–2009. We distinguish between three main types of article: those having no or very little empirical content; empirical articles applying qualitative analysis; and empirical articles applying quantitative methods. The results suggest that quantitative research is increasingly concentrated in international publishing venues, while national journals act more and more as platforms for qualitative research. In conclusion, the broader implications of these diverging publishing trends for sociological research are discussed.
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 2013
We theorize how social policy affects marital stability vis-à -vis macro and micro effects of wiv... more We theorize how social policy affects marital stability vis-à -vis macro and micro effects of wives' employment on divorce risk in 11 Western countries. Correlations among 1990s aggregate data on marriage, divorce, and wives' employment rates, along with attitudinal and social policy information, seem to support specialization hypotheses that divorce rates are higher where more wives are employed and where policies support that employment. This is an ecological fallacy, however, because of the nature of the changes in specific countries. At the micro level, we harmonize national longitudinal data on the most recent cohort of wives marrying for the first time and find that the stabilizing effects of a gendered division of labor have ebbed. In the United States with its lack of policy support, a wife's employment still significantly increases the risk of divorce. A wife's employment has no significant effect on divorce risk in Australia,
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 2013
We theorize how social policy affects marital stability vis-à -vis macro and micro effects of wiv... more We theorize how social policy affects marital stability vis-à -vis macro and micro effects of wives’ employment on divorce risk in 11 Western countries. Correlations among 1990s aggregate data on marriage, divorce, and wives’ employment rates, along with attitudinal and social policy information, seem to support specialization hypotheses that divorce rates are higher where more wives are employed and where policies support that employment. This is an ecological fallacy, however, because of the nature of the changes in specific countries. At the micro level, we harmonize national longitudinal data on the most recent cohort of wives marrying for the first time and find that the stabilizing effects of a gendered division of labor have ebbed. In the United States with its lack of policy support, a wife’s employment still significantly increases the risk of divorce. A wife’s employment has no significant effect on divorce risk in Australia, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. In Finland, Norway, and Sweden, wives’ employment predicts a significantly lower risk of divorce when compared with wives who are out of the labor force. The results indicate that greater policy support for equality reduces and may even reverse the relative divorce risk associated with a wife’s employment.
The relationship between monetary and non-monetary resources in intergenerational class mobility ... more The relationship between monetary and non-monetary resources in intergenerational class mobility is not clear, although the theories usually make assumptions about it. In this paper the effects of father's class and income on the early adulthood class of children are studied using Finnish Census Panel data. The EGP-classified class status of 13.673 siblings born 1968-1972 that has been recorded at the age of 28-32 is used as the dependent variable. The data includes information on father's class and income every five years, starting from 1970. The effects of father's class and income on children's class and unobserved background heterogeneity are estimated during childhood and youth with ordered logit models. Five hypotheses are considered: 1) The effect of income differences of fathers on children's class status can be effectively explained by the class differences between fathers;
ABSTRACT This article compares methodological trends in nationally and internationally oriented s... more ABSTRACT This article compares methodological trends in nationally and internationally oriented sociology using data from the articles of three Nordic sociological journals: one international (Acta Sociologica), one Finnish (Sosiologia), and one Danish (Dansk Sociologi). The data consists of 943 articles in total: 353 published in Acta Sociologica, 277 in Sosiologia and 313 in Dansk Sociologi over the period 1990–2009. We distinguish between three main types of article: those having no or very little empirical content; empirical articles applying qualitative analysis; and empirical articles applying quantitative methods. The results suggest that quantitative research is increasingly concentrated in international publishing venues, while national journals act more and more as platforms for qualitative research. In conclusion, the broader implications of these diverging publishing trends for sociological research are discussed.
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 2013
We theorize how social policy affects marital stability vis-à -vis macro and micro effects of wiv... more We theorize how social policy affects marital stability vis-à -vis macro and micro effects of wives' employment on divorce risk in 11 Western countries. Correlations among 1990s aggregate data on marriage, divorce, and wives' employment rates, along with attitudinal and social policy information, seem to support specialization hypotheses that divorce rates are higher where more wives are employed and where policies support that employment. This is an ecological fallacy, however, because of the nature of the changes in specific countries. At the micro level, we harmonize national longitudinal data on the most recent cohort of wives marrying for the first time and find that the stabilizing effects of a gendered division of labor have ebbed. In the United States with its lack of policy support, a wife's employment still significantly increases the risk of divorce. A wife's employment has no significant effect on divorce risk in Australia,
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 2013
We theorize how social policy affects marital stability vis-à -vis macro and micro effects of wiv... more We theorize how social policy affects marital stability vis-à -vis macro and micro effects of wives’ employment on divorce risk in 11 Western countries. Correlations among 1990s aggregate data on marriage, divorce, and wives’ employment rates, along with attitudinal and social policy information, seem to support specialization hypotheses that divorce rates are higher where more wives are employed and where policies support that employment. This is an ecological fallacy, however, because of the nature of the changes in specific countries. At the micro level, we harmonize national longitudinal data on the most recent cohort of wives marrying for the first time and find that the stabilizing effects of a gendered division of labor have ebbed. In the United States with its lack of policy support, a wife’s employment still significantly increases the risk of divorce. A wife’s employment has no significant effect on divorce risk in Australia, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. In Finland, Norway, and Sweden, wives’ employment predicts a significantly lower risk of divorce when compared with wives who are out of the labor force. The results indicate that greater policy support for equality reduces and may even reverse the relative divorce risk associated with a wife’s employment.
The relationship between monetary and non-monetary resources in intergenerational class mobility ... more The relationship between monetary and non-monetary resources in intergenerational class mobility is not clear, although the theories usually make assumptions about it. In this paper the effects of father's class and income on the early adulthood class of children are studied using Finnish Census Panel data. The EGP-classified class status of 13.673 siblings born 1968-1972 that has been recorded at the age of 28-32 is used as the dependent variable. The data includes information on father's class and income every five years, starting from 1970. The effects of father's class and income on children's class and unobserved background heterogeneity are estimated during childhood and youth with ordered logit models. Five hypotheses are considered: 1) The effect of income differences of fathers on children's class status can be effectively explained by the class differences between fathers;
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