Sociologist at Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science • 🌈 • inequality • cleavage politics • social change • Buch »Triggerpunkte« http://rb.gy/h0zru bei Suhrkamp
https://www.ips.mpg.de/person/159964/3004
Thomas Lux
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Very happy to see our book "Trigger Points" finally out in English, and fully open access!
Hopefully a useful resource for anyone working on polarization, class, inequality, migration, diversity, and climate change.
We launched our Open Lectures Series 2026 with a fascinating talk by John Levi Martin (U Chicago, editor of AJS), on the Weimar Reichstag – revealing a 2D political field that left–right alone can't capture. Based on work with Benjamin Rohr (Uni Mannheim) #OpenLectures2026 #Sociology #WeimarRepublic
Our Open Lectures Series 2026 opens tomorrow with John Levi Martin (University of Chicago): "Taking a Position in the Political Field: Voting, Speeches and Interactions in the Weimar Reichstag, 1920–1932". Hosted by our ICT Dept @steffenmau.bsky.social & Institute of Sociology @uni-goettingen.de
Warum die deutsche Gesellschaft nicht in zwei Lager („Kosmopoliten vs. Kommunitaristen“) gespalten, aber der Eindruck auseinanderdriftender Einstellungen nicht ganz aus der Luft gegriffen ist, untersuchen Christian Schneickert & ich im @berlinerjournal.bsky.social:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📢 New OA paper in JEMS @scmrjems.bsky.social
We assume migrants evaluate destination countries in terms of jobs and opportunities. But many migrants in my study valued something else: living in a society where those who fall on hard times are not left behind.
🔓 doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Political analysts have long used spatial representa tions as a substrate for behavioral models, especially for legislators’ voting choices. Most commonly, we think in terms of a single-dimension cont...
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Universities are expected to be places of tolerance, universalism, and open inquiry.
Our new study in European Societies finds evidence that visibly Jewish instructors face less favorable evaluations from students than otherwise identical instructors.
doi.org/10.1162/EUSO...
🚨 Our article “Who deserves? Ideological gaps in citizens’ deservingness perceptions?” is out in @epsrjournal.bsky.social.
Joint work with @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social and @iguinaudeau.bsky.social from the 🇫🇷🇩🇪 UNEQUALMAND project.
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New article out in @wepsocial.bsky.social, with Lucca Hoffeller:
doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2026.2662884
We add a new perspective to research on congruence and political support: Group-based congruence, where citizens’ support depends on how well their social group’s preferences are represented. 🧵
Do waitresses receive the same occupational prestige as waiters?
Using German gendered occupational titles, we find that feminine job titles receive slightly lower prestige than masculine ones, especially among male-domindated occupations.
Out now in Social Forces.
doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
Thomas Lux
The Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science
The Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science
Why do our societies seem so deeply divided when most citizens actually occupy a broad political middle ground?
@steffenmau.bsky.social, @thomaslux.bsky.social & @lwestheuser.bsky.social unpack this paradox in Trigger Points, pub. today @brisunipress.bsky.social, Foreward @mikesavagelse.bsky.social
The article makes a theoretical and empirical contribution to the debate on the polarization of society and politics in Germany. From the perspective of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology and the further dev...
Abstract. This study examines the extent of anti-Jewish bias in German higher education through a survey experiment conducted among students (N=1,416) at a regional, average-sized German university (a...
New paper out in Annual Review of Sociology with @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social #W.Foley and @l-sage.bsky.social
"Luck and Predictability in the Life Course"
We take stock of what we know about luck and its role in shaping life-courses and inequality
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Margherita Cusmano
Tobias Rieder
Trigger Points - Inequality and Political Polarization in Contemporary Society; Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Is society really polarized? This book explores key conflicts...
There is an emerging recognition among sociological theorists that luck may play a substantial role in life course achievement. There is also a nascent empirical literature that finds life outcomes to...
