News about Sociology

Do educational opportunities skip generations? Evidence from sibling and cousin correlations in the US

In a new article Professor Kristian Bernt Karlson discusses educational opportunities between generations

The Gendered Intergenerational Transmission of Managerial Status

Nick Martindale, Lasse Folke Henriksen, and Thomas Lyttelton published an article at American Sociological Review.

Nationalism and Education in the Arctic: A Study of Greenland in the Context of the Kingdom of Denmark

Benedikte Brincker, Department of Sociology, UCPH, and Mitdlarak Lennert, Institute of Society, Economics and Journalism, University of Greenland have co-authored this article in Nations and Nationalism.

Who gets to define discrimination?

Professor Merlin Schaeffer from the Department of Sociology has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant of approximately €2.5 million for the project CONTESDIS.

Demand Networks and Informal Volunteering

Hjalmar Bang Carlsen, SODAS, and Jonas Toubøl, Department of Sociology have co-authored an article published by the British Journal of Sociology.

Trading Beyond Understanding: Machine Learning, Risk, and Markets

Machine learning is fundamentally transforming financial markets. Where trading strategies were once crafted by human experts – executed manually or through pre-coded rules – firms now build models that generate the…

Breaking the Barriers: Gender, Culture and Diversity in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Associate Professor Emerita Hilda Rømer Christensen from the Department of Sociology has together with other authors edited a new volume published by De Gruyter.

What Volunteers Do: Toward a Task-Centered Framework for Recognizing Informal Volunteering

New publication by Lærke Høgenhaven.

Attitudinal and Emotional Outcomes and Drivers of Ordinary and Crisis Volunteering

This article examines how crisis volunteering and ordinary volunteering relates to prosocial attitudes and negative emotions, using a four-wave longitudinal survey of Danish adults (n = 1,225) from the COVID-19 pandemic…

Sociology and anthropology to be merged into a single department

The Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences has decided to initiate a process to merge the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Sociology into a single department by mid‑2027 at the latest.

When Crisis Strikes, Denmark’s Volunteers Step Forward

A portion of the population is ready to take action when crisis hits and others need help. According to researchers from the Department of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen, these individuals make up a civilian…

Immigration and Public Support for Social Policy: Accounting for the Gender Composition of Immigrant Populations

Associate Professor Friedolin Merhout has published an article in SOCIUS. The article develops the argument that the gender composition of immigrant populations can condition their influence on natives’ social policy…

Professor Benedikte Brincker awarded DFF grant for Arctic project on Greenlandic youths’ views on climate change

From 2026 and over a four-year period, Professor Benedikte Brincker from Department of Sociology will lead a research project examining how Greenlandic youths experience and perceive climate change. The project has just…

Locking Down Civil Society: The Impact of COVID-19

Lærke Høgenhaven has published a new research paper in Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations.

From a single punch to weapon use: An event typology of public place violence

Camilla Bank Friis, Lasse Suonperä Liebst and colleagues have published a new article.

Staff actions as risk factors for victimization

Camilla Bank Friis and Lasse Suonperä Liebst have just published a new article in Violence: An International Journal.

Online social class cues and employability: Experimental evidence from Germany

Assistant Professor Diana-Roxana Galos has published a new article together with Joris Frese.

Examining Workplace Violence as it Unfolds: Toward a Video-Based Microsociological Approach

Postdoc Camilla Bank Friis has published a new article in International Journal of Workplace Health Management together with Lars Peter Sønderbo Andersen, Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard and Lasse Suonperä Liebst.

The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning

Professor Christian Borch has co-edited The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning and contributed two chapters to the volume.

Discrimination or a Competitive Climate?

Discrimination or a Competitive Climate? Why Women Cannot Translate Their Better High School Grades into University Grades Assistant Professor Diana-Roxana Galos has published a new article in Research in Higher…

Fairness Evaluations of Higher Education Graduates’ Earnings: The Role of Female Preference for Equality and Self-Interest

Assistant Professor Diana-Roxana Galos has published a new article in the British Journal of Sociology. The article examines fairness evaluations of economic returns across fields of study, focusing on how gender and…

Beyond Cheap and Biased

Associate Professors Hjalmar Bang Carlsen and Jonas Toubøl have published the article titled Beyond Cheap and Biased: Informal Volunteering on Social Media During the COVID-19 Crisis

Singularitäten? Im interdisziplinären Gespräch mit Andreas Reckwitz

Associate Professor Mikael Carleheden has made a contribution to the book Singularitäten? Im interdisziplinären Gespräch mit Andreas Reckwitz

Evidence of discrimination does not sway public support for policies addressing the problem

A new study from the University of Copenhagen challenges the effectiveness of information campaigns aimed at combatting discrimination.