TY - JOUR A1 - Seewann, Lena A1 - Verwiebe, Roland A1 - Buder, Claudia A1 - Fritsch, Nina-Sophie T1 - “Broadcast your gender.” BT - A comparison of four text-based classification methods of German YouTube channels JF - Frontiers in Big Data N2 - Social media platforms provide a large array of behavioral data relevant to social scientific research. However, key information such as sociodemographic characteristics of agents are often missing. This paper aims to compare four methods of classifying social attributes from text. Specifically, we are interested in estimating the gender of German social media creators. By using the example of a random sample of 200 YouTube channels, we compare several classification methods, namely (1) a survey among university staff, (2) a name dictionary method with the World Gender Name Dictionary as a reference list, (3) an algorithmic approach using the website gender-api.com, and (4) a Multinomial Naïve Bayes (MNB) machine learning technique. These different methods identify gender attributes based on YouTube channel names and descriptions in German but are adaptable to other languages. Our contribution will evaluate the share of identifiable channels, accuracy and meaningfulness of classification, as well as limits and benefits of each approach. We aim to address methodological challenges connected to classifying gender attributes for YouTube channels as well as related to reinforcing stereotypes and ethical implications. KW - text based classification methods KW - gender KW - YouTube KW - machine learning KW - authorship attribution Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3389/fdata.2022.908636 SN - 2624-909X IS - 5 PB - Frontiers CY - Lausanne, Schweiz ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fritsch, Nina-Sophie A1 - Liedl, Bernd T1 - Who belongs to the middle income class in Europe? BT - the role of gender-specific occupational characteristics in multi-level analyses for 17 European countries JF - International journal of sociology N2 - For many years scholars and politicians discuss the economic importance of the middle income class. Our article contributes to broaden the present state of research by not only examining the structure of the middle class whilst focusing on individual attributes, but by especially taking the role of gender-specific occupational characteristics and country-specific conditions into account. Based on the EU-SILC data 2020 for 17 countries, we analyze which factors affect the structure of the middle income class on the individual, on the occupational and country level. Our findings show that occupational attributes (e.g. part-time rate) prove to be highly relevant in this realm. Moreover, significant gender differences can be observed: women who work in an occupation which is mainly performed by women bear a higher risk of belonging to the lower income class as compared to men. KW - multi-level analysis;structure of the middle income class KW - gender-specific occupational KW - characteristics KW - social stratification KW - European comparison Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/00207659.2022.2151765 SN - 0020-7659 SN - 1557-9336 VL - 53 IS - 1 SP - 59 EP - 82 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Liedl, Bernd A1 - Wiesbröck, Laura A1 - Fritsch, Nina-Sophie A1 - Verwiebe, Roland T1 - The structure of social capital in Austria T1 - Die Struktur des Sozialkapitals in Österreich BT - Subjective and objective determinants BT - Subjektive und objektive Determinanten JF - Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie N2 - This paper seeks to address the relationship between social capital and perceived social origin in contemporary Austria. While the concept of social capital has been widely adopted in social sciences, so far research on the (pre)structured shape of social capital by social origin is scarce. Our aim is to close this gap. Therefore, we use the network-as-capital approach by following the “position generator” and apply latent class analysis (LCA) and path modelling on the basis of the 2018 Austrian Social Survey. The dataset comprises a representative sample of the Austrian residential population aged 18 and older. Our findings show that the diversity of social capital, and access to networks of people in more highly ranked positions is strongly influenced by one’s social background. The higher respondents assess their social origin, the greater the probability of being in this type of network. Furthermore, education and occupation have effects on membership in a class-specific network. N2 - Dieser Artikel untersucht die Beziehung zwischen Sozialkapital und subjektiver sozialer Herkunft in Österreich. Während das Konzept des Sozialkapitals in den Sozialwissenschaften weit verbreitet ist, gibt es bisher kaum Forschung über die (vor)strukturierte Form des Sozialkapitals nach sozialer Herkunft. Unser Ziel ist es, diese Lücke zu schließen. Dafür verwenden wir den „Network-as-Capital“-Ansatz in Anlehnung an den „Position Generator“ und wenden eine Latent Class Analysis (LCA) und ein Pfadmodell auf der Basis des Sozialen Survey Österreich (SSÖ) 2018 an. Der Datensatz umfasst eine repräsentative Stichprobe der österreichischen Wohnbevölkerung über 18 Jahre. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass der Zugang zu Netzwerken, die sich durch hierarchisch höhere Positionen auszeichnen, stark durch den sozialen Hintergrund beeinflusst wird: Je höher die Befragten ihre soziale Herkunft einschätzen, desto höher ist die Wahrscheinlichkeit, in einem solchen Netzwerk zu sein. Darüber hinaus haben Bildung und Beruf Auswirkungen auf die Zugehörigkeit zu einem klassenspezifischen Netzwerk. KW - Social capital KW - Social origin KW - Position Generator KW - Latent Class Analysis KW - Path modelling KW - Austrian Social Survey KW - Sozialkapital KW - Soziale Herkunft KW - Position Generator KW - Pfadmodell KW - Sozialer Survey Österreich Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11614-020-00403-2 VL - 45 IS - 2 SP - 115 EP - 138 PB - Springer CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Liedl, Bernd A1 - Fritsch, Nina-Sophie A1 - Wiesbröck, Laura A1 - Verwiebe, Roland T1 - The structure of social capital in Austria T1 - Die Struktur des Sozialkapitals in Österreich BT - subjective and objective determinants BT - Subjektive und objektive Determinanten JF - Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie N2 - This paper seeks to address the relationship between social capital and perceived social origin in contemporary Austria. While the concept of social capital has been widely adopted in social sciences, so far research on the (pre)structured shape of social capital by social origin is scarce. Our aim is to close this gap. Therefore, we use the network-as-capital approach by following the “position generator” and apply latent class analysis (LCA) and path modelling on the basis of the 2018 Austrian Social Survey. The dataset comprises a representative sample of the Austrian residential population aged 18 and older. Our findings show that the diversity of social capital, and access to networks of people in more highly ranked positions is strongly influenced by one’s social background. The higher respondents assess their social origin, the greater the probability of being in this type of network. Furthermore, education and occupation have effects on membership in a class-specific network. N2 - Dieser Artikel untersucht die Beziehung zwischen Sozialkapital und subjektiver sozialer Herkunft in Österreich. Während das Konzept des Sozialkapitals in den Sozialwissenschaften weit verbreitet ist, gibt es bisher kaum Forschung über die (vor)strukturierte Form des Sozialkapitals nach sozialer Herkunft. Unser Ziel ist es, diese Lücke zu schließen. Dafür verwenden wir den „Network-as-Capital“-Ansatz in Anlehnung an den „Position Generator“ und wenden eine Latent Class Analysis (LCA) und ein Pfadmodell auf der Basis des Sozialen Survey Österreich (SSÖ) 2018 an. Der Datensatz umfasst eine repräsentative Stichprobe der österreichischen Wohnbevölkerung über 18 Jahre. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass der Zugang zu Netzwerken, die sich durch hierarchisch höhere Positionen auszeichnen, stark durch den sozialen Hintergrund beeinflusst wird: Je höher die Befragten ihre soziale Herkunft einschätzen, desto höher ist die Wahrscheinlichkeit, in einem solchen Netzwerk zu sein. Darüber hinaus haben Bildung und Beruf Auswirkungen auf die Zugehörigkeit zu einem klassenspezifischen Netzwerk. KW - Social capital KW - Social origin KW - Position Generator KW - Latent Class Analysis KW - Path modelling KW - Austrian Social Survey KW - Sozialkapital KW - Soziale Herkunft KW - Position Generator KW - Pfadmodell KW - Sozialer Survey Österreich Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11614-020-00403-2 SN - 1862-2585 SN - 1011-0070 VL - 45 IS - 2 SP - 115 EP - 138 PB - Wiesbaden CY - Springer ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Verwiebe, Roland A1 - Bobzien, Licia A1 - Fritsch, Nina-Sophie A1 - Buder, Claudia T1 - Social inequality and digitization in modern societies BT - a systematic literature review on the role of ethnicity, gender, and age JF - SocArXiv : open archive of the social sciences N2 - The digitization process has triggered a profound transformation of modern societies. It encompasses a broad spectrum of technical, social, political, cultural and economic developments related to the mass use of computer- and internet-based technologies. It is now becoming increasingly clear that digitization is also changing existing structures of social inequality and that new structures of digital inequality are emerging. This is shown by a growing number of recent individual studies. In this paper, we set ourselves the task of systematizing this new research within the framework of an empirically supported literature review. To do so, we use the PRISMA model for literature reviews and focus on three central dimensions of inequality - ethnicity, gender, and age - and their relevance within the discourse on digitization and inequality. The empirical basis consists of journal articles published between 2000 and 2020 and listed on the Web of Science, as well as an additional Google Scholar search, through which we attempt to include important monographs and contributions to edited volumes in our analyses. Our text corpus thus comprises a total of 281 articles. Empirically, our literature review shows that unequal access to digital resources largely reproduces existing structures of inequality; in some cases, studies report a reduction in social inequalities as a result of the digitization process. KW - age KW - digitization KW - ethnicity KW - gender social inequality KW - social inequality Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/k2zwh PB - Center for Open Science CY - [Charlottesville, VA] ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Liedl, Bernd A1 - Fritsch, Nina-Sophie A1 - Samper Mejia, Cristina A1 - Verwiebe, Roland T1 - Risk perceptions of individuals living in single-parent households during the COVID-19 crisis BT - examining the mediating and moderating role of income JF - Frontiers in sociology N2 - The COVID-19 crisis had severe social and economic impact on the life of most citizens around the globe. Individuals living in single-parent households were particularly at risk, revealing detrimental labour market outcomes and assessments of future perspectives marked by worries. As it has not been investigated yet, in this paper we study, how their perception about the future and their outlook on how the pandemic will affect them is related to their objective economic resources. Against this background, we examine the subjective risk perception of worsening living standards of individuals living in single-parent households compared to other household types, their objective economic situation based on the logarithmised equivalised disposable household incomes and analyse the relationship between those indicators. Using the German SOEP, including the SOEP-CoV survey from 2020, our findings based on regression modelling reveal that individuals living in single-parent households have been worse off during the pandemic, facing high economic insecurity. Path and interaction models support our assumption that the association between those indicators may not be that straightforward, as there are underlying mechanisms–such as mediation and moderation–of income affecting its direction and strength. With respect to our central hypotheses, our empirical findings point toward (1) a mediation effect, by demonstrating that the subjective risk perception of single-parent households can be partly explained by economic conditions. (2) The moderating effect suggests that the concrete position at the income distribution of households matters as well. While at the lower end of the income distribution, single-parent households reveal particularly worse risk perceptions during the pandemic, at the high end of the income spectrum, risk perceptions are similar for all household types. Thus, individuals living in single-parent households do not perceive higher risks of worsening living standards due to their household situation per se, but rather because they are worse off in terms of their economic situation compared to individuals living in other household types. KW - COVID-19 pandemic KW - Germany KW - household types KW - individuals living in single-parent households KW - objective labour market outcome KW - subjective risk perception Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2023.1265302 SN - 2297-7775 VL - 8 PB - Frontiers Media CY - Lausanne ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fritsch, Nina-Sophie A1 - Riederer, Bernhard A1 - Seewann, Lena T1 - Living alone in the city BT - differentials in subjective well-being among single households 1995–2018 JF - Applied research in quality of life N2 - Over the past decades, the number of single households is constantly rising in metropolitan regions. In addition, they became increasingly heterogeneous. In the media, individuals who live alone are sometimes still presented as deficient. Recent research, however, indicates a way more complex picture. Using the example of Vienna, this paper investigates the quality of life of different groups of single households in the city. Based on five waves of the Viennese Quality of Life Survey covering almost a quarter of a century (1995–2018), we analyse six domains of subjective well-being (satisfaction with the financial situation, the housing situation, the main activity, the family life, social contacts, and leisure time activities). Our analyses reveal that, in most domains, average satisfaction of single households has hardly changed over time. However, among those living alone satisfaction of senior people (60+) increased while satisfaction of younger people (below age 30) decreased. Increasing differences in satisfaction with main activity, housing, or financial situation reflect general societal developments on the Viennese labour and housing markets. The old clichéd images of the “young, reckless, happy single” and the “lonely, poor, dissatisfied senior single” reverse reality. KW - subjective well-being KW - living alone KW - singles KW - gender KW - age KW - Vienna Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-023-10177-w SN - 1871-2584 SN - 1871-2576 VL - 18 IS - 4 SP - 2065 EP - 2087 PB - Springer Netherlands CY - Dordrecht ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Präg, Patrick A1 - Fritsch, Nina-Sophie A1 - Richard, Lindsay T1 - Intragenerational social mobility and wellbeing BT - a biomarker approach JF - Social forces : SF ; an international journal of social research associated with the Southern Sociological Society N2 - Social theory has long predicted that social mobility, in particular downward social mobility, is detrimental to the well-being of individuals. Dissociative and “falling from grace” theories suggest that mobility is stressful due to the weakening of social ties, feelings of alienation, and loss of status. In light of these theories, it is a puzzle that the majority of quantitative studies in this area have shown null results. Our approach to resolve the puzzle is two-fold. First, we argue for a broader conception of the mobility process than is often used and thus focus on intragenerational occupational class mobility rather than restricting ourselves to the more commonly studied intergenerational mobility. Second, we argue that self-reported measures may be biased by habituation (or “entrenched deprivation”). Using nurse-collected health and biomarker data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (2010–2012, N = 4,123), we derive a measure of allostatic load as an objective gauge of physiological “wear and tear” and compare patterns of mobility effects with self-reports of health using diagonal reference models. Our findings indicate a strong class gradient in both allostatic load and self-rated health, and that both first and current job matter for current well-being outcomes. However, in terms of the effects of mobility itself, we find that intragenerational social mobility is consequential for allostatic load, but not for self-rated health. Downward mobility is detrimental and upward mobility beneficial for well-being as assessed by allostatic load. Thus, these findings do not support the idea of generalized stress from dissociation, but they do support the “falling from grace” hypothesis of negative downward mobility effects. Our findings have a further implication, namely that the differences in mobility effects between the objective and subjective outcome infer the presence of entrenched deprivation. Null results in studies of self-rated outcomes may therefore be a methodological artifact, rather than an outright rejection of decades-old social theory. Y1 - 2022 SN - 1534-7605 SN - 0037-7732 VL - 101 IS - 2 SP - 665 EP - 693 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Präg, Patrick A1 - Fritsch, Nina-Sophie A1 - Richards, Lindsay T1 - Intragenerational social mobility and well-being in Great Britain BT - a biomarker approach JF - Social forces N2 - Social theory has long predicted that social mobility, in particular downward social mobility, is detrimental to the well-being of individuals. Dissociative and “falling from grace” theories suggest that mobility is stressful due to the weakening of social ties, feelings of alienation, and loss of status. In light of these theories, it is a puzzle that the majority of quantitative studies in this area have shown null results. Our approach to resolve the puzzle is two-fold. First, we argue for a broader conception of the mobility process than is often used and thus focus on intragenerational occupational class mobility rather than restricting ourselves to the more commonly studied intergenerational mobility. Second, we argue that self-reported measures may be biased by habituation (or “entrenched deprivation”). Using nurse-collected health and biomarker data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (2010–2012, N = 4,123), we derive a measure of allostatic load as an objective gauge of physiological “wear and tear” and compare patterns of mobility effects with self-reports of health using diagonal reference models. Our findings indicate a strong class gradient in both allostatic load and self-rated health, and that both first and current job matter for current well-being outcomes. However, in terms of the effects of mobility itself, we find that intragenerational social mobility is consequential for allostatic load, but not for self-rated health. Downward mobility is detrimental and upward mobility beneficial for well-being as assessed by allostatic load. Thus, these findings do not support the idea of generalized stress from dissociation, but they do support the “falling from grace” hypothesis of negative downward mobility effects. Our findings have a further implication, namely that the differences in mobility effects between the objective and subjective outcome infer the presence of entrenched deprivation. Null results in studies of self-rated outcomes may therefore be a methodological artifact, rather than an outright rejection of decades-old social theory. Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soab153 SN - 0037-7732 SN - 1534-7605 VL - 101 IS - 2 SP - 665 EP - 693 PB - Oxford University Press CY - Ox ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fritsch, Nina-Sophie A1 - Liedl, Bernd A1 - Paulinger, Gerhard T1 - Horizontal and vertical labour market movements in Austria BT - do occupational transitions take women across gendered lines? JF - Current Sociology N2 - The gendered division of occupations is a persistent characteristic of the Austrian labour market. Furthermore, we can observe more flexible employment biographies, where sequential employment episodes and occupational transitions become an important part. On this account, the article argues that both gender inequalities and labour market movements need to be examined simultaneously. The authors therefore analyse gender-(un)typed horizontal occupational transitions and their influence on the vertical positioning, based on the Austrian Micro Census (2008–2018). The results reveal that gender-typed occupational transitions are regaining relevance and that the gender effect is reversing in that women increasingly leave gender-untyped occupations. The findings also demonstrate that this gender-typed horizontal movement yields a significant decline in occupational status for women, which even increases when women become mothers. Based on their models the authors find no negative effects for fathers. KW - Austria KW - children KW - gender composition KW - horizontal and vertical movements KW - labour market KW - vements labour market occupational transitions Y1 - 2020 UR - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0011392120969767 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392120969767 SN - 0085-2066 SN - 0011-3921 VL - 70 IS - 5 SP - 720 EP - 741 PB - Sage Publ. CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fritsch, Nina-Sophie A1 - Verwiebe, Roland A1 - Liedl, Bernd T1 - Declining Gender Differences in Low-Wage Employment in Germany, Austria and Switzerland JF - Comparative Sociology N2 - Although the low-wage employment sector has enlarged over the past 20 years in the context of pronounced flexibility in restructured labor markets, gender differences in low-wage employment have declined in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In this article, the authors examine reasons for declining gender inequalities, and most notably concentrate on explanations for the closing gender gap in low-wage employment risks. In addition, they identify differences and similarities among the German-speaking countries. Based on regression techniques and decomposition analyses (1996-2016), the authors find significantly decreasing labor market risks for the female workforce. Detailed analysis reveals that (1) the concrete positioning in the labor market shows greater importance in explaining declining gender differences compared to personal characteristics. (2) The changed composition of the labor markets has prevented the low-wage sector from increasing even more in general and works in favor of the female workforce and their low-wage employment risks in particular. KW - low-wage employment KW - gender inequality KW - labor market KW - Germany KW - Austria KW - Switzerland Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1163/15691330-12341507 SN - 1569-1322 SN - 1569-1330 VL - 18 IS - 4 SP - 449 EP - 488 PB - Brill CY - Leiden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fritsch, Nina-Sophie A1 - Verwiebe, Roland A1 - Liedl, Bernd T1 - Declining Gender Differences in Low-Wage Employment in Germany, Austria and Switzerland JF - Comparative Sociology N2 - Although the low-wage employment sector has enlarged over the past 20 years in the context of pronounced flexibility in restructured labor markets, gender differences in low-wage employment have declined in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In this article, the authors examine reasons for declining gender inequalities, and most notably concentrate on explanations for the closing gender gap in low-wage employment risks. In addition, they identify differences and similarities among the German-speaking countries. Based on regression techniques and decomposition analyses (1996-2016), the authors find significantly decreasing labor market risks for the female workforce. Detailed analysis reveals that (1) the concrete positioning in the labor market shows greater importance in explaining declining gender differences compared to personal characteristics. (2) The changed composition of the labor markets has prevented the low-wage sector from increasing even more in general and works in favor of the female workforce and their low-wage employment risks in particular. KW - low-wage employment KW - gender inequality KW - labor market KW - Germany KW - Austria KW - Switzerland Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1163/15691330-12341507 SN - 1569-1330 SN - 1569-1322 VL - 18 IS - 4 SP - 449 EP - 448 PB - Brill CY - Leiden ER -