BU Sociology students and faculty present at 2025 Eastern Sociological Society conference
Last week a number of our students and faculty presented at the 2025 ESS conference in Boston. Here are some highlights:
Jonathan Mijs new award and ASA op-ed
A paper by Professor Jonathan Mijs has won the International Society for Justice Research Morton Deutsch Award for best article published in Social Justice Research in 2022. Please find below the jury report and the full paper here: “Deliberating Inequality: A Blueprint for Studying the Social Formation of Beliefs about Economic Inequality” “The extent of […]
New publications by Jonathan Mijs
Professor Jonathan Mijs, with co-author Selcan Mutgan (Linköping University), published a new article in Sociological Science, titled “Income Inequality and Residential Segregation in “Egalitarian” Sweden: Lessons from a Least Likely Case”. Please click here to read and find the abstract below: “Drawing on individual-level full-population data from Sweden, spanning four decades, we investigate the joint […]
Jonathan Mijs receives major grant for research project
Congratulations to Jonathan Mijs on receiving a major grant from the Volkswagen Foundation for a 4-year international research project, WealthTalks: The (re-)production of wealth inequality in everyday talk. Jonathan will conduct the study with colleagues at the Freie Universitat Berlin, the London School of Economics, the University of Rio de Janeiro and the University of […]