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Two doctoral students from the PhD Programme in Political and Social Science has received the Doctoral School PhD Special Award

The Steering Committee of the Doctoral School of UPF has accepted the proposal by the Academic Committee of the PhD Programme in Political and Social Sciences to grant the awards to the following candidates
 
 
 
16.09.2019

 

Lydia Repke, for her thesis entitled Multiple Cultural Identifications, Personality, and Social Networks“,  supervised by Verònica Benet-Martínez from the Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology explores the acculturating processes of individuals socialized in more than one culture, and how these individuals’ personality traits and cultural identifications relate to the content and structure of their habitual personal social networks. A major contribution of the thesis is that it creatively combines cultural and social-personality psychology with social network approaches, effectively blending micro- and meso-level research traditions and thereby opening up new lines of research in the fields of acculturation and migration studies. One of the main findings is that being well-adjusted to the host society and having well-integrated networks does not mean to have many host contacts but rather to have individuals from the host society and individuals of the same ethnocultural background in ones’ network who also know each other. This thesis, thus, does not only contribute to acculturation research but has the potential to impact public policies relating to immigration and diversity management.  

Léa Pessin, for her thesis entitled Changing Gendered Expectations and Diverging Divorce Trends - Three Papers on Gender  Norms and Partnership Dynamics supervised by Gösta Esping Anderesen which examined how gender norms and work-family arrangements affect partnership formation and instability over the past five decades in the United States. Using a combination of longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and attitudinal data from the General Social Surveys, I focused on the tension between women’s empowerment in the labor market and persistent traditional gender norms at home to explain long-run trends in marital instability. I derived two main conclusions that motivate my current and future research. First, work-family conflict and changing demographic trends are intimately intertwined. Low fertility and marital instability are concentrated in contexts where women’s roles as workers and mothers remain highly incompatible. Conversely, family instability and fertility decline have stalled in the most gender egalitarian contexts. Second, my dissertation shows that the outcomes of the gender revolution in the U.S. have been particularly uneven across social classes. I argue that in a context of rising income inequality and limited institutional support for families, the positive outcomes of the gender revolution, such as egalitarian gender responsibilities and stable partnerships, are unlikely to be accessible to less advantaged Americans.   

 https://www.upf.edu/web/phd-political-and-social-sciences/special-award

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