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Martin Arvidsson

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Publications

2025

Martin Arvidsson, Peter Hedström, Marc Keuschnigg (2025) Wide Social Influence and the Emergence of the Unexpected: An Empirical Test Using Spotify Data Sociological Science, Vol. 12, p. 715-742 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Selcan Mutgan, Peter Hedström, Martin Arvidsson (2025) Ethnic preferences, opportunity structures, and the school segregation process European Sociological Review (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2024

Martin Arvidsson, Marc Keuschnigg (2024) Estimating social influence using machine learning and digital trace data The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning (Chapter in book)

2023

Martin Arvidsson, Niclas Lovsjö, Marc Keuschnigg (2023) Urban scaling laws arise from within-city inequalities Nature Human Behaviour, Vol. 7, p. 365-374 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2022

Martin Arvidsson (2022) Beyond Generative Sufficiency: On Interactions, Heterogeneity & Middle-Range Dynamics

Research

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Social Network Analysis

Developing and applying novel methods to examine the formation of social ties and the consequences of these ties for patterns of segregation, inequality, polarization and social change.

Organisation

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS)

IAS conduct cutting-edge research on important social, political and cultural matters. The research is sociological - in its original and broadly conceived meaning.
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Department of Management and Engineering (IEI)

The Department of Management and Engineering (IEI) strengthens and develops tomorrow’s industry, business world and society by ground-breaking research, education and innovation.
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About LiU

Linköping University, LiU, offers innovative education and boundary-crossing research. The students are among the most desirable in the labour market and international rankings consistently place LiU as a leading global university.

News

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Wide social influence can make the unexpected happen

Sociologists from Linköping University analyse Spotify data to learn about the spreading of music and cultural change more generally.

SEK23 million for research in humanities and the social sciences

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond grants over SEK 23 million to research projects in the humanities and social sciences at Linköping University. These include the significance of names, the consequences of uranium mining, political polarisation, and robots.
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Robert K. Merton Award to IAS

Peter Hedström and Martin Arvidsson together with Francois Collet won the Robert K Merton best article award for their paper "The Trojan-horse mechanism: How networks reduce gender segregation."

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