Uri Shwed
Biographic Data
| ID | 315900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Uri Shwed |
| GIVEN NAMES | Uri |
| FAMILY NAME | Shwed |
| SIGNATURE | SHWED U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0895-4007 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 141 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Differences in stated attitudes vs. realised friendships among Jews vis-à-vis Arabs in Israel
Previous research has documented differences in majority attitudes towards minority groups. However, there is a lack of research on (1) how attitudes towards minorities differ among majority subgroups, and (2) how attitudinal differences relate to interpersonal relationships between majority and minority members. This article investigates whether Jewish university students from two majority subgroups in Israel – Ashkenazim (European lineage, high…
Ethical Challenges in Participatory Research With Autistic Adults in Israel
Contemporary calls for participatory research raise unique ethical questions. Our semi-participatory mixed-methodology study of the needs of autistic adults in Israel utilized an advisory committee of autistic persons. This article discusses three fundamental ethical issues that emerged in the study. First, employing formal diagnosis and legal guardian approval as inclusion criteria may result in the unjust exclusion of self-diagnosed autistics a…
Multicultural or Assimilationist Education
We compare the predictions of contact theory with those of social identity theory (SIT), as they pertain to intergroup relations between Jews and Arabs in multicultural and assimilationist schools. In accordance with contact theory, it can be assumed that multicultural schools would promote interethnic friendships as compared to assimilationist schools. According to SIT, however, multicultural schools, in which ethnic identity is constantly ackno…
Robust Science
Uri Shwed Sociological Science, April 1, 2015 DOI 10.15195/v2.a9 Abstract The first lesson from the history of research on smoking hazards is that scientists should be wary of collaboration with interested industries
The Hidden Costs of War
Research suggests that prenatal exposure to environmental stressors has negative effects after birth. However, capturing causal effects is difficult because exposed women may be selected on unobserved factors. We use the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war as a natural experiment and a siblings fixed-effects methodology to address unobserved selectivity by comparing exposed and unexposed births of the same mother. Findings indicate that exposure to war in …
Are Referrals More Productive or More Likeable? Social Networks and the Evaluation of Merit
Scholars and practitioners agree that referrals provide firms with better workers. Economists and sociologists debate whether the underlying mechanism behind such relations is a better match between workers and firms or an advantage conferred by social relations. Building on insights from network theory and cognitive psychology, we offer a new approach to the debate, arguing that network relations can also create evaluative bias. We reexamine the…
The chromosome 22q11.2 deletion
Symmetry Is Beautiful
The Black Gender Gap in Educational Attainment
It is often asserted that the gender gap in educational attainment is larger for blacks than whites, but historical trends comparing the black and white gender gap have received surprisingly little attention. Analysis of historical data from the U.S. census IPUMS samples shows that the gender gap in college completion has evolved differently for whites and blacks. Historically, the female advantage in educational attainment among blacks is linked…
The Temporal Structure of Scientific Consensus Formation
This article engages with problems that are usually opaque: What trajectories do scientific debates assume, when does a scientific community consider a proposition to be a fact, and how can we know that? We develop a strategy for evaluating the state of scientific contestation on issues. The analysis builds from Latour's black box imagery, which we observe in scientific citation networks. We show that as consensus forms, the importance of interna…
Occupational and Economic Attainments of College and University Graduates in Israel
Until the early 1990s, the vast majority of students in Israeli higher education attended one of six universities. Since then, the system expanded dramatically through the establishment and accreditation of public and private colleges alongside the veteran universities. Some scholars suggest that the new colleges are nothing short of a lower track that diverts working class and minority students away from the elite universities and into less lucr…
The Temporal Structure of Scientific Consensus Formation
This article engages with problems that are usually opaque: What trajectories do scientific debates assume, when does a scientific community consider a proposition to be a fact, and how can we know that? We develop a strategy for evaluating the state of scientific contestation on issues. The analysis builds from Latour's black box imagery, which we observe in scientific citation networks. We show that as consensus forms, the importance of interna…
The Black Gender Gap in Educational Attainment
It is often asserted that the gender gap in educational attainment is larger for blacks than whites, but historical trends comparing the black and white gender gap have received surprisingly little attention. Analysis of historical data from the U.S. census IPUMS samples shows that the gender gap in college completion has evolved differently for whites and blacks. Historically, the female advantage in educational attainment among blacks is linked…
Occupational and Economic Attainments of College and University Graduates in Israel
Until the early 1990s, the vast majority of students in Israeli higher education attended one of six universities. Since then, the system expanded dramatically through the establishment and accreditation of public and private colleges alongside the veteran universities. Some scholars suggest that the new colleges are nothing short of a lower track that diverts working class and minority students away from the elite universities and into less lucr…
The Hidden Costs of War
Research suggests that prenatal exposure to environmental stressors has negative effects after birth. However, capturing causal effects is difficult because exposed women may be selected on unobserved factors. We use the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war as a natural experiment and a siblings fixed-effects methodology to address unobserved selectivity by comparing exposed and unexposed births of the same mother. Findings indicate that exposure to war in …
Multicultural or Assimilationist Education
We compare the predictions of contact theory with those of social identity theory (SIT), as they pertain to intergroup relations between Jews and Arabs in multicultural and assimilationist schools. In accordance with contact theory, it can be assumed that multicultural schools would promote interethnic friendships as compared to assimilationist schools. According to SIT, however, multicultural schools, in which ethnic identity is constantly ackno…
Are Referrals More Productive or More Likeable? Social Networks and the Evaluation of Merit
Scholars and practitioners agree that referrals provide firms with better workers. Economists and sociologists debate whether the underlying mechanism behind such relations is a better match between workers and firms or an advantage conferred by social relations. Building on insights from network theory and cognitive psychology, we offer a new approach to the debate, arguing that network relations can also create evaluative bias. We reexamine the…
Robust Science
Uri Shwed Sociological Science, April 1, 2015 DOI 10.15195/v2.a9 Abstract The first lesson from the history of research on smoking hazards is that scientists should be wary of collaboration with interested industries
Symmetry Is Beautiful
Occupational and Economic Attainments of College and University Graduates in Israel
Until the early 1990s, the vast majority of students in Israeli higher education attended one of six universities. Since then, the system expanded dramatically through the establishment and accreditation of public and private colleges alongside the veteran universities. Some scholars suggest that the new colleges are nothing short of a lower track that diverts working class and minority students away from the elite universities and into less lucr…
The Temporal Structure of Scientific Consensus Formation
This article engages with problems that are usually opaque: What trajectories do scientific debates assume, when does a scientific community consider a proposition to be a fact, and how can we know that? We develop a strategy for evaluating the state of scientific contestation on issues. The analysis builds from Latour's black box imagery, which we observe in scientific citation networks. We show that as consensus forms, the importance of interna…
The Black Gender Gap in Educational Attainment
It is often asserted that the gender gap in educational attainment is larger for blacks than whites, but historical trends comparing the black and white gender gap have received surprisingly little attention. Analysis of historical data from the U.S. census IPUMS samples shows that the gender gap in college completion has evolved differently for whites and blacks. Historically, the female advantage in educational attainment among blacks is linked…
The chromosome 22q11.2 deletion
Symmetry Is Beautiful
Are Referrals More Productive or More Likeable? Social Networks and the Evaluation of Merit
Scholars and practitioners agree that referrals provide firms with better workers. Economists and sociologists debate whether the underlying mechanism behind such relations is a better match between workers and firms or an advantage conferred by social relations. Building on insights from network theory and cognitive psychology, we offer a new approach to the debate, arguing that network relations can also create evaluative bias. We reexamine the…
Robust Science
Uri Shwed Sociological Science, April 1, 2015 DOI 10.15195/v2.a9 Abstract The first lesson from the history of research on smoking hazards is that scientists should be wary of collaboration with interested industries
The Hidden Costs of War
Research suggests that prenatal exposure to environmental stressors has negative effects after birth. However, capturing causal effects is difficult because exposed women may be selected on unobserved factors. We use the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war as a natural experiment and a siblings fixed-effects methodology to address unobserved selectivity by comparing exposed and unexposed births of the same mother. Findings indicate that exposure to war in …
Multicultural or Assimilationist Education
We compare the predictions of contact theory with those of social identity theory (SIT), as they pertain to intergroup relations between Jews and Arabs in multicultural and assimilationist schools. In accordance with contact theory, it can be assumed that multicultural schools would promote interethnic friendships as compared to assimilationist schools. According to SIT, however, multicultural schools, in which ethnic identity is constantly ackno…
Ethical Challenges in Participatory Research With Autistic Adults in Israel
Contemporary calls for participatory research raise unique ethical questions. Our semi-participatory mixed-methodology study of the needs of autistic adults in Israel utilized an advisory committee of autistic persons. This article discusses three fundamental ethical issues that emerged in the study. First, employing formal diagnosis and legal guardian approval as inclusion criteria may result in the unjust exclusion of self-diagnosed autistics a…
Differences in stated attitudes vs. realised friendships among Jews vis-à-vis Arabs in Israel
Previous research has documented differences in majority attitudes towards minority groups. However, there is a lack of research on (1) how attitudes towards minorities differ among majority subgroups, and (2) how attitudinal differences relate to interpersonal relationships between majority and minority members. This article investigates whether Jewish university students from two majority subgroups in Israel – Ashkenazim (European lineage, high…
Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Ethnic group (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Biology (2 works)