Y N Soysal
Biographic Data
| ID | 20882 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Y N Soysal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Y N |
| FAMILY NAME | Soysal |
| SIGNATURE | SOYSAL Y N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3431-1758 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 852 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Between beliefs and borders: Migration, religion, and abortion attitudes
Abortion remains a uniquely contentious issue, rooted not only in moral concerns but also in its broader implications for women’s reproductive autonomy and population dynamics. These tensions become particularly pronounced in migration contexts, where they intersect with debates on integration, cultural identity, and perceived demographic threats to the majority population. We investigate how abortion attitudes among immigrants and their descenda…
Globalization, populism, and climate skepticism: Untangling varieties and pathways
Drawing upon cross-national data collected by the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) across 26 nations and over 28,000 individuals, this study explores the association between climate skepticism and populism, both in general, and amidst varying degrees of globalization. Distinguishing between populism’s ideological varieties and pathways of influence, we find that right-wing and valence forms of populism are linked to greater skepticism, …
The global rise in children's attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder prevalence: A Macro-Sociological Explanation
In the past three decades, the global diagnosis rate of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has grown drastically. While existing sociological studies demonstrate the complexity of ADHD diagnoses and treatment in specific national contexts, their ability to explain ADHD's global growth is limited. In this article, starting from a macro-sociological perspective and drawing on world society theory, we empirically investigate the prevale…
Inhibiting or Contributing? How Global Liberal Forces Impact Climate Change Skepticism
Although climate change remains a top environmental threat, significant portions of the global population continue to exhibit climate change skepticism. Currently, an extensive literature identifies the micro-level determinants of climate skepticism, often manifesting as a form of populist “backlash” to the adverse effects of globalization. However, the potential of macro-level global cultural forces—particularly embeddedness in liberal world soc…
Transnationalization of Educational Aspirations: Evidence from China
The international migration of students has garnered a lot of attention from researchers due to its growing popularity and significance. However, the current state of research in this field is limited. On one hand, there is a scarcity of high-quality, large-scale data, and existing studies primarily focus on students who are already abroad. On the other hand, the field predominantly revolves around Bourdieusian-inspired arguments that narrowly vi…
Selectivity among educational migrants? A multi-sited investigation
Research on migration is shifting from comparisons between migrants and non-migrants in destination countries to a multi-sited origin-destination perspective, which allows us to address the issue of migrant selectivity. Selectivity implies that migration results from a systematic bias according to which emigrants differ from non-migrants in origin. The literature on selectivity has overlooked educational migrants, an important contributor to the …
Meritocracy or reputation? The role of rankings in the sorting of international students across universities
University rankings have gained prominence in tandem with the global race towards excellence and as part of the growing expectation of rational, scientific evaluation of performance across a range of institutional sectors and human activity. While their omnipresence is acknowledged, empirically we know less about whether and how rankings matter in higher education outcomes. Do university rankings, predicated on universalistic standards and shared…
It is all about “Hope”: Evidence on the immigrant optimism paradox
This paper investigates the immigrant educational optimism hypothesis using data from Spain. Specifically, we examine the nature of higher educational expectations among migrant-origin families in comparison to non-migrant families, conditional upon students’ prior school performance and social background. Our dataset includes more than two thousand students in secondary schools in Madrid and, as an innovation in the literature, allows identical …
Institutional underpinnings, global reach, and the future of ordinal citizenship
I had the opportunity to attend Marion Fourcade's highly stimulating 2019 BJS lecture on the transformations of liberal citizenship in the digital age. Between then and its printing in these pages (Fourcade, 2021), a big chunk of our lives indeed moved online. The Coronavirus pandemic has not only accelerated the great digital drive but also laid bare the vulnerabilities of core citizenship institutions such as education, health, work, and democr…
Observing the Unobservable: Migrant Selectivity and Agentic Individuality Among Higher Education Students in China and Europe
The research in migrant selectivity largely overlooks the broader institutional processes that shape the extent to which migrants from different backgrounds are indeed positively selected. This is particularly true in the case of highly skilled migrants, whose selection may not be conditioned by migration but by education. This paper deals with this limitation by studying individual characteristics, which are often treated as unobserved selectivi…
Why study abroad? Sorting of Chinese students across British universities
This research contributes to the booming literature on the mobility of international students in higher education. We analyse university-level factors that affect the sorting of Chinese international students across British universities. We produced a unique data-set merging university-level data from the 2014 UK Higher Education Statistics Agency and the Higher Expectations Survey, supplemented by qualitative evidence from six focus groups for i…
Marshall, Thomas Humphrey (1893–1981)
Post‐national Citizenship: Rights and Obligations of Individuality
This chapter contains sections titled: Rights and Identity Claims-making and Mobilization: The Practice of Citizenship The Value of ‘Individuality’ as the Underlying Principle of Citizenship Coda: Delimiting the Contours of Post-national Citizenship Further Reading
Individuality, sociological institutionalism, and continuing inequalities: A response to commentators
Scholarly exchanges provide opportunities to clarify one's own positions as much as they can further analytical imageries. My response to the commentators falls under the first category. Lydia Morris reads the underlying argument of my article in light of the emergence of new ‘governance’ practices creating and reproducing the ‘welfare subject’ needed for the efficient operation of post-Keynasian globalized capitalism. Oliver Schmidtke sees it as…
Citizenship, immigration, and the European social project: Rights and Obligations of Individuality
As envisioned by T.H. Marshall, social citizenship was a corrective to the injustices caused by the capitalist market. Entitlements and protections guaranteed by the welfare state would prevent social and economic exclusions that civil and political rights, on their own, simply could not. Such protections consequently would ensure social cohesion and solidarity, as well as a productive economy and market. European welfare states successfully foll…
Reply to Will Kymlicka: Multicultural citizenship within multination states
The push for citizenship education, not only for school children but also for immi grants as prospective citizens, has been a common agenda in European societies. More than ever, education has been given the mission of creating globally com petitive and nationally cohesive societies. Does this new citizenship agenda under mine the 'binding ties' in multicultural and multinational societies? Kymlicka's thoughtful discussion lays out possible fault…
Diversity from Within and Without: Comparative Notes from France and Japan
This paper focuses on examining the instructional theme of “diversity” in the teaching of citizenship in schools, particularly in history and civics subjects, by bringing in examples from France and Japan. We find that more so than own ethnic and racial minorities, in both cases, the broader world emerges as the source of “meaningful diversity.” In France, the introduction of diversity into school teaching is closely connected to her core members…
Reconceptualizing the Republic: Diversity and Education in France, 1945-2008
Since the nineteenth century, France, not unlike the United States, has experienced significant immigration and, as a result, great flux. Yet, the French public discourse and policy instruments concerned with ethnic and racial diversities evolved in sharp contrast to those in the United States. Whereas U.S. nation-building incorporated the recognition of ethnoracial identities, with all of its trials and tribulations, the French nation's trajecto…
Locating Europe1
This paper describes the emerging European public space and identity, as it is built and exercised in educational spheres. Discussions on European public space are overlaid with assumptions and requisites of a shared identity and culture. I argue that the presumed inextricable link between such constructs as identities, cultures and political communities is neither tenable nor empirically suitable in the European case. My substantive examples com…
Globalization and Collective Action
Citizenship and identity: Living in diasporas in post-war Europe
Diaspora, as a venerated concept, has a strong placement in our political and intellectual discourses. My article questions the deployment of diaspora as an analytical category in explaining the contemporary immigration experience. Focusing peculiarly on the ethnic axis of homelands and abroad, theories of diaspora overlook the transgressions of the national and lose sight of the new dynamics and topography of membership. I suggest that a more pr…
Identity and transnationalization in German school textbooks
Germany provides an interesting puzzle from a comparative perspective to the study of nation-state identities in textbooks. Unlike its Asian counterparts, and more so than other European countries, in Germany, history and civics textbooks display a prudence in representations of national identity. Rather than asserting national myths and irredentist narratives as the core components of nationhood, the textbooks focus on the representation of a mo…
The Changing Logic of Political Citizenship: Cross-National Acquisition of Women's Suffrage Rights, 1890 to 1990
The authors analyze the acquisition of women's suffrage in 133 countries from 1890 to 1990. Throughout the twentieth century the influence of national political and organizational factors has declined and the importance of international links and influences has become increasingly important. These findings indicate that the franchise has become institutionalized worldwide as a taken-for-granted feature of national citizenship and an integral comp…
Staatsbürgerschaft im Wandel. Postnationale Mitgliedschaft und Nationalstaat in Europa
The Friendly and Predatory Acquisition of Large U.S. Corporations in the 1960s: The Other Contested Terrain
Cet article etudie les rachats d'entreprise aux U.S.A. dans les annees 1960. Les mecanismes de concentration affectent l'organisation des entreprises et le monde des affaires. Ceux-ci sont de type predateur ou pacifiques. Ils dependent, d'une part, d'une strategie d'entreprise et de la position occupee par les differentes entreprises dans le reseau de dependance economique. Ils tiennent aussi aux situations specifiques des chefs d'entreprise dans…
World Expansion of Mass Education, 1870-1980
Newly available enrollment data for over 120 countries for the period 1870-1980 are used to examine theories of mass educational expansion. Event-history analyses indicate that mass educational systems appeared at a steady rate before the 1940s and sharply increased after 1950. Pooled panel regressions show that the expansion of mass education, once formed, followed an S-shaped diffusion pattern before 1940, continuing with added force later. Exp…
The Changing Logic of Political Citizenship: Cross-National Acquisition of Women's Suffrage Rights, 1890 to 1990
The authors analyze the acquisition of women's suffrage in 133 countries from 1890 to 1990. Throughout the twentieth century the influence of national political and organizational factors has declined and the importance of international links and influences has become increasingly important. These findings indicate that the franchise has become institutionalized worldwide as a taken-for-granted feature of national citizenship and an integral comp…
Citizenship and identity: Living in diasporas in post-war Europe
Diaspora, as a venerated concept, has a strong placement in our political and intellectual discourses. My article questions the deployment of diaspora as an analytical category in explaining the contemporary immigration experience. Focusing peculiarly on the ethnic axis of homelands and abroad, theories of diaspora overlook the transgressions of the national and lose sight of the new dynamics and topography of membership. I suggest that a more pr…
Citizenship, immigration, and the European social project: Rights and Obligations of Individuality
As envisioned by T.H. Marshall, social citizenship was a corrective to the injustices caused by the capitalist market. Entitlements and protections guaranteed by the welfare state would prevent social and economic exclusions that civil and political rights, on their own, simply could not. Such protections consequently would ensure social cohesion and solidarity, as well as a productive economy and market. European welfare states successfully foll…
The Friendly and Predatory Acquisition of Large U.S. Corporations in the 1960s: The Other Contested Terrain
Cet article etudie les rachats d'entreprise aux U.S.A. dans les annees 1960. Les mecanismes de concentration affectent l'organisation des entreprises et le monde des affaires. Ceux-ci sont de type predateur ou pacifiques. Ils dependent, d'une part, d'une strategie d'entreprise et de la position occupee par les differentes entreprises dans le reseau de dependance economique. Ils tiennent aussi aux situations specifiques des chefs d'entreprise dans…
Locating Europe1
This paper describes the emerging European public space and identity, as it is built and exercised in educational spheres. Discussions on European public space are overlaid with assumptions and requisites of a shared identity and culture. I argue that the presumed inextricable link between such constructs as identities, cultures and political communities is neither tenable nor empirically suitable in the European case. My substantive examples com…
Why study abroad? Sorting of Chinese students across British universities
This research contributes to the booming literature on the mobility of international students in higher education. We analyse university-level factors that affect the sorting of Chinese international students across British universities. We produced a unique data-set merging university-level data from the 2014 UK Higher Education Statistics Agency and the Higher Expectations Survey, supplemented by qualitative evidence from six focus groups for i…
Construction of the First Mass Education Systems in Nineteenth-Century Europe
This article analyzes two aspects of the construction of the first mass education systems in Europe and the United States in the nineteenth century: the timing of national laws mandating compulsory education and organizational expansion in enrollments. The interaction among the state, the church, and societal groups was a critical determinant of the form these systems took. Where the state was formally allied to a national church, it was able to …
Reconceptualizing the Republic: Diversity and Education in France, 1945-2008
Since the nineteenth century, France, not unlike the United States, has experienced significant immigration and, as a result, great flux. Yet, the French public discourse and policy instruments concerned with ethnic and racial diversities evolved in sharp contrast to those in the United States. Whereas U.S. nation-building incorporated the recognition of ethnoracial identities, with all of its trials and tribulations, the French nation's trajecto…
Meritocracy or reputation? The role of rankings in the sorting of international students across universities
University rankings have gained prominence in tandem with the global race towards excellence and as part of the growing expectation of rational, scientific evaluation of performance across a range of institutional sectors and human activity. While their omnipresence is acknowledged, empirically we know less about whether and how rankings matter in higher education outcomes. Do university rankings, predicated on universalistic standards and shared…
Globalization and Collective Action
Individuality, sociological institutionalism, and continuing inequalities: A response to commentators
Scholarly exchanges provide opportunities to clarify one's own positions as much as they can further analytical imageries. My response to the commentators falls under the first category. Lydia Morris reads the underlying argument of my article in light of the emergence of new ‘governance’ practices creating and reproducing the ‘welfare subject’ needed for the efficient operation of post-Keynasian globalized capitalism. Oliver Schmidtke sees it as…
Reply to Will Kymlicka: Multicultural citizenship within multination states
The push for citizenship education, not only for school children but also for immi grants as prospective citizens, has been a common agenda in European societies. More than ever, education has been given the mission of creating globally com petitive and nationally cohesive societies. Does this new citizenship agenda under mine the 'binding ties' in multicultural and multinational societies? Kymlicka's thoughtful discussion lays out possible fault…
Inhibiting or Contributing? How Global Liberal Forces Impact Climate Change Skepticism
Although climate change remains a top environmental threat, significant portions of the global population continue to exhibit climate change skepticism. Currently, an extensive literature identifies the micro-level determinants of climate skepticism, often manifesting as a form of populist “backlash” to the adverse effects of globalization. However, the potential of macro-level global cultural forces—particularly embeddedness in liberal world soc…
Observing the Unobservable: Migrant Selectivity and Agentic Individuality Among Higher Education Students in China and Europe
The research in migrant selectivity largely overlooks the broader institutional processes that shape the extent to which migrants from different backgrounds are indeed positively selected. This is particularly true in the case of highly skilled migrants, whose selection may not be conditioned by migration but by education. This paper deals with this limitation by studying individual characteristics, which are often treated as unobserved selectivi…
Identity and transnationalization in German school textbooks
Germany provides an interesting puzzle from a comparative perspective to the study of nation-state identities in textbooks. Unlike its Asian counterparts, and more so than other European countries, in Germany, history and civics textbooks display a prudence in representations of national identity. Rather than asserting national myths and irredentist narratives as the core components of nationhood, the textbooks focus on the representation of a mo…
Going to America, Going to School: The Jewish Immigrant Public School Encounter in Turn-of-the-Century New York City
Construction of the First Mass Education Systems in Nineteenth-Century Europe
This article analyzes two aspects of the construction of the first mass education systems in Europe and the United States in the nineteenth century: the timing of national laws mandating compulsory education and organizational expansion in enrollments. The interaction among the state, the church, and societal groups was a critical determinant of the form these systems took. Where the state was formally allied to a national church, it was able to …
World Expansion of Mass Education, 1870-1980
Newly available enrollment data for over 120 countries for the period 1870-1980 are used to examine theories of mass educational expansion. Event-history analyses indicate that mass educational systems appeared at a steady rate before the 1940s and sharply increased after 1950. Pooled panel regressions show that the expansion of mass education, once formed, followed an S-shaped diffusion pattern before 1940, continuing with added force later. Exp…
Origins of Muslim Consciousness in India: A World-System Perspective
Immigrants, Markets, and States: The Political Economy of Postwar Europe
The Friendly and Predatory Acquisition of Large U.S. Corporations in the 1960s: The Other Contested Terrain
Cet article etudie les rachats d'entreprise aux U.S.A. dans les annees 1960. Les mecanismes de concentration affectent l'organisation des entreprises et le monde des affaires. Ceux-ci sont de type predateur ou pacifiques. Ils dependent, d'une part, d'une strategie d'entreprise et de la position occupee par les differentes entreprises dans le reseau de dependance economique. Ils tiennent aussi aux situations specifiques des chefs d'entreprise dans…
Staatsbürgerschaft im Wandel. Postnationale Mitgliedschaft und Nationalstaat in Europa
The Changing Logic of Political Citizenship: Cross-National Acquisition of Women's Suffrage Rights, 1890 to 1990
The authors analyze the acquisition of women's suffrage in 133 countries from 1890 to 1990. Throughout the twentieth century the influence of national political and organizational factors has declined and the importance of international links and influences has become increasingly important. These findings indicate that the franchise has become institutionalized worldwide as a taken-for-granted feature of national citizenship and an integral comp…
Identity and transnationalization in German school textbooks
Germany provides an interesting puzzle from a comparative perspective to the study of nation-state identities in textbooks. Unlike its Asian counterparts, and more so than other European countries, in Germany, history and civics textbooks display a prudence in representations of national identity. Rather than asserting national myths and irredentist narratives as the core components of nationhood, the textbooks focus on the representation of a mo…
Citizenship and identity: Living in diasporas in post-war Europe
Diaspora, as a venerated concept, has a strong placement in our political and intellectual discourses. My article questions the deployment of diaspora as an analytical category in explaining the contemporary immigration experience. Focusing peculiarly on the ethnic axis of homelands and abroad, theories of diaspora overlook the transgressions of the national and lose sight of the new dynamics and topography of membership. I suggest that a more pr…
Locating Europe1
This paper describes the emerging European public space and identity, as it is built and exercised in educational spheres. Discussions on European public space are overlaid with assumptions and requisites of a shared identity and culture. I argue that the presumed inextricable link between such constructs as identities, cultures and political communities is neither tenable nor empirically suitable in the European case. My substantive examples com…
Globalization and Collective Action
Diversity from Within and Without: Comparative Notes from France and Japan
This paper focuses on examining the instructional theme of “diversity” in the teaching of citizenship in schools, particularly in history and civics subjects, by bringing in examples from France and Japan. We find that more so than own ethnic and racial minorities, in both cases, the broader world emerges as the source of “meaningful diversity.” In France, the introduction of diversity into school teaching is closely connected to her core members…
Reconceptualizing the Republic: Diversity and Education in France, 1945-2008
Since the nineteenth century, France, not unlike the United States, has experienced significant immigration and, as a result, great flux. Yet, the French public discourse and policy instruments concerned with ethnic and racial diversities evolved in sharp contrast to those in the United States. Whereas U.S. nation-building incorporated the recognition of ethnoracial identities, with all of its trials and tribulations, the French nation's trajecto…
Reply to Will Kymlicka: Multicultural citizenship within multination states
The push for citizenship education, not only for school children but also for immi grants as prospective citizens, has been a common agenda in European societies. More than ever, education has been given the mission of creating globally com petitive and nationally cohesive societies. Does this new citizenship agenda under mine the 'binding ties' in multicultural and multinational societies? Kymlicka's thoughtful discussion lays out possible fault…
Post‐national Citizenship: Rights and Obligations of Individuality
This chapter contains sections titled: Rights and Identity Claims-making and Mobilization: The Practice of Citizenship The Value of ‘Individuality’ as the Underlying Principle of Citizenship Coda: Delimiting the Contours of Post-national Citizenship Further Reading
Individuality, sociological institutionalism, and continuing inequalities: A response to commentators
Scholarly exchanges provide opportunities to clarify one's own positions as much as they can further analytical imageries. My response to the commentators falls under the first category. Lydia Morris reads the underlying argument of my article in light of the emergence of new ‘governance’ practices creating and reproducing the ‘welfare subject’ needed for the efficient operation of post-Keynasian globalized capitalism. Oliver Schmidtke sees it as…
Citizenship, immigration, and the European social project: Rights and Obligations of Individuality
As envisioned by T.H. Marshall, social citizenship was a corrective to the injustices caused by the capitalist market. Entitlements and protections guaranteed by the welfare state would prevent social and economic exclusions that civil and political rights, on their own, simply could not. Such protections consequently would ensure social cohesion and solidarity, as well as a productive economy and market. European welfare states successfully foll…
Marshall, Thomas Humphrey (1893–1981)
Why study abroad? Sorting of Chinese students across British universities
This research contributes to the booming literature on the mobility of international students in higher education. We analyse university-level factors that affect the sorting of Chinese international students across British universities. We produced a unique data-set merging university-level data from the 2014 UK Higher Education Statistics Agency and the Higher Expectations Survey, supplemented by qualitative evidence from six focus groups for i…
Observing the Unobservable: Migrant Selectivity and Agentic Individuality Among Higher Education Students in China and Europe
The research in migrant selectivity largely overlooks the broader institutional processes that shape the extent to which migrants from different backgrounds are indeed positively selected. This is particularly true in the case of highly skilled migrants, whose selection may not be conditioned by migration but by education. This paper deals with this limitation by studying individual characteristics, which are often treated as unobserved selectivi…
It is all about “Hope”: Evidence on the immigrant optimism paradox
This paper investigates the immigrant educational optimism hypothesis using data from Spain. Specifically, we examine the nature of higher educational expectations among migrant-origin families in comparison to non-migrant families, conditional upon students’ prior school performance and social background. Our dataset includes more than two thousand students in secondary schools in Madrid and, as an innovation in the literature, allows identical …
Institutional underpinnings, global reach, and the future of ordinal citizenship
I had the opportunity to attend Marion Fourcade's highly stimulating 2019 BJS lecture on the transformations of liberal citizenship in the digital age. Between then and its printing in these pages (Fourcade, 2021), a big chunk of our lives indeed moved online. The Coronavirus pandemic has not only accelerated the great digital drive but also laid bare the vulnerabilities of core citizenship institutions such as education, health, work, and democr…
Meritocracy or reputation? The role of rankings in the sorting of international students across universities
University rankings have gained prominence in tandem with the global race towards excellence and as part of the growing expectation of rational, scientific evaluation of performance across a range of institutional sectors and human activity. While their omnipresence is acknowledged, empirically we know less about whether and how rankings matter in higher education outcomes. Do university rankings, predicated on universalistic standards and shared…
Selectivity among educational migrants? A multi-sited investigation
Research on migration is shifting from comparisons between migrants and non-migrants in destination countries to a multi-sited origin-destination perspective, which allows us to address the issue of migrant selectivity. Selectivity implies that migration results from a systematic bias according to which emigrants differ from non-migrants in origin. The literature on selectivity has overlooked educational migrants, an important contributor to the …
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