LES SCIENCES SOCIALES EN QUESTION : GRANDES CONTROVERSES ÉPISTÉMOLOGIQUES ET MÉTHODOLOGIQUES 

co-organisé avec le CERI, Sciences Po

Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saint Pères, 75007 Paris 

Field experiments are commonly used to measure discrimination in non-interactional situations. A host of correspondence studies (testings) examine differences in callback rates to job applications according to the origin or religion of the applicant. But they rarely consider discrimination in everyday social interactions, despite the psychological distress it is known to generate. Martin Aranguren picked up the challenge. He presents a large-scale field experiment that he recently conducted in the streets of Paris on racial discrimination in helping passers-by. His research is discussed by Morgane Laouenan and Achim Edelmann.

Speaker

Martin Aranguren (Sciences Po, CRIS) has recently published : "Responses to the Islamic headscarf in everyday interactions depend on sex and locale: a field experiment in the metros of Brussels, Paris, and Vienna on helping and involvement behaviors", PLoS ONE, 2021 (with Francisco Madrisotti, Eser Dumas-Martin et al.); "Anti-Muslim behavior in everyday interaction: evidence from a field experiment in Paris", Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies , 49(3), 2023: 770-794 (with Francesco Madrisotti & Eser Durmaz-Martins); Special issue (ed.) “Prévalence, mécanismes et conséquences cumulatives des discriminations en raison de l’origine” Appartenances & Altérites ,3, 2023.

Discussants

Morgane Laouenan (CNRS, Centre d’économie de la Sorbonne -Paris 1 – Sorbonne, IRD/LIEPP-Sciences Po) is a specialist of racial and gender discrimination. She has recently published « Ethnic Discrimination on an Online Marketplace of Vacation Rentals , American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 14 (1), 2022 (with Roland Rathelot ); « Discriminations à l'embauche des personnes d'origine supposée maghrébine : quels enseignements d'une grande étude par testing ? », Note IPP, 76, 2021 (with Mirna Safi, Pierre Villedieu et al.) ; « Discrimination à l’embauche selon le sexe : les enseignements d’un testing de grande ampleur », DARES Analyses, 26 & Note IPP, 67, 2021.

Achim Edelmann (Sciences Po, Medialab) specializes in the sociology of culture, social networks and computational methods. He has recently published “Computational Social Science and Sociology”. Annu Rev Sociol. 2020, 46(1):61-81(with Tom Wolff, Danielle Montagne, Christopher A. Bail);” “Formalizing symbolic boundaries”, Poetics, 68(1), 2018.

Chair

Nonna Mayer, Sciences Po, CEE, CNRS