Research

Publications (peer-reviewed)

Understandings of Culture: A European Bottom-Up Study Using Structural Topic Modelling
Ossi Sirkka; Simon Walo; Semi Purhonen; Marc Verboord; Susanne Janssen; Philippe Bonnet (forthcoming)
Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

Perceptions of a Shared European Culture Increase the Support for the European Union
Valentina Petrović; Simon Walo; Jörg Rössel; Tally Katz-Gerro; Maria Pilar Lopez Belbeze (2024)
Journal of Common Market Studies
https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13619 

‘Bullshit’ After All? Why People Consider Their Jobs Socially Useless
Simon Walo (2023)
Work, Employment and Society 37(5): 1123-1146
https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170231175771

The link between routine tasks and job polarization: A task measurement problem?
Simon Walo (2023)
LABOUR 37(3): 437–467
https://doi.org/10.1111/labr.12251

Working Papers

Historical Changes in the Meaning of Work: Quantifying Smith, Marx and Weber with Word Embeddings
Simon Walo
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/pxj7m/

Measuring Historical Changes in Capitalist Ideology with Word Embeddings
Simon Walo

Geographical and aesthetic inclusiveness: a new cultural worldview? The case of nine European countries
Jordi Lopez Sintas; Jörg Rössel; Tally Katz-Gerro; Simon Walo

Right-Wing Voters in Old and New Democracies
Valentina Petrović; Simon Walo; Larissa Fritsch