Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Kasimir Dederichs (University of Oxford) Join to connect? Voluntary involvement, social capital, and socioeconomic inequalities.
| Dates: | 11 February 2026 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 17:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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Access to social capital is stratified by socioeconomic status and has been cross-sectionally linked to involvement
in voluntary organizations. Yet, we know little about the origin and interplay of these empirical regularities.
Regression analyses on German panel data (SC6-NEPS) reveal that people rich in social capital join organizations
more often (selection). Furthermore, joiners access more and higher-status social capital after joining (socializing
opportunities). Low-status individuals disproportionally extend their reach towards higher positions through
involvement but join less often. Compared to a counterfactual situation in which nobody joins, current
involvement patterns marginally reduce some socioeconomic inequalities in access to social capital.
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