Roujman Shahbazian

Associate senior lecturer/Assistant Professor at Department of Sociology; Faculty

E-mail:
roujman.shahbazian@uu.se
Visiting address:
Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H
Postal address:
Box 624
751 26 UPPSALA

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ORCID:
0000-0003-2611-0198

Short presentation

Roujman Shahbazian is a lecturer in sociology. He is the program coordinator for the program focusing on human resources and work-life issues (the HR program) at Uppsala University.

Shahbazian's research focuses on social stratification, inequality, and family sociology. He is an affiliated researcher at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University, and at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE).

Keywords

  • inequality
  • social stratification
  • mobilitet

Biography

Shahbazian obtained his PhD in 2018 from the Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University, and has since been affiliated with the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University and Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich.

Current Research Projects

Shahbazian is currently dedicating his research time to three different projects. The first project involves a new measure for social research, based on occupational hierarchy, which measures occupational earning potential (OEP), published in the European Sociological Review. The goal is to help researchers analyze how relative positions in the labor market affect social mobility, education, and welfare outcomes, and this measure is particularly useful in cases where objective and longitudinal income data are not available.

The second project examines social mobility within and between generations. A study published in European Sociological Review shows that annual earnings are a better measure than occupation-based class measures for approximating lifetime income. In another study, published in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, the traditional sociological assumption that individuals reach their class destination early in their careers is questioned. The findings show that individuals, particularly in younger cohorts, change both occupations and social classes throughout their careers. Ongoing research explores whether this phenomenon is also observed in other countries and how it affects intergenerational outcomes.

Shahbazian's third research interest focuses on students' relative positioning within schools. A student's position in the school’s ability distribution provides information about their relative ability, which can influence their confidence and self-esteem. This, in turn, can affect their life chances in various areas, ranging from education to employment and welfare dependency.

Roujman Shahbazian

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