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If "60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity," that's only because the tech workers who can put in all those hours at the office have offloaded all their caregiving responsibilities onto others more vulnerable than them. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/t...

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Look at Donald Trump and his gang of broligarchs – and tell me we don’t need a wealth tax | Brian Cox

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Wondering about the scare stories of wealthy tax flight based on non-dom tax changes or private school VAT? Our new research explains why the vast majority won’t migrate, and are snobbish about tax havens w/@andy-summers.bsky.social Emma Taylor,Victoria Gronwald academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

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Wealth inequality in the USA has risen sharply in recent times and has reached a new historic record. Sources: Forbes 400 Rich list; total wealth denominator: US Financial Accounts via @gabrielzucman.bsky.social

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Read our new paper on how the economic empowerment of one generation of women drives greater political officeholding for the next 💪✨

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Curious how elite reproduction occurs in a more egalitarian society? Check out new work with fabulous PhD student and lead author Lisa Maria Breistein Sølvberg where we examine elite hiring in Norway.

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🏁New paper! Social status moderates the effect of belief in meritocracy on economic conflict attitudes. Meritocracy doesn't always legitimize inequality and sometimes it does more :) Published with @bramspruyt.bsky.social Filip Van Droogenbroeck and @tkupp.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1468...

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'Economic Elites and Global Shocks: A Conceptual Mapping' by Magda Bolzoni, Joselle Dagnes, and Luca Storti 👀 👀 👀 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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#ICYMI: From #Saltburn and #Succession to the #Kardashians, we’re fascinated by #privilege – but what does it really mean? @shamuskhan.bsky.social joins #UncommonSense #podcast to reflect on inequality, ease, embodiment – and thinkers from Pierre Bourdieu to Frantz Fanon. https://buff.ly/3T9tiNq

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“We are shocked and saddened by the news of Professor Michael Burawoy’s passing. His untimely death is a great loss to sociology & to movements for justice around the world.” @michaelabenson.bsky.social on a collegiate, courageous giant of the discipline. thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

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Being told that sociologist Michael Burawoy (UC Berkeley) has been killed.

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Great to see our recent paper on butlers and the 'Labour of Distinction' covered in the Frankfurter Allgemeine. Grateful to @fernschreiber.bsky.social for summarising our core analysis and main argument so well! www-faz-net.translate.goog/aktuell/wiss...

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Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment

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#OtD 25 Jan 1995 Manchester United football legend Eric Cantona kung fu kicked a fascist football hooligan, who attended far-right NF and BNP rallies and had convictions for violent crime including attacking an anti-fascist. Commemorative merch here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/...

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ASA member Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social talks to Jon Stewart about the emerging tech CEO “broligarchy” @thedailyshow.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvCm...

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New publication (in French): shorturl.at/CW7R3 Analyzing 1,423 elite marriages in Geneva between 1890 and 1957, I show the persistence of endogamy among patrician elites, particularly those with significant economic power.

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We're in @TheGuardian.com today! So glad to be able to make an argument for protecting human connection, just one week after the UK PM rhapsodized about the power of AI in teaching and other humane service. Not everything is a nail, as we pick up these new hammers!

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Insight

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Inauguration day reading…

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Brussels has stepped up its investigation into the role of X in European politics by requiring the social media platform to hand over internal documents regarding its recommendation algorithm www.ft.com/content/a6dc...

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👋 Excited to join Bluesky! We're the Brussels Institute for Social and Population Studies (BRISPO) from VUB, researching socioeconomic, cultural, & demographic dimensions of social inequality in Belgium, Europe, & beyond! Follow us for: 📖 Research updates 💡 Key findings 🎉 Events & activities

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This week on the @contexts.org blog, @shayobrien.bsky.social (@harvardkennedy.bsky.social) weighs in on a topic near and dear to my own heart: #families & #wealth! 💰 ➡️ contexts.org/blog/the-gen...

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The significance of private firefighters seen in LA seems like a glimpse into the future... www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/u...

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I'm very much looking forward to this!

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Closing Monday: expressions of interest in ‘Sociology in the Times of Genocide’, a spevial section of @sociologicalreview.bsky.social thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

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The world’s richest burned through their entire share of the 2025 carbon budget in just 10 days. Meanwhile, people across the globe struggle with rising costs of living and climate breakdown they didn’t cause.

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New paper with Ryan Mundy on the advantage of candidate wealth in US elections. Our rich Congress comes from rich candidates: they raise far more early money and especially more large-dollar donations, scare off competitors, and are more likely to be elected. Link below. @ryanmundy.bsky.social

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This is a groundbreaking work from @bryanboyle.bsky.social and Dieter Vanderbroeck. Based on painstaking ethnographic research, they elucidate how the labour of butlers is appropriated by elites in service of marking out their own cultural distinction journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Mine and @dvandebroeck.bsky.social’s paper on ‘The Labor of Distinction’ is out now in ASR. Drawing from an ethnography that involved training and working as a butler, we tell a larger story about elites and inequality (1/18) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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