This study explores why working-class young people in Northeast England pursue engineering apprenticeships, how they secure them, and the role of household support in sustaining these pathways. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️

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This article explores how self-descriptions can orient organisations towards trajectories that sustain activities that contribute to environmental crises while simultaneously acknowledging both the crises themselves and the need for transformative responses. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️

Self‐Description and the Agro‐Industry's Response to Environmental Crises

This article explores how self-descriptions can orient organisations towards trajectories that sustain activities that contribute to environmental crises while simultaneously acknowledging both the…

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Read Max Holleran's review of "Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York" by Dylan Gottlieb. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Review of Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York. By Dylan Gottlieb. Harvard University Press, 2026

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Really happy to see my new article on far-right politics, touristification and the ‘political economy of taste’ published in @bjsociology.bsky.social (open access) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How Cultural Taste Shapes Recognition and Redistribution Struggles: Far‐Right Politics, Touristification and the Political Economy of Taste

This article connects cultural taste to capitalist mechanisms of redistribution through the concept of political economy of taste. Building on Bourdieusian scholarship on recognition struggles and dr...

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I reviewed for @bjsociology.bsky.social "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA" by Philip Rathgeb. It opens avenues for transcending the overemphasis on voters & discourse but ultimately remains constrained by it. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Are members of the public still committed to democracy? Drawing on Civil Sphere Theory and the sociology of culture and cognition, this article tempers fears of democratic decline and bridges two sometimes conflicting traditions in cultural sociology. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️

Democracy From Within: A Democratic Cultural Schema in the US Public

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Drawing on longitudinal data from the 1958 National Child Development Study, this article examines whether childhood residential mobility contributes to adult wealth accumulation, through which developmental pathways, and under what conditions. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️

Childhood Residential Mobility and the Life-Course Accumulation of Wealth Inequalities: Evidence From the 1958 British Birth Cohort

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Read Scott W. Duxbury's review of "Open Secrecy: How Technology Empowers the Digital Underground" by Isak Ladegaard. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Open Secrecy: How Technology Empowers the Digital Underground. By Isak Ladegaard

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Using the Hungry Ghost festival, which approximately 378 million people in mainland China engage in annually, this article explores why individuals in China undertake numerous tasks for souls and spirits, whether or not they believe that these beings exist. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️

Family Rituals in the Hungry Ghost Festival: Spirituality and Multiplex Beliefs in China

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Read Thirza Wakefield's review of "A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie" by Dan Evans. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie. By Dan, Evans, London: Repeater Books, 2023. 330 pp. £12.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978-1-91-346269-7

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This article revisits Leonard Hobhouse, an early advocate of a “normative sociology”, and explores what his work can tell us about the promises and pitfalls of bringing values explicitly into sociological analysis. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The Normative Turn: Back to Hobhouse?

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Based on fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows how collusion between state actors and violent non-state actors operates through relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️

Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America

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This article draws on qualitative data to argue that specific, individualised and binary framings of merit and non-merit beliefs in conventional accounts under-explore the varied ways in which people recognise structural processes. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Subjective Social Inequalities, Lay Perceptions of Merit and Puzzles of Explanation

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This article argues that criminal records increasingly function as classificatory tools. Drawing on examples from law, policy and markets, it shows how opportunities to mitigate criminal record marks reward those with more resources. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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This article proposes a new framework—the OESD quadrangle—that incorporates origin, education, skills and destination to better understand the structure of intergenerational inequality and its cross-national patterns. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Education, Skills, and Intergenerational Inequality in Status Attainment: Causal Mediation Analysis and Typology of 23 OECD Countries

Scholars have long investigated intergenerational inequality, with attention to the associations among social origins, education, and socio-economic destinations: the so-called OED triangle.…

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This paper connects cultural taste to capitalist mechanisms of redistribution through the political economy of taste. It examines how performances of taste reshape representations of working-class culture and how they are mobilised by elites. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️

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In this research note, Herman G. van de Werfhorst explores how the field of the sociogenomics of inequalities would benefit from discussing what its findings and ambitions mean for core theories of social stratification and mobility. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️

The Sociogenomics of Social Stratification and General Theories of Inequality

The field of the sociogenomics of inequalities would benefit from discussing what its findings and ambitions mean for core theories of social stratification and mobility. Do sociologists need to…

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Nearly ten years ago, our special issue brought together perspectives on Brexit and its wider implications. A decade on, many of the themes still resonate, from inequality and identity to political division and belonging. On the anniversary of Brexit, revisit the articles ➡️ buff.ly/0JdLWLA

Special issue: The Trump/Brexit Moment: Causes and Consequences

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This article by Justyna Kajta and Stefan Bieńkowski emphasises the role of historical context and family histories in shaping processes of class mobility and class reproduction, and examines these processes from a biographical perspective. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️

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Read Nicola Bishop's review of "A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie" by Dan Evans, writing how the book offers important new insights on a persistently overlooked social group. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Reading Margaret Kennedy’s The Feast (1950) at the Same Time as Dan Evan’s A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie (2023)

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Read Claude Didry's review of "Politicising Commodification. European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency" by Roland Erne, Sabrina Stan, Darragh Golden, Imre Szabo, and Vincenzo Maccarone. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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My research note on what the sociogenomics of stratification can teach us about broad sociological theories of inequality got accepted by the @bjsociology.bsky.social. My thinking for this note started when @melindacmills.bsky.social came to present her work on status at the @eui-eu.bsky.social. >

Our coEiC @allartmarkets.bsky.social has a piece in this alongside @maijutanninen.bsky.social & @gertmeyers.bsky.social ; Stephen Collier; Elena Esposito & Alberto Cevilini; Pierre Francois; Laurence Barry; Turo Kimmo Lehtonen; Paula Jarzabokowski et al

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📣 We've published a new special issue on Insurance and Social Theory! The issue, guest edited by Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen, Elena Esposito and Alberto Cevolini, examines the evolving landscape of insurance and how society navigates future uncertainty. Read the #BJS special issue ⬇️

📣 A new @bjsociology.bsky.social special issue on Insurance and Social Theory has just been published! The special issue examines the evolving landscape of insurance and its implications for how society navigates future uncertainty Read in the #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/q7Fmncb

Special Issue: Insurance and Social Theory

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This paper provides suggestions for recruitment, interview strategies and design to gain high-quality data on wealthy people. It is based on an interview study of 81 US racially-diverse families with a median net worth of $25 million. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️

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Drawing on qualitative interviews with middle-class households aged 30 to 39 in Paris, this paper examines how parental financial support is negotiated among homebuyers and renters and how it affects family relationships. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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📣 We've published a new special issue on Insurance and Social Theory! The issue, guest edited by Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen, Elena Esposito and Alberto Cevolini, examines the evolving landscape of insurance and how society navigates future uncertainty. Read the #BJS special issue ⬇️

Special Issue: Insurance and Social Theory

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This study theorises relatability as a racialised cultural–affective filter that covertly sustains inequality. Drawing on qualitative interviews, the article identifies interlinked processes through which whiteness operates as a normative anchor in hiring. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️

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Based on ethnographic fieldwork with Congolese traders operating in Kinshasa's urban economy, this article examines how differentiated family ties and wealth transmission shape social mobility and the intergenerational reproduction of inequality. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️

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This paper addresses the question of how hiring agents evaluate cultural capital signals in light of different human capital signals, drawing on a factorial survey experiment across different geographical, industry and career stage contexts. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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