Bryan Boyle
@bryanboyle.bsky.social
Sociologist. Postdoctoral Researcher @mpifg.bsky.social. Incoming Lecturer in Sociology @manchester.ac.uk. Labour, culture & elites.
My book, Streaming privilege. How television teaches us to accept inequality, is now out! Mixing elite sociology and cultural studies, I aim at unpacking our desire for luxury topics. The book is OA, so you may read it at @manchesterup.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526190055/
Manchester University Press - Streaming privilege
Streaming privilege - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Streaming privilege by Hanna Kuusela
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📢 Call: Postdoctoral Researcher for our research group on Technology and Statehood, led by Regine Paul. Possible research topics include: States’ use of AI stacks, quantum computing, and digital twins. 🗓️ Apply by September 18, 2026 Please share widely! career.mpifg.de/jobposting/f...
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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Parents booking air-conditioned hotels to keep babies safe in UK heatwave
Parents booking air-conditioned hotels to keep babies safe in UK heatwave
Hotels report increase in last-minute bookings, including from families attempting to escape hot homes Families, including parents with newborn babies, are booking air-conditioned rooms in hotels to escape the UK heatwave, with companies reporting a surge in demand. Data from the accommodation reservation website Booking.com shows that since 1 June, the share of searches using the “air-conditioning” filter has tripled across Great Britain coinciding with the latest heatwave in northern Europe. Continue reading...
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Thanks @mpifg.bsky.social! And thanks to the Labour and Labour Movement Section for this award!
Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG)@mpifg.bsky.social · last mo.🏆 Congratulations to @bryanboyle.bsky.social and @dvandebroeck.bsky.social on their @asanews.bsky.social Distinguished Scholarly Article Award! Their paper, “The Labor of Distinction,” is based on an ethnography of the butler profession and shows how elite status is produced through service labor.
✍️ "In creative and media-adjacent careers, the ladder often starts with free labour." Many young people in this country simply cannot afford to work free, but many industries still normalise free labour as a route into a career. This must be tackled.
Unpaid work is killing class diversity in the creative industries - The Sutton Trust
Our alum, Bethany, discusses the prominence of unpaid work in the creative professions.
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Take a look at this new edited volume from @dvandebroeck.bsky.social, Maaike Jappens, and Annette Lareau on "Socializing Inequality: Class, Culture and Cognition in Early Childhood", published by Routledge. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
Socializing Inequality | Class, Culture and Cognition in Early Childho
This book examines the processes through which children effectively 'inherit' their position in the social world. It asks: How does class inequality affect
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I’m looking for three PhD students for my new ERC project, starting 1 September. The goal is to understand how firms shape inequality in workers’ careers—using population registers. Please spread the word! Deadline is March 8, more info here (see projects 4-6): ics-graduateschool.nl/vacancies/
Vacancies | ICS
ICS Sociology PhD positions vacancies Graduate school program Social Sciences Methodology
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Bryan's article is not only a great read but also highly topical - offering a glimpse into the hidden labour processes in the elite world that surrounds the likes of Epstein and the (con) artist formerly known as Prince Andrew
Bryan Boyle@bryanboyle.bsky.social · 6mo agoVery happy to be a part of this special issue on “Hierarchies of Domesticity – Spatial and Social Boundaries", which is out now in @wolgjournal.bsky.social! www.scienceopen.com/journal-issu...
Very happy to be a part of this special issue on “Hierarchies of Domesticity – Spatial and Social Boundaries", which is out now in @wolgjournal.bsky.social! www.scienceopen.com/journal-issu...
I am happy to share that my article: Family Feelings: affective ties and the reproduction of wealth in super-rich families was among the five most read articles in Emotions and Society in 2025! @bupjournals.bsky.social Here you can access the collection:
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Great new paper! A similar study in the U.K. is long overdue. A lot of elite employers in the U.K. have begun to take class background seriously, but universities remain woefully behind
Anna Stansbury@annastansbury.bsky.social · 6mo ago📢now forthcoming in ECMA! The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations. Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵
🚨 Postdoctoral Position at the University of Konstanz 🚨 We’re hiring a post-doc for our @excinequality.bsky.social project on political elites and decision-making. 4-year position | Deadline: Feb. 20 | Start: Sept 2026 Please share widely 🙏 The ad is here stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...
Postdoctoral Position at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality”
Deadline: 20 February 2026, 12:00 pm CET
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A college spending resource on this instead of access efforts, given the woeful current state of access (particularly to unis like Cambridge), is a regulatory failure. Unis should have access targets and face real consequences if they don't meet them. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Cambridge college to target elite private schools for student recruitment
Exclusive: Trinity Hall’s new policy described as a ‘slap in the face’ for state-educated students
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First official working day of 2026 - and we'll restart our attempts to understand what to do with our political economy. On Wednesday, I'll give a talk at the Max Plank Institute in Köln on whether limitarianism is compatible with capitalism (open to the public): www.mpifg.de/events/43416...
Are Limitarianism and Capitalism Compatible?
Ingrid Robeyns introduces limitarianism as regulative ideal to keep striving for, the view that there should be a cap on how much personal wealth each individual can have.
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Are you outside of the UK and want to come do a post-doc with me? Consider using this opportunity.internal EOI deadline is Jan 29th so you will need to get in touch before 15th. Only projects on remote/flexible working, ideal worker culture, gender roles www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
International Fellowships 2026
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
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New in @socprobsjournal.bsky.social w/ @estelabdiaz.bsky.social: the rapid growth of the admissions consulting industry has raised questions about inequality, privilege, and merit. We combine two original data sources to ask how consultants make sense of their work. academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...
Inequality and moral meaning-making in the admissions consulting profession
Abstract. Prior research has described how middle-class and affluent families draw on private supplemental educational resources to help their children mai
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Our neighbours at @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social are hiring 3 (!) tenure-track faculty members: – Assistant Professor in Political Economy – Assistant Professor in International Politics – Assistant Professor in Political Science Deadline: 15 Jan 2026 More details: jobs.tcd.ie @tcddublin.bsky.social
Me and @runestahl.bsky.social are hiring a future PhD fellow to study climate and class www.cbs.dk/om-cbs/job-o...
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📣 Call for doctoral researchers! For our International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy we’re seeking doctoral researchers with a master’s degree in sociology, political science, economics, or a related field. Please share widely! s.gwdg.de/LNzUNa
Feeling very lucky to be able to give this talk at the University of Copenhagen tomorrow! www.sociology.ku.dk/about/calend...
Major research project to explore inequalities in museum attendance 😍 www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
Major research project to explore inequalities in museum attendance - Museums Association
University of Leicester announces four-year initiative to address sector’s engagement and benefit gap
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Good luck to my colleagues at the @vubrussel.bsky.social protesting against the Flemish government’s cuts to higher education this Thursday. Article (in Dutch) below www.demorgen.be/nieuws/waaro...
Waarom ze aan de VUB uitzonderlijk de straat optrekken: ‘We hadden meteen het werk moeten neerleggen’
Er komt een cruciale week aan voor de VUB. De Vlaamse regering bespaart vanaf 1 januari fors in het budget voor het Brussels hoger onderwijs. Van vakbonden tot studenten, professoren en decanen: op 11...
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Good luck to my colleagues at the @vubrussel.bsky.social protesting against the Flemish government’s cuts to higher education this Thursday. Article (in Dutch) below www.demorgen.be/nieuws/waaro...
Waarom ze aan de VUB uitzonderlijk de straat optrekken: ‘We hadden meteen het werk moeten neerleggen’
Er komt een cruciale week aan voor de VUB. De Vlaamse regering bespaart vanaf 1 januari fors in het budget voor het Brussels hoger onderwijs. Van vakbonden tot studenten, professoren en decanen: op 11...
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We’re offering a full-time, three-year position in a dynamic research group.
CNRS cancels Web of Science in order to focus on qualitative evaluation and promoting the development of open databases. www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cn...
The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science
From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics'
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