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Anton Grau Larsen

@antongrau.bsky.social

Sociologist working on elites, statistical programming and descriptive quantitative analysis. Roskilde University

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Philipp Golka@pgolka.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Next up is @lacic.bsky.social, Felix Bühlmann, Sophie Serrano & Fabien Foureault's paper on (gendered) divisions in asset managers' "networks of interest defence". The paper finds important differences between mainstream and alternative AMs external networks & elite positions. Small teaser:

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Michael Bang Petersen@m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 New in Nature Human Behaviour: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Many prior accounts of social media hostility focus on algorithms. With @boralexander.bsky.social, @a-marie-sci.bsky.social & @leapradella.bsky.social, we use data from 30 countries to focus on the role of societal conditions. 🧵1/7

Social media users experience more political hostility in less economically equal and less democratic societies - Nature Human Behaviour

Drawing on survey data from 30 countries, Bor et al. find that online political hostility is higher in more unequal and less democratic societies.

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Jonathan Báez Valencia@jbaezvalencia.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"Doctoral course: Explorations in Class, Elites, and Meritocracy" with professor @jhjellb.bsky.social and more!!! I wish to be there, maybe the next time❤️❤️❤️ www.hf.uio.no/paris/franca...

Doctoral course: Explorations in Class, Elites, and Meritocracy - Centre Universitaire de Norvège à Paris

Several sociological studies have found that inequalities that are based on meritocratic principles and equality of opportunity, i.e. the principles that the distribution of benefits, resources and re...

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Per Engzell@pengzell.bsky.social · 7mo ago

JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.

Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic OpportunityIntergenerational mobility, measuring the ability to achieve economic success regardless of family background, is a critical reflection of a society’s commitment to equality of opportunity. Rising income inequality has raised concerns about the potential erosion of upward mobility. While education has traditionally been viewed as the path to mobility, its transformative power is facing challenges in a rapidly evolving job market. This project reorients the focus of intergenerational mobility research by highlighting the labor market as an arena for the reproduction of advantage. It employs a comparative approach, using administrative data from four countries: Sweden, Austria, England, and the United States. It also incorporates evidence from a broader set of nations through cross-national surveys, longitudinal household surveys, labor force surveys, secondary data, and digital trace data. The project employs cutting-edge empirical methods, including quasi- experimental designs, event studies, within-family comparisons, decomposition analyses, counterfactual simulations, and diagnostic checks to rigorously assess the extent of inequalities in the labor market. The research investigates how family background influences the sorting of individuals to employers and workplaces, accounting for education and occupation, and explores variations in career progression within and between employers. It comprehensively catalogues and assesses mechanisms shaping workplace inequality, contributing to the development of social closure theory. Additionally, the project evaluates intervention strategies, encompassing both employer practices and government actions, to promote fair opportunity in the labor market.
Magne P. Flemmen@magneflemmen.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW BLOG: In my new paper, I map 26 questions on environmental attitudes in social space. I challenge three accounts of the classed nature of environmentalism: the prosperity thesis, ecological distinction, and eco-habitus. Read a short summary on my blog: magneflemmen.com/2025/05/31/g...

Green against greed: What my new paper says about class, cultural capital and environmental attitudes

Why are pro-environmental attitudes more common among the privileged? In a new article in The British Journal of Sociology, [free access version] I challenge three common explanations and propose a…

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Magne P. Flemmen@magneflemmen.bsky.social · last yr.

Why is environmentalism class divided? My new paper in The British Journal of Sociology maps attitudes to green issues in the social space of economic and cultural capital. Spoiler: it’s not just about being rich. 🧵https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-4446.13231

Linus Westheuser@lwestheuser.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Antipolitical sentiment in the working class is not least a symptom of class demobilization. For our German case, we document a steep decline of working class organization, mobilization, political and discursive representation. Others have noted very similar trends across rich democracies.

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Linus Westheuser@lwestheuser.bsky.social · 11mo ago

OK, a🧵: Our new paper studies workers' political consciousness in times of class demobilization. We show there's more to workers' politics than right-wing resentment. Listening to workers, we reconstruct their moral critiques of money, power & recognition. Link journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Linus Westheuser@lwestheuser.bsky.social · last yr.

Proper thread after the summer break– but if you were looking for a beach read about political reasoning in today's working class, look no further: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · 11mo ago

A tomato picker handing a full bucket to the dumper who empties it into a trailer which holds up to 6 tons. Workers earn .86 cents for each 25lb bucket. The only work around 5 hours a day, so they go at top speed without many breaks to earn enough to pay their bills. #WeFeedYou

𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥@jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I am honored to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant towards my project "Governing elites since the dawn of modern democracy" (GETGOV). It allows me to continue to advance this research agenda; the goal is to build a database on governing elites from 1789 and up to today + much more. #ERCStG

Jacob Nyrup awarded EU funds to research political elites - Department of Political Science

Jacob Nyrup from the Department of Political Science has been granted a substantial 18 million Norwegian kroner by the EU's research council to examine political elites in countries before and after d...

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Sol Gamsu@solgamsu.bsky.social · last yr.

Our paper on clusters of schools across the UK is out. We find five clusters: multi-racial & super-diverse middle & working-class schools of towns & cities, suburban white middle class schools, established elite schools & (post-)industrial white working class schools. doi.org/10.1002/berj...

A hierarchical cluster analysis on principal components showing five clusters of points, coloured by cluster, on a graph.
Are Skeie Hermansen@aresherman.bsky.social · last yr.

IN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in @nature.com this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9

Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs - Nature

Data from nine European and North American countries reveal that the disparity in earnings between immigrants and natives is largely a result of segregation of immigrant workers into lower-paying jobs...

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Silberbauer 🇪🇺🇬🇱@silberbauer.dk · last yr.

Landbruget har alt, alt for megen magt i Danmark. Som i: mafialignende magt. Her er et gavelink til en helt gak historie om at lade landbruget eje offentlige kontroldata. Det svarer til at give alle data om lungekræft til tobaksfabrikanterne og lade dem bestemme, hvilke forskere, der får adgang.

Forskere skulle gøre deres projekt »spiseligt for erhvervet« for at få adgang til data om dyrevelfærd

Den tidligere landbrugsstyrelse har givet ejerskab over data indsamlet af offentligt ansatte på de danske slagterier til Landbrug & Fødevarer. Det kan være et brud på offentlighedsloven og brud på EU-...

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