„Working class support for X is up by Y%“. What does this information do to polarization between groups? In a new paper w/ Geoffrey Evans: Perceived working-class alignment with pro/anti camps on immigration & environment shifts identification and sympathy doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Perceived class positions and opinion-based polarisation: experimental evidence from the UK

Class divisions over emerging policy issues are well-documented, yet the mechanisms driving these divisions remain underexplored. This article argues that perceptions of how the working class posit...

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@giacomomelli.bsky.social, @leoazzollini.bsky.social & Franco Bonomi Bezzo: Healthcare provision and attitudes towards redistribution. A regional analysis across Europe 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Always wanted to have gini coefficients and other inequality statistics of different sources in one dataset? Here you are. The Integrated Inequality Data, from WIID, Worldbank, LIS, and SWIID. osf.io/5cguq/overview

1/ Does growing up poor always lead to political apathy? Very happy to share my first paper published (open access) in @electoralstudies.bsky.social, where I show that parents' influence mitigates the poverty gap in participation, while economic mobility does not. 🔗 shorturl.at/p5Bac

My new book, The Division of Rationalized Labor, is now shipping! A brief summary of the argument to follow…

The rise of stratification research in sociology, economics, and political science. My new blog. With a conclusion that European universities should rather sponsor inequality centers than to dismantle them. @eui-eu.bsky.social @eui-sps.bsky.social hermwerf.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...

The Rise of Stratification Research in Sociology, Economics, and Political Science

How social stratification became increasingly studied in sister fields of sociology

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Billions of 🇪🇺 money flow into regional development. But do citizens trust the EU more in return? 🔬 Find out in this Electoral Studies article with Paul Maneuvrier-Hervieu and Anne-Marie Jeannet. ❗Spoiler: EU 💶 regional funds do build trust in the 🇪🇺 , especially among working-class citizens.

Cultivating trust? The role of European Union investments in bridging rural-urban divides

Over the last decades, agricultural policies and structural investment funds for regional development have been central to European integration. Howev…

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New Open Access paper published in PNAS Nexus! “Ingroup preferences, segregation, and intergroup contact in neighborhoods and civic organizations” with my co-authors Rob Franken, @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social, and Jochem Tolsma. doi.org/10.1093/pnas... Thread below.

Class-based gaps in voter turnout and political representation in Britain are likely to widen further. Our study, with Nan Dirk de Graaf and Geoff Evans (@nuffieldcollege.bsky.social), reveals how social mobility creates a cycle that reinforces democratic inequalities. 🗳️🪜

Social Mobility, Self‐Selection, and the Persistence of Class Inequality in Electoral Participation

In recent decades, non-voting among the British working class has increased substantially, contributing to widening class-based inequality in electoral participation. This study examines the impact o...

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In countries where income inequality is high, those who feel privileged are often more supportive of redistribution.

Where you think you are in society (not where you actually are) matters for how you think about inequality

In countries where income inequality is high, those who feel privileged are often more supportive of redistribution.

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Why do people with similar jobs or classes see inequality so differently? My new piece in @theconversation.com explains why where you think you stand in society is key.

Where you think you are in society (not where you actually are) matters for how you think about inequality

In countries where income inequality is high, those who feel privileged are often more supportive of redistribution.

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Nice opportunity. Deadline closing soon. TN-Square 6th Edition, Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research, 22-24 October 2025, Trento Employment and Mobility over the life course in changing societies

CSIS@csisunitn.bsky.social · last yr.

The 6th TN-Square is coming! 🏔️ This edition we are discussing employment, mobility trajectories and social inequality and we couldn’t be more excited. ✨ Submit your application by August 25th and spread the news! For more spoilers, check our website: event.unitn.it/tn-square/ #TNSquare25

New paper in Quality & Quantity, just in time for your summer methodological reading! With @giorgiodolci.bsky.social, we validate the measurement of populist attitudes in the @ess-survey.bsky.social. Because nothing says 'break' like Structural Equation Modelling and Measurement Invariance.

Giorgio Dolci@giorgiodolci.bsky.social · last yr.

Super happy to share my new (well, actually first ever!) publication! In this article, @giacomomelli.bsky.social and I set out to operationalize and validate a scale of populist attitudes, using data from Round 10 of the #EuropeanSocialSurvey. Full article here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Sociology at Oxford@sociologyoxford.bsky.social · last yr.

🧠 A paper by DPhil student Giacomo Melli highlights the power of subjective social status in shaping attitudes to wealth redistribution. But context matters: in more unequal societies, support for redistribution is less divided by perceived status. 🔗➡️ www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/stud...

🧠 A paper by DPhil student Giacomo Melli highlights the power of subjective social status in shaping attitudes to wealth redistribution. But context matters: in more unequal societies, support for redistribution is less divided by perceived status. 🔗➡️ www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/stud...

1-year opportunity for a Departmental Lecturer in Sociology at @sociologyoxford.bsky.social for the academic year 25/26. This position has a focus on life course research and quant methods. Apply by 27/6. tinyurl.com/2tydswwj

Should the government 🏛️ fight economic inequality? You probably have a strong take. But why do you believe that? 📌 Spoilers from our new Social Science Research paper with Giacomo Melli: it depends jointly on where you think you stand in society🪜 and how unequal your surroundings actually are!

Giacomo Melli@giacomomelli.bsky.social · last yr.

What happens when we look at support for redistribution through the lens of how people feel about their place in society? 🔎 My new article in Social Science Research with Leo Azzollini (@leoazzollini.bsky.social) explores this in 25 countries, 1987-2019. 🚀 @ssreditorial.bsky.social

What happens when we look at support for redistribution through the lens of how people feel about their place in society? 🔎 My new article in Social Science Research with Leo Azzollini (@leoazzollini.bsky.social) explores this in 25 countries, 1987-2019. 🚀 @ssreditorial.bsky.social

Where I stand and what I stand for: Subjective status, class, and redistribution

While research is increasingly focusing on the political influence of subjective social status, it is yet unclear how the latter shapes attitudes towa…

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🗳️ Populism is a warning sign. English local elections show it again: People feel abandoned & look scapegoats. Drawing on own research & others, I argue 👇🏽 💡 To counter populism: We need to reinvest in citizens, e.g. housing, health & dignity. Short 🧵 📖 www.socialeurope.eu/to-counter-p...

To Counter Populism and Bolster Security, Europe Must Reinvest In Its Citizens

Facing security threats and rising populism, Europe needs state investment in citizens, not austerity that fuelled discontent.

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That blinking cursor. The empty page. The weight of what should be written. Every writer, academic, student knows this feeling. I unpack the fear of the blank page & share practical tips for moving past it. 🧵 🔗 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/meeting-th...

Meeting the Blank Page

On Discomfort and the Quiet Practice of Showing Up

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Today!

Giacomo Melli@giacomomelli.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to share my first insights on how class and family socialisation influence electoral participation over the life course at the University of Milan on 10 April at 3:30 PM (CEST)! Join me in person or online, details below or on the website.

Excited to share my first insights on how class and family socialisation influence electoral participation over the life course at the University of Milan on 10 April at 3:30 PM (CEST)! Join me in person or online, details below or on the website.

Out now in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility! Drawing on 19 waves of ISSP data (2002–2021), I explore how social class and subjective status influence electoral participation across 25 European democracies.

Class, Subjective Status, and Turnout in Europe

Inspired by Weber’s distinction between class and status, the paper explores the independent and joint role of social class and subjective social stat…

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Published Today in PSRM: Based on a novel “Multiple Unexpected Events during Survey Design” (MUESD), I contextualize previous findings suggesting that Europeans become more empathetic toward migrants when exposed to migrant suffering. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... A Summary Thread: 1/15

Who does Spiderman vote for? Who you vote for. In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Just did the proofs for this short methods paper that I really like! Not everyday you get to 'solve' a problem identified 30 years ago in some of the most widely used statistical models in #sociology 👀 - and with two super awesome collaborators, what a blast 🥳

Time for some reading recommendations! 🗞️ Earlier this week, our @leoazzollini.bsky.social (w/ @giacomomelli.bsky.social & F. Bonomi Bezzo) work on healthcare provision and attitudes towards redistribution in 🇪🇺 got published! You don't want to miss it! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Healthcare provision and attitudes towards redistribution. A regional analysis across Europe

This study examines the relationship between the welfare state, individual social class, and views on redistribution. It is hypothesised that the manifestation of the welfare state at the regional ...

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Excited to share my new paper with Leo Azzollini @leoazzollini.bsky.social (@csisunitn.bsky.social) and Franco Bonomi Bezzo on healthcare provision and attitudes toward redistribution in the Journal of European Public Policy @jeppjournal.bsky.social

💥 New: The German left has lost its monopoly on class consciousness ✍️ @lwestheuser.bsky.social & @thomaslux.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

The German left has lost its monopoly on class consciousness

The German radical right has mobilised around a working class identity that pits hard-working “makers” against parasitic “takers”. Linus Westheuser and Thomas Lux argue that for the left to win bac…

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More supreme public service from Ben Jann @unibern.bsky.social: the Stata crosswalk package, which replaces iscogen 🫡 Rapidly recode ISCO codes to an even wider range of occupational scales and class schemes, including the Occupational Earning Potential scale github.com/benjann/cros...

GitHub - benjann/crosswalk: Stata module to recode variable based on crosswalk table (bulk recoding)

Stata module to recode variable based on crosswalk table (bulk recoding) - benjann/crosswalk

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