New research sheds light on how mediocre employees help would-be authoritarians maintain power. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R.

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I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

New paper on what happens after early school leaving in Spain (RSSM). Even among a highly disadvantaged group, social origin still shapes how second-chance educational pathways are organized. Inequality doesn’t stop at dropout www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

After dropout: Social stratification and the dynamics of educational re-entry in Spain

This study investigates how social origin shapes second-chance educational trajectories among early school leavers in Spain. Specifically, we focus on…

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📢 Call for Submissions | X Convegno SISEC – Florence, 28–31 Jan 2026 Our stream (with @francemente.bsky.social, “Opportunities and Challenges of an Ageing Population”, invites papers on caregiving inequalities and social stratification. Deadline: 12/11/2025 👉 sisec.it/wp-content/u...

Este hilo se titula: SER CINÉFILO ES MALO. Si eres tan viejo como yo o más y tu interés por el cine se forjó en las entrañas del legendario siglo XX sabes quién es Victor Mature. Y recuerdas perfectamente la fama que le rodeaba, un dato cinéfilo en boca de todos, un cliché sin discusión.

S2 🔴 Digital divide e cittadinanza in età avanzata: Jose David Lopez Blanco ci accompagna tra classi sociali, disparità territoriali e accesso digitale. Una lettura sociologica di forte attualità. #MeetingAgeItUniBo #Invecchiamento #Aging

If you're thinking about learning spatial analysis with R, this course is for you -and not just because I'm teaching it ;). Highly recomended!

European Consortium for Political Research@ecpr.bsky.social · last yr.

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Opening a revise & resubmit one and a half years after submission feels like being a character in a John Updike novel—resenting your wife and primogeniture and fantasizing about stepping out to buy tobacco and never coming back.

When Queen Victoria’s mourning disrupted the "London Season" (elite marriage market), peer-commoner intermarriage rose by 40%, marital wealth sorting fell by 30%, and peers' political power declined as a result. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Assortative Matching at the Top of the Distribution: Evidence from the World's Most Exclusive Marriage Market

(July 2022) - Using novel data on peerage marriages in Britain, I find that low search costs and marriage-market segregation can generate sorting. Peers courted in the London Season, a matching techno...

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Every IV paper

What a paragraph.

Teen Vogue@teenvogue.com · 2y ago

These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️

There’s a longstanding question: how much of the union wage premium is accounted for by selection (unions focus on more profitable firms to unionize) vs rent sharing (unions increase workers’ share of the profits) Well, superb new work by Raffaele Saggio & co answers this…!

My thoughtful and reflective opinion

Rereading Goldthorpe's stuff from 2004-2007 is like watching Messi's YouTube highlights from 2011-2014—absolute Mamba mentality

Under what circumstances can linguistic capital operate as an enabler of mobility or as a spatial constraint? I theorize about this in my PhD chapter, now published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Do languages open doors? A theoretical model of linguistic capital and (im)mobility and its application in Spanish youth migration

Language skills have demonstrated their significance in migration decisions; however, their role as a potential cause of immobility has been largely overlooked. In this paper, I first propose a the...

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if u are interested in - - working @ University of Bologna - doing (quantitative) research on formal and informal care givers - social stratification aspects of caregiving and its consequences then this call it is for u bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/asse... if u need help or info just dm/mail me

During Bs., you write in a fancy manner because you believe that being unintelligible is being intelligent; then you learn that the key lies in clarity. In the end, you end up writing like a 5 year old because the reviewer is going to understand your sampling strategy backwards.

Fantastic summary of what has been a great chit-chatting topic this year. Specially this hidden pearl, going beyond the more obvious internal critique about the institutional setting of Academia to the external(?) political gradient www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...