Magne P. Flemmen
@magneflemmen.bsky.social
Sociology prof at University of Oslo. Class, culture, politics, theory. Member of The European Center for the Study of Culture & Inequality. Associate editor, European Societies. Editorial board of ASR. Frank Parkin Appreciation Society.
Really energizing few days at the @bjsociology.bsky.social conference at @lsesociology.bsky.social More highlights than I can fit in one post, but was mesmerized by @vladimirbortun.bsky.social and @sachahilhorst.bsky.social studying the far right from very different angles,
Really impressed again by the combination of deep discussions and good vibes at this year's @bjsociology.bsky.social conference, including fantastic work by @marentoft.bsky.social, @magneflemmen.bsky.social, @vladimirbortun.bsky.social, @sachahilhorst.bsky.social & @salomeietter.bsky.social
Notes on Bernard Lahire’s The Plural Actor magneflemmen.com/2022/08/10/n... by @magneflemmen.bsky.social
Notes on Bernard Lahire’s The Plural Actor
Last summer, I finally managed to read Bernard Lahire’s The Plural Actor (2011, French original from 1998). What follows is a slightly edited version of a Twitter thread I wrote then. The Plur…
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Ungdom vokser opp i ulike klassemiljøer og sosialiseres dermed inn i politiske forskjeller. Det ser vi tydelig i skolevalgsresultater i en sosialt delt by som Oslo. Få med deg @magneflemmen.bsky.social på årets Ungdatakonferanse som handler om ungdoms mot og mening! www.ungdata.no/ungdatakonfe...
Crucially, all these forms of critique coexist and often do not congeal into coherent left- or right-wing political worldviews: reacting to specific moral violations, the same workers will criticize politicians, the greedy rich, welfare scroungers, foreigners, bosses, and landlords.
In terms of political representation, workers critique forms of political inequality and political exclusion: Politicians, as part of the upper class, only serve the upper class; and politics is a self-referential sphere closed to non-experts.
In the domain of recognition, workers criticize violations of a hierarchy of deservingness whereby productive "makers" such as themselves are devalued vis-à-vis unproductive "takers"; as well as a devaluation of manual versus non-manual work. Both are based on a violated sense of "producers' pride".
In terms of material distribution, workers critique injustices of social polarization (elites pull away while normal people are left behind); overexploitation (bosses maximize profit at workers’ expense), and market pressures (systemic competition squeezes everyone).
Under these conditions, we show (re: EP Thompson, Axel Honneth, Barrington Moore) that the dominant form of workers' consciousness is a moral sense of injustice triggered by broken promises and hidden injuries. Its basic form is that of a protest against violations of an implicit social contract.
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/...
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/...
Recruiting one full time or several part time RA at @crestsociology.bsky.social in Paris (well, almost in Paris) for next year to work on the evaluation of cultural items crest.science/wp-content/u...
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I hope the relevant anonymous author will, in some way, appreciate that I brought their paper with me in a canoe capsize today. Cue wordplay on «deep dive» into their argument.
Jeg anmeldte Klasse — en innføring, av @magneflemmen.bsky.social og Jørn Ljunggren. Mye bra å si om boka, men også noen kritiske kommentarer.
Klasse er hot igjen - Gnist
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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
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
Super excited to present my paper on how political issue priorities have shifted in social space over the past ~25 years. Features graphs like this. (Starry sky background because @enlar.bsky.social said these plots look like constellations).
Magda Breyer@mabreyer.bsky.social · last yr.Looking forward to an exciting workshop 'Inequality and the politics of class in the 21st century' at the ECPR Joint Sessions in Prague 🏰, co-organized by @peterla.bsky.social and me: ⬇️
And more cool research by @noracwe.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social, Rasmus Kappelgaard Gustafsson, Viktoriia Muliavka, David Beck, @robinweisser.bsky.social, @linerenn.bsky.social, @leaelsaesser.bsky.social, @johannaplenter.bsky.social, Mikolaj Czesnik & @manuelwagner.bsky.social (days 2.5-4)😊
✨We have a great line-up with work by Rune Stubager, @micagrossmann.bsky.social, Garret Binding, @denisetraber.bsky.social, @magneflemmen.bsky.social, Marta Eidheim, @pstanig.bsky.social, Lewis Anderson, Geoff Evans, Sung in Kim, @marvinreis.bsky.social (days 1-2)
Looking forward to an exciting workshop 'Inequality and the politics of class in the 21st century' at the ECPR Joint Sessions in Prague 🏰, co-organized by @peterla.bsky.social and me: ⬇️
135 Palestinians killed in Gaza so far today. Massacre after massacre, day after day. The world does nothing.
Israeli military begins ‘extensive’ ground operation as 135 killed in Gaza
Israel continues to unleash its bloodbath in the enclave, rendering all public hospitals in north Gaza ‘out of service’.
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Here's a good one from Danielle Pillet-Shore. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Peer conversation about substance (mis)use
What happens when a friend starts talking about her own substance use and misuse? This article provides the first investigation of how substance use is spontaneously topicalized in naturally occurrin...
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Just got a paper accepted (expect to be harassed about it briefly). The publisher nudged me to make a video abstract. Do people actually do those? Don’t think I’ve ever watched one, but it sounds like it might be a good idea? Seen any good ones, or got thoughts?
Hvor mye arbeideridentitet fins det i Norge anno 2025? Og hva ER egentlig en «klasse»? Vår dynamiske duo får akademisk eksperthjelp i anledning den store dagen: Ukas gjest er sosiologiprofessor ved UiO @magneflemmen.bsky.social LYTT HER: 5cqz.short.gy/9edzlx
@magneflemmen.bsky.social er ukas gjest i Mímir&Marsdal. Ny episode torsdag om klasse!
You know it’s about to get real when this slide comes up: Jan Fredrik Hovden on social space and psychological traits. #britsoc25 @bernardlahire.bsky.social
I’ll be at #britsoc25 to present this and attend as many interesting sessions as I can – happy to meet for a coffee if you’re around and want to chat about class, culture or politics.
Magne P. Flemmen@magneflemmen.bsky.social · 2y agoWill I see you at the British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social conference? Presenting a new paper on the changing relationship between socio-political preferences and social space over a quarter of a century. Might include graphs like this one! #britsoc25 #sociology #class #politics
Will I see you at the British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social conference? Presenting a new paper on the changing relationship between socio-political preferences and social space over a quarter of a century. Might include graphs like this one! #britsoc25 #sociology #class #politics
