Per Block

@perblock.bsky.social

Networks, Mobility, Sociology University of Zurich

Peer reviewers please don't interpret your job as making the paper as good as it can possibly be. I have 6 other projects to attend to. The very, very marginal improvement to this paper your taxing demands constitute is not worth the marginal cost of me not finishing a whole other project.

Take that, Max Weber: Social classes are actually quite irrelevant in explaining work-life mobility, once the social & structural connections between detailed occupations (micro-classes) are modeled properly! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The socio-organisational embeddedness of work-life mobility

There has recently been renewed interest in occupational mobility over the life-course. We argue that such studies should place greater emphasis on or…

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Yes! Come to Paris this summer and take part in the most important event happening there since the storming of the Bastille! sunbelt2025.org

Sunbelt 2025 – Paris

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INSNA (International Network for Social Network Analysis)@insna.bsky.social · 2y ago

After the 2024 Olympics, this summer the next stunning event will come to Paris: the 2025 Sunbelt: sunbelt2025.org One week left to submit your abstract and compete (present) in classic SNA disciplines (sessions), such as Social Influence, Networks and Culture, or Social Networks and Climate Change!

Looking for Social Scientists like me: I would like to create the starter pack "Social Scientists named Per", but I don't know enough of them. Suggest and share widely, please, so I can also determine the degree of separation between Pers on bsky! @pengzell.bsky.social

Gender & Occupation researchers: I'm looking for lit. on systematic differences in social rewards women and men get from working in the same occupation (like male engineers have high prestige while female engineers are treated as out of place). Any ideas? Self-promotion welcome.