We talk endlessly about tech bosses but know surprisingly little about how their entrepreneurial mindset is formed. In this new article, I develop the concept of the entrepreneurial gaze to explain how early-stage entrepreneurs come to see and evaluate the world www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The entrepreneurial gaze of digital capitalism

Scholars have unearthed how tech companies exert unprecedented power through new modes of accumulation and control. Less attention has been paid to the social actors who command these companies. In...

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📢 Open positions! I’m recruiting 2 postdocs + 3 PhD positions at C³S, @goetheuni.bsky.social in #ClimateJustice, environmental inequality, #Demography & #ComputationalSocialScience 🌍📊💻 3–4 years + strong support for training🎒 Deadline: 23 June 2026 More: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen...

It was really great to visit the @cso-sciencespo.bsky.social at the Sciences Po Paris and present my book on the social codes of tech workers Fascinating discussion of the organisational environments tech workers navigate and their quest to be middle class wealthy and morally worthy

The contradictory social codes and class identity of tech workers: @robertdorschel.bsky.social's book @mitpress.bsky.social reviewed by @sakhavi.bsky.social on @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social

The social codes and class identity of tech workers - LSE Review of Books

Robert Dorschel's The Social Codes of Tech Workers is a sociological study of class identity among mid-level digital labourers in the age of AI.

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NEW: The contradictory social codes and class identity of tech workers. The Social Codes of Tech Workers by @robertdorschel.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk @mitpress.bsky.social, a sociological study of class among mid-level digital labourers, reviewed by @sakhavi.bsky.social 👇

The social codes and class identity of tech workers - LSE Review of Books

Robert Dorschel's The Social Codes of Tech Workers is a sociological study of class identity among mid-level digital labourers in the age of AI.

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We are hiring! The Department of Inequality, Transformation and Conflict is looking for Postdoc & Doc Researchers (m/f/d). Find out more & apply via www.ips.mpg.de #MaxPlanck #Postdoc #PhD #Sociology #SocialScience #PoliticalScience #Inequality #Conflict www.ips.mpg.de/13135/stelle...

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Excited to present my book on #techworkers in London this Thursday! If you're around, you can sign up here: autonomy.work/portfolio/ro... And if you want to read the book, it's available open-access: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

🎉 Just published in @bjsociology.bsky.social Tech entrepreneurs are increasingly reshaping society and politics, but how do they justify their advantageous positions? My article analyses and unpacks dominant narratives in the world's most famous and elite startup accelerator: YCombinator

Entrepreneuring Legitimacy: A Case Study of the Cultural Codes and Boundary‐Makings of the Tech Elite

How do those who are pulling away economically justify their advantageous positions? This issue has acquired salience in the context of rising inequalities and propelled a reflourishing of sociologic...

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Happy to share that my book on #techworkers is now available open-access: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon... And if you’re in or around Cambridge, you’re very welcome to join the book launch next Friday, 30 January @camsociology.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

Its only January, but there's a book of the year contender on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! @robertdorschel.bsky.social discusses "The Social Codes of Tech Workers: A Contradictory Middle Class in the Making" newbooksnetwork.com/the-social-c...

It‘s published 🎉 I‘m very excited to share that my book „The Social Codes of Tech Workers“ is now out with @mitpress.bsky.social You can find it in bookstores and online. Thanks to everyone who supported me on the journey! See comments section for link to the first chapter.

We are excited to announce @robertdorschel.bsky.social's upcoming book launch for his book "The Social Codes of Tech Workers.". The launch will be held next term on January 30th in the Sociology Seminar Room from 4pm until 5:30pm.

We are hiring 🚨 The Cambridge Department of Sociology @camsociology.bsky.social, together with the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, is looking for an Assistant Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine. It's a unique joint post! More details here: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Deutschland droht eine Verwandlung von einer Leistungsgesellschaft hin zu einer Erfolgsgesellschaft. Mein Plädoyer für eine Vermögenssteuer anstelle immer höherer Abgaben auf Arbeitseinkommen @faznet.bsky.social www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Zukunft des Wohlfahrtsstaats: Warum wir eine Vermögenssteuer brauchen

Die Politik versucht, den Wohlfahrtsstaat durch höhere Abgaben auf Einkommen zu retten. Dabei wird das meiste Vermögen durch Aktien und Immobilien generiert – und sollte entsprechend besteuert werden....

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Just finished reviewing the final proofs of my forthcoming book on #techworkers. It sheds light on the high-paid professionals in the tech industry. The book is coming out open-access with @mitpress.bsky.social this December. Very excited about it!

The anthropomorphising of AI and ourselves. "That is the real risk: not that machines become people, but that we forget—we were never what we think we are." hedgehogreview.com/web-features...

Our department is hiring for this prestigious professorship! Applications are welcome from scholars working in any area of the discipline. The position offers a competitive salary. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI980/t... @camsociology.bsky.social

The Professorship of Sociology (1985) at University of Cambridge

Apply for the The Professorship of Sociology (1985) role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

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Happy to see this new article published! Written with Anne-Mette Hermans, the article analyzes and theorizes the rise of the cosmetic industry through the novel theoretical framework of enrichment www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Body, beauty, enrichment: Theorizing the rise of the cosmetic industry through Boltanski and Esquerre's framework of enrichment

This article enquires into the cosmetic procedures industry, a growing economic field which offers individuals a variety of professional services to aesthetically enhance their bodies. Expanding th...

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Sociology is mostly about choosing whether something is “structured”, “contingent”, or “performed”

Silicon Valley is run by people who genuinely think the world as we know it is going to end in the next few decades. Many also WANT this to happen: they WANT the biological world to be replaced by a new digital world. They WANT "posthumans" to take the place of humans. A 🧵:

Excited to be in Manchester and to attend the annual conference of the British Sociological Association #britsoc25 @bsasocrel.bsky.social At 3.30pm, I‘ll be giving a talk on the tech elite and how they entrepreneur legitimacy

Interesting article on the upper-middle-class and how it has managed to end up under massive pressure in the post-liberal conjuncture www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-wa...

The War on the Liberal Class - The Ideas Letter

Liberalism is under existential threat not only ideologically but materially, as the traditional liberal “New Class”—comprising professionals in academia, media, government, and culture—is systematica...

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To what extent can tech workers mobilize as part of the broader working class? This is the question I take up in my new paper "Solidarity across the platform: mobilizing high-wage and low-wage workers in the tech sector" -- just out in Work in the Global Economy 1/n

Very happy to say that my article on Musk and Thiel's political theory of the founder (drawing on Lacan on the way) is out with @jcultecon.bsky.social! Strange to see it out there with all what happened in the last year, but it will hopefully make it a good read www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur

Silicon Valley’s tech moguls have increasing political ambitions, as spectacularly illustrated by Peter Thiel’s and Elon Musk’s involvements in the US 2022 midterm elections and 2024 presidential e...

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Thanks a lot to @simonkuper.bsky.social & the @financialtimes.com for this close reading of our research article on the economic elites of 16 countries, and for jump-starting the public discussion about it! The paper @bjsociology.bsky.social is avaisble here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)

The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic re....

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A new who’s who of the global elites | Opinion https://www.ft.com/content/ff0af5e7-60eb-4cc9-aebd-da6fbc94f8c8

Truly fascinating talk by Michèle Lamont today across the issues of recognition, class and social change. Great to have such an inspiring sociologist visiting our department @mlamont.bsky.social @camsociology.bsky.social

Our blog – LSE Inequalities – covers all aspects of inequalities and dividing lines such as class, race and gender. We just published our 100th post 🎉 – @norawaitkus.bsky.social on wealth inequality from a class perspective #LSEInequalitiesBlog

How to think about wealth inequality from a class perspective

What can class analysis tell us about wealth inequality? Insights from Marx, Weber and Bourdieu can help us think about wealth inequality in a more nuanced way.

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Just out! Article on "Architectures of #assetization: Legacy infrastructures and the configuration of #datafication in UK #highereducation" w/ @jkom.bsky.social & Sam Sellar in New Media & Society #platforms #edtech #digital #bigtech journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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CfP: Veränderungspioniere und Veränderungserschöpfte. Zur Wahrnehmung sozialen Wandels. Auf dem Soziologiekongress im September wollen wir uns mit Wahrnehmungen sozialen Wandels beschäftigten. Einreichungen sind bis 30.04. herzlich willkommen! kongress2025.soziologie.de/fileadmin/us...