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/...

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...

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.

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...

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).

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.

Here's a good one from Danielle Pillet-Shore. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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.

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

Just put this picture on my office wall, inspired by this quote by Lahire from his Les structures fondamentales des sociétés humaines: Social life in general, and academic institutions in particular, know how to constantly divert us

What’s the current standing of Durkheim’s theories on suicide in sociology? Have they been widely critiqued or developed further? Can you recommend something to get an overview of this scholarly discussion?

So many smart people seem to believe that higher ed. should be job training, explicitly. The rise in business (undergraduate) majors is one byproduct of such a perspective. And watching universities cut humanities is another. I find this approach incredibly shortsighted, and ultimately defeating. 🧵

What is the current standing of theories of reflexivity, individualisation and the likes — Beck, Bauman, Giddens etc? When I was doing BA/MA, they were still discussed a fair bit. Is there a book, edited volume or special issue about this I should know about?

“Every time a psychological explanation is offered for a social phenomenon, we may rest assured that explanation is false.”

Hello new followers! You wouldn’t happen to have an answer to this, would you?

NEW: Where the teens are YouTube 90% TikTok 63% Instagram 61% Snapchat 55% Facebook 32% (down from 71%) WhatsApp 23% X 17% (down from 33%) Reddit 14% Threads 6% report: www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

Also sharing this starter pack of class analysts again for the folks who are new here: go.bsky.app/VTirGYT

🚨 Last call! 🚨 PhD course on Multiple Correspondence Analysis in Oslo, 13–16 January 2025. Learn this fascinating technique for structural & relational analysis. No prior knowledge required! 🧑‍🎓 🗓️ Application deadline: Monday 👉 Please repost to spread the word!

From today’s spam. Wrong type of structure, sir.

And that, my friend, is part of the reason why you should come to Oslo and learn Multiple Correspondence Analysis in January. But hurry up — the deadline is approaching at a relentless pace! www.uio.no/studier/emne...

Is this the first episode where the book isn't completely shredded?

@paalhal.bsky.social @torkildl.bsky.social @victorshammas.bsky.social @uzaahm.bsky.social @larsjohannessen.bsky.social @kariste.bsky.social @magneflemmen.bsky.social @marentoft.bsky.social @erikagubrium.bsky.social @andersvassenden.bsky.social @oyvindw.bsky.social @elimelby.bsky.social

Two new publications that encapsulate my interests to present my self. Both are focusing on science in Europe and the processes shaping science and especially social science in Europe. In the first one we analyze scientific disciplines using ERC projects and topic analysis. doi.org/10.1016/j.po...

Class consciousness still shapes voting, but in a different way than in the past. That's the key finding of a study with @thomaslux.bsky.social now out in English. We chart how class identity, interests and status link with voting for the left and right in Germany. A🧵 library.fes.de/pdf-files/a-...

If you happen to be in Lausanne this Thursday, do stop by at Unil as @benzpierre.bsky.social and I will be giving a very short introduction on Multiple Correspondence Analysis in R. An then you can fly straight to Oslo for a one-week MCA course with @magneflemmen.bsky.social next month!

Ten life changing experiences you should try, from solo journeys to spiritual retreats. MCA is one of them!

Come learn Multiple Correspondence Analysis in Oslo! Deadline is approaching fast. www.uio.no/studier/emne...

It is through complex relationships w. all the social characteristics of individuals that income is likely to characterise a situation in the social world that helps structure social dispositions to a greater or lesser extent and, through them, relationships with politics and electoral orientations

In social reality, income does not in itself produce any ‘effects’, even indirect ones, on electoral preferences.

Gaxie makes these nice methodological points in an otherwise quite positive essay on Piketty and Cagé's latest: "The limitations of this approach are paradoxically highlighted by the various statistical controls regularly introduced for each variable.

Like the idea of an alternative model (will confess I often feel sick of peer reviewing), but the more general problem is overproduction of publications.

Don’t mean to brag, but I have switched up and started citing the new(ish) 2010 edition of Bourdieu’s Distinction, as opposed to the 1984 edition I read.

Fantastic talk today by @marentoft.bsky.social on her book project on kinship, capital and big business!

It seems that there was no Sociology Journals starter pack, so we created one: go.bsky.app/93ta3Gs -- do let us know which journals we missed!