Check out this special issue on Social Investments in the welfare state. We do indeed find that this logic has deep roots but also show it is always intertwined with other logics and so it should be evaluated contextually.

In "What's so new about social investment? Evidence from the history of the Danish welfare state" @aludvig.bsky.social and Troels Krarup find utilitarian logics similar to the modern social investment paradigm were central in the early formative period of the welfare state. doi.org/10.1177/0001...

Science is more art than science - Rick Sanchez

Is it now time to take him literally, but not seriously?

EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 15! Join us and @samfriedman.bsky.social Friedman (LSE), Annette Zimmer (Uni Münster) and William Genieys (Sciences Po) for a two-day conference/workshop, June 3 and 4. Excellent opportunity for paper feedback. DM me for info and questions. Please share and repost!

Deadline is tomorrow! If you are researching political elites and want to combine your research with brown cheese and salmon, then there is one day left to apply for our workshop in Oslo. Find the call for papers in the previous post.

Out on the town having the time of my life with a bunch of friends. They're all just out of frame, laughing too.

My two brilliant colleagues, Milka Hadjievska (working w me on the ERC MORALITES project, CBS) and Håkan Johansson (Lund) just published their paper on the state consecration of civil society elites in Sociology! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The very first paper from our large comparative project - the World Elite Database - is out. Lots of coordination and important discussion on comparing elites allow us to - for the first time really - compare elites across very different national contexts. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hvornår begyndte vi at sige 'anden-dame' i stedet for vicepræsidentfrue?

Curious about the civil society elites in Sweden? Able to read Swedish? Well, here's a book for you. I contribute w 2 chapters, 1 on revalist leaders' hist. role in SWE society & 1 on the hyperagents, the very well connected, with Roberto Scaramuzzino.

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 📢 "Moral Economies of the Polycrisis. Conflict, Critique, and Legitimation in Critical Times" Workshop, June 16-17 University of Hamburg Deadline for abstracts: 07/04 Supported by the Economic Sociology section of @dgsoziologie.bsky.social linuswestheuser.com/cfp-moral-ec...

🚨 New Paper Out! 🚨 🔍 Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past: The Effective Agents of the Swiss Field of Power 1910–2015 w/ Jacob Aagaard Lunding in open access in Sociology 📄 Read here: doi.org/10.1177/0038... A thread (1/10)

EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 15! Join us and @samfriedman.bsky.social Friedman (LSE), Annette Zimmer (Uni Münster) and William Genieys (Sciences Po) for a two-day conference/workshop, June 3 and 4. Excellent opportunity for paper feedback. DM me for info and questions. Please share and repost!

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Starting to miss the days when history had ended.

Happy to announce two more excellent keynotes for the MORALITES opening conference! @samfriedman.bsky.social and Annette Zimmer (Uni Münster)! More info and registration : cbs.nemtilmeld.dk/1152/ Deadline for registration: February 28.

Come work with us! We are looking to hire an Associate Professor in Business Studies with a focus on Management, Leadership, and Organization at the Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University. Great Department and near Copenhagen. Please share or apply! tinyurl.com/mpura4k9

⚡⚡First keynote confirmed for our June 3-4 MORALITES opening conference in Copenhagen! Very excited to have William Genieys - @sciencespo.bsky.social and @cnrs.bsky.social - present on his work on elites and state power. Come join us! Deadline for abstracts on February 28! The conference aims to ⬇️

The economics department at Copenhagen Business School has PhD scholarships ☺️- please apply. Please share. www.cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa...

New PhD positions in political economy(+)! We have two new 3-year PhD scholarships at the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School: (1) open call, (2) green transition. If you have questions, feel free to reach out. (1): www.cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa... (2): www.cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa...

Six days left to apply! 👇Come join us in Oslo.

I dagens kronik i @politiken.dk analyserer @chellersgaard.bsky.social, @antongrau.bsky.social og jeg spørgsmålet om løsrivelse fra DK set med den grønlandske magtelites øjne. Læs med her: politiken.dk/debat/kronik...

A new report details a shipping and logistics giant’s role in sustaining illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine and Syrian territories. https://mondoweiss.net/2025/01/report-danish-company-maersk-exports-cargo-from-illegal-israeli-settlements-to-the-u-s/ #Palestine #Israel

We're hiring: Fully funded 3-year PhD position in Sociology, here in wonderful Copenhagen, Denmark! Come work with us! employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

Do you research political elites and do you fancy a trip to Oslo on September 1-2, 2025? Then apply to the 𝘞𝘩𝘰𝘎𝘰𝘷 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱 𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘴. The deadline is April 4th. We have funding, so we may be able to help finance your trip! You can find the call for papers here: bit.ly/WhoGovWorksh...

🚨 📃👀 🚨 In this new study, Jayeon Lee and Roberto Scaramuzzino show substantial differences in demographic characteristics and attitudes among the civil society elite and the general population pointing to a distinct ethos in civil society's elites. Open access 👇 doi.org/10.1177/0001... #sociology

UK - out of the frying pan...

We are looking for many new colleagues in political science at University of Oslo. Currently, we have calls for: Up to 4 Associate Professors (with possibility of promotion to full): www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... 1 Postdoc: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... 1 PhD: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

New article out in @culsoc.bsky.social. This one is close to my heart: A #Bourdieu'sian 'field-translation' take on the diffusion of #socialmovements to new country contexts. I ask: how is a movement adopted when it travels to a culturally fragmented field? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...