How has public belief in the importance of merit🥇 and privilege💰 changed over time? 🆕Data viz shows a widening gap b/w the perceived importance of family wealth (privilege) and hard work (merit) in a majority of countries in the West Paper: doi.org/10.1177/2378... Code: github.com/cybe2001/mer...

Come join @stanveuger.bsky.social @colinmbrown.bsky.social Muriel Rouyer and me @europeatharvard.bsky.social today at 2.30 pm to make sense of the 2025 Dutch parliamentary elections! Details: ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/...

I'm deeply grateful to the American Educational Studies Association for recognizing my book with a Critics' Choice Book Award. @princetonupress.bsky.social @aesatalk.bsky.social Check out "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education" here: www.amazon.com/Raised-Obey-...

“In the case of the US, CEOs of publicly listed companies earn 269 times more than the average full-time worker. People thought CEOs only earned 18 times as much, and they would prefer it to be just 5 times” – Christopher Hoy in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

There’s a Stairway to Heaven, but a Highway to Hell. This implies Heaven is a walkable community, and Hell is a congested interstate.

Why is it so hard to do anything about wealth inequality? In the final episode of this series of Antisocial Economics, Sarah Kerr (@wealtherty.bsky.social) talks to Will Snell, @michaelvaughan.bsky.social, and @jonathanmijs.com about what makes change hard to achieve. buff.ly/pEad8xT

Better parks 🌳, tighter communities🧑‍🤝‍🧑!

Mooie kans om te leren van een toponderzoeker in een hele fijne afdeling.

Can providing facts about ethnic discrimination change people's beliefs and raise support for affirmative action? We put it to the test in new @ispp-pops.bsky.social study with @willemdekoster.bsky.social, Jeroen v/d Waal and Masja van Meteren. A thread! Open access link: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Great piece by Yukiko Asada et al. @socialindicators.bsky.social on taking seriously 'luck' as a driver of life outcomes and inequality, creatively illustrated with reference to the life course of a certain French painter in this figure. Full article: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Onze reactie in De Volkskrant op het vorige week verschenen SCP rapport Verdeeld over het land. @jonathanmijs.com‬ @agatatroost.bsky.social @rug-gmw.bsky.social‬ @volkskrant.nl‬

Scherpe kritiek op het SCP rapport over geografie en klasse: "in de uitwerking van het onderzoek wordt geografie grof gemeten en sociale klasse dermate verdund dat de verschillen verdampen" @jaapnieuwenhuis.bsky.social @jonathanmijs.com @agatatroost.bsky.social www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

Really interesting paper by @hwaight.bsky.social & Adam Goldstein describing the looong trend of public perceptions that "the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer."

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

We zijn geïnterviewd door Dylan van Rijsbergen over ons project over klasse en klassenbewustzijn voor Jacobin. Heel toepasselijk is het gepubliceerd op 1 mei. Het artikel: jacobin.nl/waarom-klass... @jonathanmijs.com Agata Troost @dylanvr.bsky.social @rug-gmw.bsky.social @jacobinnl.bsky.social

My sabbatical leave allowed me to reflect on my professional life. As I’ve stepped into more senior roles in academia (plus gotten a bit older), I often get asked: 
“How do you keep writing academic articles, policy work, opinion pieces, while juggling everything else?” My answer: skillpower 🧵

Deze week verschijnt-ie eindelijk: AJAX 125 JAAR, een monument van een jubileumboek van 12 kilo zwaar. Via Kick Uitgevers. 1600 pagina's. 2059 foto's. Een must voor elke Ajacied. Branie geeft een set weg! Volg ons account, repost dit bericht en maak kans. Vrijdag wijzen we de winnaar aan. #Ajax

Hulu’s political thriller TV series “Paradise” depicts a perfect, egalitarian society, one that Assistant Professor of Sociology @jonathanmijs.com helped create as the show’s technical consultant, providing insight into inequality in a society. Read more here: abc7ny.com/videoClip/hu...

…And I get to work with this guy!? @jonathanmijs.com, this is awesome! Paradise is serious about its sociology. www.bu.edu/articles/202...

Re-reading this by @jonathanmijs.com & @mikesavagelse.bsky.social as my students are looking at meritocracy in their essays. Strikes me that the lowest dip in working-class belief in meritocracy roughly coincides with the greatest period of union militancy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Cool paper on “humanity’s perennial tendency to denigrate kids”. Here’s screenshot of abstract:

More about our new paper here - interesting discussing how to express the diversity. In the end we went with freedom, following @davidwengrow.bsky.social and David Graeber www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Really cool piece by @rosenjordanblum.bsky.social & co. using party manifesto data to link political change to growing income inequality across the globe. academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it www.nber.org/system/files...

Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement? Me: Definitely. How specific can we get? Publisher: As specific as you like.

I have a new OA article out in Poetics, with Luca Carbone, @mijs.bsky.social and Stijn Daenekindt! We develop the notion of "recurrent events" - occurrences that structure social life through their regular cadence - and apply it to the case of Eurovision in 18 countries (from 1981 until 2021).

Publication alert! While more and more people are pulled into precarity, support for a universal basic income remains limited. Does belief in meritocracy have anything to do with it? Find out in our OA paper in @europeansocieties.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2023.2272263 [1/10]

What do Americans 🗽 and the Dutch🌷know about racial & ethnic inequalities? Are they willing to change their beliefs after learning the facts? Working with @BUsociologydept graduates Nikki Huang and Will Regan, here's what we learned www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (1/18)

What do Americans 🗽 and the Dutch🌷know about racial & ethnic inequalities? Are they willing to change their beliefs after learning the facts? Working with @BUsociologydept graduates Nikki Huang and Will Regan, here's what we learned www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (1/18)

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