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.

New publication in @actasociologica.bsky.social! @filippogch.bsky.social and I use a novel decomposition method (@ang-yu.bsky.social and Elwert) to study if and how *childcare arrangements* under age 3 shape disparities in children’s cognitive skills ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/5

✨ NEW SPECIAL ISSUE ✨ Our new special issue, 'Social Investment in Action', edited by @ditteandersen.bsky.social and Magnus Paulsen Hansen, is now out featuring an editors' introduction, 9 original articles, an interview, and two comments! Read more below 👇 journals.sagepub.com/toc/asja/68/4

🆕 Paper in @actasociologica.bsky.social!! How did school/childcare reopening during COVID-19 impact mothers’ time use & well-being in 🇩🇰? - Care work time declined / Paid work time increased - Less stress, worry & loneliness during care work 🔗 Read our #openaccess study: doi.org/10.1177/0001...

Study with @jpheisig.bsky.social (lead) Thomas Morton, @seamusapower.bsky.social, @mschaeffer.bsky.social and Rebecca Udsen. Here is the direct link to the #openaccess paper in @actasociologica.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

@klararaiber.bsky.social and I wrote a paper and it is published now! In this study in @actasociologica.bsky.social, we investigate willingness to perform small caregiving tasks for neighbors. We show that anticipated reciprocity increases willingness but previous caregiving experience does not(1/2)

New book review 📙 👀 “Ladegaard develops a thesis about the darker side of digitalization, something which is extensively documented, but sparsely theorized … the work is timely and innovative." Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

👉 New interview out 👀 As part of the forthcoming special issue on “Social investment in Action” we bring an interview with Professor Elizabeth Popp Berman, author of the widely acclaimed 'Thinking like an Economist – How Efficiency Replaced Equality in US Public Policy'. doi.org/10.1177/0001...

👉 New comment out 👀 Garritzmann, Häusermann and Palier argue that the key problem of the ongoing debate is that scholars and politicians refer to social investment as if it was one single type of policy, whereas there are quite different variants of this paradigm. doi.org/10.1177/0001...

📄DDC PUBLICATION UPDATE📄 Our former PhD & current Postdoc @emilbakke.bsky.social is first author on this important study on visual expressions in protest movements! Together with @nicolemilmandoerr.bsky.social and @mathiaswullum.bsky.social in @actasociologica.bsky.social ! Great work Emil et al.!

Out now in @actasociologica.bsky.social: “Momentary symbols: Tracing the visual expressions of collectives” with @nicolemilmandoerr.bsky.social & @mathiaswullum.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... A🧵 on our approach and findings:

👉 New article commentary out 👀 In the forthcoming Special Issue on Social Investment in Action Moira Nelson argues that SI research needs to go beyond calling for ‘more’ education to systematically address the variegated social and economic effects of education policies. doi.org/10.1177/0001...

Honored to see the review of my book by Eduardo Duran published in @actasociologica.bsky.social Truly appreciate the attention! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In a new article, Ramaekers and Raiber advances our knowledge of neighbour caregivers by examining the impact of anticipated reciprocity and previous (negative) caregiving experience. They indicate that neighbours can form a safety net for those who cannot rely on family. doi.org/10.1177/0001...

“A deep engagement with phenomenological theory and a practical roadmap for how it can inform a renewed, more human-centered interpretive sociology.” - Eduardo Duran on Besnik Pula’s 'Alfred Schutz, Phenomenology, and the Renewal of Interpretive Social Science'. doi.org/10.1177/0001...

👉 New article out 👀 'Five blindspots in reform studies of early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy' by Rense Nieuwenhuis, Mara A Yerkes, Lovisa Backman and Jakob Strigén. OA: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New article! Berger and Bakken bridge the gap between online and offline drug market research finding that market relationships vary on a continuum between being fully digital to fully physical. They show how this continuum is determined by social and relational factors. doi.org/10.1177/0001...

In this new article Eivind Hjort Matthiasen analyzes how upper-class and working-class individuals in Oslo, Norway, orient themselves toward environmental values through their energy practices. Access through: doi.org/10.1177/0001...

Five blindspots in reform studies of early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy New paper in @actasociologica.bsky.social with Mara Yerkes, Lovisa Backman and @jstrigen.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Nick Crossley argues that both identity and social ties are important to group formation, but that our understanding of their intersection is underdeveloped. In the new article ‘Group formation and social structure: On networks and identities’ he address this deficit. OA: doi.org/10.1177/0001...

In ‘Against underdog metaphysics: Alvin Gouldner and the Marxist critique of post-theory’, Wilén and Söderberg connect the reservations that Marxists have long expressed about the revolutionary potential of the lumpenproletariat with the Marxist critique of post-theory. doi.org/10.1177/0001...

In 'Politics of welfare exclusion: Open and concealed welfare chauvinism and public support for social assistance reform' Mikkel Haderup Larsen test how welfare chauvinism in proposals to reform the Danish Social Assistance system affects public support. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Institutional conditions and acquisition of language skills among young refugees: Investigating the German context" @oliverwinkler.bsky.social and Anne-Kathrin Carwehl show that school enrollment waiting time and insecure residence status relates to fewer language skills doi.org/10.1177/0001...

New article👀 In "Radical right support and the deepened rural-urban and educational divides among younger generations" Amanda Valldor from @sofi.su.se shows that educational and rural-urban political divides are more pronounced among younger generations than older ones. OA 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0001...

New📖review Across the economy, politics, and society, @kjhealy.co and @marionf.bsky.social "show how processes of datafication—and more specifically, ordinal ranking—are reorganizing how people are seen." @lauraknelson.bsky.social writes in her review of the Ordinal Society. doi.org/10.1177/0001...

In "What the street level can teach us about the social investment state – Insights from encounters between caseworkers and vulnerable unemployed clients in Denmark" Mathias Herup Nielsen adds a street-level perspective to the scholarly discussions over social investment. doi.org/10.1177/0001...

🚨new paper 📃 In "Feeling like a bad investment: Exploring the lived experiences of being the object of social investment technologies in Danish public employment services" @sabinapultz.bsky.social opens a critical discussion; who are we investing in and for what purpose? 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0001...

Back from the summer break and you have been very productive indeed: 61 manuscripts in our inbox! So when you soon receive invitations to review, please keep in mind that for each of your manuscripts that go into review you need to review 2-3 manuscripts for the system to balance out. Thanks! 😘

Zachary Webster Griffen reviews "The Politics of Modelling: Numbers Between Science and Policy" by Andrea Saltelli and Monica Di Fiore and reflects on how Trump and Musk has profoundly altered the relationship between statistical modelling and politics in the US journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New article: Group formation and social structure: On networks and identities Nick Crossley in @actasociologica.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In "Translating reform—the rise and fall of social investment practices in Swedish local government" Mats Fred highlights the contingent, negotiated, and ephemeral nature of public-sector change initiatives studying the case of social investment in Sweden. OA 👇 doi.org/10.1177/0001...

🚨📃👀 In "Living on buffered time: Toward another sociology of storage", @toteraltermann.bsky.social argues that storage acts like a buffer that takes in things and release them at different rates and thereby link social activity and flows of different speeds and rhythms. OA 👇 doi.org/10.1177/0001...

📃👀 Adding a cultural sociological perspective to Rosa's Resonance Theory, Marcel Knöchelmann explores How the subjective response to poetic works relate to more general social and symbolic structures in "Resonance and culture: Reading poetry as a sphere of meaning". doi.org/10.1177/0001...

My review of Fourcade and Healy's The Ordinal Society Their central question (in my read): “What does it mean for computers to intervene in the business of seeing and organizing society?” (p. 108). The stakes of this question are now higher than ever. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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...

In "Beyond rational choice: A neo-Bourdieusian gravity model of social practice", Arturo de Nieves Gutiérrez de Rubalcava develop a neo-Bourdieusian gravity equation to counter the limitations of integrating the influence of social structure in rational action theory models. doi.org/10.1177/0001...

I denna artikel diskuteras reformers uppgång och fall: Hur hålls reformer vid liv? Vad händer när nyckelpersoner lämnar, nätverk tunnas ut och styrningen skiftar fokus? @actasociologica.bsky.social #socialinvestment doi.org/10.1177/0001...

In "Planning for the future in the shadow of the polycrisis: Young women's uncertain transitions to adulthood" Justyna Kajta and colleagues' show that adaptability has become a leading strategy for navigating life in the face of multiple crises in the transition to adulthood. doi.org/10.1177/0001...

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 In "The neglected organisation of failure: Activities, infrastructures and subjectivities" Martin Hájek theorizes the management of failure in organisations and highlight the critical role of evaluation infrastructures in this process. Open Access 👇 doi.org/10.1177/0001...

🚨📃👀In "Making up the market: Job-seeker courses and the ordinary ethics of social investment in Norway" @kellymckowen.bsky.social proposes to view social investment as animated by claims about the relationship between human capital, economic growth and welfare journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

And here it is: "Living on buffered time: Toward another sociology of storage" (open access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

👉 New study 💡 In "Payment problems through a social class lens" Ida Drange and Nan Zou Bakkeli leverage longitudinal register data to show that payment problems are more common among those in the lower classes and in the economic middle classes. Open access 👇 doi.org/10.1177/0001... #sociology

Mattias Wahlström and Katrin Uba, "Political icon and role model: Dimensions of the perceived ‘Greta effect’ among climate activists as aspects of contemporary social movement leadership" 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0001...

Did you see? 👀 We recently published the article "Political icon and role model: Dimensions of the perceived ‘Greta effect’ among climate activists as aspects of contemporary social movement leadership" by Mattias Wahlström and Katrin Uba. Open access 👇 doi.org/10.1177/0001...

Los foros de incels son pozos de odio: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Rituals of resentment: How dark emotional energy fuels incel identity and solidarity journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

📃👀 In this piece @cbjerre.bsky.social examines the historical evolution of social investment, focusing on placed-out children from the 1920s to the 1970s, and introduces two key concepts, Worker Investment and Family Investment. Link to article👇 doi.org/10.1177/0001... #socialinvestment #sociology

In "Sociology of loneliness: An introduction" @cecile-vandevelde.bsky.social take a sociological approach to loneliness eliciting its structural dimensions: the weight of social norms, its social factors and manifestations and the role of inequalities. OA 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Comparing Finland, Germany, and the UK, Ariane Bertogg, Giulia Maria Dotti Sani, Anna Zamberlan and Marija Bashevska show that during COVID-19 an increase in share of housework are associated with higher levels of distress among men but a decrease among women. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🚨New article 📃👀 In this short paper, @barrosvitor.bsky.social provides a guide to Luhmann's #sociology, style of theory building and guidelines on how to work with him empirically, especially for those interested in social scientific historical investigations. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....