Teacher bias or unobserved ability? @ssreditorial.bsky.social paper w/ @marespadafor.bsky.social Test score error & omitted behavior = 🐘 in the (class)room to identify SES discrimination. Still, beyond "true ability", well-off (low-performing) kids get higher teacher ratings: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

Even in Denmark, cultural tastes are socially stratified. With some quite cool library data we find strong gradients by education and wealth - important as wealth is rarely studied in cultural stratification research doi.org/10.1093/esr/... OA: osf.io/ar2xc_v2/dow... @europeansocreview.bsky.social

Thrilled that my co-authored piece with Xiuyu li from NYU and Kellee Tsai from Northeastern just came out in Comparative Politics, online first. www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny... You can access the accepted version here 81e63e3e-0cc6-43dc-aa7c-35f441eca471.filesusr.com/ugd/f72a2f_d...

Ein weiterer sehr lesenswerter Artikel aus dem Schwerpunkt ist Nicole Mayer Ahujas: "'Class is not a thing'. Ein Plädoyer für die Analyse von Klassenformierungsprozessen": link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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/...

This new study shows: in Germany, it has become much harder for children to earn more than their parents, now about as hard as in the US: "parental income has become much more important for educational outcomes of children"

Misschien moeten we het eens hebben over het verdienmodel van de pers, die maar wat graag een slaatje slaat uit dit soort zelf-gefabriceerde 'controverses'. Heel jammer ook dat "Wij Eisen De Nacht Op" zichzelf gaat depolitiseren, onder druk van dat beetje ophef. weesparaat.nl/de-rode-lap-...

The argument that means-tested welfare programs reduce inequality and poverty more than non-means-tested programs is based on an accounting trick. Universal benefits are the best and cheapest way to alleviate poverty.

Een collega-parlementariër en Kamer­medewerkers uitschelden voor ‘stom kutwijf’ en ‘teringlijers’, enkel omdat hij niet aangesproken wil worden op zijn actieve tegenwerking van maatregelen tegen een genocide, is niets minder dan grensoverschrijdend huftergedrag.

A truly egalitarian society would guarantee a dignified existence for us all — regardless of arbitrary measures of how much we deserve it.

In many countries, mainstream politicians are adopting rhetoric and policies that typical of the far-right. Our new paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social and E Dinas), out now in the @bjpols.bsky.social, finds that doing so erodes norms more than when far-right politicians make similar statements. 1/3

Why do people with similar jobs or classes see inequality so differently? My new piece in @theconversation.com explains why where you think you stand in society is key.

Op @jacobinnl.bsky.social schreef ik over de noodzaak van een duidelijke strategie wanneer historische aantallen op straat weinig tot geen invloed heeft.

🎉 The last chapter of my dissertation is out in @ssreditorial.bsky.social! Many schools distinguish themselves with alternative pedagogical concepts or specialty themes. I study how these "profiles" contribute to school sorting by socio-economic status in NL. 🧵1/4 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

Sadly the current right-wing coalition government in Finland has cut the funding for the nation’s “Housing First” success story, & homelessness is now on the rise again. That just reinforces the fact that such programs work, if political ideology doesn’t stand in the way. ysaatio.fi/en/news/home...

In a new article in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social I propose an institution reform to make representative government less oligarchic: having elected politicians held accountable by randomly selected "Constituency Juries"

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

just published (with a super team A Pietrolucci, @nrmllr.bsky.social, @jaschadraeger.bsky.social ) Association btw != wealth components & post-secondary enrollment (a comparison across many European countries) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #rc28 #inequality #wealth #TertiaryEducation #ieo

Another new working paper w/ Kailey White and Xiang Zhou on differences in school quality across nhoods and their link to achievement gaps. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Check it out today at #ASA2025 session on "Place and Inequality"

In the 19th century as the socialist movement grew in Europe, it faced a choice: whether to participate in elections. The anarchists said no. The remaining socialists waded into electoral battle. This book analyzes that decision and its consequences #booksky

Why was this accepted 3.5 years ago and only published now? Our crack team @lastpositivist.bsky.social @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social @nathan-gabriel.bsky.social never turned in the final MS! For your viewing pleasure: On the Stability of Racial Capitalism! journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...

Na een lange opsomming van op het eerste gezicht zeer redelijke ideeen van de SP wordt zonder onderbouwing beweerd dat het financieel wel niet haalbaar zal zijn allemaal. Zeer vreemd opiniestuk dat om een of andere reden onder de categorie nieuws is ingedeeld.

What is Sinopessimism? From lying flat to runology, Dino Ge Zhang explores a grassroots lexicon of disillusionment in China. Not just youth disengagement but a low theory of coping, refusing, and imagining alternatives amid economic and social pressures.

Proper thread after the summer break– but if you were looking for a beach read about political reasoning in today's working class, look no further: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

wilde boos worden dat mensen nog steeds weglopen met dat stomme antidemocratische essay van Ter Braak, maar blijkt dat Merijn Oudenampsen dat 11 jaar geleden an heeft gedaan www.groene.nl/artikel/het-...

Even in times of sociocultural conflict, a progressive left electorate is more averse to sociocultural *and* socioeconomic inequalities than (far) right voters. New paper with @siljahausermann.bsky.social Palmtag @tabouchadi.bsky.social @stefwalter.bsky.social Berkinshaw tinyurl.com/d42wyb79 1/n

“Socialism has sometimes been framed as the pursuit of free time, of environmental balance, of foregrounded social care; but it could pursue all those goals—and more." newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...

Lovely. Here’s Lin Yutang’s version, which I first read in my mother’s copy of The Importance of Living in my early teens: chinaheritage.net/journal/occu...

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...

So much would be won if social democratic politicians only understood this single point.

RC28’s first online thematic meeting🎉This online meeting will be free of charge. The meeting will take place on 20-21 January 2026 and will be hosted virtually by the Centre for Research on social InequalitieS (CRIS), a Sciences Po/CNRS unit, in Paris. More info 👇 www.sciencespo.fr/cris/fr/actu...

rare W for COINTELPRO from a legendary conversation between Bhakti Shringarpure and Mahmood Mamdani (h/t Silke-Marie Weineck)

@isa-sociology.org executive committee decision on the Israeli Sociological Society --> www.isa-sociology.org/en/about-isa... #StopGenocide

We cannot rely on private philanthropy to address structural and systemic issues over the long run because the changing whims of private donors means investments are piecemeal and seldom sustained for long enough to make a difference. wapo.st/3ZRonor

Would we find you cited here? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

'Another article titled “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” or, the mass production of academic research titles' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New paper in SSM - Population Health: Adolescent health in relation to their peers: likeability as a resilience factor doi.org/10.1016/j.ss... @rug-gmw.bsky.social @elseviersej.bsky.social

Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown": 「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」 -魯迅，故鄉 #everynightapoem

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

Opinie: Het Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau hanteert een dubieuze klassenindeling

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...

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

📢 Tuesday 10th, 12:00 @ Central Station Organise the RUG gathering to show your opposition to the budget cuts and solidarity with train workers. Will you join us? 🟥The strike might be postponed, but we will not sit still. Stop the budget cuts! @rug.nl

🧵1/8 In our new #OA article, we studied the drivers of ethnic school segregation. Research on segregation often points to parental preferences, but what if it's not just about what parents want, but also what options they actually have? 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf027

Als je een hippe twintiger bent die geen koopwoning kan krijgen maar wel veel volgers hebt op Instagram, dan ben je volgens het Sociaal Cultureel Planbureau welvarender dan een rentenier met een paar miljoen op de bank. SCP is weer eens sociologen aan het trollen. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

How should we define the working and middle classes, and has the latter undergone proletarianisation? This is the question I address in my article in Capital & Class. In it, I present a class concept based on value-domination and labour market power. 1/3 doi.org/10.1177/0309...

Nimble Chinese fingers discourse refusing to die

At Piketty’s third lecture, today on political cleavages and social inequality. He’s talking about the two main political cleavages: income (traditional) and education (newer).