Another update 🚨 We just launched Beyond the Core: Elites and Power in Swiss Second-Tier City-Regions (1890–2020) at @unil.bsky.social, funded by @snf-fns.ch I’m thrilled to coordinate this 4-year project with a multidisciplinary team @obelitessuisses.bsky.social #BeyondTheCore #EliteStudies

[📖Parution #socioelites] Dossier "Gender and Wealth Accumulation: An International Perspective" pour la Socio-Economic Review. Coordination par Céline Bessière et Maude Pugliese academic.oup.com/ser/issue/23...

[📑Parution et mise en ligne #Socioelites] "Vers le haut. Enquêter sur l’élite au pouvoir" de François Denord, Paul Lagneau-Ymonet et Sylvain Laurens @Ed_LaDecouverte shs.cairn.info/vers-le-haut...

My new book on 'The Power of Rankings in Economics and Research Organizations. Contributions to the Social Studies of Economics' with Stephan Pühringer and Jens Maesse is out!! You can dowload the whole book in open access below: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Essential reading (by @jasonstanley.bsky.social) for every American. The media, aided by a handful of reactionary academics and compliant university administrations, has sold the public a huge lie about wokeness on college campuses, enabling the extreme right. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New research note out in @bjsociology.bsky.social on the Power Elite in Greenland. The main finding: There is a highly knit elite network in Greenland. However, there are also clear fracturing lines based on the Greenlandic-Danish divide. A 🧵on findings doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Submit your abstract now ‼️ To commemorate 25 years of longitudinal surveys in Switzerland, submit your paper NOW for a special issue titled "25 Years of Longitudinal Surveys in Switzerland: Analysing Social Dynamics in Switzerland and Beyond". forscenter.ch/wp-content/u...

🔍 Research Evaluation in Social Sciences and Humanities: Reforming Research Assessment | #RESSH2025 📍 Happening now in Helsinki, Finland! 🔗 Click here to learn more: vastuullinentiede.fi/en/events/re... #ReformingRA #SSH

[ #socioelites] Demi-journée "Dans les coulisses du pouvoir : Ethnographier et interviewer les élites" organisée par @obelitessuisses.bsky.social 🔗 www.unil.ch/events/fr/17... @sspunil.bsky.social @johannamb.bsky.social @skzh.bsky.social @asdelval.bsky.social

Reminder: The deadline to submit for our workshop on the education and training of the entrepreneurial elite is coming up soon (30.05.)! We look forward to reading your submissions and meeting you at the Swiss Elite Observatory @obelitessuisses.bsky.social, University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social

@araujopedro.bsky.social de l’OBELIS @sspunil.bsky.social explique le World Elite Database dans la Matinale de la RTS. Ici le lien : www.rts.ch/audio-podcas...

And it's official! Resistance Summer School is live! You can sign up now to take my course, which Columbia cancelled-- Race, Media and International Affairs-- which I will teach live and online beginning in July. 124 signed up in five hours. Let's goooo!! open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Le World Elite Database et notre article comparatiste sur les élites économiques de 16 pays, paru récemment dans le @bjsociology.bsky.social, sont discutés aujourd’hui dans @lemonde.fr. www.lemonde.fr/campus/artic...

After 3 years of work the editorial of our “Mapping relational structures in culture” Poetics special issue w/ Marco Serino, Elisa Klüger & Fabien Eloire is out. It introduces 10 amazing papers mapping culture w/ GDA/SNA. Below I introduce the 10 papers 🧵(1/12) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just published - with @baphil.bsky.social & @pgolka.bsky.social! 👇 Assetization requires bridging professionals on both local and global scales. For this to work, actors need to translate or valorize the issue at stake, within their own professional ecology. That’s the case for impact investing.

My article about the political activity of the inner circle and wealthy owners is out in @sfjournal.bsky.social! You can read it here: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a... Some highlights in the thread.

Thank you to Simon Kuper from the Financial Times for spotlighting the first article from the World Elite Database (WED). Our WED paper is available in open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A new who’s who of the global elites | Opinion https://www.ft.com/content/ff0af5e7-60eb-4cc9-aebd-da6fbc94f8c8

Thanks a lot to @simonkuper.bsky.social & the @financialtimes.com for this close reading of our research article on the economic elites of 16 countries, and for jump-starting the public discussion about it! The paper @bjsociology.bsky.social is avaisble here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Quelle est la place du genre dans les sciences sociales françaises? A-t-il « colonisé » toute la production universitaires, comme on l'entend parfois? Pour en avoir le coeur net, une équipe a mené l'enquête. Les premiers résultats dans Le Monde de ce soir. www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

🔍 Genre | 💼🏡 Quel est l’impact de la vision de l’égalité sur la répartition du travail rémunéré et non rémunéré au sein des couples hétérosexuels en Suisse ? Une étude menée par deux chercheuses de l’Université de Lausanne examine la question. 👉🏼 www.unil.ch/news/1743576...

Which countries have the worst gender ratio among their economic elites? We just published in the @bjsociology.bsky.social the first systematic comparison between 16 countries answering this and many other questions! If interested, just unroll the following thread 🧶 by @chellersgaard.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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/...

🚨🚨🚨 Code red, I repeat, code read 🚨🚨🚨 The most ambitious research project I have ever been involved in has published its first paper in @bjsociology.bsky.social 70 authors & 17 teams studying varieties of economic elites in 17 countries See our results: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Figure emblématique de l’underground new-yorkais, qui aurait introduit l’avant-garde au hip-hop, Rammellzee reste pourtant un quasi-inconnu. Ami et collaborateur de Jean-Michel Basquiat, il est raconté au Palais de Tokyo, et on en profite pour le raconter aussi. www.nova.fr/news/rammell...

Our new service for data users: ➡️ Data Live, your monthly Q&A on data management and data sharing in Switzerland 🇨🇭. Experts from our FORS Data Management & Archiving Services answer your questions. ⏰ Every second Thursday of the monsth, 1pm–2pm CET starting April 10, 2025 forscenter.ch/data-live/

🚨 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)

[ #socioelites ] Call for participation for the workshop ‘Education and training of the entrepreneurial elite: life paths and world views’, organised on the 15th and 16th October 2025 at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social ⌛️ 30th May 2025: submission of proposals 🗣️ English/French

Habitus and the relationship between youth culture and transition: A Bourdieusian analysis of musical culture and inequality in Japan / Naoki Iso, Takashi Hiraishi, Kaoru Mori, Kazuo Fujimoto onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... My co-authored paper has been published.

#StandUpForScience Voici une partie des mots listés comme à bannir, éviter ou couper par l'administration Trump. Au moins 5000 pages d'agences fédérales affectées d'après @nytimes.com. Cette liste sert aussi à censurer des initiatives, bourses ou projets de recherche.

#VeilleSHS A paraître le 22 mai aux Éditions La Découverte @edladecouverte.bsky.social : Vers le haut. Enquêter sur l’élite au pouvoir par François Denord, Paul Lagneau-Ymonet, et Sylvain Laurens

Corporate Power, Elites, and Networks, talk by Professor Diliara Valeeva, University of Amsterdam. Tuesday 11 March, 12h15 - 13h30, Géopolis 5799. Join us if you are in Lausanne! www.unil.ch/events/17380...

👏 This paper on music-listening practices makes an excellent case for mixed-methods research by combining digital traces, surveys, and interviews. For instance, in this chart, the digital traces help to reveal bias in musical tastes among self-selected survey respondents. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/yann...

🏛️ Qui accède au pouvoir et comment? Depuis 10 ans, l' obelitessuisses.bsky.social explore les dynamiques du pouvoir en Suisse. Sa base de données retrace les trajectoires de plus de 40’000 individus et contribue ainsi à une science accessible à toutes et tous. 👉🏼 bit.ly/3Qj9whr

Wondering about the scare stories of wealthy tax flight based on non-dom tax changes or private school VAT? Our new research explains why the vast majority won’t migrate, and are snobbish about tax havens w/@andy-summers.bsky.social Emma Taylor,Victoria Gronwald academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

Superbe interview de Luc Boltanski sur son parcours, la spécificité de son approche etc. Par l'équipe toujours au top d'Entendez vous l'Eco @franceculture.fr www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

This looks interesting: 'Elite corporate networks and CEO compensation: the causes and consequences of CEO pay premiums' academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

“More billionaires are now being created through inheritance than entrepreneurialism” – Anjela Taneja and @hbignell.bsky.social on Oxfam’s 2025 global inequalities report and the scale of unearned wealth #LSEInequalitiesBlog

"Le pouvoir patricien dans les villes" -parution d'un numéro de la revue Traverse co-édité par Stéphanie Ginalski et André Mach: revue-traverse.ch/ausgabe/2024... avec des contributions de @araujopedro.bsky.social et @benzpierre.bsky.social

“We are shocked and saddened by the news of Professor Michael Burawoy’s passing. His untimely death is a great loss to sociology & to movements for justice around the world.” @michaelabenson.bsky.social on a collegiate, courageous giant of the discipline. thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

Public data sharing is becoming more commonly required from agencies that support our research. Yet, there are many decisions that need to be considered before you can share data collected from your research study. Here is a list of resources that can help you with this decision making process!

Submit your proposal NOW to celebrate 25 years of longitudinal research in Switzerland. The conference @unil.bsky.social will take place on June 4-5, 2025. The call: forscenter.ch/wp-content/u...

New publication (in French): shorturl.at/CW7R3 Analyzing 1,423 elite marriages in Geneva between 1890 and 1957, I show the persistence of endogamy among patrician elites, particularly those with significant economic power.

Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir (et même plus) sur le congrès de l'Association Française de Sociologie par @sociologeek.bsky.social . La prochaine édition aura lieu à #Toulouse du 8 au 11 juillet 2025 ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7_y...

📢Call for abstracts: special issue in Historical Social Research on Perceptions of Wealth Inequality. • Feb 15: Submission of abstracts • Aug 15: Submission of manuscript We look forward to receiving your abstracts! #socsky #polsky #polisky @jansg.bsky.social dariatisch.github.io/SPINE/call_s...

Mine and @dvandebroeck.bsky.social’s paper on ‘The Labor of Distinction’ is out now in ASR. Drawing from an ethnography that involved training and working as a butler, we tell a larger story about elites and inequality (1/18) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

And so many other cool and very diversified things in this issues focusing on How To Become a Sociology Professor: Opportunities, Inequalities, Alternatives www.sgs-sss.ch/wp-content/u...

With @benzpierre.bsky.social & @araujopedro.bsky.social we just published a small preliminary paper showing the role of research topics in securing careers and funding in Swiss sociology, showing that those who obtain advanced grants tend to align with quant methods serval.unil.ch/resource/ser...

Today, in a hyper fast process, the @SWISSUbase and @FORSresearch granted me access to the databases built over 15 years by researchers at @OBELIS on elites. This is a fundamental step to redistribute knowledge and start forging it here What a great job, I will treasure it in