In recognition of Jürgen Habermas’s great significance for sociology, we have, on the occasion of his passing, made this insightful interview with Habermas by Torben Hviid Nielsen, freely available for you to (re)visit his profound ideas on ‘Morality, Society and Ethics'. doi.org/10.1177/0001...

NOW ONLINE 👀 Quita Muis: “We the elite, they the people: Educational identity and perceived polarisation” Open access 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In a new paper with Eva-Maria Merz and Ting Li, we analyzed data from 5,967 respondents in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) to examine which characteristics of individuals and families create the association between educational attainment and engagement in prosocial behavior.

NEW BOOK REVIEW 👀 M. Fatih Karakaya is reviewing Inside Digital Advertising: Platforms, Power, and Material Politics by Donald MacKenzie and Koray Caliskan Read here 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

NOW ONLINE 👀 Laura Tarkiainen and Hanna Kuusela: “Universalism in flux – Welfare profit-makers’ views towards the institution of welfare universalism” Read the article here 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

NOW ONLINE 👀 René Bekkers, Eva-Maria Merz & Ting Li: “Learning to give: Both genetic and shared environmental influences are reflected in the association between educational attainment and prosocial behaviour” Read the article here 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

NOW ONLINE 👀 Emma Laurin, Joakim Olsson, Ida Lidegran & Mikael Börjesson: “Adaptability versus resistance: Strategies for emergency remote education amid COVID-19 in Swedish higher education” Read the article here 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

It was a pleasure editing this ambitious piece by @adam-hayes.bsky.social which fuses sociological and economic Insights. Being into methodology myself I was in particular impressed by the empirical strategy which I guess is best described as a three sub-study sequential mixed experiments design!

NOW ONLINE 👀 Adam S. Hayes: Cultural dispositions and economic choice: How field-specific logics shape ‘rational’ economic behaviour. Read the article here 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0001...

My hypothesis is, you only need to look at this platform to find some of the answers.

Are you interested in the role of elites in disseminating ideas and framing policies? Then you should consider contributing to this Special Issue edited by me and Milka. You can email us an abstract if you want to know whether your paper idea is a good fit with the theme.

✨Call for Papers✨ Acta Sociologica is happy to publish the call for papers for a new special issue on moral elites which will be guest-edited by Anders Sevelsted and Milka Ivanovska Hadjievska! Deadline for submissions is 30 June 2026. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I have reviewed 'Orienting to Chance. Probabilism and the Future of Social Theory' by @omarlizardo.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy and @michaelstrand.bsky.social 👇

NOW ONLINE 👀 Christopher Dorn & Nadine Arnold: “Contingency in valuations: On the interdependence of multiple values and waste in organizations” Read the article here 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0001...

🚨New article out in @sfjournal.bsky.social with Lærke Høgenhaven, Louis Møgelmose, and @hjalmarcarlsen.bsky.social: "Volunteering trajectories across crises: resilience, persistence and spill-over between ordinary and crisis volunteering" 🌐 academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a... 🧵on main findings 👇

Please forward to economic sociologists who’d be interested in a professorship at the @eui-eu.bsky.social. #economicsociology

NOW ONLINE 👀 Koen Abts and Julian Rogenhofer: “Resentment, nostalgia and the underpinnings of a populist worldview” Read the paper here 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0001...

NEW ARTICLE 👀 Marika Jalovaara, Leen Rahnu & Anneli Miettinen: “Employment status and entry into parenthood: Weaker labor market status an unlikely driver of cohort fertility decline in a Nordic welfare state” Read here 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @marikajalovaara.bsky.social

NEW BOOK REVIEW 👀 Henrik Lundberg is reviewing 'The Origins of Human Social Nature: Westermarckian Sociology and Social Anthropology' by Otto Pipatti. Read here 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

NEW BOOK REVIEW 👀 Fabrizio Bernardi is reviewing 'Orienting to Chance. Probabilism and the Future of Social Theory' by Strand and Lizardo. Read here 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Can't join the event? Don't worry! You can find the special issue edited by @ditteandersen.bsky.social and Magnus Paulsen Hansen and featuring both articles, comments, and an interview here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/asja/68/4

📢 Special Issue Launch - "Social Investment in Action" - 30 January 2026 📚🎉 WE GET - Your registration YOU GET - Talks - Discussion - Drinks - Snacks - Printed copies Register your free attendance here: www.vive.dk/da/arrangeme...

NOW FREE TO ACCESS 👀📄 @eloisadelpino.bsky.social, Inés Calzada, and Encarnación Murillo-García: "Does the left still own social policies? The effect of incumbent partisanship on citizens’ perceptions of public spending in Spain" Find it here 🌐👉 doi.org/10.1177/0001...

Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name. "These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

NOW ONLINE 🌐👀 @dominikzelinsky.bsky.social : "Countering conspiracy theories: A cultural sociological analysis of counter-conspiracy discourse in the case of Slovakia" 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0001...

Proud to share the publication of my first paper, co-authored with Silvio Candido, in @actasociologica.bsky.social! “Entrenched and unequal at the top: Brazilian capitalism and the social space of its corporate elite” is now out — hope you enjoy the read! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How did covid lockdowns affect different sectors of voluntary civil society and segments of volunteers? We Use a four wave panel running from April 2020 to april 2021 to answer these questions in "Locking Down Civil Society: The Impact of COVID-19" in Voluntas: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧵👇

NEW ARTICLE OUT NOW 📄👀 @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social and @filippogch.bsky.social: "Center-based formal childcare closes gaps, others may widen them: How childcare arrangements shape early educational inequality" Find it online here 🌐👇 doi.org/10.1177/0001...

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 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

Job! A vacancy at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for a postdoc joining the @learnineq.bsky.social project, for 13 months, starting mid January. We study inequalities in school careers, and we engage with policy makers. The vacancy is here, please forward. DEADLINE 24 NOVEMBER. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

The rich are responsible for an outsized share of carbon emissions — the top 10% account for 48%. And the gap is growing. Since 1990, the richest 1% have increased their share of emissions by 13%, while the poorest 50% have seen theirs fall by 3%.

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure). You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented! #sociology More 👇 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Sociology professor jobs in Copenhagen 🇩🇰! Repost: We're hiring! Open rank. At least 2 profs. More details 👇

@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....

📄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.!

👉 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...

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:

I have a new paper out. 🥳 It’s about libraries, inequality and an intervention trying to get more families to loan more books for their children! 📚📖📓 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #library #booksky#sociology #econsky

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...

👉 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....

“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! 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...

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...