🚨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...

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/...

One or two lectureships in the sociology department at Uppsala. Excellent applicants wanted!

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 "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...

Internationale forskere vurderer, at Israel begår folkedrab https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/udland/internationale-forskere-vurderer-israel-begaar-folkedrab #nyheder #dkbot

🚨 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...