While most people prefer equal inheritance, wealthy individuals are more willing to support unequal transfers when they help preserve wealth across generations ➡️ based on new experimental evidence now published with @natrinh.bsky.social and @dariatisch.bsky.social in @sfjournal.bsky.social
Looking forward to our upcoming Workshop - co-organized by the German and Polish sections for economic sociology. Thank you to Sascha Münnich and the European New School for the initiative and for hostings us!
Exciting news, join us in Cambridge as Caius & Homerton are hiring for yet another Assistant/Associate Prof in Sociology🎉
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS875/a...
Scholars threatened with libel action over their research into the UK’s links with Russian oligarchs are calling for new “anti-SLAPP” laws to help uphold academic freedom, reports @jgro-the.bsky.social #AcademicSky #AcademicFreedom
https://ow.ly/hxtw50YoEX8
📢🎉The UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition, @sarahkunz.bsky.social and I coordinated a letter signed by 103 academics calling for universal anti-SLAPP provisions in the next King's Speech to protect academic freedoms. More info below:
Out now: our paper on political elites *Governing Inequality* in Mexico, their tax perceptions & redistributive preferences 🤩💥
with brilliant Natalia Torres, Raymundo Campos and Aurora Ramírez
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you can read it here 👇
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TUSJ7...
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VACANCY: 2 x Lecturer in Sociology with a focus on...
1. 'race' & anti-racism
2. political sociology of class and economy or cultural interpretations of class)
£42-58k, apply by 3 March.
www.linkedin.com/posts/the-un...
Poll (phone and online) in Gorton & Denton by Omnisis, British Polling Council member, sample 452, all within margin of error
Green 22%
Reform 20%
Labour 18%
Others 9%
(Excl “will not vote”) omnisis.co.uk/poll-result/...
💸🚨I am hiring 2 Postdocs for my ERC-funded project SOCDEBT on #debt dynamics across countries. One position: #SocialStratification + strong quantitative skills. The other: qualitative research and #EconomicSociology. waitkus.github.io/SOCDEBT/ 🚨💸
And for more on the work of the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition, which is co-chaired by FPC together with @indexoncensorship.org and @clidef.bsky.social see antislapp.uk and sign up to its newsletter for updates.
The UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition was co-founded by our ED @skcoughtrie.bsky.social, in light of our 2020 research that pointed to the UK being the leading international source of legal threats against journalists investigating financial crime and corruption.
For more info - fpc.org.uk/programmes/u...
📢 Update: More than 160 editors, lawyers, academics, journalists, publishers and civil society representatives, have now called on Keir Starmer to bring forward anti-SLAPP measures in the next Kings Speech.
antislapp.uk/2026/02/13/s...
I am happy to share that my article: Family Feelings: affective ties and the reproduction of wealth in super-rich families was among the five most read articles in Emotions and Society in 2025!
@bupjournals.bsky.social
Here you can access the collection:
New Swingometer! With nominations now closed, and a few surprises in candidate selection, here's my first update on the Gorton & Denton by election. Also featuring a polling spat, dodgy bar charts, and Jason Momoa swingometer.substack.com/p/gorton-and...
These pieces by @robtoes.bsky.social are well worth reading
The paper on the class politics of Reform UK, which I've been working on with @aaronreeves.bsky.social for the last year and a half, is now available as a pre-print on SSRN. These are our main findings. Any feedback is more than welcome.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
❌ Wealth should not be able to be used to silence legitimate scrutiny. Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) have been used to intimidate journalists and others for far too long.
👍 We strongly support calls for universal anti-SLAPP legislation.
pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/an...
New Swingometer post now out - my look at the Gorton and Denton by-election, taking place down the road from me swingometer.substack.com/p/the-gorton...
Great new paper! A similar study in the U.K. is long overdue. A lot of elite employers in the U.K. have begun to take class background seriously, but universities remain woefully behind
400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close.
This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it.
📍 Southend rally | 5 February
From June 14th to 19th 2026 the 3rd edition of the summer school on "Elites, Power and Inequality" will take place at the University of Lausanne. Program and registration here: www.unil.ch/unil/en/home...
Deadline is 1st April 2026.
Screenshot of email that reads: “This status will remain in place until the University receives notification that you are no longer participating in that action. During this period, any work undertaken will be regarded as voluntary.”
Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...
Thank you Maja for your insightful comments on an earlier draft - they helped develop my ideas hugely (And I'm sorry this reply is so late!)
It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.
Please share widely.
ASA member Cristobal Young (Cornell University) says data show that the rich generally stay put, countering warnings that millionaires would flee NYC if Mamdani were elected. @us.theconversation.com
Masters scholarships of £10,000 at Sussex:
www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...
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/...
"It is important to emphasise that such groups ultimately lock in wealth, advantage and connections between their (predominantly male) class-advantaged members."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Absolutely fantastic new paper from @katiehiggins.bsky.social "CEO peer groups reveal without a doubt that therapy culture has reached the top tiers of the business class. In fact, their version of self-help is in many ways more cooperative and less individualistic than the mainstream" but... 1/2
