Robert Dorschel

I agree but would argue that the narratives differ across elite institutions. Merit can be defined and constructed in different ways. The article explores that by analysing how founders instruct and mentor aspiring founders

Entrepreneuring Legitimacy: A Case Study of the Cultural Codes and Boundary‐Makings of the Tech Elite How do those who are pulling away economically justify their advantageous positions? This issue has acquired salience in the context of rising inequalities and propelled a reflourishing of sociologic...

🎉 Just published in @bjsociology.bsky.social
Tech entrepreneurs are increasingly reshaping society and politics, but how do they justify their advantageous positions? My article analyses and unpacks dominant narratives in the world's most famous and elite startup accelerator: YCombinator

Happy to share that my book on #techworkers is now available open-access: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

And if you’re in or around Cambridge, you’re very welcome to join the book launch next Friday, 30 January @camsociology.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

Its only January, but there's a book of the year contender on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! @robertdorschel.bsky.social discusses "The Social Codes of Tech Workers: A Contradictory Middle Class in the Making" newbooksnetwork.com/the-social-c...

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Thanks Sam - really appreciate your support on the way to this publication!

Thank you, Karen!

Thanks, Tim!

The Social Codes of Tech Workers How the coders of our digital worlds think, work, and live.Digital technologies shape nearly every aspect of our lives. Yet little attention has been paid to the tech workers who design and program th...

At the end of the month the whole book will be available open access. You can already access the first chapter here: books.google.co.uk/books/about/...

It‘s published 🎉 I‘m very excited to share that my book „The Social Codes of Tech Workers“ is now out with @mitpress.bsky.social

You can find it in bookstores and online. Thanks to everyone who supported me on the journey! See comments section for link to the first chapter.

poster for Dr Dorschel's book launch for his book "The Social Codes of Tech Workers"

We are excited to announce
@robertdorschel.bsky.social's upcoming book launch for his book "The Social Codes of Tech Workers.". The launch will be held next term on January 30th in the Sociology Seminar Room from 4pm until 5:30pm.

We are hiring 🚨 The Cambridge Department of Sociology @camsociology.bsky.social, together with the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, is looking for an Assistant Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine. It's a unique joint post! More details here: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Zukunft des Wohlfahrtsstaats: Warum wir eine Vermögenssteuer brauchen Die Politik versucht, den Wohlfahrtsstaat durch höhere Abgaben auf Einkommen zu retten. Dabei wird das meiste Vermögen durch Aktien und Immobilien generiert – und sollte entsprechend besteuert werden....

Deutschland droht eine Verwandlung von einer Leistungsgesellschaft hin zu einer Erfolgsgesellschaft. Mein Plädoyer für eine Vermögenssteuer anstelle immer höherer Abgaben auf Arbeitseinkommen @faznet.bsky.social

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Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it :)

A book on tech workers in Eastern Europe and Asia would be fascinating!

Valid question. It focuses on tech workers in the US and Germany

Just finished reviewing the final proofs of my forthcoming book on #techworkers. It sheds light on the high-paid professionals in the tech industry. The book is coming out open-access with @mitpress.bsky.social this December. Very excited about it!

The anthropomorphising of AI and ourselves.

"That is the real risk: not that machines become people, but that we forget—we were never what we think we are."

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Body, beauty, enrichment: Theorizing the rise of the cosmetic industry through Boltanski and Esquerre's framework of enrichment This article enquires into the cosmetic procedures industry, a growing economic field which offers individuals a variety of professional services to aesthetically enhance their bodies. Expanding th...

Happy to see this new article published! Written with Anne-Mette Hermans, the article analyzes and theorizes the rise of the cosmetic industry through the novel theoretical framework of enrichment

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Sociology is mostly about choosing whether something is “structured”, “contingent”, or “performed”

Silicon Valley is run by people who genuinely think the world as we know it is going to end in the next few decades. Many also WANT this to happen: they WANT the biological world to be replaced by a new digital world. They WANT "posthumans" to take the place of humans. A 🧵:

Excited to be in Manchester and to attend the annual conference of the British Sociological Association #britsoc25 @bsasocrel.bsky.social
At 3.30pm, I‘ll be giving a talk on the tech elite and how they entrepreneur legitimacy

The War on the Liberal Class - The Ideas Letter Liberalism is under existential threat not only ideologically but materially, as the traditional liberal “New Class”—comprising professionals in academia, media, government, and culture—is systematica...

Interesting article on the upper-middle-class and how it has managed to end up under massive pressure in the post-liberal conjuncture

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Very important issue! Looking forward to reading your new article

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To what extent can tech workers mobilize as part of the broader working class?

This is the question I take up in my new paper "Solidarity across the platform: mobilizing high-wage and low-wage workers in the tech sector" -- just out in Work in the Global Economy

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‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur Silicon Valley’s tech moguls have increasing political ambitions, as spectacularly illustrated by Peter Thiel’s and Elon Musk’s involvements in the US 2022 midterm elections and 2024 presidential e...

Very happy to say that my article on Musk and Thiel's political theory of the founder (drawing on Lacan on the way) is out with @jcultecon.bsky.social! Strange to see it out there with all what happened in the last year, but it will hopefully make it a good read

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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/...