Golareh Khalilpour

Soziologe über Ungleichheit und die Macht der Eliten Nur vier Prozent der Bevölkerung schaffen es an die Spitze der Gesellschaft, so der Soziologe Michael Hartmann. Er will eine Arbeiterkind-Quote für Vorstände.

Gutes Interview mit dem Darmstädter Soziologen Michael Hartmann zur beeindruckenden Reproduktionsfähigkeit der deutschen Elite in Politik, Wirtschaft, Justiz und Verwaltung in den letzten 150 Jahren.

Der Hauptmechanismus ist, da ist Hartmann bei Bourdieu: Ähnlichkeit.

Er erklärt auch, warum +

Proper thread after the summer break– but if you were looking for a beach read about political reasoning in today's working class, look no further: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Very true. The broader analysis community has a hard time getting this fully, I think, because we're formed to deal with "horse races" taking place within a long-established paradigm with some agreed boundaries/norms, and struggle to shift to the notion of a race between two antithetical paradigms.

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I am so sorry for putting Jar Jar Binks in this particular scene from Basic Instinct.

star wars but in the wrong movies: thread

August 1, 2025 AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION Committee on Economic Statistics and Committee on Government Relations Statement from the American Economic Association on the Dismissal of the BLS Commissioner Leaders of the American Economic Association express their grave concern over the dismissal of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) earlier today. The independence of the federal statistical agencies is essential to the proper functioning of a modern economy. Accurate, timely, and impartial statistics are the foundation upon which households, businesses, and policymakers make critical decisions. Undermining the independence or credibility of these agencies threatens the integrity of the information that markets, institutions, and the public rely on every day. Measuring the vast and dynamic U.S. economy in real time is inherently challenging. It is standard practice for statistical estimates to be revised as more complete and higher-quality data become available. These revisions reflect the commitment of statistical agencies to accuracy, transparency, and methodological rigor-not failure or bias. The BLS has long had a well-deserved reputation for professional excellence and nonpartisan integrity. Safeguarding this tradition is vital for the continued health of the U.S. economy and public trust in our institutions. We call upon elected officials to respect and preserve the independence of the nation's statistical infrastructure. Lawrence Katz President, American Economic Association Katharine Abraham President-Elect, American Economic Association Karen Dynan Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Economic Statistics Kenneth Troske Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Government Relations

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing

As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements

This is a big deal

Wait … do we actually like this or am I just sleep deprived?

The Discourse Is Broken How did a jeans commercial with Sydney Sweeney come to this?

“Are you tired? I’m tired!“

@cwarzel.bsky.social writes about how the internet has messed up public discourse and rendered even basic conversations nearly impossible.

Everyone’s shouting, no one’s listening, and everyone’s upset all the timeee. 🙄🫩

We have a new paper out in @jepsjournal.bsky.social, with @laiabalcells.bsky.social, @sergisme.bsky.social and Ethan vanderWilden.

We test a number of experimental treatments aimed at strengthening social norms against radical-right support, but find mostly null results.

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By all indications, last years economics job market was much tougher than any year since the pandemic. But all signs point towards an even worse job market coming up this season.

Let me explain.

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Millennials are often told that we look younger than our age and I think it’s because we have been rocking the wide-eyed wrinkle-free “what-just-happened”face since 2008. This one:

The dark nebula with catalog number LDN43 resembles a flying bat. It is a cloud of dense gas and dust inside which new stars are forming, accounting for the lighter regions that paint the features of the bat. Image credit: Mark Hanson and Mike Selby.

This uncanny image shows LDN43, the cosmic bat nebula -- a region of dark dust & dense gas, where new stars are forming. The nebula is 1400 lightyears away and about 12 lightyears across. #astronomy #astroedu #astrophotos #space #spacephotos #spaceimages #astrophotography #nebula #spacepictures

Believe me when I say that no amount of wariness or cynicism will prepare you for how bad this is.

I remember being puzzled by this at the time, and feeling stupid for not knowing what changes EM made to Grok’s underlying architecture.

Six-country study finds that most people simply ignore misinformation when they encounter it. However, those most likely to signal agreement with misinformation are male, less educated, & have more “dark” traits like selfishness, manipulation, and lack of empathy.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Das wird bei mir nicht anders. 🙈

Ich bin so mittel begabt und ich müsste mir dafür einen ganzen Tag freinehmen. 🥲

If you invite me to anything — be it a wedding, birthday party, or block party — the invitation better look like this or I’m not attending.

A pair of big round glasses.

I don't know how to explain it, but my new glasses look so unmistakably like glasses.

If you searched "glasses" in an icon library, it would be these.

If you asked a toddler to draw glasses, they would draw these.

The Platonic ideal of glasses.

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🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
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Interpretations that see the party's votes as coming from the far-left are likely the product of ecological fallacy and have no empirical backing—yet they still take up much of the debate.

It is important that this record is corrected if we are to have a serious discussion about CH & the far right.

Sondagem da Católica. Reforço de votos no Chega veio sobretudo da abstenção Uma sondagem do CESOP - Universidade Católica Portuguesa para a RTP concluiu que o reforço de votos no Chega nas eleições de 18 de maio veio de anteriores eleitores que se abstiveram e de votantes da ...

But newly released survey data shows that this is not the case.

Most of growth in far right support came from previous abstentionists, followed by previous center-right voters.

www.rtp.pt/noticias/pol...

Plot with the evolution of vote share for CH: 1.3% to 7.28 % to 18.06% to 22.08%

The Portuguese far right party CH has been growing spectacularly, shattering views of the country as immune to this phenomenon.

This has prompted a discussion about where their votes come from.

Some thoughts on this, prompted by newly released survey data:

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Guten Morgen deutsche Medien:

Diese Studie zeigt:
a) dass die AfD unverhältnismäßige mediale Aufmerksamkeit erhält (=mehr als ihre elektorale Größe suggerieren könnte).
b) dass diese Aufmerksamkeit mit der strategischen Störung des politischen Prozesses durch die AfD an sich zusammenhängt.

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It's a Bird, it's a Plane, it's Superman! Using Mass Media to Fight Intolerance

This paper investigates the role of mass media in shaping racial tolerance and advancing civil rights in the post-WWII United States. We study the first attempt in the history of mass media to use a radio broadcast targeted at children to promote an inclusive American society. In 1946, amid persistent racial divisions, the popular radio series The Adventures of Superman launched Operation Intolerance, a sequence of new episodes promoting equality, rejecting racial discrimination, and exposing the KKK's bigotry. Using digitized historical data on U.S. radio stations and state-of-the-art radio propagation models, we compute geographic exposure to the broadcasts. Exploiting exogenous exposure to the broadcasts, we employ a cohort study design to analyze individual-level data from 1964 to 1980–a crucial period for civil rights activism and legislation in the United States. We find lasting impacts on those exposed as children, including increased support for civil rights, improved interraci

Figure 1 reveals that the proportion of words related to intolerance increased by 3.2 times in the 12 months following the start of Operation Intolerance, compared to the pre-intervention period.

Panel A of Figure 5 plots the average of the index for different cohorts. We first observe that younger cohorts in 1946 are more supportive of civil rights compared to those born before 1946. This is in line with American society becoming more progressive over time. We find a difference of 0.29 standard deviations between the respondents in the age cohort -10 (i.e., those born in the years 1954–1958) and those in the age cohort 50

“In 1946 amid persistent racial divisions, popular radio series Adventures of Superman launched Operation Intolerance, a sequence of new episodes promoting equality, rejecting racial discrimination and exposing the KKK’s bigotry. We find lasting impacts…” dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Oh, bei ihm wär ich vorsichtig. Er hat vorher 3 Jahre im Berghain gearbeitet.