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Recruiting one full time or several part time RA at @crestsociology.bsky.social in Paris (well, almost in Paris) for next year to work on the evaluation of cultural items crest.science/wp-content/u...

I hope the relevant anonymous author will, in some way, appreciate that I brought their paper with me in a canoe capsize today. Cue wordplay on «deep dive» into their argument.

Green against greed: What my new paper says about class, cultural capital and environmental attitudes Why are pro-environmental attitudes more common among the privileged? In a new article in The British Journal of Sociology, [free access version] I challenge three common explanations and propose a…

Here’s a blog post summarising the paper: magneflemmen.com/2025/05/31/g...

Takk! Syns dette var ganske bra, jeg! Liker spesielt at du blir konkret om hva et mer marxistisk perspektiv ville bidratt med her. Syns det er lett for at kritikken fra marxistisk hold stopper på konseptuelt plan, ved å vise til det teoretisk spesielle med utbytting. Men dette er nyttigere!

Klasse er hot igjen - Gnist

Jeg anmeldte Klasse — en innføring, av @magneflemmen.bsky.social og Jørn Ljunggren. Mye bra å si om boka, men også noen kritiske kommentarer.

NEW BLOG: In my new paper, I map 26 questions on environmental attitudes in social space. I challenge three accounts of the classed nature of environmentalism: the prosperity thesis, ecological distinction, and eco-habitus.
Read a short summary on my blog: magneflemmen.com/2025/05/31/g...

If you don’t have access, try this one: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Thanks. Yes, here you go. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Not sure about the generational thing specifically, but the age controls suggest older respondents here are more strongly pro-green on trade-off questions — give up goods to conserve nature, prioritise environment over industrial development, etc.

Thanks Dave! Be interested to hear your thoughts on this.

Green Against Greed: Negating Economic Capital Through Ecological Distinction Pro-environmental attitudes are more prevalent among the affluent and educated, both across and within societies. However, the underpinnings of this pattern remain debated. Some scholars view environ...

So: environmentalism isn’t just an expression of privilege. It’s also a way of opposing a different kind of privilege.

Read more here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌱📊

Backing this up: environmentalism is strongly tied to cultural taste that signal this anti-materialism. Control for taste, and much of the link between cultural capital and green views disappears.

Instead, I suggest that green views function as a symbolic negation of economic capital – another way of distancing from materialism, excess, and the associated flashy and tacky lifestyles

Against “eco-habitus” theories, I show that the environmentalism of the culturally privileged is far from consistent. It’s selective, strategic – and shot through with ambivalence: only a minority sees it as an important factor in their voting.

Against theories of “ecological distinction,” I argue that pro-green views aren’t just about standing out from the less privileged – they’re also a distancing from, nor negaiton of, economic capital and its values.

Against the idea of a “politics of prosperity,” I show that it’s not the most affluent who go green – but those rich in cultural capital.

Why is environmentalism class divided?

My new paper in The British Journal of Sociology maps attitudes to green issues in the social space of economic and cultural capital. Spoiler: it’s not just about being rich.

🧵https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-4446.13231

On a more serious note, the inequality and class politics workshop at #ecprjs25 was amazing. So many brilliant papers and excellent comments from fellow participants. Thanks so much to @mabreyer.bsky.social and @peterla.bsky.social for making it happen and letting @noracwe.bsky.social and me join

"What is his evidence? Incomprehensible diagrams" -Stanley Lieberson about Bourdieu

Super excited to present my paper on how political issue priorities have shifted in social space over the past ~25 years. Features graphs like this. (Starry sky background because @enlar.bsky.social said these plots look like constellations).

And more cool research by @noracwe.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social, Rasmus Kappelgaard Gustafsson, Viktoriia Muliavka, David Beck, @robinweisser.bsky.social, @linerenn.bsky.social, @leaelsaesser.bsky.social, @johannaplenter.bsky.social, Mikolaj Czesnik & @manuelwagner.bsky.social (days 2.5-4)😊

✨We have a great line-up with work by Rune Stubager, @micagrossmann.bsky.social, Garret Binding, @denisetraber.bsky.social, @magneflemmen.bsky.social, Marta Eidheim, @pstanig.bsky.social, Lewis Anderson, Geoff Evans, Sung in Kim, @marvinreis.bsky.social (days 1-2)

Looking forward to an exciting workshop 'Inequality and the politics of class in the 21st century' at the ECPR Joint Sessions in Prague 🏰, co-organized by @peterla.bsky.social and me: ⬇️

Israeli military begins ‘extensive’ ground operation as 135 killed in Gaza Israel continues to unleash its bloodbath in the enclave, rendering all public hospitals in north Gaza ‘out of service’.

135 Palestinians killed in Gaza so far today. Massacre after massacre, day after day. The world does nothing.

Thanks! Agreed!

Peer conversation about substance (mis)use What happens when a friend starts talking about her own substance use and misuse? This article provides the first investigation of how substance use is spontaneously topicalized in naturally occurrin...

Here's a good one from Danielle Pillet-Shore.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Thanks! Do you have an example to recommend?

Just got a paper accepted (expect to be harassed about it briefly). The publisher nudged me to make a video abstract. Do people actually do those? Don’t think I’ve ever watched one, but it sounds like it might be a good idea? Seen any good ones, or got thoughts?

Hvor mye arbeideridentitet fins det i Norge anno 2025? Og hva ER egentlig en «klasse»? Vår dynamiske duo får akademisk eksperthjelp i anledning den store dagen: Ukas gjest er sosiologiprofessor ved UiO @magneflemmen.bsky.social LYTT HER: 5cqz.short.gy/9edzlx