Aaron Reeves

Culture & Inequality Podcast How does culture feed into inequality? And the other way around? In Culture and Inequality, cultural sociologists from universities across the world explore these topics in-depth from various perspect...

Penultimate episode of this season's Culture & Inequality Podcast, in which @bryanboyle.bsky.social (Free U Brussels) talks with Kristina Kolbe and @aaronreeves.bsky.social about the Sound of Elites: How Elites Navigate a Meritocratic and Anti-Elite World >>

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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!

We're pleased to announce this year's BJS Prize has been awarded to David Calnitsky and Kaitlin Pauline Wannamaker for their paper "The revolution next door".

Read the open access article in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Assistant Professor - Madison, Wisconsin, United States Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
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Woohoo, I have page proofs for my book!

A brilliant piece of work! Check it out.

Line chart showing trends in the shares of gross income being paid in total tax by those living in five equally sized income groups, from the richest fifth (quintile 5) to the poorest fifth (quintile 1). Covers the UK and the years 1980 to 2022-23. Shows shares falling then rising among the richest 20%; rising, plateauing, then rising again among the poorest 20%, and falling, plateauing and then falling again among the middle three groups. By 2022-23, average effective tax ‘rates’ (measured as four-year averages) were 37.5% among the poorest, 29.7% among quintile 2, 30.6% among quintile 3, 31.9% among quintile 4, and 37% among the richest 20%.

Amid wealth tax discussion, it's worth reflecting on recent changes in tax takes across the income distribution. Combining all payments (ie income taxes and VAT etc), the richest and poorest pay the most as a share of their gross income. But rates are down markedly in the middle of the distribution

🚨🚨🚨 NEW WORKING PAPER: "The Benefits of UI for Marginally Attached Workers" with Brendan Moore

➡️ We find that UI minimally delays re-employment, but substantially improves labor market outcomes for low-income workers

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'What, just move to the many financially secure institutions of the United Kingdom? If you don’t keep up with UK higher ed news, then you may not recognize that’s a darkly bitter joke.'

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Barnett Prize winner 2025: Neftalem Emanuel We are delighted to announce this year's Barnett Prize winner, Neftalem Emanuel, for his outstanding contribution to evidence-based social intervention and policy evaluation.

Congratulations @neftalememanuel.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 Barnett Prize for his paper:
‘Damp Places, Unhappy Faces: Analysing the Impact of Housing Repairs & Maintenance Expenditure on Local Authority Residents Wellbeing in England between 2013-2022’ 👏
www.spi.ox.ac.uk/article/barn...

The first #metrics-and-models talk was fantastic🤗!

Next: @ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social on "Antenatal Selection: A novel approach for assessing the genetic and ecological drivers of who survives to birth".

Details: metrics-and-models.github.io
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@bchrisinger.bsky.social

Have written up some of my thoughts about the increasingly sinister use of 'non-UK born' and 'white British' in the British press. The obsession with 'white British' citizens over other British citizens harms all of us and needs to be called out.

benansell.substack.com/p/who-counts

My PhD supervisor was the drummer for The Fatima Mansions

“As C. Wright Mills said, each generation must recognise its own elite. The work Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman have done here will be indispensable in this quest .”

‪simonarthur.bsky.social reviews Born to Rule by @aaronreeves.bsky.social‬ and @samfriedman.bsky.social‬ .

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The Power Elite in Greenland In this research note, we map the power elite in Greenland, amidst the current geopolitical interest in the nation. Using social network analysis, we identify a power elite of 123 individuals as the ...

New research note out in @bjsociology.bsky.social on the Power Elite in Greenland.

The main finding: There is a highly knit elite network in Greenland. However, there are also clear fracturing lines based on the Greenlandic-Danish divide.

A 🧵on findings

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Are universities still relevant? 1.30pm Thurs 19 Jun | Zhamilya Mukasheva, Aaron Reeves, Boris Walbaum, David Willetts | Free event at LSE Festival: Visions for the Future | Ticket required

Is a university education still worth the investment?
We'll be discussing the future of higher education at LSE Festival next week with @zhamilya-m.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social & David Willets @resfoundation.bsky.social
Free tickets (in person/online) 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/Events/LSE-F...

Portada del suplmenteo Negocios de EL PAIS sobre las élites

Gracias a Mariana Heredia, de la World Elite Database, a Andrés Villena, de la Complutense; a @aaronreeves.bsky.social, de la @lsepress.bsky.social; a D. Markovits, de Yale; a Rubén Juste y a Peter Turchin por hablar conmigo sobre las élites @elpais.com mastodon.hosnet.fr/@fzarate/114...

The Sound of Elites: How Elites Navigate a Meritocratic and Anti-Elite World Culture & Inequality Podcast · Episode

How do elites navigate a world with meritocratic expectations and calls for diversity? I had the absolute privilege to talk to both Kristina Kolbe and @aaronreeves.bsky.social about their new books that address these very questions! Listen to the podcast here:
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Upcoming event at LSE Festival 🎉

Join us on Wednesday 18 June for a thought-provoking discussion on the future of technology, work, and inequality with @faizashaheen.bsky.social‬, @hilarycottam.bsky.social
@jackstilgoe.bsky.social, and @aaronreeves.bsky.social‬

Find out more: buff.ly/ggvGv5R

The Sound of Elites: How Elites Navigate a Meritocratic and Anti-Elite World Culture & Inequality Podcast · Episode

This conversation with @bryanboyle.bsky.social from the Culture and Inequality podcast was lots of fun. Really appreciated the chance to chat about 'Born to Rule' but the best bits are Kristina Kolbe discussing her fantastic new book 'The sound of difference'. open.spotify.com/episode/1t5V...

Getting the child poverty strategy we need: A co-produced agenda for change | IPPR Any credible child poverty strategy must act directly to put more money into parents’ pockets. This starts with the removal of the two-child limit and bene

🤝| NEW REPORT: The government has an opportunity to turn the tide on child poverty. Our joint roadmap with @changingrealities.bsky.social‬ & @cpaguk.bsky.social‬ sets out what a serious strategy must include. Shaped by lived experience, grounded in policy evidence.
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Wish politicians would engage fully with the evidence before weighing in. Our analysis ( w/ @jdportes.bsky.social @kateandersen.bsky.social & Mary Reader) explored the fertility effect of two-child limit using both qualitative and quantitative approaches (🧵for links)

Benefit changes and larger families We are a group of university-based researchers investigating how families with more than two children are coping with the benefit cap or the two-child limit.

The team ( @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social @kateandersen.bsky.social M Reader & me) could talk for hours about the harms done by the two-child limit & benefit cap, & why both policies need to go and go now. But this video says it all:

largerfamilies.study/blog/reality...
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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

“Heaven without people is not worth going to”: refugee resettlement, time, and the institutionalization of family separation We examine how resettlement as an institution, shaped by temporal opportunities and constraints over the lifespan, perpetuates refugee family separation. Based on seven years of qualitative researc...

“Heaven without people is not worth going to.” Our 7-year study of 52 Syrian families shows most remain separated by policy, not by choice. And when resettlement rules exclude kin, the cost is isolation, debt + desperation. Check out our article & full special issue here:
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IN NEW ISSUE: How does class origin shape the political outlook of MPs in Britain? V Bortun, @aaronreeves.bsky.social‬ & @samfriedman.bsky.social‬ find it may have bigger impact than educational or occupational background. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/zCnlACB

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com

No one has ever LinkedIn this hard.

I am CRINE.

Departmental Lecturer at University of Oxford Apply for the Departmental Lecturer role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

Come and work with us at @dspi-oxford.bsky.social as a Departmental Lecturer. Role involves teaching qualitative and mixed methods and intervention and evaluation design with time and support to develop your own lines of research.

Apply by June 13th: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNF076/d...

Once again, I'm baffled by book reviews being behind the academic paywall. No one is making money here, and these are the bits of the profession could be so helpful for 'selling' ECR's books