Aaron Reeves

"The wealth tax debate shouldn’t be separate from the one about how we tax property and pensions – that’s where most of the country’s wealth sits."  c/o @resfoundation.bsky.social Bet it will continue to be, though. 🙄

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LSE Collaborative Studentship with Trades Union Congress LSE Collaborative Studentship with Trades Union Congress

If you know someone who is thinking about doing a PhD and who is interested in health then please share this advert with them. It is an ESRC funded PhD working on trade unions and health as part of a collaboration with me and the @tuc.org.uk @lsesociology.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

British Journal of Sociology Conference Find out more about the BJS conference 2026, which will provide an in-person platform for academics across the discipline to advance their research.

Submit your paper to the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference!

The conference will showcase cutting-edge research across Sociology, providing a platform to discuss the most exciting developments in the field.

Submit your abstract by Monday 20 October 2025 ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...

Not just lines on a map | Borders to belonging 6.30pm Thurs 9 Oct | Tarsis Brito, Maya Goodfellow, Luke de Noronha | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

🗺️ How can we better understand how borders are connected to inequalities? Should we re-evaluate how we think about borders altogether? And what will the future of borders look like?

Join @afsee-lse.bsky.social tonight to discuss borders in a changing world.

⏰ 6.30pm to 8pm
📍 Old Theatre

Inspiring paper on social stratification of library borrowing!

Read here: doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

▶️"...although cultural tastes always seem to be socially stratified, the type of stratification likely depends on the nature of the wider inequalities within a given context"

The final para is hilarious: At a fringe event in Manchester one member sought to bring some hope, boasting that Keele University Conservative Society now had its biggest membership in a decade. “We now have 11 members,” he said. Not exactly a youthquake.

News Read the latest news from the LSE Department of Sociology

We're pleased to announce that our Inaugural Craig J. Calhoun Prize for an Outstanding Thesis in Sociology has been awarded to @sachahilhorst.bsky.social. Her thesis investigated the shifting politics of ex-mining and manufacturing towns in the Midlands.

Read more about the prize 👇

Rumours swirling that Government may try to avoid fully scrapping 2 child limit by changing it to a 3 child limit, only lifting it for some groups or giving lower support to 3rd and subsequent children. Helpfully @resfoundation.bsky.social already crunched the numbers, finding that...1/4

How are cultural tastes stratified? Evidence from library borrowing for the entire population of Denmark Abstract. Research shows that cultural tastes are socially stratified. Yet, most of this research relies on small-sample surveys and includes only a few di

Even in Denmark, cultural tastes are socially stratified. With some quite cool library data we find strong gradients by education and wealth - important as wealth is rarely studied in cultural stratification research

doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
OA: osf.io/ar2xc_v2/dow...
@europeansocreview.bsky.social

@madsjaeger.bsky.social @samfriedman.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social

👩‍🎓 People with higher education & wealth use libraries much more
💼 Differences across income and occupations are smaller
‍🕵️‍♀️ Everyone loves crime novels!
🎨 But the highly educated & wealthy are also drawn to “highbrow” genres

The best evidence Tylenol causes autism isn't great On Monday, RFK Jr announced Tylenol ‘causes’ autism referencing three studies as evidence. Let's dive in.

If you’ve been following the RFK Jr autism news, then you’ve probably heard that there’s a systematic review “proving” Tylenol causes autism.

Here’s my review of that paper👇🏼

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Cabinet ministers to recommend lifting two-child benefit cap

Sir Keir Starmer will be told by senior cabinet ministers that lifting the two-child cap is the most effective way of alleviating child poverty amid mounting pressure from ministers and backbenchers

Small business are avoiding £15 billion in Corporation Tax! 😳

The vacuum at highest levels in talking about this dark turn in British life over the last few months HAS to end.

‘Free Food Places’: Looking Beyond the Food Bank to Better Understand Alternative Models of Food Aid - Kate Haddow, 2025 In the last decade, there has been a vast increase in research into the rise of food aid, particularly food banks, in wealthier countries. However, what has bee...

Hate self promoting posts! And not going to say 'I am delighted' 😂 but also no one will promote this for me 😂. So sod it! Please give my article some love or a repost. This article means a lot to me on food aid beyond the food bank!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📣 We're currently accepting papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference!

The conference will showcase cutting-edge research from across the discipline.

We invite scholars to submit abstracts of up to 400 words on topics relating to any aspect of sociology➡️ buff.ly/wTaE0fI

The shadow economy behind the international student boom A lucrative revenue stream for universities has led to an industry of unregulated agents now under scrutiny for making lofty promises

We need more in-depth reporting on UK university finances like this. Research , research funding and their relation to teaching and teaching funding could do with a similar level of detail. Here's a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers: on.ft.com/3ImSMWa

The beginning of this post is also a short call for more pubs and terraces along rivers (the Thames in London specifically but presumably applies to other cities too). C’mon Labour, listen to Marie (after you scrap the two child limit, of course)!

A hierarchical cluster analysis on principal components showing five clusters of points, coloured by cluster, on a graph.

Our paper on clusters of schools across the UK is out.

We find five clusters: multi-racial & super-diverse middle & working-class schools of towns & cities, suburban white middle class schools, established elite schools & (post-)industrial white working class schools.

doi.org/10.1002/berj...

Housing as a social determinant of health: a contemporary framework Housing is a key social determinant of health. Healthy housing is affordable, suitable, and secure. It is characterised by warmth, dryness, and proper…

A new paper in @thelancetph.bsky.social with a great team of researchers (inc @katemason.bsky.social). We lay out an updated framework for thinking about housing as a social determinant of health www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

this is really important work!! Out-of-work benefits are not at a record high but they have gone up a bit recently (this only becomes clear if you make appropriate adjustments to the underlying numbers that reflect changes in how the data in this series is compiled).

Journal of Critical Public Health. Vol. 2 No. 2 (2025)

Are Place-Based Approaches to Reducing Health Inequalities a Highway to Success or a Policy Dead-End?

Gerry McCartney & Jennie Popay

journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

🚨It's that exciting time of year!🚨

Our team has got TWO open DPhil (PhD) positions in #datascience + #health here at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social for 2026🎉! See for details:

1️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/HDS_2026.html
2️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/pophealth_2026.html

Please share and help us to find our future teammates ❤️!

Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰

Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).

You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!

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119 | Exploitation and the Theory of Domination w/ Prof. Nicholas Vrousalis | What's Left of Philosophy Get more from What's Left of Philosophy on Patreon

new episode out now! we talk with Nicholas Vrousalis about why we should understand exploitation as a form of domination and why this is a powerful argument for capitalism being unjust. also we lovingly give G.A. Cohen and John Roemer a little bit of a hard time. www.patreon.com/posts/119-ex...

Taxing private schools won’t smash the class ceiling - British Politics and Policy at LSE Labour's abolition of VAT on private schools is mostly sympbolic. Its mission of "smashing the class ceiling" needs to focus on elite university admissions next.

Over last 12 months Times&Telegraph have published nearly 1 article a day on the VAT changes for private schools!
But in spite of the uproar, the policy has not weakened the power of Britain’s most elite schools. @aaronreeves.bsky.social & @samfriedman.bsky.social suggest what might actually do it.

I'm biased of course but this was great last time and we are hoping it will be fantastic again.

2024 was hands down the BEST sociology conference I attended in years

Taxing private schools won’t smash the class ceiling - British Politics and Policy at LSE Labour's abolition of VAT on private schools is mostly sympbolic. Its mission of "smashing the class ceiling" needs to focus on elite university admissions next.

💡New! Taxing private schools won’t smash the class ceiling, argue
@aaronreeves.bsky.social and @samfriedman.bsky.social.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...