Anton Grau Larsen

There is still one month left to apply to the WhoGov Mini-Conference on Political Elites. The deadline is the 1st of April.

It takes place in Oslo, August 20-21st, 2026. We welcome research on political elites broadly understood.

Call is found here : bit.ly/whogovminico...

💸🚨I am hiring 2 Postdocs for my ERC-funded project SOCDEBT on #debt dynamics across countries. One position: #SocialStratification + strong quantitative skills. The other: qualitative research and #EconomicSociology. waitkus.github.io/SOCDEBT/ 🚨💸

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✨Call for Papers✨

Acta Sociologica is happy to publish the call for papers for a new special issue on moral elites which will be guest-edited by Anders Sevelsted and Milka Ivanovska Hadjievska!

Deadline for submissions is 30 June 2026.

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Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity

Intergenerational mobility, measuring the ability to achieve economic success regardless of family background, is a critical reflection of a society’s commitment to equality of opportunity. Rising income inequality has raised concerns about the potential erosion of upward mobility. While education has traditionally been viewed as the path to mobility, its transformative power is facing challenges in a rapidly evolving job market. This project reorients the focus of intergenerational mobility research by highlighting the labor market as an arena for the reproduction of advantage. It employs a comparative approach, using administrative data from four countries: Sweden, Austria, England, and the United States. It also incorporates evidence from a broader set of nations through cross-national surveys, longitudinal household surveys, labor force surveys, secondary data, and digital trace data. The project employs cutting-edge empirical methods, including quasi- experimental designs, event studies, within-family comparisons, decomposition analyses, counterfactual simulations, and diagnostic checks to rigorously assess the extent of inequalities in the labor market. The research investigates how family background influences the sorting of individuals to employers and workplaces, accounting for education and occupation, and explores variations in career progression within and between employers. It comprehensively catalogues and assesses mechanisms shaping workplace inequality, contributing to the development of social closure theory. Additionally, the project evaluates intervention strategies, encompassing both employer practices and government actions, to promote fair opportunity in the labor market.

JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project.

Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months.

Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.

The ancient Greeks had a machine for democracy, the kleroterion, today democracies are dominated by the tech of financial markets. My conversation about capitalism, class analysis, and democratic theory - first published in the Swedish magazine Röda Rummet, now in English at @versobooks.bsky.social

Postdoc in Social Stratification, Education, and Genetics with @astabreinholt.bsky.social at Roskilde University, Denmark. The position is for 2 years, starting from May 1st, 2026.

Apply by Dec 12th
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Excited to see my article "The affective politics of reactionary futurism in Silicon Valley" has now been officially assigned a volume and issue in Critical Studies on Security (Vol. 13, Issue 3)! I have 50 free copies; let me know if you need one. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4H3KM...

I feel that we need to acknowledge that Marx was possibly the only funny German

What changes to the cooperative form would have - if not eliminated - but at least dampened destructive logics? In business schools the world over they would argue for multi-stakeholder control - so both employees, farmers and consumers in the governing body of the company.

But did it delay land and wealth concentration or did Denmark develop similarly to other countries?

That West German motherhood penalty 🥲

This looks very interesting!

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...

Thank God.

This Tumblr Dedicated To Ugly Babies In Renaissance Paintings Is The Funniest Thing You’ll See All Day The Renaissance is often perceived as the period of the noblest traditions, but some artists from that time had been repeatedly doing something that looks somewhat sinister nowadays - they painted chi...

There’s a nice collection here
www.boredpanda.com/ugly-renaiss...

ggplot2 4.0.0 A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

I love it! With low status differences people just become random and idiosyncratic live your life types :-)

I agree it is difficult to distinguish at the individual level. But "sour grapes" could be more common in less dynamic status markets. So if inequality is high and chances of social mobility is low then people are more likely to adapt and resign than in more egalitarian or dynamic situations?

Interesting! People could agree on a status hierarchy and not be status seeking because they think that they do not stand a chance to achieve that status. I understand that the King has higher status than me - and I know that it is unattainable. But that is likely compatible with your argument.

Antipolitical sentiment in the working class is not least a symptom of class demobilization. For our German case, we document a steep decline of working class organization, mobilization, political and discursive representation. Others have noted very similar trends across rich democracies.

OK, a🧵: Our new paper studies workers' political consciousness in times of class demobilization.

We show there's more to workers' politics than right-wing resentment. Listening to workers, we reconstruct their moral critiques of money, power & recognition.

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

A tomato picker handing a full bucket to the dumper who empties it into a trailer which holds up to 6 tons. Workers earn .86 cents for each 25lb bucket. The only work around 5 hours a day, so they go at top speed without many breaks to earn enough to pay their bills. #WeFeedYou

Jacob Nyrup awarded EU funds to research political elites - Department of Political Science Jacob Nyrup from the Department of Political Science has been granted a substantial 18 million Norwegian kroner by the EU's research council to examine political elites in countries before and after d...

I am honored to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant towards my project "Governing elites since the dawn of modern democracy" (GETGOV).

It allows me to continue to advance this research agenda; the goal is to build a database on governing elites from 1789 and up to today + much more.

#ERCStG

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...

Jeudan giver Rosenkrantz-Theil stor, gratis valgplatform Jeudan har stillet lokaler på 465 kvadratmeter gratis til rådighed for Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil før valg.

Det her er enormt problematisk. Jeudan (som også udlejede Lars Løkkes Nyhavn lejlighed til spotpris) er en kæmpe spiller på det københavnske boligmarked og tæt integreret i magteliten

politiken.dk/danmark/poli...

Do think tanks coordinate with interest groups or protect their turf? J A H Whittlestone, C K Florczak & @mbklitgaard.bsky.social examine alliances and autonomy in corporatist systems. Read more: buff.ly/GwDWSXg

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci

Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs - Nature Data from nine European and North American countries reveal that the disparity in earnings between immigrants and natives is largely a result of segregation of immigrant workers into lower-paying jobs...

IN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in @nature.com this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9

Forskere skulle gøre deres projekt »spiseligt for erhvervet« for at få adgang til data om dyrevelfærd Den tidligere landbrugsstyrelse har givet ejerskab over data indsamlet af offentligt ansatte på de danske slagterier til Landbrug & Fødevarer. Det kan være et brud på offentlighedsloven og brud på EU-...

Landbruget har alt, alt for megen magt i Danmark. Som i: mafialignende magt.

Her er et gavelink til en helt gak historie om at lade landbruget eje offentlige kontroldata. Det svarer til at give alle data om lungekræft til tobaksfabrikanterne og lade dem bestemme, hvilke forskere, der får adgang.

Venetians know something about oligarchy.