Centre for Research on social InequalitieS

YouTube video by IUSSP How to Prepare a Good Poster Presentation - International Population Conference (IPC2025) - Brisbane

Want to master the art of poster presentations for academic conferences? Watch the 1-hour masterclass for social scientists: “How to Prepare a Good Poster Presentation,” (part of the IUSSP Conf). @ank-scpo.bsky.social shares highly practical tips + real-world advice www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhIp...

Portrait d'Ankit Sikarwar Assistant Professor au Centre de Recherche sur les Inégalités Sociales (CRIS)

Check out this portrait of our newest CRIS @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social researcher Ankit Sikarwar @ank-scpo.bsky.social, whose work examines the interactions between the environment and people at different scales, urban and rural. @ined-english.bsky.social

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Visiting Faculty Every year, around a hundred researchers and professors from around the world come to conduct their research and teach at Sciences Po. During their stay, they are fully integrated into our university’...

Interested in being a visiting professor in 2026-2027 at Sciences Po in Paris? Check out the CfA here and share in your networks! @sciencespo.bsky.social @scpo-research.bsky.social www.sciencespo.fr/recherche/en...

Wealth Distribution, Redistribution, and Predistribution Fabian Pfeffer, CRIS Seminar, Friday July 4th

Today was our last seminar of the year with Fabian Pfeffer's @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social fascinating seminar on extreme levels of wealth inequality. Preliminary results stemmed from a real-utopian proposal for wealth redistribution or pre-distribution. www.sciencespo.fr/cris/en/even...

New sociological paper out, by Carlo Barone.
Social class, gender, and ethno-racial inequalities: Dual Process Theory (DPT) is a strong candidate to bridge theory and empirical research and to build a comprehensive toolbox of mechanisms for explaining social phenomena. doi.org/10.1177/0735...

Imagine a world where legal identity and economic security are universal. A new proposal combines cutting-edge digital ID with a global basic income, aiming to empower the poorest 50% and reshape social protection beyond borders.
An inspiring paper > Recchi & Grohmann www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Inner Machinery of Racial Domination A roundtable discussion with Loïc Wacquant

rethink the nexus of racial classification and stratification... The Inner Machinery of Racial Domination - Roundtable with Loïc Wacquant (University of California, Berkeley), Wednesday June 11th, 2025 at Sciences Po Paris, 5pm. Please register! www.sciencespo.fr/cris/en/even...

The Cost of Children This chapter provides an overview of the cost of children, covering both direct and indirect perspectives. Direct costs refer to the increased household expenses that come with raising children, as pa...

The cost of children. Developing realistic models & precise estimations for different family types + contextual settings is an important challenge, given the far-reaching implications for fertility, income distribution, and gender equality. A. Greulich & S. Spitzer link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

Amendes, évictions, contrôles. La gestion des “indésirables” par la police en région parisienne Colloque en présentiel et via webinaire

A la suite du rapport remis au Défenseur des Droits, le colloque Amendes, évictions, contrôles, traite de la gestion des "indésirables" par la police en région parisienne. Mercredi 21 mai, toute la journée. Sur inscription.
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Political Economy of the Ordinal Society | médialab Sciences Po Le Centre de recherche sur les inégalités sociales et le médialab sont heureux d’accueillir Marion Fourcade pour une discussion autour de son dernier livre, The Ordinal Society, co-écrit avec Kieran H...

Le 22 mai, le médialab et le @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social accueillent @marionf.bsky.social pour un séminaire autour de son dernier ouvrage "The Ordinal Society", co-écrit avec @kjhealy.co

Infos et inscription ⬇️

"Our digital society is now governed by measurement, ranking, and control". Les paradoxes de la numérisation de nos sociétés... vers plus d'inégalités ? 👉 jeudi 22 mai 17h, Paris 7e.

The multiverse of social class. A large-scale assessment of macro-level, meso-level and micro-level approaches to class analysis Abstract. Different class theories suggest competing mechanisms behind stratification and assume primacy of different levels of occupational aggregation. By comparing eight class schemes across 12 out...

The multiverse of social class. Paper by F.R. Hertel, C. Barone, O. Smallenbroek. Social stratification explained by class theories = schemes with different occupational aggregation levels. Authors compare 8 schemes / more than 546,000 individuals in 61 countries direct.mit.edu/euso/article...

📢 Research Assistant (Quant Soc/Data Science) – 4-month full-time contract
Join an interdisciplinary project @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social on reducing early childhood inequalities. 🤩
📍 Paris
🗓️ Sept–Dec 2025
💰 ~€2500/month + benefits
Apply by June 15! More details 🔽
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Des inégalités sociales aux discriminations fondées sur le genre, l'origine... dans l'éducation, le logement, le travail... @msafi.bsky.social publie aujourd'hui 1 ouvrage de synthèse sur le défi démocratique posé par les discriminations à notre société et... les moyens d'action pour les combattre.

Amendes, évictions, contrôles. La gestion des “indésirables” par la police en région parisienne Colloque en présentiel et via webinaire

[Colloque] Amendes, évictions, contrôles. La gestion des “indésirables” par la police en région parisienne
📆 21 mai 2025 | 9h-17h
📍 Amphithéâtre Simone Veil, Sciences Po Paris
Organisé par @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social & le Défenseur des Droits
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@cnrsshs.bsky.social

Introducing Ankit Sikarwar: Satellite Insights and New Approaches to Environmental Inequality CRIS welcomes Assistant Professor Ankit Sikarwar

With Ankit’s arrival, CRIS strengthens its multidisciplinary approach in social science, adding new tools and perspectives for measuring and addressing environmental inequalities.
Learn more about @ank-scpo.bsky.social work and vision: www.sciencespo.fr/cris/en/news...

Les diplômes ont-ils perdu de leur valeur ? La profession qu’exercent les actifs ne correspond que dans un tiers des cas au domaine de formation qu’ils ont suivie. Dès lors, quelle valeur accorder exactement aux diplômes ?

#emploi #diplome #professions
Avec une augmentation du niveau d'éducation supérieure au niveau de qualification des emplois, faut-il revoir la valeur des diplômes ?
Analyse par Marie Duru-Bellat @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social @france.theconversation.com
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Offre de financement pour un contrat doctoral (3 ans - sociologie, éco, démo, sciences po...) sur le thème des discriminations et stéréotypes sur le marché du travail, encadré par @msafi.bsky.social. Dispositif CIFRE avec l'association A Compétence égale. Détails: www.sciencespo.fr/osc/sites/sc...

La théorie féministe au défi du handicap - Éditions Cambourakis Comment intégrer le handicap dans les réflexions féministes ? Ce recueil élaboré et préfacé par un collectif d’universitaires et de militantes handi-féministes propose de chercher les réponses dans le...

Comment intégrer le handicap dans les réflexions féministes ? Recueil de textes (1981-2006) dans le champ des feminist disability studies. www.cambourakis.com/tout/sorcier...
Soirée de lancement le 18 avril, librairie Le Monte-en-l'air (Paris 20) montenlair.fr/2025/03/14/l...

4ème de couverture de l'ouvrage paru aux Puf

Alerte à l'anxiété, l'isolement, la dégradation de l'estime de soi et du rapport aux autres... L'héritage génétique s'adapterait-il mal aux mutations du monde contemporain ? Le dernier ouvrage d'Hugues Lagrange 📖 "La peine et le plaisir". #domination #addictions www.puf.com/la-peine-et-...

Éclairages - Amendes, évictions, contrôles : la gestion des « indésirables » par la police en région parisienne | Défenseur des Droits Cette publication constitue une synthèse de la recherche intitulée « Amendes, évictions, contrôles : la gestion des “indésirables” par la police en région parisienne » soutenue par le Défenseur des dr...

Plongée dans une pratique institutionnelle contestable: la gestion des "indésirables" par la police en région parisienne. Évincer des populations cibles: moyens et conséquences. Rapport de Aline Daillère et Magda Boutros soutenu par le Défenseur des droits www.defenseurdesdroits.fr/eclairages-a...

The Pseudoscience that Shieldied Police Violence About: Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease, Duke University

Book review by Madga Boutros: "Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence and the Invention of a Disease" (Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús) - How medical knowledge can contribute to the pathologization and criminalization of racialized bodies booksandideas.net/The-Pseudosc...

We welcomed Bina Agarwal, for her talk "Hidden inequalities, Visible outcomes: A Gender Lens". Improve gender economic & legal inequalities and a better women's participation in environmental decision-making processes [Full replay available]

La garde des enfants : un enjeu d'égalité et d'équité (Laudine Carbuccia) L'OCDE a publié début 2025 un important rapport (en anglais) destiné aux acteurs politiques : "Réduire les inégalités…

De l'intérêt d'accompagner les parents de jeunes enfants pour combattre les inégalités dès le plus jeune âge. @laudine.bsky.social explique en quelques mots sa contribution au dernier rapport de l'OCDE qui plaide pour + d'investissements dans la garde et l'éducation vimeo.com/1069351897?s...

Equality Debate with Bina Agarwal - World Inequality Lab Bina Agarwal, co-winner of the 2024 Global Inequality Research Award (GiRA), will give a lecture at Paris School of Economics on March 19, 2025.

Join us next week to meet ⭐Bina Agarwal ⭐ who will:

☑️Give a talk on #gender #inequalities and social norms
☑️Receive the Global Inequality Research Award from Thomas Piketty🏆

Hurry up to register inequalitylab.world/en/event/equ...

This event is organized with
@cris-sciencespo.bsky.social

Pr Agarwal is a leading economist known for her groundbreaking work on gender inequality, land rights, and environmental governance. Her book, 'A Field of One's Own,' has shaped global policy on women's land rights. She has received numerous honors, including now the GiRA.

Mind the gap: the interplay between genes and neighbourhood context on educational achievement Abstract. This article expands on previous research on gene-environment (GxE) effects on socio-economic status, by stepping beyond the family dimension and

Exploring how neighborhood environments interact with genetic predispositions to influence educational achievement and social mobility. Paper, just published by @lauisilva.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1093/esr/... In advantaged neighbourhoods mechanisms & resources could compensate genetic effects

Mind the gap: the interplay between genes and neighbourhood context on educational achievement Abstract. This article expands on previous research on gene-environment (GxE) effects on socio-economic status, by stepping beyond the family dimension and

Thrilled to see our study on GxE, neighborhood and education published in @europeansocreview.bsky.social academic.oup.com/esr/advance-... incredible work by @lauisilva.bsky.social and Tobias Wolfram!

Climate change and the global distribution of wealth - Nature Climate Change Rising wealth inequality is a major challenge for this century, and climate change could further exacerbate it. Based on an overview of existing studies, this Perspective proposes a framework to advan...

Our paper "Climate Change and the Global Distribution of Wealth" is out in @natclimchange.bsky.social! We study how climate impacts & policies are transforming wealth inequality 🌍

👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Huge thanks to an incredible team: C. Mohren, P. Bothe & @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social

Bina Agarwal will be in Paris next month to receive the Global Inequality Research Award🏆

She'll come to @pse.bsky.social to give a lecture on #gender #inequalities and social norms.

👉 Register here inequalitylab.world/en/event/equ...

This event is organized with @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social