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Sociology, human geography, neighbourhood effects, segregation, inequality, class analysis, education, China @rug-gmw.bsky.social https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=64i-jc8AAAAJ
What is Sinopessimism? From lying flat to runology, Dino Ge Zhang explores a grassroots lexicon of disillusionment in China. Not just youth disengagement but a low theory of coping, refusing, and imagining alternatives amid economic and social pressures.
05.08.2025 09:25 — 👍 37 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 4Proper thread after the summer break– but if you were looking for a beach read about political reasoning in today's working class, look no further: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
04.08.2025 09:53 — 👍 105 🔁 39 💬 4 📌 1wilde boos worden dat mensen nog steeds weglopen met dat stomme antidemocratische essay van Ter Braak, maar blijkt dat Merijn Oudenampsen dat 11 jaar geleden an heeft gedaan
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Even in times of sociocultural conflict, a progressive left electorate is more averse to sociocultural *and* socioeconomic inequalities than (far) right voters.
New paper with @siljahausermann.bsky.social Palmtag @tabouchadi.bsky.social @stefwalter.bsky.social Berkinshaw
tinyurl.com/d42wyb79
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“Socialism has sometimes been framed as the pursuit of free time, of environmental balance, of foregrounded social care; but it could pursue all those goals—and more." newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...
03.07.2025 13:27 — 👍 26 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1Lovely. Here’s Lin Yutang’s version, which I first read in my mother’s copy of The Importance of Living in my early teens:
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Can providing facts about ethnic discrimination change people's beliefs and raise support for affirmative action?
We put it to the test in new @ispp-pops.bsky.social study with @willemdekoster.bsky.social, Jeroen v/d Waal and Masja van Meteren. A thread!
Open access link: doi.org/10.1111/pops...
So much would be won if social democratic politicians only understood this single point.
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RC28’s first online thematic meeting🎉This online meeting will be free of charge. The meeting will take place on 20-21 January 2026 and will be hosted virtually by the Centre for Research on social InequalitieS (CRIS), a Sciences Po/CNRS unit, in Paris.
More info 👇
www.sciencespo.fr/cris/fr/actu...
BS: How was that? How long were you in jail? MM: One night. They let you make one phone call, and I called the Ugandan Ambassador in Washington, DC, talked to him, and he said, “What are you doing interfering in the affairs of a foreign country?” I said, “What? We just got our independence! This is the same struggle. Have you forgotten?” Anyway, he got me out. Two or three weeks later, I was in my room. There was a knock at the door. Two gentlemen in trench coats and hats said, “FBI.” I thought, “Wow, just like on television.” They sat down. They were there to find out why I had gone – because this turned out to be big – it is after Montgomery that King organized his march on Selma. They wanted to know who had influenced me. After one hour of probing, the guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx.
rare W for COINTELPRO from a legendary conversation between Bhakti Shringarpure and Mahmood Mamdani (h/t Silke-Marie Weineck)
04.07.2025 17:05 — 👍 1811 🔁 421 💬 22 📌 54@isa-sociology.org executive committee decision on the Israeli Sociological Society --> www.isa-sociology.org/en/about-isa... #StopGenocide
01.07.2025 09:28 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
We cannot rely on private philanthropy to address structural and systemic issues over the long run because the changing whims of private donors means investments are piecemeal and seldom sustained for long enough to make a difference. wapo.st/3ZRonor
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Would we find you cited here?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
'Another article titled “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” or, the mass production of academic research titles' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
12.05.2025 12:28 — 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
New paper in SSM - Population Health: Adolescent health in relation to their peers: likeability as a resilience factor
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
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Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":
「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」
-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem
De gebruikte klassenaanpak in het rapport maakt het erg moeilijk redelijke conclusies te trekken. Hier zijn ze volgens mij bij uitgave van het vorige rapport een paar jaar geleden ook veelvuldig op gewezen.
11.06.2025 18:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Op p.108, als ze corop gebieden vergelijken obv economisch kapitaal (dus dichter bij klassieke klassenschemas), dan zijn er duidelijke regionale verschillen.
11.06.2025 18:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Onze reactie in De Volkskrant op het vorige week verschenen SCP rapport Verdeeld over het land.
www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...
@jonathanmijs.com @agatatroost.bsky.social @rug-gmw.bsky.social @volkskrant.nl
Opinie: Het Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau hanteert een dubieuze klassenindeling
10.06.2025 17:01 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Scherpe kritiek op het SCP rapport over geografie en klasse:
"in de uitwerking van het onderzoek wordt geografie grof gemeten en sociale klasse dermate verdund dat de verschillen verdampen"
@jaapnieuwenhuis.bsky.social @jonathanmijs.com @agatatroost.bsky.social
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Onze reactie in De Volkskrant op het vorige week verschenen SCP rapport Verdeeld over het land.
@jonathanmijs.com @agatatroost.bsky.social @rug-gmw.bsky.social @volkskrant.nl
📢 Tuesday 10th, 12:00 @ Central Station
Organise the RUG gathering to show your opposition to the budget cuts and solidarity with train workers. Will you join us?
🟥The strike might be postponed, but we will not sit still. Stop the budget cuts!
@rug.nl
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In our new #OA article, we studied the drivers of ethnic school segregation.
Research on segregation often points to parental preferences, but what if it's not just about what parents want, but also what options they actually have?
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf027
Als je een hippe twintiger bent die geen koopwoning kan krijgen maar wel veel volgers hebt op Instagram, dan ben je volgens het Sociaal Cultureel Planbureau welvarender dan een rentenier met een paar miljoen op de bank.
SCP is weer eens sociologen aan het trollen.
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
How should we define the working and middle classes, and has the latter undergone proletarianisation?
This is the question I address in my article in Capital & Class.
In it, I present a class concept based on value-domination and labour market power. 1/3
doi.org/10.1177/0309...
Nimble Chinese fingers discourse refusing to die
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Thomas Piketty giving a lecture at the Cambridge Union. He is standing on the podium pointing to a slide showing his 2021 book Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities.
At Piketty’s third lecture, today on political cleavages and social inequality. He’s talking about the two main political cleavages: income (traditional) and education (newer).
23.05.2025 09:28 — 👍 36 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 4
My first paper of my dissertation 'Patrimonial Relations. Kinship, capital and conflict in super-rich Families' is out now on open access!
Here I discuss how super-rich families use relational work on affective family ties as an economic resource.
@bupjournals.bsky.social
