@touboel.bsky.social
Associate Professor at University of Copenhagen, Department of Sociology, studying civil society, volunteering and protest. Editor of Acta Sociologica. www.soc.ku.dk/jonastouboel
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@klararaiber.bsky.social and I wrote a paper and it is published now! In this study in @actasociologica.bsky.social, we investigate willingness to perform small caregiving tasks for neighbors. We show that anticipated reciprocity increases willingness but previous caregiving experience does not(1/2)
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New book review 📙 👀
“Ladegaard develops a thesis about the darker side of digitalization, something which is extensively documented, but sparsely theorized … the work is timely and innovative."
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📄DDC PUBLICATION UPDATE📄
Our former PhD & current Postdoc @emilbakke.bsky.social is first author on this important study on visual expressions in protest movements!
Together with @nicolemilmandoerr.bsky.social and @mathiaswullum.bsky.social in @actasociologica.bsky.social !
Great work Emil et al.!
👉 New article commentary out 👀
In the forthcoming Special Issue on Social Investment in Action Moira Nelson argues that SI research needs to go beyond calling for ‘more’ education to systematically address the variegated social and economic effects of education policies.
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Out now in @actasociologica.bsky.social: “Momentary symbols: Tracing the visual expressions of collectives”
with @nicolemilmandoerr.bsky.social & @mathiaswullum.bsky.social
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A🧵 on our approach and findings:
I have a new paper out. 🥳 It’s about libraries, inequality and an intervention trying to get more families to loan more books for their children! 📚📖📓
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#library #booksky#sociology #econsky
In a new article, Ramaekers and Raiber advances our knowledge of neighbour caregivers by examining the impact of anticipated reciprocity and previous (negative) caregiving experience. They indicate that neighbours can form a safety net for those who cannot rely on family.
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👉 New article out 👀
'Five blindspots in reform studies of early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy' by Rense Nieuwenhuis, Mara A Yerkes, Lovisa Backman and Jakob Strigén.
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“A deep engagement with phenomenological theory and a practical roadmap for how it can inform a renewed, more human-centered interpretive sociology.”
- Eduardo Duran on Besnik Pula’s 'Alfred Schutz, Phenomenology, and the Renewal of Interpretive Social Science'.
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New article!
Berger and Bakken bridge the gap between online and offline drug market research finding that market relationships vary on a continuum between being fully digital to fully physical. They show how this continuum is determined by social and relational factors.
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In this new article Eivind Hjort Matthiasen analyzes how upper-class and working-class individuals in Oslo, Norway, orient themselves toward environmental values through their energy practices.
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Nick Crossley argues that both identity and social ties are important to group formation, but that our understanding of their intersection is underdeveloped. In the new article ‘Group formation and social structure: On networks and identities’ he address this deficit.
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In ‘Against underdog metaphysics: Alvin Gouldner and the Marxist critique of post-theory’, Wilén and Söderberg connect the reservations that Marxists have long expressed about the revolutionary potential of the lumpenproletariat with the Marxist critique of post-theory.
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In 'Politics of welfare exclusion: Open and concealed welfare chauvinism and public support for social assistance reform' Mikkel Haderup Larsen test how welfare chauvinism in proposals to reform the Danish Social Assistance system affects public support.
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In "Institutional conditions and acquisition of language skills among young refugees: Investigating the German context" @oliverwinkler.bsky.social and Anne-Kathrin Carwehl show that school enrollment waiting time and insecure residence status relates to fewer language skills
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New article👀
In "Radical right support and the deepened rural-urban and educational divides among younger generations" Amanda Valldor from @sofi.su.se shows that educational and rural-urban political divides are more pronounced among younger generations than older ones.
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New📖review
Across the economy, politics, and society, @kjhealy.co and @marionf.bsky.social "show how processes of datafication—and more specifically, ordinal ranking—are reorganizing how people are seen." @lauraknelson.bsky.social writes in her review of the Ordinal Society.
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In "What the street level can teach us about the social investment state – Insights from encounters between caseworkers and vulnerable unemployed clients in Denmark" Mathias Herup Nielsen adds a street-level perspective to the scholarly discussions over social investment.
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🚨new paper 📃
In "Feeling like a bad investment: Exploring the lived experiences of being the object of social investment technologies in Danish public employment services" @sabinapultz.bsky.social opens a critical discussion; who are we investing in and for what purpose?
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Back from the summer break and you have been very productive indeed: 61 manuscripts in our inbox!
So when you soon receive invitations to review, please keep in mind that for each of your manuscripts that go into review you need to review 2-3 manuscripts for the system to balance out. Thanks! 😘
Zachary Webster Griffen reviews "The Politics of Modelling: Numbers Between Science and Policy" by Andrea Saltelli and Monica Di Fiore and reflects on how Trump and Musk has profoundly altered the relationship between statistical modelling and politics in the US
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New article:
Group formation and social structure: On networks and identities
Nick Crossley in @actasociologica.bsky.social
@uomsoss.bsky.social
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One or two lectureships in the sociology department at Uppsala.
Excellent applicants wanted!
In "Translating reform—the rise and fall of social investment practices in Swedish local government" Mats Fred highlights the contingent, negotiated, and ephemeral nature of public-sector change initiatives studying the case of social investment in Sweden.
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🚨📃👀 In "Living on buffered time: Toward another sociology of storage", @toteraltermann.bsky.social argues that storage acts like a buffer that takes in things and release them at different rates and thereby link social activity and flows of different speeds and rhythms.
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📃👀 Adding a cultural sociological perspective to Rosa's Resonance Theory, Marcel Knöchelmann explores How the subjective response to poetic works relate to more general social and symbolic structures in "Resonance and culture: Reading poetry as a sphere of meaning".
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Book Review: The Ordinal Society by Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy Reviewed by Laura K. Nelson for Acta Sociologica. Blurb in the image: Major societal transformations fuel sociological inquiry. As industrial capitalism displaced feudal economies, for instance, early theorists sought to understand the new forms of authority, labor, inequality, and social cohesion that emerged in its wake. We may now be living through another such transformation—one driven not by industrial production or bureaucratic governance, but by data, metrics, and algorithmic systems. The Ordinal Society builds on—and in key ways redirects—Shoshana Zuboff's (2019) claim that we are witnessing the rise of a new economic formation: surveillance capitalism, in which human experience is mined as “behavioral surplus” and turned into data to predict and shape behavior, and to generate profits. But where Zuboff focuses on extraction and surveillance, The Ordinal Society asks what comes next: how that data is used to classify, rank, and sort people in ways that structure access to opportunity and power.
My review of Fourcade and Healy's The Ordinal Society
Their central question (in my read): “What does it mean for computers to intervene in the business of seeing and organizing society?” (p. 108).
The stakes of this question are now higher than ever.
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In "Beyond rational choice: A neo-Bourdieusian gravity model of social practice", Arturo de Nieves Gutiérrez de Rubalcava develop a neo-Bourdieusian gravity equation to counter the limitations of integrating the influence of social structure in rational action theory models.
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