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📢The call for papers for the Inaugural BJS Conference is out now!
The conference will showcase cutting-edge research from across the discipline of sociology at LSE on 15-16 April 2024.
All the information, and the call for papers, can be found here
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Family wealth is becoming a key factor in determining life opportunities such as housing, education, and retirement.
We invite both original and secondary research contributions to a new BJS special issue.
More information can be found here ➡️
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Mark your calendars!
The BJS will be hosting its inaugural major international conference on 15 and 16 April 2024 at LSE in London.
🧵
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📣 Exciting news...
The British Journal of Sociology has a new editorial team!
We are really looking forward to the innovative perspectives they will contribute.
@RebsFE
@aaronsreeves
@SamFriedmanSoc
@alim1213
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The programme for the British Journal of Sociology conference is here! Over two days we'll bring together 200+ academics showcasing cutting-edge research from across the discipline.
View the programme ➡️
Register to attend ➡️ ..
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Read new commentary by
@MikeSav47032563
in defence of sociological description.
#EarlyView
in the
#BJS
➡️
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We are delighted to announce that Professor Julian Go will be joining the
#BJS
editorial board.
@jgo34
has been a pioneer in the development of
#postcolonial
social science and historical
#sociology
; we are thrilled to be able to welcome him onto the BJS board.
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Registration for our Inaugural British Journal of Sociology Conference is open!
The conference will showcase cutting-edge research from across the discipline of sociology.
Find out more about the conference here:
Register here:
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We're thrilled to introduce our latest addition to the editorial team,
@alim1213
from
@CamSociology
.
Ali's research bridges critical race theory and decolonial thought, exploring the convergence of epistemological, methodological, and empirical approaches.
Find out more⬇️
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A heartfelt thank you to
@Daniel_Laurison
for his exceptional contributions first as Associate Editor and then Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Sociology.
We are all so grateful for his dedication and hard work over the last few years.
Thank you, Daniel!
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We're excited to introduce another member of the BJS editorial team,
@SamFriedmanSoc
from
@LSESociology
!
Sam specialises in the sociological study of class and inequality, with a focus on the cultural dimensions of contemporary class division.
Find out more about Sam's work⬇️
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On Monday and Tuesday we're hosting our Inaugural British Journal of Sociology Conference!
➡️If you're joining us make sure you've looked at the programme to identify the sessions you'll attend:
Tag us in your tweets throughout the two days!
#LSEBJS
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Don't forget to submit your abstract by Friday 20 October 2023!
We encourage scholars to share this call for papers with colleagues and encourage them to participate in the conference.
More information here:
📢The call for papers for the Inaugural BJS Conference is out now!
The conference will showcase cutting-edge research from across the discipline of sociology at LSE on 15-16 April 2024.
All the information, and the call for papers, can be found here
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We're so excited to introduce you to another new member of the BJS editorial team!
@aaronsreeves
from
@DSPI_Oxford
is a sociologist with a focus on public health, culture, and political economy.
Find out more about Aaron's work⬇️
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📢 Announcement!
We are thrilled to welcome Dr Katie Higgins to the BJS team as our new Book Reviews Editor, starting 1 August!
Welcome, Katie!
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👋 Welcome to the Inaugural British Journal of Sociology Conference!
Tag us in your tweets from the conference using
#LSEBJS
View the programme ➡️
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📢 KEYNOTE ANNOUNCEMENT
The British Journal of Sociology Editors are delighted to announce that Professor
@EricKlinenberg
(
@nyu_ipk
) will be joining us at the Inaugural BJS Conference as another of our keynote speakers.
Stay tuned for more information:
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Our conference will showcase cutting-edge research and bring together 200+ academics with keynotes, plenary sessions, and author-meets-critics sessions on high-profile books!
Register to attend by 25 March ➡️
View the programme ➡️
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Join us for an enriching in-person event, as we showcase the best of sociological work from around the world.
More details and the call for submissions coming soon.
See you there!
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We are thrilled to welcome Dr Lucie Kalousová to the
#BJS
editorial board.
@LucieKalousova
has been doing cutting edge research for the last decade and will bring a wealth of insight and experience, particularly around issues related to health and
#health
#inequalities
.
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College graduates in the same field as their parents tend to earn 2% more than siblings with different degrees, especially in law, medicine, and engineering. Read new article by
@birkelund_jf
.
#EarlyView
in the
#BJS
➡️
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⏰One week to go! Don't forget to submit your abstract for the BJS Inaugural Conference by Friday 20 October.
The conference will showcase cutting-edge research from across the discipline of sociology at LSE on 15-16 April 2024.
More information here:
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Our new September Issue is out now!
Find articles on elites, religion, culture & meaning, social fields, immigration, and reviews of C. N. Eddins on the Haitian Revolution and Robin Bartram on urban inequality.
#BJS
➡️
@WileySociology
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🗓️Save the date: Monday 16 October, 6.30pm - 8.00pm
Join us in-person for the Annual BJS Lecture, The Social Life of Money for Children, with
@BandeljNina
(
@UCISociology
).
This public event is free and open to all.
More information here:
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Join us to welcome to
@RebsFE
from
@LSESociology
!
Rebecca is an economic and environmental sociologist, and investigates climate change impacts as political and economic issues.
Find out more about Rebecca's work⬇️
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Read new commentary by
@NoortjeMarres
on the persistent problem with explanation within the Social Sciences.
#EarlyView
in the
#BJS
➡️
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For our special issue
@NoortjeMarres
and David Stark have collaborated to look the sociological implications of testing. Read the article here:
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“Brahmin Left versus Merchant Right? Education, class, multiparty competition, and redistribution in Western Europe”
Read
@tabouchadi
and
@simonjhix
’s article in our special issue on Capital and Ideology.
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Catch up with the discussion of
@pardoguerra
's
#TheQuantifiedScholar
, now available (Early View) at the British Journal of Sociology.
Contributions from
@sarahderijcke
, John Holmwood,
@RebsFE
and
@SamFriedmanSoc
.
#EarlyView
in the BJS:
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We are delighted to welcome Dr Ricarda Hammer to the
#BJS
editorial board.
@ricarda_hammer
is at the forefront of
#postcolonial
and historical
#sociology
, and is leading a new generation of thinkers forward on these matters. We are excited to be welcoming her onto the BJS board.
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Registration for our British Journal of Sociology Conference closes next week! Register to explore cutting edge cutting-edge research from 200+ academics across the discipline.
Register by 25 March ➡️
View the programme ➡️
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We're delighted to announce Claire Alexander as a keynote speaker at our upcoming British Journal of Sociology Conference!
Register to attend the conference ➡️
Find out more about the conference ➡️
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Read new paper by Yang Yu,
@SolGamsu
and
@hkan_forsberg
exploring social and spatial mobility in higher education using data from HESA.
#EarlyView
in the
#BJS
➡️
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The full back catalogue of Ulrich Beck's British Journal of Sociology papers, available FREE until March
http://t.co/uEulIgDamw
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We are delighted to congratulate
@KjellNoordzij
,
@WillemDeKoster
, Professor Jeroen van der Waal for winning this year’s BJS Prize for their paper "A Revolt of the Deplored? The Role of Perceived Cultural Distance in the Educational Gradient in Anti-Establishment Politics”.
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Our special issue on Capital and Ideology is free this month!
Check out the introduction to the issue by
@MikeSav47032563
and
@paidipaty
.
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Read new article by Richard Breen and Jung In on regional variation in intergenerational social mobility in Britain.
#EarlyView
in the
#BJS
➡️
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Over two days we will bring together 200+ academics showcasing cutting-edge research from across the discipline of sociology.
Find out more and view the programme ➡️
Register your place ➡️
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We encourage scholars to share this call for papers with colleagues and encourage them to participate in the conference.
Submit your abstract by Friday 20 October 2023⬇️
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Read
@alpashah001
and
@JensLerche
’s article, “Black lives matter, capital, and ideology: Spiraling out from India”, in our special issue on Capital and Ideology! Free this month 👇
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Our new December Issue is out now!
Find articles on mobility & meritocracy, political participation & political views, the state & marginality, and more.
Read now in the
#BJS
➡️
@WileySociology
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COMING SOON: a Special Issue on Trump & post-Brexit politics - 17 contributors, FREE TO DOWNLOAD. Abstracts here:
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Have you registered yet for our Annual Lecture?
@jgo34
will be 'Thinking Against Empire: anticolonial thought as Social Theory'
📆6 April 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Make sure you register soon ➡️
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Read our new special issue on ‘Capital and Ideology’! The issue is free this month 👇
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📢 KEYNOTE ANNOUNCEMENT
The British Journal of Sociology Editors are delighted to announce that Professor Claire Alexander (
@MCRSociology
) will join us at the Inaugural BJS Conference as one of our keynote speakers.
Stay tuned for more information:
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We're delighted to announce
@benwansell
as a keynote speaker at our upcoming British Journal of Sociology Conference!
Register to attend the conference ➡️
Find out more about the conference ➡️
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Read the new article by
@DrMJTurner
and
@jaludvigsen
which examines the political consciousness and long-term mobilisations of a generation of football supporter activists.
#EarlyView
in the
#BJS
➡️
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🚨Free Access for two weeks!🚨
Understanding the mobility chances of children from working‐class backgrounds in Britain: How important are cognitive ability and locus of control?
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The BJS will heavily subsidise the conference, capping registration fees at just £100 for the whole conference, with 20 free places and 15 travel bursaries for those facing financial hardship.
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What is the utility of eye tracking for sociological research on race? Read research note by Jennifer Patrice Sims
@UAH_SOC
, Alex Haynes and Candice Lanius.
#EarlyView
in the BJS:
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Does family background consistently influence career success? Read research note by
@kbkarlson
.
#EarlyView
in the
#BJS
➡️
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Our new January Issue is out now!
Find articles on race, finance, football, law and more.
Read now in the
#BJS
➡️
@WileySociology
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Our first day has kicked off!
We are joined by keynote
@benwansell
at the
#LSEBJS
inaugural conference.
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Read
@Laura__Clancy
's book review of Left Feminisms: Conversations on the personal and political. By Jo Littler, London: Lawrence Wishart. 2023.
#EarlyView
in the
#BJS
➡️
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How do parenthood and publishing contribute to gender gaps in academic career advancement? Read new paper by
@mathiaswullum
, Jens V. Pedersen and
@JulienLarregue
examining gender gaps in social scientists' research careers.
#EarlyView
in the
#BJS
���️
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Read this
#openaccess
article by
@AND_Dawson
and
@liamswiss
on 'Foreign aid and the rule of law: Institutional diffusion versus legal reach'.
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If you missed our Annual BJS Lecture last year you can now listen to the podcast here:
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Our Annual Public Lecture Interview is here. Watch Editor-in-Chief
@nigelbdodd
interview
@GKBhambra
about her lecture "A Polity Divided: empire, nation, and the construction of the British welfare state."
🎙️
@SociologyLens
@LSEsociology
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Read new research note by
@hodderandy
and Stephen Mustchin examining the recent
#strike
wave in the UK drawing on data from the
@ONS
.
#EarlyView
in the
#BJS
➡️
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📢 KEYNOTE ANNOUNCEMENT
The British Journal of Sociology Editors are delighted to announce that Professor
@benwansell
(
@NuffieldCollege
) will be joining us at the Inaugural BJS Conference as one of our keynote speakers.
Stay tuned for more information:
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📢Save the date for the launch of our special issue on Capital and Ideology!
📅 Monday 26 April, 12:30 to 2pm
🗣️
@PikettyLeMonde
,
@GKBhambra
,
@JensLerche
,
@sanjaygreddy
,
@dsanco
,
@nora_wait
&
@paidipaty
🎟️ Registration opens on 12 April
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📢 Attention accepted presenters for the British Journal of Sociology Inaugural Conference 2024!
Remember to register your place by Friday 12 January.
Should you have any queries regarding registration or the conference, please reach out to us on bjs
@lse
.ac.uk.
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Read new article by Ran Ren, examining the growing interest in evaluating and applying Bourdieu's theories in the context of cultural capital.
#EarlyView
in the
#BJS
➡️
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The link between social skew in elite recruitment and member homogeneity is more complex than we think, in the paper by
@NuffieldCollege
Fellows Erzsébet Bukodi
@DSPI_Oxford
& John H. Goldthorpe & Nuffield student
@IngaSteinberg
.
#EarlyView
in the BJS:
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Read the new article by
@A_Gugushvili
, Therese Dokken,
@gruelig
and Jon Erik Finnvold, which finds that early-life diagnoses are linked to significantly worse income outcomes in adulthood than the general population.
#EarlyView
in the
#BJS
➡️
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📢 Save the date 🗓️ Join us at the LSE for the 2023 BJS Annual Lecture on Monday 16 October
We are pleased to announce
@BandeljNina
as our speaker.
Mark your calendars and stay tuned for more updates!
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“Beyond property or beyond Piketty?” Read
@sanjaygreddy
’s article in our special issue, free this month!
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Join us and
@LSEsociology
for the Annual British Journal of Sociology Lecture, which will be delivered by Marion Fourcade (
@UCBerkeley
) on the topic of Ordinal Citizenship! It’s one not to miss:
#LSEBJS
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Read
@DavidMotadel
and Richard Drayton’s article, “Material conditions and ideas in global history”, in our special issue on Capital and Ideology!
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Read
@DrDanielRSmith
(
@CUSocSci
) book review of "Running the Family Firm". By Laura Clancy, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
#EarlyView
in the
#BJS
➡️
0
2
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Read new paper by
@JamesRuFletcher
on how transport digitalisation exacerbates challenges for people with cognitive impairments.
#EarlyView
in the
#BJS
➡️
0
2
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The podcast of Troy Duster's
#LSEBJS
lecture on race and genomics, we're publishing this (with responses) next month!
http://t.co/1pNqEVxWVj
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Join us next month for our annual lecture with
@LSEsociology
, where
@GKBhambra
will explore “A Polity Divided: Empire, Nation, and the Construction of the British Welfare State”
#LSEBJS
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Read the new article by Thijs Lindner, Stijn Daenekindt,
@WillemDeKoster
and Jeroen Van der Waal, exploring diverse perspectives on immigrants' entitlement to welfare.
#EarlyView
in the
#BJS
➡️
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Accepted to present at our upcoming Inaugural Conference? Don't forget to apply for a conference bursary!
You must submit your application by Monday 4 December 2023. We have limited funding available, so please apply as soon as possible.
➡️
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Registration for our annual lecture is open! 🎟️🎟️
Join
@GKBhambra
and
@nigelbdodd
for “A Polity Divided: Empire, Nation, and the Construction of the British Welfare State”
#LSEBJS
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Read Céline Bessière's book review of "Hedged out. Inequality and insecurity on Wall Street". By Megan Tobias Neely,
@ucpress
.
#EarlyView
in the BJS:
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“Property, wealth, and social change: Piketty as a social science engineer”
Read
@MikeSav47032563
and
@nora_wait
’s article in our special issue. The article explores wealth accumulation as a motor of historical change.
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📢 Happening next week:
Join us on Monday 16 October, 6.45pm for the Annual BJS Lecture: The Social Life of Money for Children with
@BandeljNina
, chaired by
@RebsFE
.
Explore how meaning, structure, and politics shape money flows within households.
Find out more here:
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Listen to Bruno Latour talking about his prize-winning British Journal of Sociology paper on Gabriel Tarde,
http://t.co/sYnz2oUzvG
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Read the research note by
@yueqian_soc
(
@UBCSociology
) and Wen Fan (
@BostonCollege
), which finds that the disruptions precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic bore a dispropotionate burden on women.
#EarlyView
in the
#BJS
➡️
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We're delighted to announce
@EricKlinenberg
as a keynote speaker at our upcoming British Journal of Sociology Conference!
Register to attend the conference ➡️
Find out more about the conference ➡️
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The latest post on the
@SociologyLens
blog explores how religious participation affected voting decisions in the EU referendum.
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Superb article by
@MikeSav47032563
on Piketty's challenge for sociology - available FREE with a reply from Piketty!
http://t.co/uWRqZWy5bt
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Research conducted by Antonina Zhelenkova and
@naza_panichella
uncovers the impact of family background on school enrolment and track choice, highlighting educational inequalities in Italy's upper secondary schools.
#EarlyView
in the BJS:
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Read
@TahirAbbas_
's latest research note on Radicalisation Studies - a growing interdisciplinary field that seeks holistic insights into the factors driving individuals and groups toward extreme ideologies and political violence.
#EarlyView
in the
#BJS
➡️
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Read the new article by Dale Southerton and
@jen_whillans
(
@BristolUni_BSch
) exploring why Social Practice Theory research has not used Time Use Surveys, citing ontological tensions and conceptual challenges.
#EarlyView
in the
#BJS
➡️
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Read new paper by Thea Bertnes Strømme and Øyvind Nicolay Wiborg examining the unique contributions of parental wealth, class background, education, and income to different measures of educational attainment.
#EarlyView
in the
#BJS
➡️
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Join us on Monday 16 October, 6.45pm for the Annual BJS Lecture: The Social Life of Money for Children with
@BandeljNina
, chaired by
@RebsFE
.
Explore how meaning, structure, and politics shape money flows within households.
Find out more here:
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What's popular right now?
@ConnellyRoxanne
and
@profbigvern
's paper on social class inequalities in general cognitive ability is being read widely right now. You can read it too, for free, here:
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12 years of intense neoliberal policies created a Scylla State for marginalised women, marked by unpredictability, trauma, surveillance, coercion, and victim-blaming, in the paper by Rebecca Hamer.
#EarlyView
in the BJS:
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Debating Capital and Ideology
📅Monday 26 April, 12:30 to 2pm
@PikettyLeMonde
in conversation with interlocutors, will present his book’s framework and his historically-informed approach for understanding and combating inequalities today.
#LSECOVID19
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2016 BJS Lecture 20 Oct.6.30 pm LSE Aldon Morris on ‘Why du Bois is founder of American scientific sociology’
@sociologyLens
#LSEBJS
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Read the new article by
@EdmundCB
exploring the lack of sociological research on incompetence despite its widespread impact.
#EarlyView
in the
#BJS
➡️
0
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Registration is open for the launch of our special issue on Capital and Ideology!
📅Monday 26 April, 12:30 to 2pm
🗣️
@PikettyLeMonde
,
@GKBhambra
,
@JensLerche
,
@sanjaygreddy
,
@dsanco
,
@nora_wait
&
@paidipaty
#LSECOVID19
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2016 BJS Lecture 20 Oct.6.30 pm LSE Aldon Morris speaks on ‘Why du Bois is founder of American scientific sociology’
@LSEsociology
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The BJS is delighted to be on Twitter! Watch this space for regular updates and links to free content.
http://t.co/ZZkOz61JDf
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Don't forget to your abstracts by tomorrow!
We look forward to reading them.
📢The call for papers for the Inaugural BJS Conference is out now!
The conference will showcase cutting-edge research from across the discipline of sociology at LSE on 15-16 April 2024.
All the information, and the call for papers, can be found here
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“Piketty comes to South Africa”
Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón,
@MurrayLeibbrand
,
@VimalRanchhod
and
@MikeSav47032563
interrogate Thomas Piketty's analysis against specificities that are central to understanding inequalities within South Africa.
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