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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Er ånd ikke for det meste usynlig? Ville det ikke være passende bare at kalde sin bog Den Usynlige eller Ånden?

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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Tomorrow: last chance if you want to join our MORALITES project as a post doc: www.cbs.dk/om-cbs/job-o...

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Postdoc in the Historical Sociology of Moral Elites

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 25/02/2026

The first set of postdocs for our ERC project on popular government have just been advertised. These 3 postdocs will be based at UC Louvain with my co-PI Pierre-Etienne Vandamme and focus on contemporary democratic theory. Apply! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...

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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Er det her en revival af #socialinvestment tankegangen, @ditteandersen.bsky.social ? Eller en del af den nordiske velfærdsDNA at investere i befolkningen tidligt i livet? Eller bare valgflæsk?

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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

A type of code switch called 'change of footing' by Goffman (Forms of Talk 1981), observing Nixon. Apparently a common behavioral pattern within a certain species of US presidents.

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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Are you interested in the role of elites in disseminating ideas and framing policies? Then you should consider contributing to this Special Issue edited by me and Milka. You can email us an abstract if you want to know whether your paper idea is a good fit with the theme.

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Christian Breunig @breunig.eurosky.social · 23/01/2026

🚨 Postdoctoral Position at the University of Konstanz 🚨 We’re hiring a post-doc for our @excinequality.bsky.social project on political elites and decision-making. 4-year position | Deadline: Feb. 20 | Start: Sept 2026 Please share widely 🙏 The ad is here stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...

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Postdoctoral Position at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality”

Deadline: 20 February 2026, 12:00 pm CET

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Since the hegemon's eye is now focussing on Greenland, I recommend revisting our research note in @bjsociology.bsky.social on the Power elite in Greenland onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Check out this special issue on Social Investments in the welfare state. We do indeed find that this logic has deep roots but also show it is always intertwined with other logics and so it should be evaluated contextually.

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Acta Sociologica @actasociologica.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

In "What's so new about social investment? Evidence from the history of the Danish welfare state" @aludvig.bsky.social and Troels Krarup find utilitarian logics similar to the modern social investment paradigm were central in the early formative period of the welfare state. doi.org/10.1177/0001...

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What's so new about social investment? Evidence from the history of the Danish welfare state - Anders Sevelsted, Troels Krarup, 2025

Social Investment is heralded as a new social policy logic that views present social expenditure in light of future benefits for a greater good. Seeking to qual...

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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Science is more art than science - Rick Sanchez

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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Is it now time to take him literally, but not seriously?

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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 15! Join us and @samfriedman.bsky.social Friedman (LSE), Annette Zimmer (Uni Münster) and William Genieys (Sciences Po) for a two-day conference/workshop, June 3 and 4. Excellent opportunity for paper feedback. DM me for info and questions. Please share and repost!

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Deadline is tomorrow! If you are researching political elites and want to combine your research with brown cheese and salmon, then there is one day left to apply for our workshop in Oslo. Find the call for papers in the previous post.

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Jennifer Harris @jwharris.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Out on the town having the time of my life with a bunch of friends. They're all just out of frame, laughing too.

VP JD Vance in Greenland pointing off in the distance

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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

My two brilliant colleagues, Milka Hadjievska (working w me on the ERC MORALITES project, CBS) and Håkan Johansson (Lund) just published their paper on the state consecration of civil society elites in Sociology! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The very first paper from our large comparative project - the World Elite Database - is out. Lots of coordination and important discussion on comparing elites allow us to - for the first time really - compare elites across very different national contexts. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)

The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic re...

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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Hvornår begyndte vi at sige 'anden-dame' i stedet for vicepræsidentfrue?

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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Curious about the civil society elites in Sweden? Able to read Swedish? Well, here's a book for you. I contribute w 2 chapters, 1 on revalist leaders' hist. role in SWE society & 1 on the hyperagents, the very well connected, with Roberto Scaramuzzino.

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 📢 "Moral Economies of the Polycrisis. Conflict, Critique, and Legitimation in Critical Times" Workshop, June 16-17 University of Hamburg Deadline for abstracts: 07/04 Supported by the Economic Sociology section of @dgsoziologie.bsky.social linuswestheuser.com/cfp-moral-ec...

Moral Economies of the Polycrisis
Conflict, Critique and Legitimation in Critical Times

International Workshop. 16-17 June 2025. University of Hamburg. Organizers: Laura Lüth (University of Hamburg), Till Hilmar (University of Vienna), and Linus Westheuser (Humboldt University Berlin).

By disrupting what is taken for granted, moments of economic, political, and ecological crisis reveal the implicit modus operandi of a society. As routines get derailed and settled arrangements come under strain, institutions are forced to explicate the “implicit social contract” (Barrington Moore) underpinning power, domination, and inequality. Who deserves protection when times get rough? Whose suffering matters and whose claims are made to count? Who is blamed? And what even counts as a crisis and what is shrugged off and fades into a ‘new normal’?

These questions touch on a tacit structure of social expectations commonly discussed under the heading of moral economy. Drawing on thinkers like E.P. Thompson, James C. Scott, or Marion Fourcade, the moral economy perspective examines expectations of unequal reciprocity and distributive claims in economic relations; ideas of systemic legitimacy resting on mutual obligations between dominant and dominated groups; or political priorities tied to assumptions about the (un)deservingness and moral worth of social groups. Moral economy approaches focalize the ideational and institutional architecture of capitalist societies by parsing how legitimacy and hegemony are embedded in everyday moral reasoning. In addition these approaches also often look at social practices, struggles, and forms of critique centered around the violation of moral claims.

At our workshop, we want to discuss work in the moral economy paradigm that sheds light on the current “polycrisis” composed of geopolitical turmoil, economic shocks, ecological breakdown, as well as crises of care and political legitimacy.

What can the moral economy perspective teach us about the way capitalist societies navigate these crises?
To what extent do crises open up a space in which dominated groups can critique inequality and demand a renegotiation of the implicit social contract?
How do demands and political responses informed by existing moral economies deepen inequality and domination?
How do institutions like the welfare state or social and eco-social policies seek to mend rifts in the moral economy?
What are moral background assumptions that make some developments (such as migration) but not others (such as poverty and extreme wealth) appear as crises?
And what is the explanatory status of moral economy as a concept? For instance, are popular moral sentiments and subjective aspirations a driver of political and economic action, or are they merely a symptom of existing power relations? Is moral economy about agency or structure? And if both, how exactly?

These are some of the questions we want to discuss with a group of international scholars.

We invite papers taking a moral economy perspective to empirically research or theorize the current conjuncture. Papers can be at all stages of development, the event is meant to collaboratively discuss work in progress. We especially welcome submissions from doctoral and post-doctoral researchers. Limited funds are available to assist with travel and accommodation for those lacking institutional support.

Please send an abstract of max. 500 words to: laura.lueth@uni-hamburg.de, till.hilmar@univie.ac.at and linus.westheuser@hu-berlin.de

Deadline for abstract submissions: 7 April, 2025

The workshop is supported by the Economic Sociology Section of the German Sociological Association (DGS), the Research Unit Economic Sociology at the University of Hamburg, and the Research Unit Macrosociology at Humboldt University Berlin.

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Thierry Rossier @thierryrossier.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

🚨 New Paper Out! 🚨 🔍 Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past: The Effective Agents of the Swiss Field of Power 1910–2015 w/ Jacob Aagaard Lunding in open access in Sociology 📄 Read here: doi.org/10.1177/0038... A thread (1/10)

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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Starting to miss the days when history had ended.

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Morten Frederiksen @frederiksen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Come work with us! We are looking to hire an Associate Professor in Business Studies with a focus on Management, Leadership, and Organization at the Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University. Great Department and near Copenhagen. Please share or apply! tinyurl.com/mpura4k9

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Associate Professor in Business Studies: Management, Leadership, Organization

Offering a high-performing, large and truly interdisciplinary social science environment, the Department of Social Sciences and Business (ISE) at Roskilde Unive

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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

⚡⚡First keynote confirmed for our June 3-4 MORALITES opening conference in Copenhagen! Very excited to have William Genieys - @sciencespo.bsky.social and @cnrs.bsky.social - present on his work on elites and state power. Come join us! Deadline for abstracts on February 28! The conference aims to ⬇️

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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 05/02/2025

New PhD positions in political economy(+)! We have two new 3-year PhD scholarships at the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School: (1) open call, (2) green transition. If you have questions, feel free to reach out. (1): www.cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa... (2): www.cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa...

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Six days left to apply! 👇Come join us in Oslo.

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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

We're hiring: Fully funded 3-year PhD position in Sociology, here in wonderful Copenhagen, Denmark! Come work with us! employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

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PhD scholarship at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen (UCPH)

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Do you research political elites and do you fancy a trip to Oslo on September 1-2, 2025? Then apply to the 𝘞𝘩𝘰𝘎𝘰𝘷 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱 𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘴. The deadline is April 4th. We have funding, so we may be able to help finance your trip! You can find the call for papers here: bit.ly/WhoGovWorksh...

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Acta Sociologica @actasociologica.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

🚨 📃👀 🚨 In this new study, Jayeon Lee and Roberto Scaramuzzino show substantial differences in demographic characteristics and attitudes among the civil society elite and the general population pointing to a distinct ethos in civil society's elites. Open access 👇 doi.org/10.1177/0001... #sociology

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

We are looking for many new colleagues in political science at University of Oslo. Currently, we have calls for: Up to 4 Associate Professors (with possibility of promotion to full): www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... 1 Postdoc: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... 1 PhD: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science (271034) | University of Oslo

Job title: 2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science (271034), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, February 3, 2025

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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

New article out in @culsoc.bsky.social. This one is close to my heart: A #Bourdieu'sian 'field-translation' take on the diffusion of #socialmovements to new country contexts. I ask: how is a movement adopted when it travels to a culturally fragmented field? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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