Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge @camsociology.bsky.social · 8hOur first seminar of the year is next Tuesday! 🔹Putting a Price on Suffering: The Institutional Logics of Compensation 🎤Speaker: Prof Rosemary Taylor, Tufts University 📆Tuesday 13 October 2026 12:30pm to 2:00pm 📍Sociology Seminar Room Find out more here: www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/events/putti... 000
Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge @camsociology.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Department of Sociology Associate Professor Lorenza Antonucci spoke to CNN about growing economic insecurity across Europe. Listen to the full interview here: lnkd.in/gqtyNwVK #sociology #economicinsecurity #cambrigdeuniversity #cnn #Europelnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 020
Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge @camsociology.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Time to reveal our Sociology Seminar Series Michaelmas 2026 Term card! 🎉 📍Sociology Seminar Room, Free School Lane, CB2 3RQ. 💻Full abstracts here: www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/sociology-se... #sociology #seminar #speaker #student #cambridge #cambridgeuniversity 010
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgeCRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Join us for 'From Skin to Script', a hands-on workshop in traditional parchment-making – one of the UK's most critically endangered crafts Explore how living craft knowledge affects how we understand medieval manuscripts 29 Sep - 1 Oct 2026 bit.ly/4gcqbRn (limited places) 034
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgeCRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 21/07/2026🎲 Scenes of play in German literature from 1750 10-12 Sept 2026, CB3 9DP Register at bit.ly/3TwubDn With speakers from nine countries and fields ranging from architecture to toy history, we’re excited to kickstart Play Studies in the UK and rethink how we play today 124
Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge @camsociology.bsky.social · 12/08/2026💡Did you know our academics in the Department have published a range of new books this academic year? 🎊We're proud to celebrate the breadth and impact of our research! 📚See the books below! #NewBooks #AcademicPublishing #Sociology #ResearchImpact #DepartmentNews #UniversityResearch 100
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgeRobert Dorschel @robertdorschel.bsky.social · 26/06/2026We talk endlessly about tech bosses but know surprisingly little about how their entrepreneurial mindset is formed. In this new article, I develop the concept of the entrepreneurial gaze to explain how early-stage entrepreneurs come to see and evaluate the world www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comThe entrepreneurial gaze of digital capitalismScholars have unearthed how tech companies exert unprecedented power through new modes of accumulation and control. Less attention has been paid to the social actors who command these companies. In... 1174
Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge @camsociology.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Department of Sociology researcher Dr Jess Miller was featured in a recent BBC News report examining the trauma experienced by police officers. Read full article here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #Sociology #Policing #TraumaResearch #MentalHealth #PoliceWellbeing #UniversityOfCambridge 011
Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge @camsociology.bsky.social · 05/08/2026🎉The results are in for our Schools Photography Competition 2026! This year's theme was "(In)tolerance". 🏅Congratulations to our winner and runners-up! 📸View full photographs and descriptions here: www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/photo-compet... #CambridgeSociology #Photography #VisualSociology 020
Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge @camsociology.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Read Dr Matthew Sparkes' article 'The Stigmatized Homeowner: Variegated Debt Moralities, Credit-Score Governance, and the Making of UK Mortgage Prisoners' (Housing, Theory and Society, 1-18) at the link below 👀 doi.org/10.1080/1403... 010
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgePlanetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · 16/07/2026We’re delighted to launch *Community-led Forest Technologies: A Smart Forests Final Report*, bringing together findings from our knowledge exchange workshop and a fifth case study in Scotland. We’re also releasing two short films to accompany it. 📄 Read the report: smartforests.net/community-le... 131
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgePlanetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Alongside our new short film *Rainforest Regeneration in Scotland: Communities and Technologies* (featured in this post), discover four new Smart Forests Atlas Stories written by people working on community-led rainforest regeneration projects across western Scotland🧵 vimeo.com/1186677471?s...vimeo.comRainforest Regeneration in Scotland: Communities and TechnologiesRainforest Regeneration in Scotland visits four projects in western Scotland to learn about the role of digital technologies in facilitating temperate rainforest regeneration. A more in-depth discussi... 112
Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge @camsociology.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Join us on 3 August, when guest speaker Dr Steven Threadgold speaks on how current economic conditions are handled by the younger generation in Australia. 📅 Monday 3 August 🕰️ 3 - 5pm 🏢 Sociology Seminar Room, Free School Lane Link to the full abstract in the responses! 110
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgeGates Cambridge @gatescambridge.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Mayumi Sato and Kamiar Mohaddes have won Impact Awards for their work on environmental justice and climate change economics: www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/t... @kmohaddes.bsky.social @trinityhallcamb.bsky.social @camsociology.bsky.social @kingscollege.bsky.social @gatesfoundation.bsky.socialgatescambridge.orgTwo Scholars win Awards for Research Impact and Engagement - Gates CambridgeMayumi Sato and Kamiar Mohaddes won Impact Awards for their work on environmental justice and climate change economics. 152
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgeThe Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 18/06/2026How do second-generation British Turks negotiate identity and belonging? @ozgeonay.bsky.social @camsociology.bsky.social on the concept of “floating habitus”, racialisation and the feeling of being caught between two worlds. #OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/NZVEdox 012
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgeCRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Digital Platform Capitalism and its Regulations: Comparative approaches and future research directions Join scholars from political economy, economic and political sociology, law, political science, urban and political geography 22-23 June Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP bit.ly/4owMfsv 022
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgeDr Özge Onay @ozgeonay.bsky.social · 28/05/2026journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... This one means a lot to me. My article, 'Home but not quite': Islamophobia and gurbetçi identity in the 'floating habitus' of British Turks', is out today in The @thesociologicalreview.org Review Foundation, fully open access.journals.sagepub.com‘Home but not quite’: Islamophobia and gurbetçi identity in the ‘floating habitus’ of British Turks - Özge Onay, 2026This article examines how second-generation British Turks negotiate identity and belonging across the UK and Turkey through a Bourdieusian framework of habitus ... 001
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgeCLAS Cambridge @handle.invalid · 02/06/2026📢 CLAS Events – Easter Term 2026 Join us for Digging for Hope, a book presentation & panel with Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, on feminist ethnography, women-led search collectives in Mexico, care and collective memory. 📆 Thu 11 June, 12:30pm 📍 Room S1, ARB Open to all! 132
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgePrinceton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Great to see this thoughtful review of Insecurity Politics by sociologist Lorenza Antonucci in @derstandard.at: www.derstandard.de/story/300000... #EuropeanReviewOfTheWeek 🇦🇹 🗞️derstandard.deWie hohe Lebenskosten und Jobsorgen Populisten zum Aufstieg verhalfenGroße Unsicherheiten im Alltag waren viel mehr der Treiber für die populistische Welle als das Thema Migration, wie eine britische Studie zeigt. Männer sind besonders anfällig 143
Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge @camsociology.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Join us tomorrow for our final departmental seminar of the year! 010
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgeRobert Dorschel @robertdorschel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026The book is available open-access here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...direct.mit.eduThe Social Codes of Tech Workers: Class Identity in Digital CapitalismHow the coders of our digital worlds think, work, and live.Digital technologies shape nearly every aspect of our lives. Yet little attention has been paid 182
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgeRobert Dorschel @robertdorschel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026It was really great to visit the @cso-sciencespo.bsky.social at the Sciences Po Paris and present my book on the social codes of tech workers Fascinating discussion of the organisational environments tech workers navigate and their quest to be middle class wealthy and morally worthy 171
Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge @camsociology.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Join us on 2 June, when Dr Katie Gaddini will discuss 10+ years of research conducted into the growing power that conservative, Christian women hold in American politics. 📅 Tuesday 2 June 2026 🕰️ 12.30 - 2pm 🏢 Sociology Seminar Room, Free School Lane 100
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgeJulian Go @juliango.bsky.social · 25/05/2026I’ll soon be giving my last series of lectures as University of Cambridge Leverhulme Visiting Professor. @camsociology.bsky.social This is one of them: www.lse.ac.uk/events/policelse.ac.ukFrom citizen to subject | Professor Julian Go6.30pm Wed 27 May | Professor Julian Go, Dr Mahvish Ahmad, Professor Aaron Reeves | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE 1113
Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge @camsociology.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Join Eduardo Romero Dianderas as he examines the evolving media infrastructures that have shaped tropical timber supply chains over the past decades. Organised by @planetarypraxis.bsky.social group. 📅 20 May 🕓 2:30-4:00pm 🏢 Seminar Room, Dept. of Sociology 🔗 www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/events/plane... 021
Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge @camsociology.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Join Professor @sarihanafi.bsky.social (American University of Beirut) for a talk on his book: "Against Symbolic Liberalism: a plea for a dialogical sociology". 📅 20 May ⏲️ 12:30-1.30pm 🏢 Seminar Room, Sociology Dept 🔎All staff and students welcome More info🔗 www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/events/again... 010
Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge @camsociology.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Join us on 19 May for our next seminar, when Dr Pérez-Jara and Nicolás Rudas introduce 'Dramatic Intellectuals', an examination of how public figures shape discourse through dramatic narratives. 📅 Friday, 1 May 2026 🕰️ 5-6pm 🏢 Old Cavendish Building, Free School Lane 110
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgePlanetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · 05/05/2026With accelerating climate change and unsustainable land uses, fires are becoming more frequent and destructive. Our new Smart Forests collection, *Ecologies of Fire / Ecologías del Fuego*, asks how to collectively rethink relationships with fire: publications.smartforests.net/en/ecologies... 101
Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge @camsociology.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Don't miss the deadline for our school photography competition - this Friday ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 020
Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge @camsociology.bsky.social · 30/04/2026We are delighted to announce that Prof Michaela Benson @michaelacbenson.bsky.social has been appointed to the Chair of Sociology @cam.ac.uk, joining as Professor of Sociology from 1 October 👏👏 She is a leading social scientist renowned for her contributions to Migration Studies and Urban Sociology. 030
Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge @camsociology.bsky.social · 29/04/2026📢 Book launch this Friday: "Syrian Intellectuals in Exile" by Dr Zeina Al Azmeh. In the wake of the 2011 uprising in Syria, a number of Syrian intellectuals were forced into exile. Zeina sheds light on whether and how exile influenced narratives, strategies and political agency. 🔗Link below ⬇️ 120
Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge @camsociology.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Don’t miss the next talk in our Sociology Seminar Series, featuring Professor Miriyam Aouragh from the University of Westminster. 🔎One Liberation is Bound to Another: Beyond Liberal Shortcuts 📅 5 May 2026 ⏲️ 12:30-2pm 🏢 Seminar Room, Dept of Sociology, Free School Lane All staff and students welcome 020
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgeSimone Schneider @simoneschneider.bsky.social · 09/04/2026More Cambridge jobs! Research Assistant/Associate in Sociology: Data Collection and Analysis (Part Time, Fixed Term) @camsociology.bsky.social Further info: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD489/r...jobs.ac.ukResearch Assistant/Associate in Sociology: Data Collection and Analysis (Part Time, Fixed Term) at University of CambridgeExplore an exciting academic career as a Research Assistant/Associate in Sociology: Data Collection and Analysis (Part Time, Fixed Term). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities. 155
Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge @camsociology.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Listen to Sociology PhD student Seetha Tan on @gatescambridge.bsky.social's podcast, So, now what? Discussions surround the complexities of leadership in a rapidly changing world, the importance of gender equality policies, the role of storytelling in leadership and more... Link below ⬇️⬇️ 021
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgeCRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 07/04/2026How do we think, create, and act when the trajectories of life and knowledge are disrupted by war, exile, precarity, or the crises of the contemporary world? Rethinking Exile: On fractured lives and the capacity of beginning anew 12 May 2026, 2-6pm CRASSH, CB3 9DP bit.ly/48qHauS 034
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgeRebecca Brennan @rebeccabrennan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Happy publication day(+1) to Lorenza Antonucci @camsociology.bsky.social for 'Insecurity Politics', out now with @princetonupress.bsky.social: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... - exploring the everyday realities of financial and work insecurity that drive right- and left-wing populismpress.princeton.eduInsecurity PoliticsThe everyday realities of financial and work insecurity that drive right- and left-wing populism 194
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgePlanetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Heading into the final stretch of the Smart Forests project, over the next few months we’ll be sharing a new wave of materials: podcasts on fire tech and UK rainforest regeneration, two short films, a collection on *Ecologies of Fire*, and our final report on Community-led Forest Technologies. 111
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgeCRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 18/03/2026I-CIVIC is a new secondment programme giving researchers the opportunity to spend 1-3 months at another European university and explore questions surrounding democratic education, inclusive civic engagement and digital literacy. For more information about the programme: bit.ly/4bgkO1c 001
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgeRobert Dorschel @robertdorschel.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Excited to present my book on #techworkers in London this Thursday! If you're around, you can sign up here: autonomy.work/portfolio/ro... And if you want to read the book, it's available open-access: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon... 073
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgeSimone Schneider @simoneschneider.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Vacancy for a teaching associate at our department @camsociology.bsky.social, focus on decolonial/postcolonial sociology www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQV286/t...jobs.ac.ukTeaching Associate in the Sociology of Empire (Fixed Term) at University of CambridgeAn opportunity for an academic position as a Teaching Associate in the Sociology of Empire (Fixed Term) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings. 044
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgeCRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Would you like to run your own Research Network at CRASSH? Applications are now open for Networks in 2026-27 You will receive funding of up to £2,000 per academic year, plus logistical assistance and a platform for events ➡️ The deadline for applications is 5 May 2026 bit.ly/3BknsiZ 135
Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge @camsociology.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Tomorrow! Join us for the final instalment of our Lent Term seminar series. 001
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgePrinceton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Next week, 17 Mar at 12:30 pm GMT, see Lorenza Antonucci at @camsociology.bsky.social for a discussion of their book, Insecurity Politics. They will explore the everyday realities of financial and work insecurity that drive right- and left-wing populism. Learn more about the event: buff.ly/rU8jAz2 021
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgeCRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Apply for CRASSH events funding! 💫 Have you got an idea that may: - Foster the exchange of ideas across disciplines and cultures? - Forge new collaborations ? - Bring academic research to wider publics? - Explore research and artistic practice? Apply by 17 May 2026 bit.ly/3CaV97M 21314
Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge @camsociology.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Join us on 17 March, when Dr Lorenza Antonucci will be launching her new book, 'Instability Politics'. A presentation of her research will be followed by discussion with other Cambridge academics. Location 📍: Sociology Seminar Room Time 📷: Tuesday 17 March, 12:30 - 2pm 130
Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge @camsociology.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Our Y10-13 school photography competition is open to entries! Win £100 for yourself, £100 for your school and an invite to visit @cam.ac.uk 🏆 ➡️ This year's theme: take an original photo that tells a story about (in)tolerance ➡️ Deadline: 8 May 2026 🔗 Enter: www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/photo-compet... 343
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgeUniversity of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies @cambridgegender.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Ahead of her talk on 11 March (5:30, Christ's College), you can read the introduction to the soon-to-be-released 'Gloria Wekker Reader' on the Duke University Press website: www.dukeupress.edu/the-gloria-w...dukeupress.eduThe Gloria Wekker Reader 034
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgeProject Syndicate @projectsyndicate.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Lorenza Antonucci argues that politicians who confront the middle-class roots of public discontent will win back voters’ trust.project-syndicate.orgFinancial Insecurity, Not Immigration, Is Driving Populist Politics 021
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgeSimone Schneider @simoneschneider.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Exciting news, join us in Cambridge as Caius & Homerton are hiring for yet another Assistant/Associate Prof in Sociology🎉 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS875/a...jobs.ac.ukAssistant/Associate Professor in Sociology at University of CambridgeAn opportunity for an academic position as a Assistant/Associate Professor in Sociology is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings. 046
Reposted by Department of Sociology, University of CambridgeRobert Dorschel @robertdorschel.bsky.social · 03/03/2026🎉 Just published in @bjsociology.bsky.social Tech entrepreneurs are increasingly reshaping society and politics, but how do they justify their advantageous positions? My article analyses and unpacks dominant narratives in the world's most famous and elite startup accelerator: YCombinatoronlinelibrary.wiley.comEntrepreneuring Legitimacy: A Case Study of the Cultural Codes and Boundary‐Makings of the Tech EliteHow do those who are pulling away economically justify their advantageous positions? This issue has acquired salience in the context of rising inequalities and propelled a reflourishing of sociologic... 1133