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Florencia Torche @ftorche.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

New @aeraedresearch.bsky.social article: “Bright but Poor”. Many talented students from low-income families have the grades for higher education but do not make it. We show where the missed opportunities arise across the education pipeline Low-hanging fruit for ed policy doi.org/10.3102/0002...

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Bright but Poor: Undermatching in the Access to Postsecondary Education - Alejandra Mizala, Luis Herskovic, Alejandra Abufhele, Florencia Torche, 2026

Undermatching identifies high school graduates who do not attend selective colleges even if they have high academic performance. To date, the study of undermatc...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Morning read. A good paper about how admissions “consultants” make sense of their work in a deeply, deliberately unequal competition for a limited good. Humans are good at making stories. academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

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Inequality and moral meaning-making in the admissions consulting profession

Abstract. Prior research has described how middle-class and affluent families draw on private supplemental educational resources to help their children mai

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 10/11/2025

🥇 What makes a 3-year-old applicant “worthy” of admission to an elite preschool? Incoming managing editor @elenavanstee.bsky.social reviews @estelabdiaz.bsky.social & Lauren Rivera's recent ASR article. ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1177/15365042251377354

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Tiffany J. Huang @tiffjhuang.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

New in @socprobsjournal.bsky.social w/ @estelabdiaz.bsky.social: the rapid growth of the admissions consulting industry has raised questions about inequality, privilege, and merit. We combine two original data sources to ask how consultants make sense of their work. academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

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Inequality and moral meaning-making in the admissions consulting profession

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 10/09/2025

🚨New sociology! In "How the Rich Turn Sludge into Money," @shdoron1.bsky.social (@ipratnu.bsky.social) keys in on the bureaucratic practices wealthy families use to fend off threats to resources and intergenerational wealth transfers--and how these tactics change families contexts.org/blog/sludge/

A screenshot of the homepage of contexts.org shows a blog post titled "How the Rich Turn Sludge Into Money," by Doron Shiffer-Sebba, illustrated by a photo of enormous stacks of paper.

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SUNY Press @sunypress.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

OUT OF THE CLOSET, INTO THE ARCHIVES explores the emotional and embodied experience of #LGBTQ+ archival work—where power, identity, and desire shape research itself. #ASA2025 #ReadUP tinyurl.com/342hnyt5 #QueerStudies #Sociology #LGBTQArchives #LGBTQResearch

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Estela B. Diaz @estelabdiaz.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I am sharing a fundraiser for the Asylum Support Clinic where a dear friend volunteers. The recent federal funding bill imposes, for the first time, fees on individuals applying for asylum. Details below, but please share with others or donate as you are able! www.gofundme.com/f/help-asylu...

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Help Asylum Seekers Find Safe Haven in NYC: Donate to ASC, organized by Amy Kantrowitz

Asylum Support Clinic (ASC) assists asylum seekers arriving i… Amy Kantrowitz needs your support for Help Asylum Seekers Find Safe Haven in NYC: Donate to ASC

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Estela B. Diaz @estelabdiaz.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Who said economic sociology can't be illuminating AND fun to read? You can have your cake and eat it too with Shays' new work on inheritance disputes and relational mismatches.

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Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

#MorningReads Econ sociologists have examined how morality shapes markets, but often treat class and organizations separately. Ethnography of 3 U.S. fertility clinics shows how their intersection shapes how providers talk about money to manage trust & authority. Via @elizaclairebrown.bsky.social

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Doctor, how much does it cost? Moral values and price talk in a stratified consumer medical market

Abstract. In recent years, economic sociology scholarship has begun to interrogate how moral understandings of market exchanges differ according to organiz

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Social Science Research Council @ssrc.org · 15/07/2025

In @asanews.bsky.social ASR, @larivera.bsky.social and @estelabdiaz.bsky.social use qualitative data from elite independent pre K-12 schools to find that admissions processes are structured to exclude applicants at risk of disabilities. Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Historically, elite schools have selected students in ways that reproduce advantages for dominant groups and exclude groups deemed undesirable. The specific outgroup in question has changed over time, but the underlying logic used to exclude these groups is often related to disability. Yet, disability as a social category has received minimal attention in discussions of elite reproduction. In this article, we draw on qualitative data collected from elite independent pre-K–12 schools to show that disability is indeed a salient basis of selection into elite educational environments, one that begins at the earliest moments of educational sorting: admission to elite early childhood programs. Through interviews with admissions personnel, we show that elite independent schools explicitly structure their admissions processes to identify—and exclude—children who are perceived as having or being at risk of developing any type of disability, regardless of impairment type or support needs. We argue that admissions practices at elite independent schools (1) serve as a form of social closure intended to restrict enrollment to young children perceived as able-bodied and neurotypical, and (2) represent a case of essentializing merit, in which elite gatekeepers construct merit as an intrinsic, rather than achieved, property of individuals.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Here's the application link! You've got one week left to apply. www.justeducationpolicy.org/apply

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Apply — Just Education Policy

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Daniel Tadmon @danieltadmon.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

✨New✨ postdoc opportunity to collaborate with @mollycopeland.bsky.social and myself on an exciting project on geography, community, and mental health at @ndsociology.bsky.social. Happy to talk to anyone interested. Please resky (or whatever retweeting is called here)! apply.interfolio.com/169206

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Three million Americans marched today. Here’s why we wrote about one American who didn’t.

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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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AJ Alvero @ajalvero.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Sharing a thought provoking piece by @tiffjhuang.bsky.social about Ohio's anti-DEI. Reminds me of the problems I escaped from in Florida! www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

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Estela B. Diaz @estelabdiaz.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Our piece is out now in ASR! See Lauren's fantastic thread below for the highlights. We believe scholars who study elites, culture, and education will all have something to take away from this work. Let us know what you think. (1/2)

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Lauren Rivera @larivera.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

How do the most elite US private schools, which serve as Ivy League feeders, select their youngest members? In a new ASR article w/ @estelabdiaz.bsky.social, we show that schools explicitly design their early childhood admissions practices to identify—and exclude—disabled or neurodivergent children🧵

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Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

“The widespread adoption of vouchers, Cowen explains, was a policy coup staged by billionaires who were libertarians or religious zealots or both.” Yet vouchers don’t work. So honored by The Privateers review from the great @dianeravitch.bsky.social @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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Selling Out Our Public Schools | Diane Ravitch

Donald Trump promised that he will make public funds available to private as well as religious schools in every state, and this is what his party wants,

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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Keep imagining better worlds.

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NBER @nber.org · 18/01/2025

Most elite families did not maintain their position in the top 1 percent between 1850 and 1940, from Priti Kalsi and Zachary Ward www.nber.org/papers/w33355

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I wish people on the left would stop using “diversity hire” or “affirmative action” to describe folks like Hegseth. This reinforces the racist, sexist notion that diversity and affirmative action are promoting unqualified people, doing the right’s work for the.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

More important work from ProPublica on private schools, and a great resource for teaching.

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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 18/11/2024

North Carolina's Segregation Academies are benefiting from rapidly expanding and controversial voucher-style programs. @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social & @mrsimon22.bsky.social report, with photography by @gregkahn.bsky.social for @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/segr...

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James M. Thomas (JT) @insurgentprof.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Currently writing a chapter about whiteness and what I call the ‘long shadow’ of Jim Crow. We have a lot of interviews with White folks from the Delta who attended, and/or send their children to these segregation academies. All of them did their schooling post-1969 Alexander v. Holmes

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Estela B. Diaz @estelabdiaz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

My parents don't quite understand what I do as a postdoc, but they love beautiful and old things so I get to tune into campus with a different lens. This week's pick:

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

How do we reconcile our ever-growing love of NYT puzzles with our ever-growing fury at their news and opinion pages

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Estela B. Diaz @estelabdiaz.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

I wrote a book review of Michèle Lamont's latest, "Seeing Others" for the latest ASA Culture Newsletter. In the review, I also discuss the limits of a politics of recognition and consider whether new narratives for stigmatized pops are emancipatory. asaculturesection.org/2024/02/01/b....

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Book Review: Seeking Others by Michèle Lamont

Book Review: Seeing OthersBy Estela B. DiazPresidential Postdoctoral FellowPrinceton UniversityWith Seeing Others: How Recognition Works – and How it Can Heal a Divided World (Simon & Schuster 2023), ...

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Estela B. Diaz @estelabdiaz.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

I guess there's no better time to make the switch to Bluesky official. If you care to follow me, I'll be boosting the work of others and sharing musings re: my ongoing work on early childhood elite admissions, educational markets, meritocracy, etc. plus occasional photos of my pup, Joaquin!

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Wendy Y. Li @wendyyli.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

My research on tech lobbying is cited today in a New York Times Opinion piece. Glad that my work is helping make sense of this pivotal moment in global tech regulation. www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/o...

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Opinion | Should Big Tech Get to Write the Rules of the Digital Economy?

The Biden administration isn’t letting the tech giants write the rules of global trade. Good.

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Estela B. Diaz @estelabdiaz.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

I'm new to Bluesky (thanks @wendyyli.bsky.social !) and just getting the lay of the land. Looking forward to fewer bots and more resource-sharing!

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