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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Really energizing few days at the @bjsociology.bsky.social conference at @lsesociology.bsky.social More highlights than I can fit in one post, but was mesmerized by @vladimirbortun.bsky.social and @sachahilhorst.bsky.social studying the far right from very different angles,

Sacha Hilhorst breaking down the class coalition symbolism of this photo.

Vlad drawing conclusions from his comparative analysis of far-right funders, leaders and policies.

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Really impressed again by the combination of deep discussions and good vibes at this year's @bjsociology.bsky.social conference, including fantastic work by @marentoft.bsky.social, @magneflemmen.bsky.social, @vladimirbortun.bsky.social, @sachahilhorst.bsky.social & @salomeietter.bsky.social

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NOVA / Norwegian Social Research @nova-oslomet.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Ungdom vokser opp i ulike klassemiljøer og sosialiseres dermed inn i politiske forskjeller. Det ser vi tydelig i skolevalgsresultater i en sosialt delt by som Oslo. Få med deg @magneflemmen.bsky.social på årets Ungdatakonferanse som handler om ungdoms mot og mening! www.ungdata.no/ungdatakonfe...

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Crucially, all these forms of critique coexist and often do not congeal into coherent left- or right-wing political worldviews: reacting to specific moral violations, the same workers will criticize politicians, the greedy rich, welfare scroungers, foreigners, bosses, and landlords.

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

In terms of political representation, workers critique forms of political inequality and political exclusion: Politicians, as part of the upper class, only serve the upper class; and politics is a self-referential sphere closed to non-experts.

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

In the domain of recognition, workers criticize violations of a hierarchy of deservingness whereby productive "makers" such as themselves are devalued vis-à-vis unproductive "takers"; as well as a devaluation of manual versus non-manual work. Both are based on a violated sense of "producers' pride".

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

In terms of material distribution, workers critique injustices of social polarization (elites pull away while normal people are left behind); overexploitation (bosses maximize profit at workers’ expense), and market pressures (systemic competition squeezes everyone).

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Under these conditions, we show (re: EP Thompson, Axel Honneth, Barrington Moore) that the dominant form of workers' consciousness is a moral sense of injustice triggered by broken promises and hidden injuries. Its basic form is that of a protest against violations of an implicit social contract.

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

OK, a🧵: Our new paper studies workers' political consciousness in times of class demobilization. We show there's more to workers' politics than right-wing resentment. Listening to workers, we reconstruct their moral critiques of money, power & recognition. Link journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Recruiting one full time or several part time RA at @crestsociology.bsky.social in Paris (well, almost in Paris) for next year to work on the evaluation of cultural items crest.science/wp-content/u...

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I hope the relevant anonymous author will, in some way, appreciate that I brought their paper with me in a canoe capsize today. Cue wordplay on «deep dive» into their argument.

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Ståle Holgersen @holgersen.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Jeg anmeldte Klasse — en innføring, av @magneflemmen.bsky.social og Jørn Ljunggren. Mye bra å si om boka, men også noen kritiske kommentarer.

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Klasse er hot igjen - Gnist

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

NEW BLOG: In my new paper, I map 26 questions on environmental attitudes in social space. I challenge three accounts of the classed nature of environmentalism: the prosperity thesis, ecological distinction, and eco-habitus. Read a short summary on my blog: magneflemmen.com/2025/05/31/g...

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Green against greed: What my new paper says about class, cultural capital and environmental attitudes

Why are pro-environmental attitudes more common among the privileged? In a new article in The British Journal of Sociology, [free access version] I challenge three common explanations and propose a…

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Why is environmentalism class divided? My new paper in The British Journal of Sociology maps attitudes to green issues in the social space of economic and cultural capital. Spoiler: it’s not just about being rich. 🧵https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-4446.13231

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Super excited to present my paper on how political issue priorities have shifted in social space over the past ~25 years. Features graphs like this. (Starry sky background because @enlar.bsky.social said these plots look like constellations).

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Magda Breyer @mabreyer.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

And more cool research by @noracwe.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social, Rasmus Kappelgaard Gustafsson, Viktoriia Muliavka, David Beck, @robinweisser.bsky.social, @linerenn.bsky.social, @leaelsaesser.bsky.social, @johannaplenter.bsky.social, Mikolaj Czesnik & @manuelwagner.bsky.social (days 2.5-4)😊

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Magda Breyer @mabreyer.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

✨We have a great line-up with work by Rune Stubager, @micagrossmann.bsky.social, Garret Binding, @denisetraber.bsky.social, @magneflemmen.bsky.social, Marta Eidheim, @pstanig.bsky.social, Lewis Anderson, Geoff Evans, Sung in Kim, @marvinreis.bsky.social (days 1-2)

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Magda Breyer @mabreyer.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Looking forward to an exciting workshop 'Inequality and the politics of class in the 21st century' at the ECPR Joint Sessions in Prague 🏰, co-organized by @peterla.bsky.social and me: ⬇️

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Just got a paper accepted (expect to be harassed about it briefly). The publisher nudged me to make a video abstract. Do people actually do those? Don’t think I’ve ever watched one, but it sounds like it might be a good idea? Seen any good ones, or got thoughts?

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manifestmedia.bsky.social @manifestmedia.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Hvor mye arbeideridentitet fins det i Norge anno 2025? Og hva ER egentlig en «klasse»? Vår dynamiske duo får akademisk eksperthjelp i anledning den store dagen: Ukas gjest er sosiologiprofessor ved UiO @magneflemmen.bsky.social LYTT HER: 5cqz.short.gy/9edzlx

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manifestmedia.bsky.social @manifestmedia.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

@magneflemmen.bsky.social er ukas gjest i Mímir&Marsdal. Ny episode torsdag om klasse!

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

You know it’s about to get real when this slide comes up: Jan Fredrik Hovden on social space and psychological traits. #britsoc25 @bernardlahire.bsky.social

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I’ll be at #britsoc25 to present this and attend as many interesting sessions as I can – happy to meet for a coffee if you’re around and want to chat about class, culture or politics.

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Will I see you at the British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social conference? Presenting a new paper on the changing relationship between socio-political preferences and social space over a quarter of a century. Might include graphs like this one! #britsoc25 #sociology #class #politics

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Just put this picture on my office wall, inspired by this quote by Lahire from his Les structures fondamentales des sociétés humaines: Social life in general, and academic institutions in particular, know how to constantly divert us

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

What’s the current standing of Durkheim’s theories on suicide in sociology? Have they been widely critiqued or developed further? Can you recommend something to get an overview of this scholarly discussion?

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

So many smart people seem to believe that higher ed. should be job training, explicitly. The rise in business (undergraduate) majors is one byproduct of such a perspective. And watching universities cut humanities is another. I find this approach incredibly shortsighted, and ultimately defeating. 🧵

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

What is the current standing of theories of reflexivity, individualisation and the likes — Beck, Bauman, Giddens etc? When I was doing BA/MA, they were still discussed a fair bit. Is there a book, edited volume or special issue about this I should know about?

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Émile Durkheim @durkheimsays.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

“Every time a psychological explanation is offered for a social phenomenon, we may rest assured that explanation is false.”

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Hello new followers! You wouldn’t happen to have an answer to this, would you?

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

NEW: Where the teens are YouTube 90% TikTok 63% Instagram 61% Snapchat 55% Facebook 32% (down from 71%) WhatsApp 23% X 17% (down from 33%) Reddit 14% Threads 6% report: www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Also sharing this starter pack of class analysts again for the folks who are new here: go.bsky.app/VTirGYT

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

🚨 Last call! 🚨 PhD course on Multiple Correspondence Analysis in Oslo, 13–16 January 2025. Learn this fascinating technique for structural & relational analysis. No prior knowledge required! 🧑‍🎓 🗓️ Application deadline: Monday 👉 Please repost to spread the word!

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

From today’s spam. Wrong type of structure, sir.

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

And that, my friend, is part of the reason why you should come to Oslo and learn Multiple Correspondence Analysis in January. But hurry up — the deadline is approaching at a relentless pace! www.uio.no/studier/emne...

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Is this the first episode where the book isn't completely shredded?

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Kristoffer Kropp @kristofferkropp.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Two new publications that encapsulate my interests to present my self. Both are focusing on science in Europe and the processes shaping science and especially social science in Europe. In the first one we analyze scientific disciplines using ERC projects and topic analysis. doi.org/10.1016/j.po...

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Homologies in fields of cultural production. Evidence from the European scientific field

This article suggests a comparative field analytical approach to fields of cultural production. Combining concepts from field analysis and focusing on…

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Class consciousness still shapes voting, but in a different way than in the past. That's the key finding of a study with @thomaslux.bsky.social now out in English. We chart how class identity, interests and status link with voting for the left and right in Germany. A🧵 library.fes.de/pdf-files/a-...

Cover of the publication "Class consciousness and voting. Class as a political compass?" by Linus Westheuser and Thomas Lux, published by Friedrich Ebert Foundation. The cover illustration shows a stylized female worker flexing her muscles.

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Thierry Rossier @thierryrossier.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

If you happen to be in Lausanne this Thursday, do stop by at Unil as @benzpierre.bsky.social and I will be giving a very short introduction on Multiple Correspondence Analysis in R. An then you can fly straight to Oslo for a one-week MCA course with @magneflemmen.bsky.social next month!

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

It is through complex relationships w. all the social characteristics of individuals that income is likely to characterise a situation in the social world that helps structure social dispositions to a greater or lesser extent and, through them, relationships with politics and electoral orientations

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

In social reality, income does not in itself produce any ‘effects’, even indirect ones, on electoral preferences.

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