Scholars 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...

Robert Dorschel's The Social Codes of Tech Workers is a sociological study of class identity among mid-level digital labourers in the age of AI.

Robert Dorschel's The Social Codes of Tech Workers is a sociological study of class identity among mid-level digital labourers in the age of AI.

How 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...

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Die Politik versucht, den Wohlfahrtsstaat durch höhere Abgaben auf Einkommen zu retten. Dabei wird das meiste Vermögen durch Aktien und Immobilien generiert – und sollte entsprechend besteuert werden....

We may be approaching a time when the illusion of selfhood is strengthened, not weakened, because we are surrounded by machines enacting it.

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This article enquires into the cosmetic procedures industry, a growing economic field which offers individuals a variety of professional services to aesthetically enhance their bodies. Expanding th...

Liberalism is under existential threat not only ideologically but materially, as the traditional liberal “New Class”—comprising professionals in academia, media, government, and culture—is systematica...

Silicon Valley’s tech moguls have increasing political ambitions, as spectacularly illustrated by Peter Thiel’s and Elon Musk’s involvements in the US 2022 midterm elections and 2024 presidential e...

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....

What can class analysis tell us about wealth inequality? Insights from Marx, Weber and Bourdieu can help us think about wealth inequality in a more nuanced way.

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<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" dir="auto" id="d1374469e145">Introducing this special issue, this article gives an overview of recent debates around tech workers i...

Climate change is not only altering temperatures but also the very composition of the economic field. So-called ‘green tech firms’ are successfully claiming new jurisdictional task areas related to...

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Climate change is not only altering temperatures but also the very composition of the economic field. So-called ‘green tech firms’ are successfully claiming new jurisdictional task areas related to...

This interdisciplinary research article is situated at the interface of environmental studies and sociology. By bringing an ecological analysis of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to bear on contempo...

This article explores the socio-technical imaginaries of Brazilian tech workers involved in artificial intelligence (AI) development, focusing on their views on Brazil's role in the global AI marke...

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Professor of sociology Sam Friedman charts the enduring influence of private schools in the making of the British elite and asks whether the Labour government is looking finally to curtail it

Published in Geopolitics (Vol. 29, No. 5, 2024)