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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

1. Congrats on the NYT coverage! 2. Anyone who wants to know more about class-origin pay gaps in top jobs (higher professional and managerial occupations)!in the US can see me & Sam Friedman's paper in Social Forces - overview & links at daniellaurison.com/the-class-ce...

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The Class Ceiling in the United States - now out in Social Forces - DANIEL LAURISON

Sam Friedman & I just published an article on The Class Ceiling in the United States in Social Forces. You can access the article at Social Forces here and the preprint if you need it is here. The key...

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The first rule of privilege is that you get to be unaware of your privilege! It’s so nice and comfy to believe you’re just really good at stuff and earned it all by your diligent labour and inherent virtue

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Runnymede Trust @runnymedetrust.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Senior Fundraising and Grants Manager will lead the development and delivery of a fundraising strategy that supports Runnymede’s long-term sustainability and ambitions for impact 👇 www.runnymedetrust.org/careers/seni...

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Runnymede is the UK's leading independent race equality think tank.

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Runnymede Trust @runnymedetrust.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The People and Culture Manager will lead and develop our people function, ensuring colleagues have a positive, consistent and inclusive experience throughout their time at Runnymede 👇 www.runnymedetrust.org/careers/seni...

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Why do so many influential people emphasise humble beginnings while downplaying privilege? @samfriedman.bsky.social and @aaronreeves.bsky.social explore why elites often present themselves as "ordinary" and what this reveals about class, status and legitimacy in Britain. buff.ly/rHF2j25

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Why do elites pretend to be common people? | LSE British Politics

Presenting themselves as common people has become a bit of trend among UK elites and politicians. This strategy is surprisingly effective, but with limits.

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Aaron Reeves @aaronreeves.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New paper w @samfriedman.bsky.social. We know elites try to convince ppl that they're ordinary via their class origin or their taste. But what happens when those attempts at ordinariness fail, and does this affect how we think about inequality. journals-sagepub-com.lse.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10....

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Sam Friedman @samfriedman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New! We know elites work hard to be seen as ordinary.But do people believe them?We use experiments to explore what happens when performances of ordinariness are undermined (and why this matters for income inequality) Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Blog: blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

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Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Zsófi Boda @zsofiaboda.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

last minute PhD opportunity on stereotypes, social networks, and social inequalities at @ucl.ac.uk @ioe.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social, two fully funded 4-year positions are available! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Fabian Society @thefabians.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"Today’s elite may see itself as more meritocratic and down-to-earth, but do its claims of progressive social change stand up?" Class privilege continues to shape who reaches the top, write @samfriedman.bsky.social & @aaronreeves.bsky.social fabians.org.uk/common-people/

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Common People | Fabian Society

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The new issue of Contexts is out! As the new Books Editor, I'm particularly jazzed about @joyamisra.bsky.social's banging review of RF Kuang's Katabasis, but lots of great public-facing work in here!

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Livio Silva-Muller @liviosilva.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Just out in @socialforcesfan.bsky.social some of our work comparing Elites in Brazil and South Africa! Using a small survey with random sample of CEOs, legislators, and top bureaucrats in both countries, we unpack the contradictory ways elite think about merit and taxation and redistrution.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

My Labour PPC backstory: I grew up in a single parent family on a council estate in East London My Tory PPC backstory: my grandparents were small businessmen My Reform PPC backstory: my grandparents came to this country legally My Restore PPC backstory: I am descended from white Rhodesians

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Our book Trigger Points is now out in open access. Huge thanks to Mike Savage for a terrific foreword and to Michèle Lamont, Silja Häusermann and Daniel Ziblatt for their kind words. Link below: @mikesavagelse.bsky.social @mlamont.bsky.social @siljahausermann.bsky.social @dziblatt.bsky.social

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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Summer School: Class, Culture & Discontents 📆 July 23rd - 24th 📍London Full programme with all star line up ⭐ 23rd July feat @darrenchetty.bsky.social @jolittler.bsky.social @jasnijjar.bsky.social etc on prison education, meritocracy, colonialism, war + more www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summer-sch...

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Who really runs Britain — and why do they insist they're just ordinary? Great fun convo withLSE profs @samfriedman.bsky.social & @aaronreeves.bsky.social authors of Born to Rule with @peteryork.bsky.social on his Peter York's Culture Wars House Party Podcast 🎧 podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...

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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Drawing on qualitative interviews with middle-class households aged 30 to 39 in Paris, this paper examines how parental financial support is negotiated among homebuyers and renters and how it affects family relationships. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Aaron Reeves @aaronreeves.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This looks like excellent and fascinating work! Somewhat surprisingly it resonates with what @samfriedman.bsky.social and I found in the UK, i.e., access to elite positions (beyond just politicians) has been fairly stable across C20 among people born into wealth www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

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Born to Rule — Harvard University Press

The Economist, Best Books of 2024The Times, Best Ideas Books of 2024A uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what they like ...

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Newcastle Youth Studies Centre @newcastleyouth.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Please join us online on Wednesday March 11 (tomorrow!) at 3pm for @samfriedman.bsky.social (LSE) and Rose Butler (Deakin) for our next online seminar "Class Diplomacy: Cross-Class Friendship and Social Mobility'

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Class Diplomacy: Cross-Class Friendship and Social Mobility

Negotiating class based tensions and the politics of friendship

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

🧵on my new paper "Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems" w Roberto Cerina I'm v excited about... 🚨 Do synthetic samples look like human samples? We compare 28 LLMs to the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) to find out + develop host of diagnostics...

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Michelle Jackson @mivich.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Had a great time talking to @drdaveobrien.bsky.social about The Division of Rationalized Labor. Listen to the podcast here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-division...

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Michelle Jackson, "The Division of Rationalized Labor" (Harvard UP, 2025) - New Books Network

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

To develop a reasonable position on any proposed tax increase on the wealthy, we need to dispel the “millionaire exodus” narrative. III working paper by @samfriedman.bsky.social, @andy-summers.bsky.social, Victoria Gronwald, and Emma Taylor cited in a new article for TIME ⬇️

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Tax the Rich. They’re Not Going Anywhere

Christopher Marquis and Nick Romeo expose the fallacies behind the millionaire-exodus panic.

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Pavlos Vasilopoulos @pavlosvas1.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

2025 #ThrowBackPaper (open access) Wealthy people tend to vote Tory. But do changes in wealth have an effect on vote choice? Drawing on an 11-year panel from 🇬🇧 we found that changes in patrimony (in terms of number & value of assets) is unrelated to vote choice www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Does the Accumulation of Assets Shape Voting Preferences? Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Britain | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core

Does the Accumulation of Assets Shape Voting Preferences? Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Britain - Volume 55

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

This looks interesting. @petergeoghegan.bsky.social talks to @samfriedman.bsky.social. Sounds like Born to Rule is worth a read. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-really...

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Who really rules Britain?

I talked to Sam Friedman about Britain’s elite - and its political power

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Matt Goodwin once wrote that Britain is ruled by a ‘woke elite’ that comprises *as much as 25 per cent of the population* If you want to watch an expert take down of this canard, @samfriedman.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale is very good democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-really...

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Who really rules Britain?

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Sam Friedman @samfriedman.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Great new paper! A similar study in the U.K. is long overdue. A lot of elite employers in the U.K. have begun to take class background seriously, but universities remain woefully behind

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Who really are the élite? Seems to matter given snake oil merchants like Farage and Trump like to cast themselves as “men of the people” when, in reality, they were brought up in conditions of priviledge…

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Was a real pleasure to have @samfriedman.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale talking about who runs Britain. Would really recommend reading this and watching the interview with him

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Sam Friedman @samfriedman.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I spoke to the brilliant @petergeoghegan.bsky.social about the British elite and how they profit from the symbolic market for ordinariness democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-really...

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Who really rules Britain?

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 23/01/2026

work with me and @drdaveobrien.bsky.social as part of @creativepec.bsky.social! we're recruiting a postdoc to work on the arts, culture and heritage sectors using quantitative methods. please share, please feel free to email me directly with any Qs! jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Sheffiel...

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Research Associate in Creative Industries (Quantitative)

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Sam Friedman @samfriedman.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

This is a great opportunity to work on cutting-edge research!

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Tim White @timwhite100.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

What happens when venture capitalists try to reinvent housing in their own image? Find out in my new @ijurresearch.bsky.social article ‘Hyperscaling Housing’ It traces VC-fuelled attempts to aggressively scale real estate start-ups, and the devastating consequences for tenants.

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HYPERSCALING HOUSING: Venture Capital, Real Estate Start‐Ups and the Race to Build a Global Residential Brand

What happens when venture capitalists try to reinvent housing in their own image? Synonymous with the rise of Big Tech, venture capitalists (VCs) are asset managers that invest in early-stage compani...

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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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Nathan Wilmers @natewilmers.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I’m hiring a postdoc! Flexible in terms of details, but I’m looking for someone to collaborate with on research about labor market inequality. I’ll review applications as they come in and the posting just went up here: apply.interfolio.com/178873

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Sam Friedman @samfriedman.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Paperback publication day for Born to Rule! 🥳👀🎄🎅

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs 1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Prof Ruth Patrick @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

The fight to end child poverty goes on. But today we must celebrate. It will make a real, lasting difference to families the breadth of the UK and I’m so grateful to everyone in @changingrealities.bsky.social & @cpaguk.bsky.social who have advocated tirelessly for its full abolition

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Dan Nixon @dannixon.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Mark Zuckerberg wants us to “tune in” with smart glasses. But tune in to what, exactly? My latest piece for The Perpetual Beginner is on smart glasses and the lost art of seeing open.substack.com/pub/theperpe...

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Smart glasses and the slow death of seeing

Mark Zuckerberg wants us to “tune in” with smart glasses. But tune in to what, exactly?

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 17/10/2025

🚨New Issue Out Now!! Open Access!! Navigate all the fresh #sociology with our clickable table of contents (contexts.org/articles/su2...), listen to the issue's companion playlist (open.spotify.com/playlist/5PB...), and read the "digest" (mailchi.mp/ea0c38553548...) to learn more!

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David Wright @davwright.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Our former @ccmpswarwick.bsky.social and @sociowarwick.bsky.social graduate Dr. Sun Park is now doing great things at @ucdischool.bsky.social - including leading this amazing PhD project on AI & Heritage 👇 www.ucd.ie/ics/vacancie...

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PhD scholarship in AI and Heritage Futures

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