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Anton Grau Larsen

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Sociologist working on elites, statistical programming and descriptive quantitative analysis. Roskilde University

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Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 7d

This looks very interesting!

Maria Sobolewska @profsob.bsky.social · 7d

An important new paper from my talented, but BlueSky-less PHD Jose Lopes

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The unfulfilled promises of upward mobility and support for radical left parties in Western Europe

In recent decades, educational expansion has produced a large swathe of university graduates which labour markets are increasingly less able to absorb…

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Joanna Pegum @londoner007.bsky.social · 24d

There’s a nice collection here
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This Tumblr Dedicated To Ugly Babies In Renaissance Paintings Is The Funniest Thing You’ll See All Day

The Renaissance is often perceived as the period of the noblest traditions, but some artists from that time had been repeatedly doing something that looks somewhat sinister nowadays - they painted chi...

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 25d

A secular transition is happening in countries around the world. Detailed explanation🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41....
Many Muslim-majority countries, Hindu-majority India in early stage. Countries with large Buddhist & Christian populations in later stages.
Blog: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Religion generally declines between generations in three steps:
People participate in worship services less often.
The importance of religion declines in their personal lives.
Belonging to religion becomes less common.
They call this the Participation-Importance-Belonging (P-I-B) sequence. In this sequence, generations first shed aspects of religion that require more time and resources. People are slower to shed religious identity, which is not necessarily as burdensome.

In the early stage of secular transition, generations differ primarily in their religious participation. In some countries that remain highly religious today, recent surveys show that each country’s share of adults under age 40 who frequently attend religious services has dropped below the share of older adults who do so.
Many African countries are currently in this early stage. For example, in Senegal, 78% of older adults attend worship services weekly, but younger adults are 14 percentage points less likely to do so. Yet almost all adults in Senegal – both young and old – still identify as Muslims and consider religion very important in their lives.

In the medium stage of secular transition, generations differ in their religious participation, importance and belonging. In countries that are moderately religious, all three steps in the P-I-B sequence are visible in recent surveys. Adults under 40 attend services less frequently than their elders, are less likely to say religion is important in their lives and are less likely to identify with any religion. This is the case currently in the U.S., along with many other countries in the Americas and Asia.

In the late stage of secular transition, generations differ primarily in religious belonging. The authors contend that this is because the first two steps have been completed. The shares of older adults who attend services and who consider religion important in their lives have already dropped to low levels, similar to those of younger adults. In the least religious countries today, the main difference between age groups is that younger adults are less likely to identify with any religion.

Many countries in Europe have reached this stage. For example, in Denmark, 79% of older adults remain religiously affiliated, but adults under 40 are 26 points less likely to say they belong to any religion. Attendance at religious services and self-assessments of the importance of religion are low among people of all ages.

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 28d

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

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Anton Grau Larsen @antongrau.bsky.social · 28d

I love it! With low status differences people just become random and idiosyncratic live your life types :-)

Anton Grau Larsen @antongrau.bsky.social · 28d

I agree it is difficult to distinguish at the individual level. But "sour grapes" could be more common in less dynamic status markets. So if inequality is high and chances of social mobility is low then people are more likely to adapt and resign than in more egalitarian or dynamic situations?

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Anton Grau Larsen @antongrau.bsky.social · 28d

Interesting! People could agree on a status hierarchy and not be status seeking because they think that they do not stand a chance to achieve that status. I understand that the King has higher status than me - and I know that it is unattainable. But that is likely compatible with your argument.

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · Sep 9

Antipolitical sentiment in the working class is not least a symptom of class demobilization. For our German case, we document a steep decline of working class organization, mobilization, political and discursive representation. Others have noted very similar trends across rich democracies.

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · Sep 9

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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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · Sep 7

A tomato picker handing a full bucket to the dumper who empties it into a trailer which holds up to 6 tons. Workers earn .86 cents for each 25lb bucket. The only work around 5 hours a day, so they go at top speed without many breaks to earn enough to pay their bills. #WeFeedYou

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · Sep 4

I am honored to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant towards my project "Governing elites since the dawn of modern democracy" (GETGOV).

It allows me to continue to advance this research agenda; the goal is to build a database on governing elites from 1789 and up to today + much more.

#ERCStG

Jacob Nyrup awarded EU funds to research political elites - Department of Political Science

Jacob Nyrup from the Department of Political Science has been granted a substantial 18 million Norwegian kroner by the EU's research council to examine political elites in countries before and after d...

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · Sep 2

Det her er enormt problematisk. Jeudan (som også udlejede Lars Løkkes Nyhavn lejlighed til spotpris) er en kæmpe spiller på det københavnske boligmarked og tæt integreret i magteliten

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Jeudan giver Rosenkrantz-Theil stor, gratis valgplatform

Jeudan har stillet lokaler på 465 kvadratmeter gratis til rådighed for Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil før valg.

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Sol Gamsu @solgamsu.bsky.social · Aug 5

Our paper on clusters of schools across the UK is out.

We find five clusters: multi-racial & super-diverse middle & working-class schools of towns & cities, suburban white middle class schools, established elite schools & (post-)industrial white working class schools.

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A hierarchical cluster analysis on principal components showing five clusters of points, coloured by cluster, on a graph.

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Lior Sheffer @liorsheffer.bsky.social · Nov 4

Now in APSR: What do politicians think about their voters? Fielding face-to-face surveys to 982 sitting politicians in 11 countries, and accompanying surveys of 12,000 citizens, we find that politicians have remarkably consistent - and cynical - theories of voters: /1
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Alex Garlick @garlicksauce.bsky.social · Apr 14

Are lobbyists influential? The public sure thinks so, but applied political science since lobbying registration data emerged (late 90s) struggled to produce evidence that it does. In new review @wmjunk.bsky.social @heathbrown.bsky.social and I chart a wave of research showing that lobbying matters.

How Lobbying Matters | Annual Reviews

For decades, political scientists have struggled to provide empirical evidence that lobbying influences policymaking. A considerable gap arose between widespread public suspicions of lobbying and the ...

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · Jul 16

IN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in @nature.com this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9

Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs - Nature

Data from nine European and North American countries reveal that the disparity in earnings between immigrants and natives is largely a result of segregation of immigrant workers into lower-paying jobs...

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · Jul 5

Do think tanks coordinate with interest groups or protect their turf? J A H Whittlestone, C K Florczak & @mbklitgaard.bsky.social examine alliances and autonomy in corporatist systems. Read more: buff.ly/GwDWSXg

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci

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Silberbauer @silberbauer.dk · Jun 28

Landbruget har alt, alt for megen magt i Danmark. Som i: mafialignende magt.

Her er et gavelink til en helt gak historie om at lade landbruget eje offentlige kontroldata. Det svarer til at give alle data om lungekræft til tobaksfabrikanterne og lade dem bestemme, hvilke forskere, der får adgang.

Forskere skulle gøre deres projekt »spiseligt for erhvervet« for at få adgang til data om dyrevelfærd

Den tidligere landbrugsstyrelse har givet ejerskab over data indsamlet af offentligt ansatte på de danske slagterier til Landbrug & Fødevarer. Det kan være et brud på offentlighedsloven og brud på EU-...

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · Jun 23

Venetians know something about oligarchy.

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Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · Jun 9

Network of organisations connected to the BBC's commercial boards via shared directors.

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · Jun 3

The video abstract for my article “Political Theology: Origins, Concepts, and Contradictions” is now up on @theoryculturesociety.org ’s homepage. Go check it out.

Video: Mikkel Flohr on ‘Political Theology: Origins, Concepts, and Contradictions’ — Theory, Culture & Society | Global Public Life

Mikkel Flohr introduces the Theory, Culture & Society article ‘ Political Theology: Origins, Concepts, and Contradictions ’

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · May 31

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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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · May 14

Hvis man ikke kan lige uafhængige forskeres beregning kan man jo altid gøre nogle ikke-forskere i en tænketank til at producere de resultater, man gerne vil have

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Hemmelige emails afslører: Betændt strid om Novo-finansierede atomkraft-rapporter

Novo Nordisk Fonden har finansieret analyser, som tegner et usædvanlig positivt billede af økonomien bag kommende atomkraftværker i Danmark. Topforskere beskylder tænketanken bag analyserne for at mal...

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Thierry Rossier @thierryrossier.bsky.social · Apr 23

The article by Sebastian Diemer Mørk & @antongrau.bsky.social map successful and rejected applications of Danish craftspeople & designers (5/12)
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Designed for success or failure: Differences in funding and rejection in the space of applications to the Danish Art Foundation among craftsmen and designers

Craft and design are art forms that teeter on the boundary of being considered art. Because of this, these mediums are an ideal case to examine how th…

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Thierry Rossier @thierryrossier.bsky.social · Apr 23

After 3 years of work the editorial of our “Mapping relational structures in culture” Poetics special issue w/ Marco Serino, Elisa Klüger & Fabien Eloire is out. It introduces 10 amazing papers mapping culture w/ GDA/SNA. Below I introduce the 10 papers 🧵(1/12)
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Mapping relational structures in culture

Culture is a relational concept, and the empirical manifestations of culture are worth being analysed in a structural vein to unveil the patterns of r…

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Birthe Larsen @birthelarsen.bsky.social · Apr 20

Please read our new paper: Neighbourhood CEOs”

We show that firms led by neighborhood CEOs-in terms of physical proximity to the company and personal values -exhibit a better working environment, as measured by both a regulatory authority and employees’ perceptions.
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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.bsky.social · Apr 19

For once a little bit of self promotion: interesting paper on M
mediation of parental social class via wealth transfers on homeownership by @jaschadraeger.bsky.social @nrmllr.bsky.social and myself www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The keys to the house - How wealth transfers stratify homeownership opportunities

This study investigates how actual and anticipated intergenerational wealth transfers – i.e., inter vivos gifts and inheritances – contribute to inequ…

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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · Apr 17

EU’s ‘bazooka’ er rettet mod de amerikanske tech-giganter: nye digitale skatter er klar. Normalt ville det kræve opbakning fra alle medlemsstater, men ikke her. Det vidner om et fundamentalt anderledes, et mere magtfuldt og handlekraftigt EU - skriver jeg i dagens kronik i Berlingske:

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Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · Apr 15

This is a great piece of new research from @martesaga.bsky.social that analyses capitalist class political action by examining both corporate board interlockers & wealthy owners. Open Access. 👇

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The politics of the Norwegian capitalist class: the inner circle and wealthy owners

Abstract. This paper investigates the political activities of different segments within the capitalist class, comparing an inner circle of interlocked dire

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Anton Grau Larsen @antongrau.bsky.social · Apr 11

Great study - that shows higher variation in parenting among working class parents. 🧪

Asta Breinholt @astabreinholt.bsky.social · Apr 11

Us college educated folks are so diverse in our cultural practices, right? Not when it comes to the high-stakes cultural practice of social reproduction: #parenting! We parent much more alike than parents with fewer years of #education: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hidden patterns of inequality: The heterogeneity in parenting within educational groups

When sociology deals with differences within groups of similar socioeconomic status, research and theorizing tend to focus on the heterogeneity among …