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Tom van der Meer @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social · Jun 13

De mythe die niet sterft

Ook vandaag herhaalt Vullings dat de PvdA toch écht kiezers verloor aan de PVV. Nadat Marleen de Rooy de uitspraak van Yesilgöz terecht weerlegde (over de PvdA die veel kiezers zou hebben verloren aan de PVV), stelt Vullings dat die overloop langer geleden was dan in 2023.

Jaap van Slageren @jvanslageren.bsky.social · Apr 11

En daar is hij weer! Joost Vullings @eenvandaag.nl in podcast de stemming: "de pvda heeft de hoop die pvv kiezer waarvan in oorsprong een heel deel uit de sociaaldemocratie komt aan te trekken." Een stelling die meerdere keren als foutief is aangetoond, maar toch als een soort zombie wordt herhaalt🧵

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Toon Kuppens @tkupp.bsky.social · Jun 13

Only 10 days left to apply for this phd position on education-based identities, status, and political attitudes! Open to those interested in sociology, social psychology, political science, communication science or indeed a combination of all.

jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P...

PhD Researcher - Scientific project on Education-based social identities

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Nils Steiner @nilssteiner.bsky.social · Jun 9

If you are at the @ecpr-ead.bsky.social conference, come to @liranharsgor.bsky.social's panel on Tuesday 15:00 - 16:30 and hear Armin's talk. We document a growing gap in satisfaction with democracy between the lower and the higher educated using APC- analyses of Eurobarometer and ESS data.

Armin Schaefer @arminschaefer.bsky.social · Jun 8

After missing my connecting train in Brussels, I am finally on my way to the @ecpr-ead.bsky.social conference. I will be presenting joint work with @nilssteiner.bsky.social on the interplay of education and cohorts in explaining differences in satisfaction with democracy. Looking forward!

This figures shows the average satisfaction with democracy for three education groups across different birth cohorts. In younger cohorts, the education gap in satisfaction with democracy is much wider. Based on waves 1 to 11 of the European Social Survey.

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de Volkskrant @volkskrant.nl · Jun 4

Laten we er de allersaaiste verkiezingscampagne ooit van proberen te maken

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John Bijl @johnbijl.bsky.social · Jun 4

Polarisatie en wantrouwen in politiek wordt gevoed door juist dit soort sneren als nieuws te pushen. Nieuwsmedia zoals @nu.nl zouden beter moeten weten.

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Willem de Koster @willemdekoster.bsky.social · May 20

📢 We're hiring a 4-year postdoc (0.8 FTE) at Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam for project on climate change meanings

Focus: Italian case (focus groups, survey, experiments)

PhD in Sociology (or related), fluent in Italian

🗓️ Deadline: June 11

#postdoc #sociology #academicjobs #Italy #climatechange

Postdoctoral researcher Sociology; Understanding climate change attitudes

What does climate change mean to people—and why? And how do these meanings shape public responses to policy and information campaigns?

www.academictransfer.com

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Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · May 16

🚨 working paper (w. @morganlcj.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social): Protesters are not judged equally - even if tactics of groups are similar.

We ran an experiment in 🇩🇪 testing how people react to farmers vs. climate activists blocking roads.

What we find is disturbing:

osf.io/preprints/os...

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Frans Timmermans @franstimmermans.groenlinkspvda.nl · May 18

De rode lijn is ver overschreden. Terwijl het kabinet Wilders-Yeşilgöz wegkijkt terwijl de regering van Netanyahu zich schuldig maakt aan oorlogsmisdaden, gaan Nederlanders de straat op met een heldere boodschap: kabinet, spreek je uit en voer de druk op! 1/3

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Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World @sociusjournal.bsky.social · May 15

🏫 How central is schooling in your country?

In their new #Socius study, Drs. Kavadias, @bramspruyt.bsky.social & @tkupp.bsky.social introduce the Schooled Society Index—a global measure of how #education acts as a force of #institutionalization and #stratification.

Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

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Jaap van Slageren @jvanslageren.bsky.social · Apr 11

En daar is hij weer! Joost Vullings @eenvandaag.nl in podcast de stemming: "de pvda heeft de hoop die pvv kiezer waarvan in oorsprong een heel deel uit de sociaaldemocratie komt aan te trekken." Een stelling die meerdere keren als foutief is aangetoond, maar toch als een soort zombie wordt herhaalt🧵

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Tadeas Cely @celytadeas.bsky.social · Mar 17

📢Proud to share my first publication in European Union Politics, now online and #OpenAccess! I examine which of 19 European countries (1990–2017) saw culture wars emerge in public opinion. I analyze how opinions and identities on morality and economic issues aligned into distinct ideological camps🧵

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Jochem van Noord @jochemvannoord.eu · Mar 18

Congrats Tadeas!

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Jochem van Noord @jochemvannoord.eu · Mar 11

Mooie meta-analyse in lijn met ons paper in PSPB èn met ons stuk in de Volkskrant: duidelijke ingroup bias onder hoger opgeleiden (en niet onder lager opgeleiden) in hun stemvoorkeuren

Elizabeth Simon @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social · Mar 11

Do we systematically prefer educated candidates? Or do educational groups select in ways that reward their own?

This article by @turnbulldugarte.com and I suggests the answers are yes, and yes - but only for the graduate group.

Huge thanks to all who shared their data with us!

Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social · Mar 11

"Education as Identity? A Meta-Analysis of Education-Based In-Group Preferences in Candidate Choice Experiments" by Elizabeth Simon and Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte.https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/730745

Jochem van Noord @jochemvannoord.eu · Mar 11

Hoezo is er geen bewijs voor onderwijsgebonden vooroordelen?

In @volkskrant.nl met @tkupp.bsky.social en @bramspruyt.bsky.social

Opinie: Hoezo is er geen bewijs voor onderwijsgebonden vooroordelen?

In een column voor de Volkskrant beweerde Sander Schimmelpenninck dat het niet te bewijzen is dat hoogopgeleiden neerkijken op lager opgeleiden. Die stelling negeert helaas vijftien jaar onderzoek naa...

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Jan-Jaap van Peperstraten @jjvpeperstraten.bsky.social · Mar 6

Hebben we net Frans en Duits afgeschaft, blijkt de toekomst Frans en Duits te zijn.

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European Sociological Review @europeansocreview.bsky.social · Feb 13

First issue of 2025 is out! New research findings -most #openaccess- at academic.oup.com/esr/issue/41/1
With contributions by @frankvantubergen.bsky.social @aliciagsierra.bsky.social @martinkolk.bsky.social @nellageurts.bsky.social @jochemvannoord.eu & many more (not found in BS, sorry if they are)

Volume 41 Issue 1 | European Sociological Review | Oxford Academic

Publishes original articles in all fields of sociology ranging in length from short research notes up to major reports. It provides a resource of state-of-the-art quantitative and comparative researc...

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Daniël Boomsma @danielboomsma.bsky.social · Feb 11

Over die mythe van de ‘verloren arbeider’ aan rechts 🧵

Sociaaldemocratisch links stond massaal kiezers af, maar verloor die de afgelopen decennia in overgrote meerderheid aan groene partijen, andere linkse partijen en liberale (midden)partijen. 1/6

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Jochem van Noord @jochemvannoord.eu · Feb 7

🏁New paper! Social status moderates the effect of belief in meritocracy on economic conflict attitudes. Meritocracy doesn't always legitimize inequality and sometimes it does more :)

Published with @bramspruyt.bsky.social Filip Van Droogenbroeck and @tkupp.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Title page of "Caught Between Ideology and Self‐Interest: Subjective
Social Status and Meritocratic Beliefs Shape Whether
People Perceive, Feel Anger About, and Want to Change
Economic Conflict"
Abstract: "Belief in meritocracy and social status are central to understanding how people think and behave in relation to economic conflict. In this paper, we investigate how belief in meritocracy is moderated by (subjective) social status for three different aspects of citizens' attitudes towards economic inequality and conflict, namely (1) perceived conflict, (2) anger about economic inequality and (3) intentions to change economic conflict (egalitarianism). Data from the International Social Survey Programme on 29 countries reveal that the effect of meritocracy depends on social status and differs meaningfully across the three attitudes. For people high in social status, belief in meritocracy relates to lower perceptions of conflict, anger, and egalitarianism. For people with a low subjective social status there is no or a weak relation of belief in meritocracy with the outcomes. In addition, when belief in meritocracy was low, those with a high subjective social status appeared to be concerned about inequality as they perceived more economic conflict and felt more anger than those with a low subjective social status. However, this was not the case for intentions to reduce inequality. Hence, these effects of meritocracy and social status should be understood in light of self-interest concerns of social groups, rather than solely ideological domination."

Figure 1: Predicted values of conflict perception across belief in meritocracy and subjective social status.

Figure 3: Predicted values of egalitarianism across belief meritocracy and subjective social status.

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Jochem van Noord @jochemvannoord.eu · Feb 7

We argue that effects of meritocracy should be seen in light of self-interest concerns and ideological sophistication. These things differ across social status groups, giving different results across different groups and attitudes. This nuances (simple) ideological domination accounts.

Jochem van Noord @jochemvannoord.eu · Feb 7

🏁New paper! Social status moderates the effect of belief in meritocracy on economic conflict attitudes. Meritocracy doesn't always legitimize inequality and sometimes it does more :)

Published with @bramspruyt.bsky.social Filip Van Droogenbroeck and @tkupp.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/1468...

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · Jan 19

This conversation between Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel took my understanding of the current political moment to a higher level. I've gifted it to Bluesky, so the paywall at the NY Times won't interfere with your reading.

Opinion | Two of the World’s Leading Thinkers on How the Left Went Astray (Gift Article)

Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel debate the value of open borders and what we owe migrants.

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Niels G. Mede @nielsmede.bsky.social · Jan 20

Out now in Nature Human Behaviour: Our 68-country #survey on public attitudes to #science 📣
It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
(1/13)

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · Jan 9

And here's the share without higher education!

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Bryan Boyle @bryanboyle.bsky.social · Jan 8

Mine and @dvandebroeck.bsky.social’s paper on ‘The Labor of Distinction’ is out now in ASR. Drawing from an ethnography that involved training and working as a butler, we tell a larger story about elites and inequality (1/18) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Nov 24

and this is why it is an analytical mistake to use “voter without a college degree” to mean “working class voter”

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Nov 24

this is a YouGov/Jacobin poll but it is funny that it shows that the strongest affinity for swing voting class voters is for uh.... the petit bourgeois owner

Nothing produced a more positive response from poll respondents than hearing that a candidate was a small-business owner. It offered a bigger lift than any political position or demographic feature, and it was popular across Black, Latino and white respondents.
Voters also had positive feelings about candidates who were listed as being teachers, veterans or construction workers. Lawyers fared less well, and Fortune 500 C.E.O.s did worst of all.

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