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Adam L @lauretig.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a Stairway to Heaven, but a Highway to Hell. This implies Heaven is a walkable community, and Hell is a congested interstate.

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · Sep 5

Why is it so hard to do anything about wealth inequality?

In the final episode of this series of Antisocial Economics, Sarah Kerr (@wealtherty.bsky.social) talks to Will Snell, @michaelvaughan.bsky.social, and @jonathanmijs.com about what makes change hard to achieve.

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Antisocial Economics

What is wealth? How come so many of us haven’t got any? How does wealth inequality make poverty worse? In the UK and other rich economies, wealth inequality and poverty are at incredibly high…

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Jonathan Mijs @jonathanmijs.com · Jul 15

Better parks 🌳, tighter communities🧑‍🤝‍🧑!

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Jonathan Mijs @jonathanmijs.com · Jul 14

Mooie kans om te leren van een toponderzoeker in een hele fijne afdeling.

Willem de Koster @willemdekoster.bsky.social · Jul 14

🎓 Vacature: Postdoc Sociologie (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)

Bijna 4 jaar aan de slag met onderzoek én onderwijs binnen een fijne onderzoeksgroep? Dan is dit iets voor jou.👇

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Jonathan Mijs @jonathanmijs.com · Jul 9

We conclude that public beliefs aren’t fixed—but facts only change minds under certain conditions.

Exposure to diversity matters for how people process new information.

Replication materials: github.com/cybe2001/inf...

Preregistration: osf.io/rv8jx

GitHub - cybe2001/info-experience-beliefs: Does exposure to information on ethnic discrimination affect beliefs about inequality and support for affirmative action? A preregistered population-based survey-experiment

Does exposure to information on ethnic discrimination affect beliefs about inequality and support for affirmative action? A preregistered population-based survey-experiment - cybe2001/info-experien...

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Jonathan Mijs @jonathanmijs.com · Jul 9

Changes in perceptions of inequality are mainly in line with the resonance mechanism

Whereas changes in meritocratic explanations and support for affirmative action were mainly in line with the dissonance mechanism

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Jonathan Mijs @jonathanmijs.com · Jul 9

We find two mechanisms at work:

•Resonance mechanism: Information aligns with what people experience → reinforces their beliefs

•Dissonance mechanism: Information clashes with expectations → shocks belief into change

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Jonathan Mijs @jonathanmijs.com · Jul 9

💡 We find that some beliefs shifted

But how they changed, depended on people's everyday interactions with people with a migration background

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Jonathan Mijs @jonathanmijs.com · Jul 9

We conducted a large, preregistered survey experiment (n=2,792) in the Netherlands

Respondents were randomly assigned to see info about ethnic discrimination in education & hiring or unrelated info

We then measured:
•Perceptions of inequality
•Belief in meritocracy
•Support for affirmative action

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Jonathan Mijs @jonathanmijs.com · Jul 9

Can providing facts about ethnic discrimination change people's beliefs and raise support for affirmative action?

We put it to the test in new @ispp-pops.bsky.social study with @willemdekoster.bsky.social, Jeroen v/d Waal and Masja van Meteren. A thread!

Open access link: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

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Jonathan Mijs @jonathanmijs.com · Jul 3

Great piece by Yukiko Asada et al. @socialindicators.bsky.social on taking seriously 'luck' as a driver of life outcomes and inequality, creatively illustrated with reference to the life course of a certain French painter in this figure.

Full article: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Jonathan Mijs @jonathanmijs.com · Jun 11

Ja! Maar ook in het SCP rapport zie je flinke regionale verschillen als je met een daadwerkelijke (economische) klassenlens kijkt. @jaapnieuwenhuis.bsky.social weet jij de pagina's / bijlagen uit je hoofd?

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Jaap Nieuwenhuis @jaapnieuwenhuis.bsky.social · Jun 10

Onze reactie in De Volkskrant op het vorige week verschenen SCP rapport Verdeeld over het land.

@jonathanmijs.com‬ @agatatroost.bsky.social @rug-gmw.bsky.social‬ @volkskrant.nl‬

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Cody Hochstenbach @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social · Jun 10

Scherpe kritiek op het SCP rapport over geografie en klasse:

"in de uitwerking van het onderzoek wordt geografie grof gemeten en sociale klasse dermate verdund dat de verschillen verdampen"

@jaapnieuwenhuis.bsky.social @jonathanmijs.com @agatatroost.bsky.social

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Opinie: Het Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau hanteert een dubieuze klassenindeling

Beleid zou zich moeten richten op het gladstrijken van de klassenverschillen, en niet slechts op het vergroten van de kans om je klasse te ontsnappen terwijl de klassenmaatschappij in stand blijft.

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Jonathan Mijs @jonathanmijs.com · Jun 2

Really interesting paper by @hwaight.bsky.social & Adam Goldstein describing the looong trend of public perceptions that "the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer."

Hannah Waight @hwaight.bsky.social · Jun 1

1/ I am excited to share my new article with Adam Goldstein in the American Journal of Sociology. We harmonized a set of historical public opinion data from 1966-2013 to investigate the shifting bases of inequality perceptions in the United States. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The Polarization of Inequality Perceptions in the New Gilded Age | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · Apr 30

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines”
Subheader:
“In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”

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Jaap Nieuwenhuis @jaapnieuwenhuis.bsky.social · May 1

We zijn geïnterviewd door Dylan van Rijsbergen over ons project over klasse en klassenbewustzijn voor Jacobin. Heel toepasselijk is het gepubliceerd op 1 mei.

Het artikel: jacobin.nl/waarom-klass...

@jonathanmijs.com Agata Troost @dylanvr.bsky.social @rug-gmw.bsky.social @jacobinnl.bsky.social

Artikel in Jacobin over klassenbewustzijn.

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · Apr 16

My sabbatical leave allowed me to reflect on my professional life.

As I’ve stepped into more senior roles in academia (plus gotten a bit older), I often get asked:
 “How do you keep writing academic articles, policy work, opinion pieces, while juggling everything else?”

My answer: skillpower

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Branie @braniedepodcast.bsky.social · Apr 14

Deze week verschijnt-ie eindelijk:

AJAX 125 JAAR, een monument van een jubileumboek van 12 kilo zwaar. Via Kick Uitgevers. 1600 pagina's. 2059 foto's. Een must voor elke Ajacied.

Branie geeft een set weg! Volg ons account, repost dit bericht en maak kans. Vrijdag wijzen we de winnaar aan.

#Ajax

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Boston University Arts & Sciences @bucas.bsky.social · Mar 20

Hulu’s political thriller TV series “Paradise” depicts a perfect, egalitarian society, one that Assistant Professor of Sociology @jonathanmijs.com helped create as the show’s technical consultant, providing insight into inequality in a society.

Read more here: abc7ny.com/videoClip/hu...

How Hulu's 'Paradise' explores the idea of a perfect society

Meet Jonathan Mijs, a sociology professor who helped shape the concept of what a perfect society might look like in Hulu's "Paradise."

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · Feb 20

…And I get to work with this guy!? @jonathanmijs.com, this is awesome! Paradise is serious about its sociology.

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Hulu’s Hit Series Paradise Was Shaped in Part by This BU Sociologist

CAS’ Jonathan Mijs explains his behind-the-scenes role

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Sol Gamsu @solgamsu.bsky.social · Jan 15

Re-reading this by @jonathanmijs.com & @mikesavagelse.bsky.social as my students are looking at meritocracy in their essays.

Strikes me that the lowest dip in working-class belief in meritocracy roughly coincides with the greatest period of union militancy
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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · Nov 30

Cool paper on “humanity’s perennial tendency to denigrate kids”. Here’s screenshot of abstract:

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Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · Nov 30

More about our new paper here - interesting discussing how to express the diversity. In the end we went with freedom, following @davidwengrow.bsky.social and David Graeber www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

More equality in Neolithic society than previously thought, say researchers

Early Neolithic genetic data has helped archaeologists understand that there was likely more freedom and equality in Neolithic societies than previously thought.

www.york.ac.uk

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Jonathan Mijs @jonathanmijs.com · Nov 30

Really cool piece by @rosenjordanblum.bsky.social & co. using party manifesto data to link political change to growing income inequality across the globe.

academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

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