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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 29d

Crucially, all these forms of critique coexist and often do not congeal into coherent left- or right-wing political worldviews: reacting to specific moral violations, the same workers will criticize politicians, the greedy rich, welfare scroungers, foreigners, bosses, and landlords.

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 29d

In terms of political representation, workers critique forms of political inequality and political exclusion: Politicians, as part of the upper class, only serve the upper class; and politics is a self-referential sphere closed to non-experts.

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 29d

In the domain of recognition, workers criticize violations of a hierarchy of deservingness whereby productive "makers" such as themselves are devalued vis-à-vis unproductive "takers"; as well as a devaluation of manual versus non-manual work. Both are based on a violated sense of "producers' pride".

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 29d

In terms of material distribution, workers critique injustices of social polarization (elites pull away while normal people are left behind); overexploitation (bosses maximize profit at workers’ expense), and market pressures (systemic competition squeezes everyone).

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 29d

Under these conditions, we show (re: EP Thompson, Axel Honneth, Barrington Moore) that the dominant form of workers' consciousness is a moral sense of injustice triggered by broken promises and hidden injuries. Its basic form is that of a protest against violations of an implicit social contract.

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 29d

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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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · 29d

Oh this sounds great! Congrats!

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ja nei hva skal en si. Syns ikke det funka så bra på TV. Men jeg tror egentlig at det er noe i det med kjøttkaker, i den forstand at folks politiske preferanser er assosiert med massevis av kulturelle preferanser, bredt forstått. Der ville jeg tenke er fordi de bunner i det samme — habitus ☺️

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · Jul 27

Jeg så det! Høy gåsehudfaktor. 50 Cent kan ta seg en bolle.

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Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · Jun 12

Recruiting one full time or several part time RA at @crestsociology.bsky.social in Paris (well, almost in Paris) for next year to work on the evaluation of cultural items crest.science/wp-content/u...

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · Jun 5

I hope the relevant anonymous author will, in some way, appreciate that I brought their paper with me in a canoe capsize today. Cue wordplay on «deep dive» into their argument.

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

Here’s a blog post summarising the paper: magneflemmen.com/2025/05/31/g...

Green against greed: What my new paper says about class, cultural capital and environmental attitudes

Why are pro-environmental attitudes more common among the privileged? In a new article in The British Journal of Sociology, [free access version] I challenge three common explanations and propose a…

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

Takk! Syns dette var ganske bra, jeg! Liker spesielt at du blir konkret om hva et mer marxistisk perspektiv ville bidratt med her. Syns det er lett for at kritikken fra marxistisk hold stopper på konseptuelt plan, ved å vise til det teoretisk spesielle med utbytting. Men dette er nyttigere!

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Ståle Holgersen @holgersen.bsky.social · May 31

Jeg anmeldte Klasse — en innføring, av @magneflemmen.bsky.social og Jørn Ljunggren. Mye bra å si om boka, men også noen kritiske kommentarer.

Klasse er hot igjen - Gnist

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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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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · May 29

If you don’t have access, try this one: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · May 29

Thanks. Yes, here you go. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · May 29

Not sure about the generational thing specifically, but the age controls suggest older respondents here are more strongly pro-green on trade-off questions — give up goods to conserve nature, prioritise environment over industrial development, etc.

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · May 28

Thanks Dave! Be interested to hear your thoughts on this.

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · May 28

So: environmentalism isn’t just an expression of privilege. It’s also a way of opposing a different kind of privilege.

Read more here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌱📊

Green Against Greed: Negating Economic Capital Through Ecological Distinction

Pro-environmental attitudes are more prevalent among the affluent and educated, both across and within societies. However, the underpinnings of this pattern remain debated. Some scholars view environ...

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · May 28

Backing this up: environmentalism is strongly tied to cultural taste that signal this anti-materialism. Control for taste, and much of the link between cultural capital and green views disappears.

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · May 28

Instead, I suggest that green views function as a symbolic negation of economic capital – another way of distancing from materialism, excess, and the associated flashy and tacky lifestyles

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · May 28

Against “eco-habitus” theories, I show that the environmentalism of the culturally privileged is far from consistent. It’s selective, strategic – and shot through with ambivalence: only a minority sees it as an important factor in their voting.

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · May 28

Against theories of “ecological distinction,” I argue that pro-green views aren’t just about standing out from the less privileged – they’re also a distancing from, nor negaiton of, economic capital and its values.

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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · May 28

Against the idea of a “politics of prosperity,” I show that it’s not the most affluent who go green – but those rich in cultural capital.

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