Every sociologist (and, most likely, every academic) needs to watch this.

This!!! 👇👇👇

🗓️28 March 🗓️

Dr Jess Pilgrim-Brown will join us to discuss her research on the perceptions and experiences of #workingclass professional services staff in #elite UK universities

The seminar is #online and open to all

Registration details ⤵️

Seven years and we’re nearly there!
Out in September w/Aaron Reeves and Harvard University Press International

A great read for how our work shapes how we see the world! By Amélie Beaumont

Puttin’ off the Ritz: ethnographer Amélie Beaumont CESSP on why luxury hotel staff struggle to switch off from their work completely – to the extent that some avoid high-end accommodation on holiday.

Out now in our #TSRWork issue. buff.ly/4bphmPM

🎉 Exciting news! Three of VUB's research groups, @ID_VUB, Torgroep, and Qualitative Research in Action, are teaming up! Since January 2024, we’ve officially become “BRISPO – Brussels Institute for Social and Population Studies”! 🤝🌍📚 Stay tuned for updates! #BRISPO

A most moving obituary of Toni Negri (1933-2023). 'Against fascism’s watchword, 'long live death', Toni built a life of thought, comradeship, love and struggle.'
newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

Presumably this 'critical turning point' will mean he's going to:
- stop his private jet usage
- end his exclusion of environmental laws
- or even acknowledged his families hypocrisy on the topic

Sociologist Michael Burawoy’s 1979 book #ManufacturingConsent asked why workers agree to their own exploitation.

Guest eds @ryxnnolan Constantine Manolchev Kirsteen Paton are inviting proposals for a journal Special Section revisiting this landmark work. buff.ly/46c1LiH

'A superyacht, or even a medium-sized motor yacht, is the most polluting single object a person can own.'

#stoptheboats

theguardian.com/environment/20…

'Het idee dat we allemaal eilandjes zijn die een volledig maakbaar leven in eigen handen hebben, leidt tot veel vereenzaming, prestatiedruk en uitputting.'

knack.be/nieuws/belgie/… #knack #burnout #zelfhulp #interview #mentalegezondheid

Promising report from The Guardian Oxfam and SEI Research on 'Great Carbon Divide'.

'The class struggle has always been, but is again today becoming, explicitly, an interlocking set of geosocial conflicts' (Latour & Schultz)

theguardian.com/environment/20…

✨New (open access) article in ESR with Gerbert Kraaykamp!

We demonstrate that cultural capital is positively associated with a higher occupational position. Is this due to access to more resourceful networks aiding career advancement? (1/n)

Read here: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jc…

Just published with Nikolaj Schultz in ephemera journal:
A BUNKER OF ONE'S OWN: THE SUPER-RICH AND THE MANSIONS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
ephemerajournal.org/contribution/b…

Write for us: our Feb 2024 issue will focus on the world of work, from digitalisation to increasing detachment and disenchantment with work and the workplace.

💼 Editor Asiya Islam is inviting pitches for lively, research-informed articles by 14 November buff.ly/4093RhT

VUB PhD researcher Jens Doms 🇧🇪🌈 @[email protected] is looking for respondents for his #research on the impact of #hybridwork ⬇️

📢Elites often use merit to explain, justify, and make sense of their advantaged positions. But what exactly do they mean by this?

Sam Friedman and Aaron Reeves have co-authored a new paper comparing understandings of merit in different countries.

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ow.ly/4Vak50PTNSp

Socioloog houdt ‘de ziekte van onze tijd’ tegen het licht.

Onze ex-collega, Mattias Van Hulle, schreef, gebaseerd op zijn doctorast, een bijzonder interessant boekje over het fenomeen 'burn-out‘.

demorgen.be/a-b1b08aaf

This is very good.
newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…