This article by @madsjaeger.bsky.social and @rozameuleman.bsky.social draws on three-generations of data from Denmark to demonstrate how cultural tastes don’t just signal status, they shape real inequalities in access to opportunities.
#EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Even in Denmark, cultural tastes are socially stratified. With some quite cool library data we find strong gradients by education and wealth - important as wealth is rarely studied in cultural stratification research
doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
OA: osf.io/ar2xc_v2/dow...
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Getting tenure means you’ve gotten a grown-up job. Many more responsibilities than “just “publishing. Tenured people keep the system going. You realize this once you get tenure.
"You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they have exhausted all the other possibilities." Great, now get to work ...!
It is today, the deadline! So: submit today!
Time for a (job) change: From 1 March, I'll be Associate Dean for Research at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen. I look forward to promoting the social sciences at every possible opportunity.
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Two (!) positions in my group at @ipz.bsky.social in Zurich
📣 1 postdoc position (3+3 years)
📣 1 PhD position (3,5 years)
Application deadline in early March.
Job ads & details:
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We are an international and friendly department with excellent working conditions
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Sociologists working on inequality:
Still time to apply for this 3yr+ postdoc position in beautiful Munich (no German required)
EN: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...
DE: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f...
Applications are 01/15, but let me know if you need another 1-2 days to put in your materials
Hopefully not, respectfully 😀