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Class Diplomacy: Cross-Class Friendship and Social Mobility Negotiating class based tensions and the politics of friendship

Please join us online on Wednesday March 11 (tomorrow!) at 3pm for @samfriedman.bsky.social (LSE) and Rose Butler (Deakin) for our next online seminar "Class Diplomacy: Cross-Class Friendship and Social Mobility'

Fascinating!

🧵on my new paper "Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems" w Roberto Cerina I'm v excited about...

🚨 Do synthetic samples look like human samples?

We compare 28 LLMs to the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) to find out + develop host of diagnostics...

Had a great time talking to @drdaveobrien.bsky.social about The Division of Rationalized Labor. Listen to the podcast here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-division...

Looks great, Mark!

Tax the Rich. They’re Not Going Anywhere Christopher Marquis and Nick Romeo expose the fallacies behind the millionaire-exodus panic.

To develop a reasonable position on any proposed tax increase on the wealthy, we need to dispel the “millionaire exodus” narrative.

III working paper by @samfriedman.bsky.social, @andy-summers.bsky.social, Victoria Gronwald, and Emma Taylor cited in a new article for TIME ⬇️

2025 #ThrowBackPaper (open access)

Wealthy people tend to vote Tory. But do changes in wealth have an effect on vote choice?

Drawing on an 11-year panel from 🇬🇧 we found that changes in patrimony (in terms of number & value of assets) is unrelated to vote choice

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Not me! The much more qualified @samfr.bsky.social

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Who really rules Britain? I talked to Sam Friedman about Britain’s elite - and its political power

This looks interesting. @petergeoghegan.bsky.social talks to @samfriedman.bsky.social.

Sounds like Born to Rule is worth a read.

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-really...

Thanks. Let us know what you think if you get a chance to read

Who really rules Britain? I talked to Sam Friedman about Britain’s elite - and its political power

Matt Goodwin once wrote that Britain is ruled by a ‘woke elite’ that comprises *as much as 25 per cent of the population*

If you want to watch an expert take down of this canard, @samfriedman.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale is very good

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-really...

Yeah @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social is absolutely right. Universities remain well behind other employers in taking this issue seriously in the U.K. weird when there is (rightly) so much emphasis on widening participation among students…

Great new paper! A similar study in the U.K. is long overdue. A lot of elite employers in the U.K. have begun to take class background seriously, but universities remain woefully behind

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Who really are the élite?

Seems to matter given snake oil merchants like Farage and Trump like to cast themselves as “men of the people” when, in reality, they were brought up in conditions of priviledge…

Was a real pleasure to have @samfriedman.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale talking about who runs Britain.

Would really recommend reading this and watching the interview with him

Who really rules Britain? I talked to Sam Friedman about Britain’s elite - and its political power

I spoke to the brilliant @petergeoghegan.bsky.social about the British elite and how they profit from the symbolic market for ordinariness

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-really...

work with me and @drdaveobrien.bsky.social as part of @creativepec.bsky.social! we're recruiting a postdoc to work on the arts, culture and heritage sectors using quantitative methods. please share, please feel free to email me directly with any Qs! jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Sheffiel...

This is a great opportunity to work on cutting-edge research!

HYPERSCALING HOUSING: Venture Capital, Real Estate Start‐Ups and the Race to Build a Global Residential Brand What happens when venture capitalists try to reinvent housing in their own image? Synonymous with the rise of Big Tech, venture capitalists (VCs) are asset managers that invest in early-stage compani...

What happens when venture capitalists try to reinvent housing in their own image? Find out in my new @ijurresearch.bsky.social article ‘Hyperscaling Housing’

It traces VC-fuelled attempts to aggressively scale real estate start-ups, and the devastating consequences for tenants.

Since the hegemon's eye is now focussing on Greenland, I recommend revisting our research note in @bjsociology.bsky.social on the Power elite in Greenland

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Beyond the ‘Scholarship Boy’ paradigm: Autosociobiography and social mobility - Sam Friedman, Mike Savage, Carlos Spoerhase, 2025 This article reflects on the potential of the rapidly emerging literary genre of autosociobiography to extend analyses of the personal experience and feelings a...

On autosociobiography and social mobility: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @mikesavagelse.bsky.social @samfriedman.bsky.social

I’m hiring a postdoc! Flexible in terms of details, but I’m looking for someone to collaborate with on research about labor market inequality. I’ll review applications as they come in and the posting just went up here:
apply.interfolio.com/178873

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🙏 glad you enjoyed it

Paperback publication day for Born to Rule! 🥳👀🎄🎅

Thanks for the review, so glad you enjoyed it

A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs

1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...