Mike Savage
@MikeSav47032563
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Prof @lsesociology & founding ex-Director of @LSEinequalities . I study culture, power & inequality. New book ‘The Return of Inequality’ out with @Harvard_Press
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Have decided to vote for
@andrewfeinstein
in the general election. I don’t like the unnecessary authoritarianism of
@UKLabour
. The Labour movement has historically been a broad and tolerant progressive community, it’s sad this important quality is under attack.
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A great boost for
@LSEInequalities
! We are recruiting Branko Milanovic as Centennial Professor where he will also build collaborations with
@CUNY
and Stone Center on Socio-economic Inequality. It’s a fantastic opportunity for us!
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What a weird and inappropriate question to ask. We don’t want America ‘to be great again’ (whatever that means). It needs to be a responsible nation which recognises it belongs to a fragile global eco-system which needs urgent healing. (Same applies to UK)
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I have worked with
@faizashaheen
for 10 years, she has been a fabulous collaborator & colleague at
@LSEInequalities
& at
@LSEsociology
. With her expertise in inequality policy- including from
@SDG16Plus
- compassion & integrity, I can’t think of anyone who would be a better MP.
Thank you to my LSE colleagues
@MikeSav47032563
@SamFriedmanSoc
Suzi Hall & Suki Ali for standing up for me.
I’ve been so moved by the solidarity from old and current colleagues and my community. Solidarity is so healing.
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My empty 🥲
@LSEsociology
office which I have had since 2012 when I first began working here. It’s been a great experience, thanks to all my colleagues & students! I will be based at
@LSEInequalities
going forward.
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How do sociologists engage with the economics of inequality? Can Bourdieu’s field analysis address racism, sexism and wealthy economic elites? How is inequality tied up with resurgent imperial forces across the globe? If these questions interest you, please join my book launch!
Registration is now open for "The Return of Inequality" where
@MikeSav47032563
will discuss his new book with
@GKBhambra
, Madeleine Bunting, Patrick Le Galès and
@alpashah001
! 🎟️⬇️
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My new book out soon. Launch event on zoom planned by
@LSEInequalities
for 6th June. More details to follow!
In The Return of Inequality, out next month, Mike Savage takes us beyond economic debates to show how inequality threatens to return us to the very history we have been trying to escape since the Age of Revolution.
Find out more:
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Oh! Humbled to get such positive endorsements of my forthcoming book by
@PikettyLeMonde
@mlamont6
@craigjcalhoun
. A lot to live up to! ‘The Return of Inequality’ | Harvard University Press
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Interested in understanding the relationship between the thinking of Pierre Bourdieu and Karl Marx? On 18th May I will be chairing an
@LSEsociology
discussion of Gabriella Paolucci’s new edited book. Features Bridget Fowler &
@paidipaty
.
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Jeremy Corbyn addressing Justice for Cleaners rally at LSE today. The new square created by the LSE building project is an excellent space for protests & rallies!
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Great reflections from
@BrankoMilan
on the need to incorporate Marx’s class analysis with studies of inequality if we are to comprehend gravity of contemporary global challenges - and why some economics is limited because it does not do this.
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Am very honoured to have written a brief foreword to this newly published book on the relationship between Bourdieu and Marx, edited by Gabriella Paolucci.
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Am delighted to be handing over as Director of
@LSEInequalities
next July to
@fhgferreira
who can brilliantly develop our international agenda. It’s great that LSE is making the study of inequality a major priority - there is much to do!
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Fantastic news. Wonderful to see the LSE driving forward it’s great tradition of critical social science with this new post to be Director of
@LSEInequalities
! And thanks to the support of
@atlantic
for the endowment which makes this possible.
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Conversation on BBC just now about the work ‘revolution’ & no need to ever return to the office. I don’t agree. I miss the side conversations, everyday conviviality, casual chats leading to collaborations. I fear that less confident colleagues are squeezed. WFH isn’t so much fun.
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My new paper with
@JonathanMijs
‘Meritocracy, Elitism and Inequality’ now published. Part of
@LSEInequalities
research theme I direct on ‘Wealth, elites and tax justice’.
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Great to hear
@SamFriedmanSoc
on BBC2 last night talking about how elite self recruitment takes place and how the would be upwardly mobile lose out. Sociology at its best!
@britsoci
@LSEsociology
Sociologist
@SamFriedmanSoc
tells
@AmolRajan
that grads from ‘privileged’ backgrounds with 2:2s are more likely to get the top jobs over their working class counterparts with first class honours.
Watch the full programme
#HowToBreakIntoTheElite
tonight at 9pm on
@BBCTwo
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‘Impostor syndrome’ as a marker of structural inequality. Supports the arguments of
@SamFriedmanSoc
&
@Daniel_Laurison
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Finally. After 4-5 years of toil and doubt I now - kind of - have a first draft of my book ‘Icons of inequality: the return of history’ (or some similar grandiose kind of title). But I now have to knock it into shape...
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Thrilled that
@LSEInequalities
is hosting Thomas Piketty’s launch of ‘Capital & Ideology’ in February. Get your tickets early!
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This is rather humbling - a very distinguished set of books to be pictured amongst!
The widening divide between rich and poor is a defining challenge of our time. In a special edition of our email newsletter, we present books that reveal the facts and dynamics behind inequality's rise, and ask how we can do better.
Take a look:
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Interested in how cultural capital is changing (and also staying the same?). Read my new article with
@AnnickPrieur
&
@MagneFlemmen
drawing together recent research on youth and cultural capital.
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How coronavirus will amplify class inequality across multiple dimensions.
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Job alert! Research officer to work at
@LSEInequalities
on some aspect of the UK Racial Wealth Gap. Project will be collaborative with
@RunnymedeTrust
. This is a vital area of research - please share widely
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Just reading
@ProfKEPickett
&
@ProfRGWilkinson
great new book, their follow up to ‘The Spirit Level’. Includes a chapter on class cultural inequality, a critique of meritocracy and very thoughtful arguments about shame, self doubt & anxiety. Must read!
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Great to see our
@LSEInequalities
Atlantic Fellow
@UnequalScenes
getting attention for his great photographic work. These are powerful statements about inequality.
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What a wonderful morning! At last, the media moguls and Tory establishment have been rebuffed by people who have had enough of their spin.
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Fired up by this terrific interview with
@faizashaheen
? Then come to
@LSEInequalities
@LSEpublicevents
talk on her fabulous new book 19 June. Includes a great panel
@mcintosh_kim
@garyseconomics
@garyyounge
!
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Incredibly brave and brilliant performance by Faiza to stand up to the bullying Labour Party machine. Their authoritarian actions gifted the seat to the conservatives. Hopefully
@UKLabour
HQ will be thinking about how to learn the right lessons from this.
They said we wouldn’t get anywhere. They put out graphs they knew were lies in order to confuse local people.
They lied about me to mislead people.
But in just 4 weeks we achieved the same vote as a political party that has been around for over 100 years.
I’m so angry that the
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The challenge of wealth inequality. This will be topic of new research theme I will lead at
@LSEInequalities
involving
@Summers_AD
@katharina_hecht
@SamFriedmanSoc
@luna_inequality
@JonathanMijs
& many others
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How can Miranda Sawyer seriously say this when Glastonbury is such a fundamental venue for the liberal privileged? Not incidental that the BBC have decamped en bloc. Cultural capital continues to brush away its own footprints.
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How do we rethink social class to recognise the power of wealth inequality in the contemporary asset economy? It was great to work with
@NoraWaitkus
&
@maren_toft
on this
@sociologyjnl
paper. Rejected by 2 other journals- sometimes persistence pays off 😀
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This is awful. The Labour Party has truly lost the plot.
@faizashaheen
is exactly the intelligent, passionate, committed and honest politician that the House of Commons desperately needs.
Hey
@jonstewart
, not sure if you're following the Jon-Stewart-related news out of the UK but Labour parliamentary candidate and Muslim woman
@faizashaheen
has just been suspended tonight from the Labour Party for liking on Twitter this old Israel video sketch of yours.
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This is a great step forward and congratulations to Corbyn for making justice the key issue...
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How Bourdieu helps us to understand inequality. Must read!
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For anyone wanting to understand the context of non-Doms, read our working paper here. Amazing coincidence that we published it the day after the Akshata Murty revelations. We get behind sensationalist headlines to reveal the deep imperial history.
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My reflections on what the deselection of
@faizashaheen
implies for the politics of wealth inequality and the capacity of
@UKLabour
to be an effective government. Draws on work of fabulous colleagues at
@LSEInequalities
& beyond.
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I have just cracked one the great puzzles of cultural sociology. Is the popularity of ‘highbrow’ culture amongst older people an age, period or cohort effect? For the first time in my life, at the age of 60, I tuned into BBC Radio 3 this morning...
#sadbastard
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My introduction with
@paidipaty
to
@BJSociology
special issue debating
@PikettyLeMonde
new book. Star cast of contributors include
@nora_wait
@GKBhambra
@simonjhix
@MurrayLeibbrand
@tabouchadi
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It’s been my great privilege to be Director of
@LSEInequalities
this year. It’s been a hard but successful 2018, having secured core funding to guarantee our future growth. More details early in 2019! In our divided world, critical social science is crucial and necessary!
Minding the gap: 2018's best writing on
#inequalities
@nicolajbrowne
@taylordowns2000
@kwaDube365
@changespatricio
@markfransham
@katharina_hecht
@ebruilhn
@roselonghurst
@JonathanMijs
@SofiaMunozGon
@FredrickOuko1
@Yaro_Louis
@aaronsreeves
@_LouiseRP
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Wonderful to see this research by former
@LSEsociology
Phd students
@katharina_hecht
& Dan McArthur demonstrating the ongoing power of class divisions being featured here. Very relevant to the the discussion about the monarchy at the moment
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Global inequality. The bleakest report of all time? World's eight richest people have same wealth as poorest 50%
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Worried by gender inequality, wealth and elites?
@LSEInequalities
are launching the English translation of
@genre_du
by Celine Bessiere & Sibylle Gollac, chaired by
@SamFriedmanSoc
with
@alim1213
& Sarah Trotter! Mark your diaries!
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Working with John Hills was one of the greatest privileges of my life. My statement with Nicola Lacey, David Soskice
@Armish15
& Liza Ryan now on
@LSEInequalities
website.
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Amazing reception and plaudits for
@SamFriedmanSoc
&
@Daniel_Laurison
book launch this evening. So proud of them. Have not seen an event like this at
@LSEpublicevents
possibly ever before. Shows how vital sociology is to public debate
@LSEsociology
@britsoci
Apologies to all those who didn't manage to get in the event tonight! We are both audio and video recording the lecture and, subject to technical difficulties, the podcast and video will be free to download from the LSE Player in a couple of days!
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Feels wonderful to be back in my
@LSEsociology
office. And good to see colleagues taking lots of social distancing care. And window cleaning is not a priority in the current situation!
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I am really looking forward to chairing
@shamuskhan
lecture at
@LSEsociology
on May 9th it will be a terrific occasion! If you are interested in elites, family dynamics, and inequality, please join us!
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Interested in how Bourdieu is inspiring new perspectives on social class in Europe? This is a terrific collection. Includes a chapter reflecting on my work on UK non-doms with
@arunadvaniecon
@D_Burgherr
@Summers_AD
.
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This is such a familiar image to me. John Hills was an utterly remarkable and inspiring colleague who radiated positivity. It was such a pleasure to work with him to build
@LSEInequalities
. Deepest condolences to Anne, his family and many friends, students and colleagues.
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Lincoln Inn Fields, in the heart of London & next to
@LSEnews
deserted on a crisp winter morning....
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It was a privilege to work with Norman Geras when we were both Heads of Department at Manchester in early 2000. He was a model of professionalism and academic rigour. Incidents like this are no doubt outliers but still show how academic freedom is debased.
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Boris Johnson taking over from Theresa May after the incumbent UK prime minister has to resign makes me think of Marx saying that history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. But this is not either/or: we could be headed for a tragic farce.
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Special issue of
@BJSociology
debating Piketty's ‘Capital and Ideology’ now published! Includes a paper by
@nora_wait
& myself on understanding wealth accumulation as a motor of historical change.
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Completely agree with
@Lem_SuttonTrust
that current university admissions system is systematically biased against disadvantaged students. Reliance on 'predicted grades' facilitates systematic bias.
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In future
@LSEInequalities
classes this will surely be a much discussed graph. Those two nations (US, UK) with the steepest death rates also have the most ‘now-liberal’ public services. Is there a correlation?
Now daily new deaths:
• US & UK are straight lines angling upwards on a log scale. This is not good.
• In both countries, over the last week every day brings ~25% more new deaths than the day before
• No other countries are on that steep a trajectory at this stage of outbreak
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After the issue on
@PikettyLeMonde
‘Capital & Ideology’,
@BJSociology
publishes a special section on Chinese elites, with
@BrankoMilan
@pdsegal
etc. It is fast becoming the key journal for interdisciplinary inequality studies!
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How do we challenge the liberal ‘social mobility’ agenda? I am honoured to chair
@LSEInequalities
event on 19th June promoting
@faizashaheen
great new book and a star panel -
@mcintosh_kim
@garyseconomics
@garyyounge
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50 free eprints of my new paper with
@MagneFlemmen
- uses qualitative data from NCDS to explore how 50 year olds visualised their life trajectories.
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So excited to be co-author of this paper with
@BenjaminBrunduG
@ThierryRossier
& Jonathan Schulte, the first ever analysis of how class & race affects home undergrad student experience & outcomes at the
@LSEnews
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Gearing up for a discussion on my book with a daunting panel -
@BrankoMilan
@LeslieMcCallgc
@mlamont6
@JonathanMijs
& Miguel Centeno. At the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, Oct 27.
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Stunning day in the Lakes. London feels a blissfully long way away…
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Job alert for PhDs on an inequality topic!
@LSEsociology
is hiring an LSE Fellow to work alongside
@LSEInequalities
. This is a chance to work with me
@bevskeggs
@SamFriedmanSoc
in a very dynamic teaching & research environment
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Great article by
@selina_todd
on why we need to focus on reducing inequality, not enhancing social mobility.
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Just arrived in Zermatt for our first holiday for three years. Bardy is enjoying a well deserved beer after a great year working for Forgemasters in Sheffield.
#prouddad
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So wonderful to celebrate with our fantastic graduating
@LSEsociology
@LSEInequalities
Masters Inequalities & Social Science students yesterday! I so much enjoyed teaching and working with you! Please keep in touch!
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Interested in the sociology of elites? Please come to our founding
@britsoci
study group conference at
@LSEInequalities
on 12th June. It will be great to welcome you there!
Come to the inaugural conference of the Sociology of Elites Working Group 📢
🔴Keynote presentations by Sam Friedman, Aaron Reeves, and Sarah Kunz
📆12 June, 9.30am to 5.00pm
Read through the programme 👇
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This is shocking. The hold of the southern based private school habitus on UK universities is appalling.
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Exciting new phase of
@LSEInequalities
development! Our 3 new research themes led by me on ‘wealth, elites & tax justice’, David Soskice on ‘Cities, jobs & the knowledge economy’ &
@bevskeggs
on ‘global economies of care’.
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This is a reminder that
@LSEInequalities
is currently recruiting for a researcher on the UK racial wealth gap. Given the problems of the UK Govt Sewell commission, this post is even more necessary & important! Please share!
Job alert! Please share.
@LSEInequalities
are hiring a Research Officer to work on the UK Racial Wealth Gap project which builds more evidence in race equity & the Colour of Money report. We are delighted with the collaboration
@MikeSav47032563
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Job alert! Please circulate to anyone who might be interested. Fellow in Inequalities and Social Science working with
@LSEsociology
&
@LSEInequalities
teaching on MSc Inequalities and Social Science.
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How social scientists can respond to the challenges of inequality & populism. Introductory thoughts by me,
@nigelbdodd
&
@mlamont6
to preface the Introduction to
@BJSociology
special issue on Trump & Brexit.
@LSEInequalities
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Here is my new paper on 'emerging cultural capital in the city' with
@LHanquinet
@JohsHj
& Niall Cunningham in
@IJURResearch
. Part of a special issue on Bourdieu & urban sociology edited by Wacquant.
@sparkerworld
@BSABourdieuSG
@SamFriedmanSoc
@AGMcat
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Really thoughtful essay by
@atossaaraxia
on why inequality has become such a big issue, including the contradictions. Refers to my argument that there is an emerging ‘inequality paradigm’. I still have to finish the book! Aagh!
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We need to strengthen sociology as a discipline by supporting it better on schools. Important research led by Sarah Cant at
@CCCUSociology
How can A level Sociology shake its reputation as a 'soft' subject? In the UK's largest study of its kind, Sociology teachers say institutional support, up to date resources and specialist knowledge are key.
@MikeSav47032563
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Oh! This features my forthcoming ‘The Return of Inequality: Social Change & the Weight of History’...
Our Spring 2021 international catalogue is now online.
Take a look:
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Congratulations to Dr
@EmmaEmmatay
who passed her PhD viva with flying colours and no corrections this afternoon, examined by
@SamFriedmanSoc
& Diane Reay.
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Very important case about why we need to tackle inequality! The wealthy who have benefitted so much in recent decades should pay more to provide resources to respond to the crisis and rebuild afterwards.
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How inequality saps our mental resources....The Psychology of Inequality
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Calls for a wealth tax in the UK will surely come!
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Huge congratulations to my
@LSEsociology
colleague Monika Krause who is the first UK based based sociologist to win the prestigious
@ASAnews
Coser prize for Theoretical Agenda setting.
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Job alert! Great opportunity for a cultural sociologists to work at
@LSEsociology
! Please spread the word!
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Really enthralled by Stuart Hall’s last book. Not only a vivid personal memoir, and also shows how his concerns with identity, fracture, race and class draw on his Jamaican background and colonial relationship with Britain.
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Carpe Diem! On top of Scafell, until today the only major Lakeland peak I hadn’t climbed.
@AGMcat
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Job Alert! Research Officer in Wealth Inequality to work with me and the fantastic interdisciplinary
@lseinequalities
team.
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This is a terrific read, a much needed synthesis of Bourdieu’s & occupational approaches to class analysis demonstrating deep divisions & the political crisis of European society. Also well written & jargon free!
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Whatever your views about the debate on trans sexuality, the idea that
@selina_todd
’s job appears to under pressure because of her views on these issues is very scary.
I have known
@selina_todd
for many years, admire her work on the history of welfare state and much else and am shocked to hear that there is pressure on her employers to sack her, for participating, in good faith, in one of the most agonising debates of our time.
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Am very privileged to have won this award, I also enjoyed the intense seminar on my work today. I appreciate very much that this prize is awarded not by the senior management of
@his_hamburg
but collectively by the academic community including junior scholars. THANK YOU!
Siegfried Landshut Lectures
@his_hamburg
Yesterday Evening with Mike Savage THANK YOU!
@MikeSav47032563
impressive - And also THANKS to you both: Monika Krause
@LSEnews
and Carsten Brosda
@CarstenBrosda
@hh_bkm
Great! Next week the lecture is on
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If you are interested in the comparative analysis of wealth inequality, put this
@LSEInequalities
event in your diaries!
@FabianPfeffer
@nora_wait
@AdkinsProf
@davies_will
@Summers_AD
@arunadvaniecon
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Calling everyone interested in social mobility! If you are near central London and have time on your hands in the evening, this will be a stand out event! Thrilled to be chairing it!
NEXT WEEK: How and why does class background still affect those in elite occupations? In this book launch the speakers look at barriers to upward mobility.
#LSEClassCeiling
@LSEsociology
@LSEInequalities
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Thus has brightened my day! Unexpected bird life on Primrose Hill. Have they escaped from London zoo?
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Glorious autumn colours on Hampstead Heath. A mirror of the beautiful spring.
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‘Britain’s austerity is a slow bleed’. How the UK is becoming less like Europe & more like the US with its spiralling levels of inequality.....
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This is amazing value! All sociologists (& others!) should get copies...
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