Sociologist @BU_Tweets • researching #inequality #meritocracy • funded by @VolkswagenSt @MSCActions • Formerly @LSEInequalities @ErasmusUni • PhD @Harvard
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How has public belief in the importance of merit🥇 and privilege💸 changed over time?
Data viz shows widening gap b/w perceived importance of family wealth (privilege) and hard work (merit) in majority of countries in the West
🗞️journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
💻github.com/cybe2001/merit-an…
Ask people a blunt question about race and a striking number will say neither yes nor no
We often read neutrality as absence of prejudice but our research finds that it's closer to the opposite:
Silence can be an easily overlooked form of ambivalent racism
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
We discuss our findings in detail in this blog: wipsociology.org/2026/11/02/… @ASAnews
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What lessons do Succession, Game of Thrones and Downton Abbey offer when it comes to the depiction of wealth inequality?
Michael Vaughan, Annalena Oppel, @JonathanMijs & Sarah Kerr explore in our latest blog post
#LSEInequalitiesBlog
buff.ly/Xs6OJMZ
Wrote something about a super exciting project with @jrf_uk @UAL where we supported storytellers to creatively tackle the problem of wealth inequality
How can storytelling help – or harm – the problem of extreme wealth inequality?
Michael Vaughan, Annalena Oppel, @JonathanMijs & Sarah Kerr offer four simple questions for creative content producers to reflect on
#LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/Xs6OJMZ
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💡What to make of "neither agree nor disagree" responses to Qs about racial attitudes?
Our original survey in US & Netherlands shows the racism/non-racism binary overlooks a crucial category: "ambivalent racism"
@IS_sociology paper w/@JonathanMijs: doi.org/10.1177/026858092614… (1/6)
Desperate for financial advice from a poor but privileged sociologist? This one's for you 😘 youtu.be/fa2FXQN9aq4
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Superb political ad. One of the best you’ll see.
This is better, and resonates more, than anything coming from Labour or the Tories.
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My favourite academia joke of all time. "The moral of this story is: The topic of your dissertation isn't really important; what's important is who your advisor is."
—Harvey Cox, When Jesus Came to Harvard
Come join @stanveuger @muverte Colin Brown and me @EuropeAtHarvard today at 2.30 pm to make sense of the 2025 Dutch parliamentary elections! Details: ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2…
Teaser (2/3): latest polls and most likely coalitions (source: peilwijzer.nl and coalitiechecker.nl)
Teaser (3/3): some predictions from people who know a lot more about politics than I do (@SimonOtjes @PGKroeger @hakhverdian @TomWGvdMeer and Tom Louwerse)
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Dutch voters are headed to the polls again next Wednesday—join @JonathanMijs, @muverte, Colin Brown, and me as we analyze the early results at @EuropeAtHarvard.
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1/7 🚨 New OA paper in Network Science!
“Consolidation and change: The impact of anger and network dynamics on inequality belief systems”.
By @g_franetovic & me:
👉 shorturl.at/fjY5c
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Onze reactie in De Volkskrant op het vorige week verschenen SCP rapport Verdeeld over het land.
@JonathanMijs @AgataTroost @volkskrant @univgroningen
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We zijn geïnterviewd door Dylan van Rijsbergen over ons project over klasse en klassenbewustzijn voor Jacobin. Heel toepasselijk is het gepubliceerd op 1 mei.
Het artikel: jacobin.nl/waarom-klassenbew…
@JonathanMijs @AgataTroost @DylanvR @JacobinNL @univgroningen @LISS_panel
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Our project "Social class: an exploitation-based class scheme" represented by Agata Troost at the ODISSEI conference today.
odissei-data.nl/project/soci…
@ODISSEI_nl, @JonathanMijs, @AgataTroost, @univgroningen, @LISS_panel
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Very excited about the timely new book out by my friend & @BU_Tweets colleague @david_dswartz ! The Academic Trumpists by @routledgebooks @ASAnews @ASApoliticalsoc @ASACulture @alixabeth @BU_CISS @BUexperts @BU_CAS routledge.com/The-Academic-T…
