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Pierre Benz @benzpierre.bsky.social · 2d

🔥🔥 New article in PlosOne 🔥🔥

Citation behaviour isn’t a meritocracy.
It’s shaped by social ties and topic overlap.
Let’s rethink how we evaluate research impact.

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FORS Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences @forsresearch.bsky.social · 23d

FORS Guide out now ! ⬇️
Measuring assigned sex, gender identity & sexual orientation in population surveys
Practical guidance to help researchers and survey practitioners measure gender differences more accurately — with methods & key question recommendations.

forscenter.ch/fors-guides/fg-2025-00026

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OBELIS - Observatoire des élites suisses @obelitessuisses.bsky.social · 19d

Article sur les 10 ans de l'OBELIS dans Le Temps: www.letemps.ch/carrieres-et...

Discrètes, toujours plus diplômées et féminines: les élites suisses sous la loupe - Le Temps

L’Observatoire des élites suisses fête ses 10 ans en 2025. Retour avec deux membres de son équipe fondatrice sur les caractéristiques des personnes de pouvoir en Suisse et leur évolution, alors que le...

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Pierre Bataille @pierrebat.cpesr.fr · 21d

"Scolarisations et formations de l’élite entrepreneuriale : parcours de vie et visions du monde"

Très beau programme pour les 16-17 octobre prochain @sspunil.bsky.social thanks to l'équipe @obelitessuisses.bsky.social

www.unil.ch/events/17522...

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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 26d

Pour ses 50 ans, la revue « Actes », créée par Pierre Bourdieu, raconte sa propre histoire

Par le choix de ses sujets, de ses auteurs et de sa direction artistique, la revue fondée en 1975 est parvenue à s’imposer jusqu’à « faire institution contre l’institution ».

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Faculté SSP @sspunil.bsky.social · Sep 29

🏛Qui accède au pouvoir en Suisse et par quels chemins? Quel rôle joue l’héritage familial? La formation? Le genre? Discutez de ces questions avec plusieurs spécialistes de l’ @obelitessuisses.bsky.social, lors d’une soirée conviviale au cœur de Lausanne.

Infos et inscription ⬇️

Les élites suisses à découvert | L'éprouvette, Laboratoire / Sciences et Société / UNIL

Participez à une soirée-débat avec l’Observatoire des élites suisses (Unil) : pouvoir, héritage, éducation et genre au cœur d’échanges conviviaux.

www.eprouvette-unil.ch

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Anne-Sophie Delval @asdelval.bsky.social · Sep 16

Another update 🚨 We just launched Beyond the Core: Elites and Power in Swiss Second-Tier City-Regions (1890–2020) at @unil.bsky.social, funded by @snf-fns.ch
I’m thrilled to coordinate this 4-year project with a multidisciplinary team @obelitessuisses.bsky.social
#BeyondTheCore #EliteStudies

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RT 42 AFS • Sociologie des élites @rt42-afselites.bsky.social · Jul 16

[📖Parution #socioelites] Dossier "Gender and Wealth Accumulation: An International Perspective" pour la Socio-Economic Review.
Coordination par Céline Bessière et Maude Pugliese
academic.oup.com/ser/issue/23...

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RT 42 AFS • Sociologie des élites @rt42-afselites.bsky.social · Jun 20

[📑Parution et mise en ligne #Socioelites] "Vers le haut. Enquêter sur l’élite au pouvoir" de François Denord, Paul Lagneau-Ymonet et Sylvain Laurens @Ed_LaDecouverte

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Thierry Rossier @thierryrossier.bsky.social · Jun 19

My new book on 'The Power of Rankings in Economics and Research Organizations.
Contributions to the Social Studies of Economics' with Stephan Pühringer and Jens Maesse is out!! You can dowload the whole book in open access below:

www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

The Power of Rankings in Economics and Research Organizations | Contri

Discourses around research excellence and quality are predominant within the economic sciences, with various forms of ranking playing a central role. They make

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Bart Bonikowski @bartbonikowski.bsky.social · Jun 13

Essential reading (by @jasonstanley.bsky.social) for every American. The media, aided by a handful of reactionary academics and compliant university administrations, has sold the public a huge lie about wokeness on college campuses, enabling the extreme right. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The mainstream media has enabled Trump’s war on universities | Jason Stanley

For the past decade, the US press has fueled a moral panic over leftists on campus while failing to report on the right’s assault

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · Jun 12

New research note out in @bjsociology.bsky.social on the Power Elite in Greenland.

The main finding: There is a highly knit elite network in Greenland. However, there are also clear fracturing lines based on the Greenlandic-Danish divide.

A 🧵on findings

doi.org/10.1111/1468...

The Power Elite in Greenland

In this research note, we map the power elite in Greenland, amidst the current geopolitical interest in the nation. Using social network analysis, we identify a power elite of 123 individuals as the ...

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FORS Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences @forsresearch.bsky.social · May 20

Submit your abstract now ‼️ To commemorate 25 years of longitudinal surveys in Switzerland, submit your paper NOW for a special issue titled "25 Years of Longitudinal Surveys in Switzerland: Analysing Social Dynamics in Switzerland and Beyond".
forscenter.ch/wp-content/u...

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CoARA @coarassessment.bsky.social · May 19

🔍 Research Evaluation in Social Sciences and Humanities: Reforming Research Assessment | #RESSH2025
📍 Happening now in Helsinki, Finland!

🔗 Click here to learn more: vastuullinentiede.fi/en/events/re...

#ReformingRA #SSH

RESSH2025 Conference

RESSH2025 conference of the international association ENRESSH (European Network for Research Evaluation in the SSH) is organized 19-21 May, 2025, in Helsinki, Finland. It brings together specialists o...

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RT 42 AFS • Sociologie des élites @rt42-afselites.bsky.social · May 15

[ #socioelites] Demi-journée "Dans les coulisses du pouvoir : Ethnographier et interviewer les élites" organisée par @obelitessuisses.bsky.social

🔗 www.unil.ch/events/fr/17...

@sspunil.bsky.social
@johannamb.bsky.social
@skzh.bsky.social
@asdelval.bsky.social

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Johanna B @johannamb.bsky.social · May 15

Reminder: The deadline to submit for our workshop on the education and training of the entrepreneurial elite is coming up soon (30.05.)!

We look forward to reading your submissions and meeting you at the Swiss Elite Observatory @obelitessuisses.bsky.social, University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social

Johanna B @johannamb.bsky.social · Mar 11

[ #socioelites ] Call for participation for the workshop ‘Education and training of the entrepreneurial elite: life paths and world views’, organised on the 15th and 16th October 2025 at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social

⌛️ 30th May 2025: submission of proposals
🗣️ English/French

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OBELIS - Observatoire des élites suisses @obelitessuisses.bsky.social · Apr 28

@araujopedro.bsky.social de l’OBELIS @sspunil.bsky.social explique le World Elite Database dans la Matinale de la RTS. Ici le lien : www.rts.ch/audio-podcas...

L'invité de La Matinale - Pedro Araujo, sociologue co-créateur d'un outil pour étudier les élites économiques

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Apr 26

And it's official!

Resistance Summer School is live!

You can sign up now to take my course, which Columbia cancelled-- Race, Media and International Affairs-- which I will teach live and online beginning in July.

124 signed up in five hours.

Let's goooo!!

open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Apr 21

Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!

Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.

Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.

This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.

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Bruno Cousin @brunocousin.bsky.social · Apr 25

Le World Elite Database et notre article comparatiste sur les élites économiques de 16 pays, paru récemment dans le @bjsociology.bsky.social, sont discutés aujourd’hui dans @lemonde.fr.
www.lemonde.fr/campus/artic...

« La plupart des individus qui occupent des positions de pouvoir économique ont fait des études supérieures » : le visage des nouvelles élites mondiales

Un collectif de chercheurs, parmi lesquels le maître de conférences en sociologie à l’université Paris-Dauphine Paul Lagneau-Ymonet, a constitué un outil de recherche pour mieux comprendre comment cha...

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Thierry Rossier @thierryrossier.bsky.social · Apr 23

After 3 years of work the editorial of our “Mapping relational structures in culture” Poetics special issue w/ Marco Serino, Elisa Klüger & Fabien Eloire is out. It introduces 10 amazing papers mapping culture w/ GDA/SNA. Below I introduce the 10 papers 🧵(1/12)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Mapping relational structures in culture

Culture is a relational concept, and the empirical manifestations of culture are worth being analysed in a structural vein to unveil the patterns of r…

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Pedro Araujo @araujopedro.bsky.social · Apr 19

Well deserved, congrats!

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Noé Kabouche @noekabouche.bsky.social · Apr 14

Just published - with @baphil.bsky.social & @pgolka.bsky.social! 👇

Assetization requires bridging professionals on both local and global scales. For this to work, actors need to translate or valorize the issue at stake, within their own professional ecology. That’s the case for impact investing.

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Marte Lund Saga @martesaga.bsky.social · Apr 11

My article about the political activity of the inner circle and wealthy owners is out in @sfjournal.bsky.social! You can read it here: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
Some highlights in the thread.

The politics of the Norwegian capitalist class: the inner circle and wealthy owners

Abstract. This paper investigates the political activities of different segments within the capitalist class, comparing an inner circle of interlocked dire

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Pedro Araujo @araujopedro.bsky.social · Apr 10

Thank you to Simon Kuper from the Financial Times for spotlighting the first article from the World Elite Database (WED).

Our WED paper is available in open access here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Apr 10

A new who’s who of the global elites | Opinion

https://www.ft.com/content/ff0af5e7-60eb-4cc9-aebd-da6fbc94f8c8

A new who’s who of the global elites | Opinion

They dominate the countries that account for more than half of global GDP — but who are they?

www.ft.com

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