Pedro Araujo

Call for Paper : "Intersectional Inequalities in Science". Swiss Sociological Association Congress 🇨🇭
We are looking forward to receiving your abstract by 31 March 2026.

Thank you for circulating the call 🙏

@araujopedro.bsky.social @benzpierre.bsky.social @thierryrossier.bsky.social A. Afsary

From June 14th to 19th 2026 the 3rd edition of the summer school on "Elites, Power and Inequality" will take place at the University of Lausanne. Program and registration here: www.unil.ch/unil/en/home...

Deadline is 1st April 2026.

Perspectives on recognizing open research data in research assessment Abstract. The growing emphasis on open science has increased interest in recognizing open research data (ORD) practices in research assessment. Yet, curren

New article, co-authored with Marieke Heers and Martin Jaekel, on how to meaningfully recognize open research data as a legitimate research output in research evaluation.

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Swiss Journal of Sociology
The Transformation of Banking and Finance

Philip Balsiger
Léna Pellandini-Simányi
Lena Ajdacic
Pedro Araujo
Simon Egli
Katja Rost
Larissa Fritsch
Cristina Paradiso
Robert Musil
Mariana Luzzi
María Soledad Sánchez
Daniel Burnier
Noé Kabouche
Patrick Schenk
Makiko Hashinaga

Stratégie éducative : comment se construit le pouvoir en Suisse ? Sociologue à l’Université de Lausanne, Anne-Sophie Delval étudie les pratiques familiales qui façonnent les trajectoires scolaires et professionnelles des élites. Derrière la réussite académique se de...

📚 Stratégie éducative: comment se construit le pouvoir en Suisse?

Anne-Sophie Delval, sociologue à @obelitessuisses.bsky.social à l'Unil, explore comment les pratiques familiales façonnent les trajectoires scolaires et professionnelles des élites.

▶️ Lire plus: www.unil.ch/news/fr/1765...

Bordeaux 2026 | SASE Annual Conferences

We are doing it again-again.

Mini-conference on Elites and Power Structures at the 2026 SASE July 1-3 in Bordeaux.

Submit your abstract before December 16th

It has been 3 great session at the past SASE meetings, so send us your best work!

sase.org/events/2026-...

🔥🔥 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.

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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

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...

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

"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...

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 ».

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

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.

🏛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 ⬇️

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

[📖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...

[📑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

shs.cairn.info/vers-le-haut...

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

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 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

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 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 ...

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...

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...

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...

🔍 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

[ #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

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

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

@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...

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!!

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« 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...

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...

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…

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...

Well deserved, congrats!

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.

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

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.

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/...