An excellent review of my "Visions of Inequality"
Inequality Without Class
To grasp where inequality is headed—much less to reduce it—we will need to look beyond the economic
by Simon Torracinta
dissentmagazine.org/article/ineq...
🚩 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 – 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 & 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽
We are excited to announce the II Early Career & PhD Workshop on Socioeconomic Mobility and Public Policies, taking place on October 22–23, 2026, at the University of Alcalá (Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain).
Join us!
📢 Está abierto el plazo para enviar resúmenes extendidos y pósteres al XVI Congreso Español de Sociología
📍 Bilbao | 15–17 de julio de 2026
🔹 Plazo de envío: 19 de enero – 8 de marzo de 2026
🔗 Más info:
congreso2026.fes-sociologia.com/wp-content/u...
#FES2026 #CI06
📄 New III working paper:
This paper describes a new public-access online database containing internationally comparable estimates of inequality of opportunity for seventy-two countries, covering two-thirds of the world’s population.
🔗 buff.ly/3IEgjiU
Natalidad y Economía, os lo dejo aquí por si os apetece escucharlo www.rtve.es/play/audios/...
Happy to see this finally out!
Together with @fabriberna and Ilaria Lievore, we examine how university expansion among parents shapes their children’s academic achievement.
Using data from 30 countries participating in 7 PISA waves, we uncover compelling results.
Details in the thread!👇👇
1/6
¿Los resultados educativos se explican solo por el mérito? agendapublica.es/noticia/2032...
Interdisciplinary paper with @paulhufe.net Astrid Sandsør and Nicolai Borgen now out in PNAS!
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
Causal evidence of gene-environment interaction for reading test scores based on:
🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences
🏫 Exogenous variation in school value added
Las democracias necesitan una política social y fiscal que limite la desigualdad de ingresos y riqueza si quieren sobrevivir a largo plazo:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Next RC28 Spring Meeting will be 20-22 May in Seville.
Submissions until 10 Dec here: eventos.upo.es/137585/detai...
If you're wondering if this is your conference, have a look at what we publish in our journal Research in Social Stratification and Mobility: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/rese...
Merece la pena leer esta entrevista al politólogo Adam Przeworki publicada en castellano en Nueva Sociedad.
nuso.org/articulo/dem...
@wzb.bsky.social
@ic3jm.bsky.social @florenceups.bsky.social
Lab Study in Berlin/Madrid on School Meritocracy:
Effort🔨(🧠objective cognitive effort / 👩🏫teacher-perceived effort) → + grades & inequality. Net of IQ, High-SES👨🎓 + effort & GPA returns when lazy. Low-SES👨🎓 - effort; + GPA returns if hardworking. WP👇 Effort-Project econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:fir:ec...
Even in Denmark, cultural tastes are socially stratified. With some quite cool library data we find strong gradients by education and wealth - important as wealth is rarely studied in cultural stratification research
doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
OA: osf.io/ar2xc_v2/dow...
@europeansocreview.bsky.social
cc @florenceups.bsky.social
Teacher bias or unobserved ability? @ssreditorial.bsky.social paper w/ @marespadafor.bsky.social Test score error & omitted behavior = 🐘 in the (class)room to identify SES discrimination. Still, beyond "true ability", well-off (low-performing) kids get higher teacher ratings: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
Project description: UNPACK departs from three empirical observations about child poverty. First, child poverty rates in Spain are consistently higher than would be expected by its economic development. Second, child poverty rates have not decreased with economic growth since the end of the Great Recession, while adult poverty rates do, even if slightly. Third, recent policy reforms targeted at combatting inequality and reducing poverty have resulted in improvements in employment and several welfare and equity indicators, but appear to have limited impact on child poverty reduction. High child poverty rates in Spain, and more widely Southern Europe, have been traditionally associated with weak labour markets and underdeveloped social protection systems that poorly target families with children. However, neither improving labour market prospects nor the introduction of new policy initiatives appear to impact child poverty rates. This project seeks to approach this puzzle by (a) further exploring child poverty trends in Spain and (Southern) Europe, (b) extending the literature on child poverty and labour markets with particular attention to poverty dynamics, and (c) analysing the design and outcomes of recent poverty reforms in Southern Europe targeted at reducing child poverty. In doing so, the project seeks to further our understanding of the determinants of disappointing child poverty trends in Spain and Europe, and elaborate relevant policy proposals
October 1st we will publish the call for a funded PhD student to work @demosocupf.bsky.social in the project 'Unpacking the Puzzle of Child Poverty: Why Child Poverty Persists Despite Economic Recovery and Declining Inequality', funded by the Spanish Research Agency. Interested? Get in touch!
When we think rationally about the data we do have, we simply cannot say that migrants as a whole are more likely to commit crime than everyone else.
We await better data. Until then, bad data and bad interpretations threaten to fill the void
www.thetimes.com/article/72b6...
Entramos en modo ‘beta’ global: aún no hemos domado las redes y las mismas tecnológicas van a someter a la humanidad a un experimento masivo desplegando con avaricia sus ineficientes herramientas de IA en nuestras vidas.
Aquí trato de explicar porqués y consecuencias:
elpais.com/tecnologia/2...
🔴New working paper with @marcocozzani.bsky.social and @juhoharkonen.bsky.social. We describe the temporal link between conception timing and preterm birth rates. When conception rates fluctuate, preterm birth proportions shift predictably but with different magnitudes depending on baseline risk. 1/4
Here we discuss sociological (labour division; power relations) and economic (income sources/attributional/thresholds) perspectives on class theory/measurement and analyse interpersonal inequality (Gini) and stratification (Overlap in distributions) in income/wealth by class: doi.org/10.1007/s112...
Thanks :) Also, credit to you for your terrific feedback on the WP!
Gracias :)
Pedro Salas-Rojo, Carlos J. Gil-Hernández, Guillem Vidal-Lorda, and Davide Villani have won the Aldi Hagenaars Memorial Award for their paper 'Wealth Inequality and Stratification by Social Classes in 21st-Century Europe.'
Congratulations to the authors for their recognition!
Thanks @psalasr.bsky.social & #DIGCLASS (@guillemvidal.me & D.Villani) for the @lisdata.bsky.social Award! Wealth is stratified by class💸—Class isn't dead 🧟
📝Article @socialindicators.bsky.social: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📰Post @lseinequalities.bsky.social: blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
We are pleased to announce that the ISA RC28 Spring Meeting 2026 will be held at the campus of Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO) in Seville.
Conference dates: May 20–22, 2026.
Theme: Addressing Social Inequalities in the Global North and South
Stay tuned! Submissions will begin soon.
Brilliant session about “The Surprises of Population Studies” at #SIS2025 in Genova!
Thanks to speakers and participants for the stimulating discussion! 👏
@karlosj89.bsky.social @florenceups.bsky.social @comochia.bsky.social
🚨 Postdoc position! 🚨
Join MultiMasc — a project on social stratification & masculinities.
📍 Based at UNED (Madrid) / remote possible
🧑💻 1-year / €2,250 net monthly / €4,000 travel fund
👉 Apply by June 7
ℹ️More info 👉 files.persona.co/60187/Call-P...
🙏 Share widely 📣📣
#Sociology #Postdoc
New @florenceups.bsky.social WP 📄🔨! Italian panel tax data shows a positive 💸 income-first-child 👶 link for both men and women within couples. This finding challenges traditional gender roles 🚻 but warns of the (rising) economic stratification of parenthood 👇
labdisia.disia.unifi.it/wp_disia/202...
