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Irish poet Anne Casey Dr Anne Casey is an internationally acclaimed poet from west Clare in Ireland. Throughout this conversation, Anne kindly reads and introduces several of her poems and shares insights from her acade…

For St Patrick's Day, I spoke with Irish poet Dr Anne Casey about her doctoral research on the Great Irish Famine and her approach to 'reviving lost histories through poetics of resistance'. The podcast includes poetry readings by Anne.

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Title page: Respectability, Identity, Stigma, and the Politics of Social Control in Unequal Societies Hakeem Jefferson February 8, 2025

Abstract Respectability: Identity, Stigma, and the Politics of Social Control in Unequal Societies critiques and extends prevailing ideas about shared identity by examining how the burdens of collective costs complicate group solidarity. While shared identity often fosters cohesion, this book demonstrates how stigma and structural inequality impose unique pressures on Black Americans and other marginalized groups, leading not only to solidarity but also to intragroup surveillance, policing, and punishment. Respectability politics is a particularly salient manifestation of these dynamics, emerging in response to stigma and inequality. Although rooted in the Black American experience, respectability politics reflects broader patterns that appear across cultures and contexts, where marginalized groups contend with shared burdens and their consequences. A key contribution of this book is the development of the Respectability Politics Scale (RPS), a novel measure that provides a systematic way to study respectability politics and its consequences. This scale allows for empirical exploration of how respectability politics shapes attitudes toward punitive policies, intragroup dynamics, and broader systems of control. By introducing the concept of perceptions of collective costs—the belief that individual behavior reflects on and affects the group as a whole—this work situates respectability politics within a larger framework of identity, stigma, and social control. Through rigorous empirical evidence and comparative insights, this book not only illuminates respectability politics as a critical lens for understanding intragroup dynamics but also demonstrates its broader relevance to understanding systems of control in unequal societies worldwide. By doing so, it offers a path forward for scholars and practitioners seeking to challenge and transform these dynamics.

Finally coming up for air! The preliminary draft of my book is officially in the hands of the book workshop attendees. Feels crazy to step out from under the urgent writing grind. Excited (and a little nervous) to hear their thoughts, but for now, I’m gonna enjoy the breather.

I’m presenting a paper on Barnett and Duvall’s taxonomy of power at UVA today exactly 20 yrs since it was published in @iojournal.bsky.social. Originating in IR, the taxonomy guides my research on domestic social policy issues.

#AcademicSky #Polisky #PolicySky

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Our new research digest is out 👇. If you have anything on political and economic inequality, accountability or distributive politics coming out in the next four weeks and would like it featured in our next digest let us know!

Calling all social scientists whose work touches on offshore finance! Please submit your work to the special issue of the journal Socio-Economic Review that I'll be guest editing with my fellow sociologist Kimberly Kay Hoang & historian Vanessa Ogle. Due date:15 May.
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Is wealth inequality bad for growth?

Will Snell, Chief Executive @fairness.bsky.social , argues that it is 👇 https://t.co/OGanUjLC3J

Fascinating paper on where 6000 global elites went to college. Billionaires, CEOs, heads of state, central bankers, etc.

In a word: Harvard.

Fully 10% of global elites went to Harvard. Elite US schools are over-represented (23% IvyPlus), but nobody comes close to Harvard.

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ERC grants 20 Million SEK for research on Increased Social Mobility - Stockholm University What is behind the increased social mobility that defines today's economic systems in Europe in historical comparison? The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Arash Nekoei, Associate Professor...

What drives social mobility over time? Arash Nekoei has received a 1,8M EUR ERC grant to uncover the patterns and drivers of mobility, inequality, and growth using unique Swedish historical data and models. 🌍 #SocialMobility #ERC
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Study Universal Basic Income at the University of Sydney - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Introducing SSPS6008 – Universal Basic Income In 2025, the the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS) at the University of Sydney will offer the first unit of study focused on Universal Basic...

Announcing our new unit of study on Universal Basic Income - to be offered for the first time at the University of Sydney in 2025! www.ppesydney.net/study-univer...

Yes, it's not because wealthy people are naturally more intelligent or capable: access to opportunity makes a difference to outcomes.

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I imagine this is snow covered today! My Oxford college was Pembroke where I was the MCR Access Rep interested in socioeconomic outreach.

Join the Stone Center Team!

We’re searching for Postdoctoral Scholars with research priorities in wealth inequality and intergenerational mobility. 1 year renewable position, starting summer 2025.

Apply by January 31, 2025.

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Looking at the findings of this paper, there is greater intergenerational persistence of socioeconomic status for farmers, judges, doctors, and professors, and for occupational classes in which more inequality of opportunity is found? Thanks!

Immobility As Memory: Some New Approaches to Characterizing Intergenerational Persistence via Markov Chains Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

@durlauf.bsky.social, coauthors introduce "memory curves," showing how a family's starting point shapes its socioeconomic trajectory. While "memory" of initial conditions largely fades within three generations, great differences exist based on occupational classes.

Read the article: bit.ly/40XekQa

This is a great tip! Someone shared this with me in a different vocational setting a few years ago and it was a huge time saver for answering common questions and requests. After you've inserted the signature template, you can still tinker with it to make it more personal if you wish.

I created this list a couple of days ago based on some people I know about but there has been a ton of new arrivals--please let me know who else to include. Also, this is an interdisciplinary list! #EconSky #Sociology #PoliSky #Demography

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👋Thanks very much for creating this list. This is the topic of my PhD project (and my lived experience).

Good advice, thanks.

Just to make sure that our new generation of researchers does not get less attention than more senior scholars, I have made a starter pack with PhD researchers in Political Science go.bsky.app/MYHYycU

I couldn’t find the Starter Pack I wanted, so I had to crest it myself - please let me know if you or someone you know belongs on it as I slowly work to build it between chasing a ten month old around. go.bsky.app/QJY9Nup #polisci #politics #policy

This line from the story about tribal land rights speaks volumes:

'The property, described by Tribal leaders as "the lungs" of their ancestral lands...'

That's an impressive metaphor (or is it an analogy)

I'm treading 😂

This is well done and informative. In my former vocational life, I had 12 yrs working in news-talk radio production and there's a high degree of difficulty with being this efficient in broadcast communication. Tip of the hat to you!

(I've seen "skeet" used as the BSky word for "tweet")

Thanks. I am new here and trying to find where I fit!

Great idea. I've been looking around Bluesky for other first gens in academia. I'm a PhD researcher. My parents finished school aged around 14 and 15.

Yes, please! If there is still room, I'd like to be added. Thank you for being inclusive of PhD researchers. I'm new around here.

Brilliant. This post is underappreciated.

The making and unmaking of opportunity: educational mobility in 20th‐century Denmark We examine trends in intergenerational educational mobility throughout the 20th century in Denmark. We demonstrate that major reforms in compulsory schooling substantially increased not only the leve...

Reading these findings on mobility declining with college education expanding - could this relate to the overqualification of the workforce? Degrees are now required for roles that historically didn't require them, neutralising mobility from higher ed?
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