My Labour PPC backstory: I grew up in a single parent family on a council estate in East London
My Tory PPC backstory: my grandparents were small businessmen
My Reform PPC backstory: my grandparents came to this country legally
My Restore PPC backstory: I am descended from white Rhodesians
Great paper! Worth a read
This looks like excellent and fascinating work! Somewhat surprisingly it resonates with what @samfriedman.bsky.social and I found in the UK, i.e., access to elite positions (beyond just politicians) has been fairly stable across C20 among people born into wealth www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
This is fascinating - and very very important. Don't be put off by the pic. @samfriedman.bsky.social with #DavidMarr #LateNightLive
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Our book Trigger Points is now out in open access. Huge thanks to Mike Savage for a terrific foreword and to Michèle Lamont, Silja Häusermann and Daniel Ziblatt for their kind words.
Link below:
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Please join us online on Wednesday March 11 (tomorrow!) at 3pm for @samfriedman.bsky.social (LSE) and Rose Butler (Deakin) for our next online seminar "Class Diplomacy: Cross-Class Friendship and Social Mobility'
Who really runs Britain — and why do they insist they're just ordinary?
Great fun convo withLSE profs @samfriedman.bsky.social & @aaronreeves.bsky.social authors of Born to Rule with @peteryork.bsky.social on his Peter York's Culture Wars House Party Podcast
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Stephen Bush
Drawing on qualitative interviews with middle-class households aged 30 to 39 in Paris, this paper examines how parental financial support is negotiated among homebuyers and renters and how it affects family relationships.
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Newcastle Youth Studies Centre
Kate Dixon
British Journal of Sociology
Aaron Reeves
Sam Friedman
Nada Vlatko
Summer School: Class, Culture & Discontents
📆 July 23rd - 24th
📍London
Full programme with all star line up ⭐
23rd July feat @darrenchetty.bsky.social @jolittler.bsky.social @jasnijjar.bsky.social etc on prison education, meritocracy, colonialism, war + more
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🎙️ Who really runs Britain?
In this podcast, @samfriedman.bsky.social and @aaronreeves.bsky.social unpack the “elite within the elite”, the factions shaping the UK’s future, the importance of being “meritocratically legitimate” and the myth of being “just ordinary”.
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Amit Singh
The Economist, Best Books of 2024The Times, Best Ideas Books of 2024A uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what they like ...
The British elite present themselves as part of a new, open, dynamic meritocracy. Is that true? Of course not, and two sociologists have the data to prove it.
Guest: Professor Sam Friedman, a sociolog...
Excited to share an updated paper from a longstanding agenda with Andy Hall, @dthompson.bsky.social, and Jesse Yoder: "Fortunate Sons: Elite Political Selection in American History"
We link Members of Congress (+ their families) to the complete count census, covering congresses from 1850-the 2000s
It's quite a fun exercise to try to work out what the most working class and most middle class version of the story of your own social background you could tell. (I could tell wildly different stories about my own social class by picking the biographies of two grandparents - one from each parent.)
Professors Sam Friedman and Aaron Reeves of the London School of Economics, authors of Born to Rule – a forensic, often very funny X‑ray of the British establishment, drawn from that venerable ...
