New publication (in French): shorturl.at/CW7R3
Analyzing 1,423 elite marriages in Geneva between 1890 and 1957, I show the persistence of endogamy among patrician elites, particularly those with significant economic power.
My colleagues and I have been sharing blogs and news about a survey we did on how researchers use generative AI - that study is now published and openly available here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.te...
The very first paper from our large comparative project - the World Elite Database - is out.
Lots of coordination and important discussion on comparing elites allow us to - for the first time really - compare elites across very different national contexts.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Pierre Benz
An incredible addition to our special issue on Mapping relational structures in culture. And a great thread on the paper (in French). Thanks a lot @pierrebat.cpesr.fr @robcss.cpesr.fr @mathiasrota.bsky.social for the amazing work!!
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The most ambitious research project I have ever been involved in has published its first paper in @bjsociology.bsky.social
70 authors & 17 teams studying varieties of economic elites in 17 countries
See our results: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
This is an amazing work from amazing collegues in an amazing journal bravo bravo bravo š„š„š„
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Citation behaviour isnāt a meritocracy.
Itās shaped by social ties and topic overlap.
Letās rethink how we evaluate research impact.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Despite being considered as key indicators of research impact, citations are shaped by factors beyond intrinsic research qualityāsuch as including prestige, social networks, and research topics. While...
journals.plos.org
šØ New Paper Out! šØ
š Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past: The Effective Agents of the Swiss Field of Power 1910ā2015
w/ Jacob Aagaard Lunding in open access in Sociology
š Read here: doi.org/10.1177/0038...
A thread (1/10)
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic re...
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic re....
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šØ New paper out in PLOS ONE! w/ @caropradier.bsky.social @benzpierre.bsky.social @natsush.bsky.social @ipoga.bsky.social @lariviev.bsky.social
We studied 43k authors and 264k citation links in U.S. economics to ask:
š Why do some papers cite others?
š journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
After 3 years of work the editorial of our āMapping relational structures in cultureā 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 š§µ(1/12)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Culture is a relational concept, and the empirical manifestations of culture are worth being analysed in a structural vein to unveil the patterns of rā¦
After 3 years of work the editorial of our āMapping relational structures in cultureā 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 š§µ(1/12)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Thierry Rossier
Culture is a relational concept, and the empirical manifestations of culture are worth being analysed in a structural vein to unveil the patterns of rā¦