Pedro Araujo
@araujopedro.bsky.social
Sociologist at FORS & OBELIS, UNIL |
Power | Elites | Inequalities | Research Data Management
www.araujopedro.com
Power | Elites | Inequalities | Research Data Management
www.araujopedro.com
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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-...
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-...
Bordeaux 2026 | SASE Annual Conferences
sase.org
November 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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-...
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-...
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🔥🔥 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...
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...
October 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
🔥🔥 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...
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...
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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
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
October 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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
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
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Article sur les 10 ans de l'OBELIS dans Le Temps: www.letemps.ch/carrieres-et...
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...
www.letemps.ch
October 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Article sur les 10 ans de l'OBELIS dans Le Temps: www.letemps.ch/carrieres-et...
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"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...
Très beau programme pour les 16-17 octobre prochain @sspunil.bsky.social thanks to l'équipe @obelitessuisses.bsky.social
www.unil.ch/events/17522...
October 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
"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...
Très beau programme pour les 16-17 octobre prochain @sspunil.bsky.social thanks to l'équipe @obelitessuisses.bsky.social
www.unil.ch/events/17522...
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Pour ses 50 ans, la revue « Actes », créée par Pierre Bourdieu, raconte sa propre histoire
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 ».
www.lemonde.fr
October 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Pour ses 50 ans, la revue « Actes », créée par Pierre Bourdieu, raconte sa propre histoire
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🏛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 ⬇️
Infos et inscription ⬇️
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.
www.eprouvette-unil.ch
September 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
🏛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 ⬇️
Infos et inscription ⬇️
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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
I’m thrilled to coordinate this 4-year project with a multidisciplinary team @obelitessuisses.bsky.social
#BeyondTheCore #EliteStudies
September 16, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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
I’m thrilled to coordinate this 4-year project with a multidisciplinary team @obelitessuisses.bsky.social
#BeyondTheCore #EliteStudies
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[📖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...
Coordination par Céline Bessière et Maude Pugliese
academic.oup.com/ser/issue/23...
July 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
[📖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...
Coordination par Céline Bessière et Maude Pugliese
academic.oup.com/ser/issue/23...
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[📑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...
shs.cairn.info/vers-le-haut...
June 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
[📑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...
shs.cairn.info/vers-le-haut...
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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...
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 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
www.taylorfrancis.com
June 19, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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...
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...
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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 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
www.theguardian.com
June 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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...
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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...
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...
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 ...
doi.org
June 12, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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...
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...
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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...
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May 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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...
forscenter.ch/wp-content/u...
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🔍 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
📍 Happening now in Helsinki, Finland!
🔗 Click here to learn more: vastuullinentiede.fi/en/events/re...
#ReformingRA #SSH
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...
vastuullinentiede.fi
May 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
🔍 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
📍 Happening now in Helsinki, Finland!
🔗 Click here to learn more: vastuullinentiede.fi/en/events/re...
#ReformingRA #SSH
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[ #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
🔗 www.unil.ch/events/fr/17...
@sspunil.bsky.social
@johannamb.bsky.social
@skzh.bsky.social
@asdelval.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
[ #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
🔗 www.unil.ch/events/fr/17...
@sspunil.bsky.social
@johannamb.bsky.social
@skzh.bsky.social
@asdelval.bsky.social
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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
We look forward to reading your submissions and meeting you at the Swiss Elite Observatory @obelitessuisses.bsky.social, University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social
[ #socioelites ] Call for participation for the workshop ‘Education and training of the entrepreneurial elite: life paths and world views’, organised on the 15th and 16th October 2025 at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social
⌛️ 30th May 2025: submission of proposals
🗣️ English/French
⌛️ 30th May 2025: submission of proposals
🗣️ English/French
May 15, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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
We look forward to reading your submissions and meeting you at the Swiss Elite Observatory @obelitessuisses.bsky.social, University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social
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@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...
L'invité de La Matinale - Pedro Araujo, sociologue co-créateur d'un outil pour étudier les élites économiques
www.rts.ch
April 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
@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...
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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!!
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
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!!
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.
This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.
open.substack.com
April 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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!!
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
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!!
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
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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...
www.lemonde.fr/campus/artic...
« 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...
www.lemonde.fr
April 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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...
www.lemonde.fr/campus/artic...
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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...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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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.
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.
April 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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.
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.
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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.
Some highlights in the thread.
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
academic.oup.com
April 11, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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.
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/...
Our WED paper is available in open access here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
April 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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/...
Our WED paper is available in open access here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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A new who’s who of the global elites | Opinion
https://www.ft.com/content/ff0af5e7-60eb-4cc9-aebd-da6fbc94f8c8
https://www.ft.com/content/ff0af5e7-60eb-4cc9-aebd-da6fbc94f8c8
A new who’s who of the global elites | Opinion
They dominate the countries that account for more than half of global GDP — but who are they?
www.ft.com
April 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
A new who’s who of the global elites | Opinion
https://www.ft.com/content/ff0af5e7-60eb-4cc9-aebd-da6fbc94f8c8
https://www.ft.com/content/ff0af5e7-60eb-4cc9-aebd-da6fbc94f8c8