Thierry Rossier
@thierryrossier.bsky.social
Researcher at UNIL-LIVES & LSE Sociology. Studying Elites, Inequality, Gender, Class, Power, Economics & Science.
Currently working on an SNSF Sinergia project on Child Well-Being & Post-Separation Custody Arrangements
Currently working on an SNSF Sinergia project on Child Well-Being & Post-Separation Custody Arrangements
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🚨 New Paper Out! 🚨
🔍 Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past: The Effective Agents of the Swiss Field of Power 1910–2015
w/ Jacob Aagaard Lunding in open access in Sociology
📄 Read here: doi.org/10.1177/0038...
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🔍 Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past: The Effective Agents of the Swiss Field of Power 1910–2015
w/ Jacob Aagaard Lunding in open access in Sociology
📄 Read here: doi.org/10.1177/0038...
A thread (1/10)
Check that out! Amazing research debunking meritocracy in science!!!
🔥🔥 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 28, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Check that out! Amazing research debunking meritocracy in science!!!
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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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looking forward to our workshop next week in Lausanne @obelitessuisses.bsky.social ! thank you @pierrebat.cpesr.fr ✨
"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 3:25 PM
looking forward to our workshop next week in Lausanne @obelitessuisses.bsky.social ! thank you @pierrebat.cpesr.fr ✨
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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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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/...
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@europeansocreview.bsky.social
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@europeansocreview.bsky.social
How are cultural tastes stratified? Evidence from library borrowing for the entire population of Denmark
Abstract. Research shows that cultural tastes are socially stratified. Yet, most of this research relies on small-sample surveys and includes only a few di
doi.org
September 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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
doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
OA: osf.io/ar2xc_v2/dow...
@europeansocreview.bsky.social
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In @asanews.bsky.social ASR, @larivera.bsky.social and @estelabdiaz.bsky.social use qualitative data from elite independent pre K-12 schools to find that admissions processes are structured to exclude applicants at risk of disabilities.
Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
July 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
In @asanews.bsky.social ASR, @larivera.bsky.social and @estelabdiaz.bsky.social use qualitative data from elite independent pre K-12 schools to find that admissions processes are structured to exclude applicants at risk of disabilities.
Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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“As C. Wright Mills said, each generation must recognise its own elite. The work Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman have done here will be indispensable in this quest .”
simonarthur.bsky.social reviews Born to Rule by @aaronreeves.bsky.social and @samfriedman.bsky.social .
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simonarthur.bsky.social reviews Born to Rule by @aaronreeves.bsky.social and @samfriedman.bsky.social .
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June 19, 2025 at 10:02 AM
“As C. Wright Mills said, each generation must recognise its own elite. The work Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman have done here will be indispensable in this quest .”
simonarthur.bsky.social reviews Born to Rule by @aaronreeves.bsky.social and @samfriedman.bsky.social .
buff.ly/RIU6ngh
simonarthur.bsky.social reviews Born to Rule by @aaronreeves.bsky.social and @samfriedman.bsky.social .
buff.ly/RIU6ngh
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
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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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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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Israel's Act of Piracy on the High Seas (illegally storming the Madleen & kidnapping its crew) serves one purpose: To defend its right to continue unobserved and unimpeded the Genocide of Palestinians. An Act of Piracy is thus committed in the process of concluding a Genocide.
June 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Israel's Act of Piracy on the High Seas (illegally storming the Madleen & kidnapping its crew) serves one purpose: To defend its right to continue unobserved and unimpeded the Genocide of Palestinians. An Act of Piracy is thus committed in the process of concluding a Genocide.
Our editorial on "Mapping relational structures in culture" could not permanently be featured in open access for reasons stemming from the publisher's side. However, it is accessible for .ca a month on the following link, in case you want to read/download it:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kzmc_,iJ9...
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kzmc_,iJ9...
May 19, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Our editorial on "Mapping relational structures in culture" could not permanently be featured in open access for reasons stemming from the publisher's side. However, it is accessible for .ca a month on the following link, in case you want to read/download it:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kzmc_,iJ9...
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kzmc_,iJ9...
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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...
Rest in power, old man. ¡Hasta la victoria siempre!
Pepe #Mujica was a prophet of our times, a human being who knew the true value of life.
“You have to know this: life slips away and leaves you minute by minute, and you can't go to the supermarket to buy life. So fight to live it, to give meaning to life"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp5R...
“You have to know this: life slips away and leaves you minute by minute, and you can't go to the supermarket to buy life. So fight to live it, to give meaning to life"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp5R...
Palabras de Pepe Mujica a la juventud · Lektos UNIVA
YouTube video by Universidad del Valle de Atemajac - Sistema UNIVA
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May 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Rest in power, old man. ¡Hasta la victoria siempre!
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🚨New paper with @swallaschek.bsky.social on media self-presentations of the super-rich 💸🗞️📺🎤💰. We analyse media interviews and find that they equate business with family success and tie past, present, and future into one seamless narrative. See more below 👇👇👇
Together with @norawaitkus.bsky.social, I have a new paper on the question: How do Germany’s super-rich talk about being 💰💰💰? By analyzig media interviews, we show that they blend business with family success and tie past, present, and future into one seamless narrative.
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Unpacking Property: Media, Ownership, and Power in Transformation| The Past, the Present, the Future: Self-Portrayals of Wealthy Business Owners in the Media | Wallaschek | International Journal of Co...
Unpacking Property: Media, Ownership, and Power in Transformation| The Past, the Present, the Future: Self-Portrayals of Wealthy Business Owners in the Media
ijoc.org
April 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
🚨New paper with @swallaschek.bsky.social on media self-presentations of the super-rich 💸🗞️📺🎤💰. We analyse media interviews and find that they equate business with family success and tie past, present, and future into one seamless narrative. See more below 👇👇👇
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Norway officially recognizes #Palestine: Palestine's ambassador to Norway met with King Harald V in the Royal Palace in Oslo last week, "marking the official establishment of diplomatic relations between Norway and the State of Palestine."
Palestine ambassador presents credentials to King of Norway
The State of Palestine’s new ambassador to Norway officially presented her credentials to King Harald V at the Royal Palace in Oslo.
www.newarab.com
April 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Norway officially recognizes #Palestine: Palestine's ambassador to Norway met with King Harald V in the Royal Palace in Oslo last week, "marking the official establishment of diplomatic relations between Norway and the State of Palestine."
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My review of George Steimetzs book is out in @actasociologica.bsky.social Its a model for analyzing disciplinary amnesia and transnational relations in social science. Something most social sciences should be concerned with. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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April 25, 2025 at 8:16 AM
My review of George Steimetzs book is out in @actasociologica.bsky.social Its a model for analyzing disciplinary amnesia and transnational relations in social science. Something most social sciences should be concerned with. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Honored to be a part of this special issue with an article about Norwegian writers during WWII. Check out the other ones as well!
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 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Honored to be a part of this special issue with an article about Norwegian writers during WWII. Check out the other ones as well!
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Happy and honored to contribute to this special issue. Check out the papers!
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 24, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Happy and honored to contribute to this special issue. Check out the papers!
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This is an amazing work from amazing collegues in an amazing journal bravo bravo bravo 🔥🔥🔥
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 24, 2025 at 7:06 AM
This is an amazing work from amazing collegues in an amazing journal bravo bravo bravo 🔥🔥🔥
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Great thread of some brilliant papers!
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 24, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Great thread of some brilliant papers!
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The article by Laurie Hanquinet & Mark Taylor maps musical consumption in 6 European countries showing how taste vary between & within country (8/12)
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Divergences and convergences across European musical preferences: How taste varies within and between countries
When investigating relational structures in culture, research in Europe has often either mapped the relationship between cultural tastes in a particul…
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April 24, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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🔥🔥The craftsmanship of research and its fruits in these great works!
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 9:44 PM
🔥🔥The craftsmanship of research and its fruits in these great works!
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What an issue 🔥🔥🔥
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 9:22 PM
What an issue 🔥🔥🔥