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Jonathan Mijs
@jonathanmijs.com
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Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University | studying meritocracy, inequality, segregation | previously: Erasmus University Rotterdam, London School of Economics, Harvard University, University of Amsterdam | www.jonathanmijs.com
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Come join @stanveuger.bsky.social @colinmbrown.bsky.social Muriel Rouyer and me
@europeatharvard.bsky.social today at 2.30 pm to make sense of the 2025 Dutch parliamentary elections!

Details: ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/...
Election Day in the Netherlands: The Return of the Center?
On October 29, the Dutch will head to the polls for general elections, after the four-party coalition government collapsed when Geert Wilders, leader of…
ces.fas.harvard.edu
October 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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stanveuger.bsky.social
Dutch voters are headed to the polls again next Wednesday—join @jonathanmijs.com, Muriel Rouyer, @colinmbrown.bsky.social, and me as we analyze the early results at @europeatharvard.bsky.social.
October 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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aspaglayan.bsky.social
I'm deeply grateful to the American Educational Studies Association for recognizing my book with a Critics' Choice Book Award. @princetonupress.bsky.social @aesatalk.bsky.social

Check out "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education" here: www.amazon.com/Raised-Obey-...
October 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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lseinequalities.bsky.social
“In the case of the US, CEOs of publicly listed companies earn 269 times more than the average full-time worker. People thought CEOs only earned 18 times as much, and they would prefer it to be just 5 times”

– Christopher Hoy in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog
The wage gap and far-right support for redistribution
New study on beliefs and preferences about the wage gap (CEOs vs average worker). When the true gap is revealed, far right voters change their policy views most.
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October 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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adam-lg.bsky.social
There’s a Stairway to Heaven, but a Highway to Hell. This implies Heaven is a walkable community, and Hell is a congested interstate.
October 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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lseinequalities.bsky.social
Why is it so hard to do anything about wealth inequality?

In the final episode of this series of Antisocial Economics, Sarah Kerr (@wealtherty.bsky.social) talks to Will Snell, @michaelvaughan.bsky.social, and @jonathanmijs.com about what makes change hard to achieve.

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Antisocial Economics
What is wealth? How come so many of us haven’t got any? How does wealth inequality make poverty worse? In the UK and other rich economies, wealth inequality and poverty are at incredibly high…
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September 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Better parks 🌳, tighter communities🧑‍🤝‍🧑!
July 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Mooie kans om te leren van een toponderzoeker in een hele fijne afdeling.
willemdekoster.bsky.social Willem de Koster @willemdekoster.bsky.social · Jul 14
🎓 Vacature: Postdoc Sociologie (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)

Bijna 4 jaar aan de slag met onderzoek én onderwijs binnen een fijne onderzoeksgroep? Dan is dit iets voor jou.👇
July 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Can providing facts about ethnic discrimination change people's beliefs and raise support for affirmative action?

We put it to the test in new @ispp-pops.bsky.social study with @willemdekoster.bsky.social, Jeroen v/d Waal and Masja van Meteren. A thread!

Open access link: doi.org/10.1111/pops...
July 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Great piece by Yukiko Asada et al. @socialindicators.bsky.social on taking seriously 'luck' as a driver of life outcomes and inequality, creatively illustrated with reference to the life course of a certain French painter in this figure.

Full article: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
July 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Onze reactie in De Volkskrant op het vorige week verschenen SCP rapport Verdeeld over het land.

@jonathanmijs.com‬ @agatatroost.bsky.social @rug-gmw.bsky.social‬ @volkskrant.nl‬
June 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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codyhochstenbach.bsky.social
Scherpe kritiek op het SCP rapport over geografie en klasse:

"in de uitwerking van het onderzoek wordt geografie grof gemeten en sociale klasse dermate verdund dat de verschillen verdampen"

@jaapnieuwenhuis.bsky.social @jonathanmijs.com @agatatroost.bsky.social

www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...
Opinie: Het Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau hanteert een dubieuze klassenindeling
Beleid zou zich moeten richten op het gladstrijken van de klassenverschillen, en niet slechts op het vergroten van de kans om je klasse te ontsnappen terwijl de klassenmaatschappij in stand blijft.
www.volkskrant.nl
June 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Really interesting paper by @hwaight.bsky.social & Adam Goldstein describing the looong trend of public perceptions that "the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer."
hwaight.bsky.social Hannah Waight @hwaight.bsky.social · Jun 1
1/ I am excited to share my new article with Adam Goldstein in the American Journal of Sociology. We harmonized a set of historical public opinion data from 1966-2013 to investigate the shifting bases of inequality perceptions in the United States. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The Polarization of Inequality Perceptions in the New Gilded Age | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja
www.journals.uchicago.edu
June 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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emilymandel.bsky.social
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” Subheader: “In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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jaapnieuwenhuis.bsky.social
We zijn geïnterviewd door Dylan van Rijsbergen over ons project over klasse en klassenbewustzijn voor Jacobin. Heel toepasselijk is het gepubliceerd op 1 mei.

Het artikel: jacobin.nl/waarom-klass...

@jonathanmijs.com Agata Troost @dylanvr.bsky.social @rug-gmw.bsky.social @jacobinnl.bsky.social
Artikel in Jacobin over klassenbewustzijn.
May 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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catherinedevries.bsky.social
My sabbatical leave allowed me to reflect on my professional life.

As I’ve stepped into more senior roles in academia (plus gotten a bit older), I often get asked:

“How do you keep writing academic articles, policy work, opinion pieces, while juggling everything else?”

My answer: skillpower

🧵
April 16, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Deze week verschijnt-ie eindelijk:

AJAX 125 JAAR, een monument van een jubileumboek van 12 kilo zwaar. Via Kick Uitgevers. 1600 pagina's. 2059 foto's. Een must voor elke Ajacied.

Branie geeft een set weg! Volg ons account, repost dit bericht en maak kans. Vrijdag wijzen we de winnaar aan.

#Ajax
April 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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bucas.bsky.social
Hulu’s political thriller TV series “Paradise” depicts a perfect, egalitarian society, one that Assistant Professor of Sociology @jonathanmijs.com helped create as the show’s technical consultant, providing insight into inequality in a society.

Read more here: abc7ny.com/videoClip/hu...
How Hulu's 'Paradise' explores the idea of a perfect society
Meet Jonathan Mijs, a sociology professor who helped shape the concept of what a perfect society might look like in Hulu's "Paradise."
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March 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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…And I get to work with this guy!? @jonathanmijs.com, this is awesome! Paradise is serious about its sociology.

www.bu.edu/articles/202...
Hulu’s Hit Series Paradise Was Shaped in Part by This BU Sociologist
CAS’ Jonathan Mijs explains his behind-the-scenes role
www.bu.edu
February 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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solgamsu.bsky.social
Re-reading this by @jonathanmijs.com & @mikesavagelse.bsky.social as my students are looking at meritocracy in their essays.

Strikes me that the lowest dip in working-class belief in meritocracy roughly coincides with the greatest period of union militancy
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January 15, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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davebrady72.bsky.social
Cool paper on “humanity’s perennial tendency to denigrate kids”. Here’s screenshot of abstract:
November 30, 2024 at 4:25 PM
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More about our new paper here - interesting discussing how to express the diversity. In the end we went with freedom, following @davidwengrow.bsky.social and David Graeber www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
More equality in Neolithic society than previously thought, say researchers
Early Neolithic genetic data has helped archaeologists understand that there was likely more freedom and equality in Neolithic societies than previously thought.
www.york.ac.uk
November 30, 2024 at 12:49 PM
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Really cool piece by @rosenjordanblum.bsky.social & co. using party manifesto data to link political change to growing income inequality across the globe.

academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
November 30, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research

Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it

www.nber.org/system/files...
The G.I. Bill, Standardized Testing, and Socioeconomic Origins of the U.S. Educational Elite Over a Century Ran Abramitzky, Jennifer K. Kowalski, Santiago Pérez, and Joseph Price NBER Working Paper No. 33164 November 2024 JEL No. 123, 124, N32 ABSTRACT We compile, transcribe, and standardize historical records for 2.5 million students at 65 elite (private and public) U.S. colleges. By combining these data with more recent survey and administrative data, we assemble the largest dataset on the socioeconomic backgrounds of students at American colleges spanning the last 100 years. We document the following: First, despite a large increase in the share of lower-income students in the overall college-going population, the representation of these students at elite private or public colleges has remained at similarly low levels throughout the last century. Second, the representation of upper-income students at elite colleges decreased after World War II, but this group has regained its high representation since the 1980s. Third, while there has been no increase in the economic diversity of elite private and public colleges, these colleges have become more racially and geographically diverse. Fourth, two major policy changes in the history of American higher education, namely the G.I. Bill after World War II and the introduction of standardized tests for admissions, had little success in increasing the representation of lower- and middle-income students at elite colleges.
November 18, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement?
Me: Definitely. How specific can we get?
Publisher: As specific as you like.
The copyright statement from Ephemeral City which reads in part: No part of this book may be used as data for ‘training’ any large language model or as part of any machine learning or neural network architeture. Human creaivity cannot be replicated by doing maths with stolen art. Altman, Andressen, and all their cronies can get fucked. Enquires should be made to the publisher.
November 17, 2024 at 3:07 AM