Robert Dorschel
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Robert Dorschel
@robertdorschel.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology @ University of Cambridge; researching tech workers, digital economy, class, and culture

https://research.sociology.cam.ac.uk/profile/dr-robert-dorschel
Just finished reviewing the final proofs of my forthcoming book on #techworkers. It sheds light on the high-paid professionals in the tech industry. The book is coming out open-access with @mitpress.bsky.social this December. Very excited about it!
July 31, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Excited to be in Manchester and to attend the annual conference of the British Sociological Association #britsoc25 @bsasocrel.bsky.social
At 3.30pm, I‘ll be giving a talk on the tech elite and how they entrepreneur legitimacy
April 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Truly fascinating talk by Michèle Lamont today across the issues of recognition, class and social change. Great to have such an inspiring sociologist visiting our department @mlamont.bsky.social @camsociology.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Figure 4 provides a high-level overview of our findings
February 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Really exciting to have both @samfriedman.bsky.social and @aaronreeves.bsky.social at today’s Sociology seminar series @camsociology.bsky.social Theoretically and empirically rich talk on how elites in Britain manage to reproduce
February 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Wow, I am incredibly honoured to receive the AoIR 2024 dissertation award 🎉
This is an amazing recognition from an inspiring community of scholars!

Special thanks to the award committee and all the people, inside and outside academia, who supported me along the way!
July 26, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Great talk by @norawaitkus.bsky.social on why we need more recognition of wealth inequality in class theory and analysis
April 15, 2024 at 9:55 AM
Looking forward to reading this latest book by Michèle Lamont and discussing it with students in class #sociology
November 30, 2023 at 8:12 AM
Excited to be back in Berlin at the Digital Labor Conferece! Lots of great presentations lined up. My talk homes-in on the theory of digital labor. I argue that we need to broaden the concept to study the relations between gig workers and tech workers @JWI_Berlin @INDL_Official
October 9, 2023 at 7:30 AM
It seems that #Oppenheimer and the Manhattan project not only brought about the atomic bomb but also pioneered the work culture (e.g. flat hierarchies, flexibility) characteristic of Post-Fordism.
-> Passage can be found in Fred Turner's "From Counterculture to Cyberculture" (2006: 241).
October 3, 2023 at 12:19 PM
On my way to the very north of Germany for a conference on subjectivation studies. I will contribute a talk on post-entrepreneurial forms of subjectivity in the digital economy
September 28, 2023 at 10:43 AM