There has been a lack of debate between and frameworks for theories of the causes of
poverty. This article proposes that most theories of poverty can be productively categorized …

In the United States, does growing up in a poor household cause negative developmental
outcomes for children? Hundreds of studies have documented statistical associations …

This book stems from my long-standing interest in elites. I collected the data while a PhD
student at Harvard University. I am deeply grateful to a variety of individuals for supporting …

An extensive literature documents racial discrimination in housing, focusing on its
prevalence and effect on non-White populations. This article studies how such …

In police reform circles, many scholars and policymakers diagnose the frayed relationship
between police forces and the communities they serve as a problem of illegitimacy, or the …

While influential across a wide variety of subfields, cultural analysis in sociology continues to
be hampered by coarse-grained conceptualizations of the different modes in which culture …

This book examines how ordinary people understand stigma and discrimination, and how
they respond to such experiences. We conducted more than 400 in-depth interviews with …

Against the background of recent methodological debates pitting ethnography against
interviewing, this paper offers a defense of the latter and argues for methodological …

This article presents culture as a vehicle of labor market sorting. Providing a case study of
hiring in elite professional service firms, I investigate the often suggested but heretofore …

All matters related to ethnography flow from a decision that originates at the very beginning
of the research process—the selection of the basic object of analysis—and yet fieldworkers …