In-depth interviews are a versatile form of qualitative data collection used by researchers
across the social sciences. They allow individuals to explain, in their own words, how they …

This review discusses North American and European research from the sociology of
valuation and evaluation (SVE), a research topic that has attracted considerable attention in …

Worldwide participation in higher education now includes one-third of the age cohort and is
growing at an unprecedented rate. The tendency to rapid growth, leading towards high …

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 …

Using interviews, a laboratory experiment, and a résumé audit study, we examine racial
minorities' attempts to avoid anticipated discrimination in labor markets by concealing or …

This study focuses on the undergraduate self-perception of employability. We aimed to
explore the impact of human capital, which incorporates social capital, cultural capital …

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 …

My friends, they're like,“I don't know how you do it” because there for a while last semester, I
worked and I was a TA for Psych 100, which I loved doing.... So I was taking fifteen credit …

This study examines how interactions with institutional agents (faculty and academic
counselors) and select student support programs influence success (ie, grade point …

Although the Scandinavian countries are often considered to epitomize social democratic
governance, Scandinavia's profound wealth inequalities, seen in relation to the more …