According to the majority-minority paradigm, racial and ethnic minorities have lower
socioeconomic characteristics than whites owing to discrimination. Asian Americans defy …

Was noch in den 1990er Jahren undenkbar war, ist mittlerweile Alltag: Ganze
Bevölkerungsgruppen verlassen den Boden der gemeinsamen Wirklichkeit, kehren …

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 …

This paper provides a framework for understanding the ways in which social processes
produce social inequality. Specifically, we focus on a particular type of social process that …

The marketisation of higher education is a growing worldwide trend. Increasingly, market
steering is replacing or supplementing government steering. Tuition fees are being …

What is it like to work in the media? Are media jobs more 'creative'than those in other
sectors? To answer these questions, this book explores the creative industries, using a …

In advanced industrial societies, rising levels of inequality have contributed strongly to the
observed gap that has emerged between per capita income and the Index of Sustainable …

There has been renewed policy interest in intergenerational social mobility as a route to a
fairer society, but in ignoring the sociological evidence this article will argue that the current …

The old saying does often seem to hold true: the rich get richer while the poor get poorer,
creating a widening gap between those who have more and those who have less. The …

" Being Black, Living in the Red is an important book. In Conley's persuasive analysis the
locus of current racial inequality resides in class and property relations, not in the labor …