In a new book, the historian Kim Phillips-Fein chronicles a “shadow tradition” of anti-egalitarians who fought against America’s founding ideals.

This article surveys a growing body of work examining the concrete consequences of implementing meritocracy in social life. To date, this work remains compartmentalized into the separate subfields of ...

Abstract. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Global Elites offers an unprecedented global overview of how elites shape, and are shaped by, the social,

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How do the structural properties of status hierarchies, separate from individuals’ positions within them, influence inequality in material rewards?

How do the structural properties of status hierarchies, separate from individuals’ positions within them, influence inequality in material rewards?

The purpose of the Decision-Making, Social Networks, and Society Section is to encourage and enhance research, teaching and other professional concerns relating to the scope and limits of explaining m...

Job Summary: The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for an Associate Professor (with tenure) position in the field of population research beginning i...