This seminar will review classical and contemporary approaches to social inequality, broadly conceived as the differential distribution of valued social resources and positions. The first half of the ...

On the overall costs and benefits of technological revolutions, the printing press helped fuel the religious wars of the 16th ...

This event will introduce a special issue of The Journal of Chinese Sociology, which will showcase new analyses of wealth inequality and their implications for social stratification and inequality in ...

Residential segregation and neighborhood-level socioeconomic inequality are central dimensions of social stratification and structural determinants of health. These factors determine exposure to ...

On the basis of a telephone survey conducted on a random sample of the German residential population, we examine the distribution effects state lotteries have on Germany's social structure. Lotteries ...

Earning more than your parents might be harder if you live in countries with high inequality and a high dependency on what ...

We live in societies fractured from top to bottom by corrosive and scarring inequalities. These cover multiple axes: notably including race, class, gender, sexuality, age, and geography – but this ...

Ruth Castel-Branco does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Email: [[cehanl]] Office: Boswell Hall 231 Office Hours: W/F 12:00pm-1:00pm Research Areas: Earnings and Employment Inequality; Race, Class and Gender; Economic Sociology; Spatial Inequality; State ...

We live in a country of permanent austerity of both economics and spirit. The first type of austerity is conveniently select in nature. There are those who have not, those who have some, and those who ...

Existing research on assortative mating has examined marriage between people with different levels of education, yet heterogeneity in educational assortative mating outcomes of college graduates has ...