Recent work in cognitive psychology and social cognition bears heavily on concerns of
sociologists of culture. Cognitive research confirms views of culture as fragmented; clarifies …

Several recent studies have found that women invest their pensions more conservatively
than men (Bajtelsmit and VanDerhei, 1996; Hinz, McCarthy, and Turner, 1996) and that …

We argue word embedding models are a useful tool for the study of culture using a historical
analysis of shared understandings of social class as an empirical case. Word embeddings …

What the financial diaries of working-class families reveal about economic stresses, why
they happen, and what policies might reduce them Deep within the American Dream lies the …

Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations
to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new …

In Unearthing Conflict Fabiana Li analyzes the aggressive expansion and modernization of
mining in Peru since the 1990s to tease out the dynamics of mining-based protests. Issues of …

Some people enjoy higher incomes than others. Some are promoted faster. Some are
leaders on more important projects. The human capital explanation is that inequality results …

Drawing on remarkably frank, in-depth interviews with 160 successful men in the United
States and France, Michèle Lamont provides a rare and revealing collective portrait of the …

This article proposes a research programme devoted to examining 'processes of
economization'. In the current instalment we introduce the notion of 'economization', which …

The award-winning Black Wealth/White Wealth offers a powerful portrait of racial inequality
based on an analysis of private wealth. Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro's groundbreaking …