Social class and work: A review and organizing framework

JJ Kish-Gephart, KJN Moergen… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Over the past decade, the topic of social class in organizations has enjoyed unexpected
growth. However, management researchers lack an in-depth understanding of what we …

Wealth accumulation and opportunity hoarding: Class-origin wealth gaps over a quarter of a century in a Scandinavian country

MN Hansen, M Toft - American Sociological Review, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Although the Scandinavian countries are often considered to epitomize social democratic
governance, Scandinavia's profound wealth inequalities, seen in relation to the more …

Digitale Medien, Partizipation und Ungleichheit

S Rudolph - Eine Studie zum sozialen Gebrauch des Internets …, 2019 - Springer
Die hier von Steffen Rudolph vorgelegte soziologische Untersuchung beschäftigt sich mit
der Bedeutung sozioökonomischer und-demografischer Ungleichheiten für die …

Family wealth and the class ceiling: The propulsive power of the bank of mum and dad

M Toft, S Friedman - Sociology, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article we demonstrate that those from working-class backgrounds face a powerful
'class ceiling'in elite occupations. Examining how class origin shapes economic returns in …

International education and the pursuit of 'Western'capitals: Middle-class Nigerian fathers' strategies of class reproduction

P Ayling - British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Studies have shown the ways in which non-Western middle-and upper-class families are
seeking to educate their children in the West. The rationale for this kind of social …

Mobility and Inequality in the Professoriate: How and Why First-Generation and Working-Class Backgrounds Matter

VJ Roscigno, EM Lee, AL Hurst, D Brady, CR King… - …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Social science research has long recognized the relevance of socioeconomic background
for mobility and inequality. In this article we interrogate how and why working-class and first …

Enduring contexts: Segregation by affluence throughout the life course

M Toft - The Sociological Review, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Although temporal processes are fundamental to the 'spatialization of class', they remain
understudied. This article thus provides empirical evidence of residential pathways in the …

Peeling the multiple layers of inequalities in free higher education policies

O Tozan - Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
It has long been debated as to whether higher education (HE) is a site of social mobility that
promotes meritocracy or social reproduction that creates and exacerbates inequalities in …

The accumulation and transfers of wealth: Variations by social class

MN Hansen, ØN Wiborg - European Sociological Review, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The purpose of our study is to investigate the role of wealth in broader stratification
processes. Based on unique data from Norwegian tax registers, we address questions about …

Wealth and class analysis: exploitation, closure and exclusion

N Waitkus, M Savage, M Toft - Sociology, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Wealth inequalities are increasingly prominent in contemporary societies but they have not
been systematically addressed by sociological class analysis. However, class analysis …