In The Class Ceiling, authors Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison deftly dismantle popular
(and often highly politicized) myths about inequality and meritocracy in the UK. First, and …

This article demonstrates how class origin shapes earnings in higher professional and
managerial employment. Taking advantage of newly released data in Britain's Labour Force …

We draw on 120 years of biographical data (N= 120,764) contained within Who's Who—a
unique catalogue of the British elite—to explore the changing relationship between elite …

We investigate the recruitment into the upper class, analysing the impact of different forms of
capital and modes of closure. Unlike many Bourdieu-influenced approaches to class, we …

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 …

Class analysts are often concerned with intergenerational transmission of advantage,
mapping the ways in which parental resources foster favourable life-chances for their …

Most understandings of the ways classes become social groupings centre on processes of
mobility closure whereby mutual appreciation and recognition within classes arise from …

This thesis concerns the correspondence between relations of social class and relations of
social status. Dating back to the early days of the social sciences, the debate about class …

This chapter examines the issues head-on by analysing recruitment to the upper class in
Norwegian society as dependent on both class and gender. It considers whether social …

Stor formue kan være en betydelig kilde til makt over økonomiske investeringer, men også
gjennom påvirkning i politikk og samfunnsliv. Norge og andre skandinaviske land betraktes …