In this book Jo Littler argues that meritocracy is the key cultural means of legitimation for
contemporary neoliberal culture–and that whilst it promises opportunity, it in fact creates new …

When COVID-19 health guidelines vastly restricted or shut down in-person ethnographic
research in 2020, many researchers pivoted to forms of online qualitative research using …

While influential across a wide variety of subfields, cultural analysis in sociology continues to
be hampered by coarse-grained conceptualizations of the different modes in which culture …

This article examines the methodological implications of the fact that what people say is
often a poor predictor of what they do. We argue that many interview and survey researchers …

From TV's “real housewives” to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the
wealthy as materialistic and entitled. But what do we really know about those who live on …

Names: Mohr, John, author. Title: Measuring culture/John W. Mohr [and eight others].
Description: New York: Columbia University Press, 2020.| Includes bibliographical …

Fieldwork in Educational Settings is widely recognised as part of the essential reading for
the researcher in education. It instructs those new to qualitative educational research how to …

Meritocracy, in contemporary parlance, refers to the idea that whatever our social position at
birth, society ought to facilitate the means for'talent'to'rise to the top'. This article argues that …

In this introductory essay to our special issue on elites, we outline some of the major
challenges to research in this area and propose a series of theoretical and methodological …

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