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 special issue argues that to make sense of the increased prominence of central banks
after the 2008 financial crisis and COVID-19 pandemic requires interrogating the sources of …

Class is not only amongst the oldest and most controversial of all concepts in social science,
but also a topic which has fascinated, amused, incensed and galvanized the general public …

Pierre Bourdieu was the most influential sociologist of the late 20th century. The framework
he developed continues to inspire countless researchers across the globe and provokes …

The aim of this article is to show that economic experts are not the product of one single
social field, with one identity and one role. They are rather the product of a trans-epistemic …

Abstract 'Revolving doors' is a well‐suspected phenomenon of skills and knowledge transfer
between the private and public sectors. It is thought to be especially notable among elites in …

The new interest in transnational phenomena since the 1990s has produced a wide range of
studies across the social sciences. In the discipline of history, Akira Iriye (1989: 2) has called …

Die hier von Steffen Rudolph vorgelegte soziologische Untersuchung beschäftigt sich mit
der Bedeutung sozioökonomischer und-demografischer Ungleichheiten für die …

This article seeks to discuss the emergence of transnational groups coming from the core of
state bureaucracies and what has sometimes been called the “deep” or “right hand” of the …

This is a study of young people's conceptions of illegal drug use as dangerous and/or
pleasurable and an analysis of the relationship between attitudes to drugs, drinking, friends' …