The Class Ceiling: The Culture of Firms and the Class-Origin Pay Gap in Elite Occupations Work on the intergenerational transmission of class advantages and disadvantages tends to focus on the question of “getting in” – the ways that family, … Read more
Consuming Craft: The Intersection of Production and Consumption in Craft Beer Markets of North Carolina
"Hammer and Anvil: Institutionalization of Private Security" Although outsourcing and privatization are becoming more prevalent, it is still surprising that this has extended to a military and security arena previously considered to be the monopoly of the state. Private military and security … Read more
As Tuition Rises: Opposition to the Neoliberalization of Higher Education Over the past two decades, every country in the OECD has tried to raise tuitions for public universities. Not all of these proposals succeeded. Opposition arose and in half of … Read more
A Procedural Theory of Culture.
How (Failed) Movements Matter: Abortion, Incarceration, and the Institutionalization of Movement Outcomes in Central America In Latin America, a counter-revolutionary backlash has produced new laws that constitutionalize fetal personhood, criminalize medically necessary abortions, and prosecute women who have stillbirths as murderers. … Read more
Making Gigs Work: Workers, Platforms and Labor Market Strategies Technological advancements have always changed both the demand for certain types of workers and the nature of the employer-employee relationship. In the last decade, increases in internet availability and the meteoric … Read more
A Dynamic Model of Self-Employment and Socioeconomic Mobility among Return Migrants: The Case of Urban Mexico Return migrants engage in high rates of self-employment, which scholars commonly attribute to the accumulation of financial and human capital while working abroad. … Read more
The Subaltern School Brown will introduce her new research project, The Subaltern School, in which she proposes a global socio-historical examination of segregated schooling and its intergenerational effects in this integrated, post racial era. Operationalizing the construct of “the subaltern” … Read more
Presentations represent some of those made by UNC Sociology graduate students at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting in Montreal August 12-15,2017. Students: Samuel Fishman: Burning with Ambition: A Latent Variable Approach to Understanding Ambition’s Role in Educational Attainment Alanna Gillis: Enthusiasts, … Read more
