Author: Laumann Edward O. Laumann

We think of the city as a place where anything goes. Take the sensational fantasies and lurid antics of single women on Sex in the City or young men on Queer as Folk, and you might imagine the city …

What determines the systematic allocation of status, power, and economic reward among lawyers? What kind of social structure organizes lawyers’ roles in the bar and in the larger community? As Heinz …