社会结构研究

Named one of the Best Summer Books in Economics by the Financial Times A groundbreaking look at the hidden role of bankruptcy in perpetuating inequality in America “Unjust Debts throws open …

Osvaldo Bayer’s study of working-class retribution, set between 1919 and 1936, chronicles hair-raising robberies, bombings, and tit-for-tat murders conducted by Argentina’s working men. Intense repre …

Why is it getting harder to secure a job that matches our qualifications, buy a home of our own and achieve financial stability? Underprivileged people have always faced barriers, but people from mid …

Under President Xi Jinping’s Chinese Dream (中国梦) rhetoric, China has continued its meteoric rise as the world’s second largest economic power. But for many, the Chinese Dream remains a myth rather th …

Two groundbreaking sociologists explore the way the American dream is built on the backs of working poor women Many Americans take comfort and convenience for granted. We eat at nice restaurants, ord …

How second homeowners strategically leverage their privilege across multiple spaces In recent decades, Americans have purchased second homes at unprecedented rates. In Privileging Place, Meaghan Stim …

In an age of austerity, elite corporate education reformers have found new ways to transfer the costs of raising children from the state to individual families. Public schools, tasked with providing …

Most people think of class as a ranking systemthe more you have, the higher your class status. In contrast to this view, in this new study author Gus Bagakis demonstrates that class is a tool that ex …

Children’s leisure lives are changing, with increasing dominance of organised activities and screen-based leisure. These shifts have reconfigured parenting practices, too. However, our current unders …

The first major study of how the pandemic affected gig workers—a sociological exploration that reads like a novel.   This is the story of what the most vulnerable wage earners—gig workers, resta …