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Does Inequality Blur Class Lines? Meritocratic Attitudes in Comparative Perspective

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars of inequality generally find that lower‐class individuals are more skeptical of meritocratic narratives that link economic success to individual work effort. However, past research has yielded inconclusive findings about how economic inequality affects meritocratic attitudes across different class groups.
Roshan K. Pandian, Ronald Kwon
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding street protests: from a mathematical model to protest management. [PDF]

PLoS One
Petrovskii S, Shishlenin M, Glukhov A.
europepmc   +1 more source

How Does Higher Education Influence Attitudes Towards Muslims? Examining Mechanisms That Reduce Prejudice Within UK Universities

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between encounters with religious diversity and the perspectives people form about Muslims. Its empirical focus is individuals studying at UK universities. Previous research suggests Muslims are amongst those most subject to negative prejudice in the UK, this being structured around racial or ethnic ...
Tom Fryer, Mathew Guest, Kristin Aune, Lucy Peacock   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural and Human Capital Signals in Hiring—A Factorial Survey Experiment Across Contexts

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When evaluating candidates, hiring agents may draw on signals of human as well as cultural capital. While these processes have been considered separately, an open question is how the two types of signals interact. As signals of social class, cultural capital signals relate to human capital as they evoke stereotypes about competence, polish ...
Luisa Burchartz, Kobe De Keere, Sara Geven   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Workplace demands, resources, and well-being among police staff working in forensic services. [PDF]

J Forensic Sci
Keech JJ, Drew JM.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Sociogenomics of Social Stratification and General Theories of Inequality

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The field of the sociogenomics of inequalities would benefit from discussing what its findings and ambitions mean for core theories of social stratification and mobility. Do sociologists need to reconsider their critique to structural‐functionalist theory of stratification, and its neo‐classical economic allies, that emphasise efficient ...
Herman G. van de Werfhorst
wiley   +1 more source

A trans-disciplinary approach to assessing police responses to mental heath crisis: development of the de-escalating persons in crisis competencies tool (DePICT). [PDF]

Front Psychol
Lavoie JAA, Álvarez N, Martin K, Girard M, Coleman TG.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Education, Skills, and Intergenerational Inequality in Status Attainment: Causal Mediation Analysis and Typology of 23 OECD Countries

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars have long investigated intergenerational inequality, with attention to the associations among social origins, education, and socio‐economic destinations: the so‐called OED triangle. Meanwhile, recent research highlights distinct roles of education and skills in status attainment.
Satoshi Araki
wiley   +1 more source

Association Between Criminal Legal System Involvement and HIV Prevention and Care Among Transgender Women of Color: The TURNNT Cohort Study. [PDF]

LGBT Health
Furuya A, Whalen A, Radix A, Park SH, Contreras J, Scheinmann R, Herrera C, Watson K, Callander D, Brown KA, Schneider JA, Lim S, Trinh-Shevrin C, Duncan DT.   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Criminal Records as Classification Situations

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy developed the notion of “classification situations” to describe how ordinal schema that sort and rank individuals, like credit scores, are used to differentiate opportunities, prices, and services in ways that structure life chances while masking inequality as meritocratic.
Lindsay Bing, Sarah Esther Lageson
wiley   +1 more source