Culture and Inequality
2026. “Reflections on the Experiences of ‘Homing’, Cultural Intimacy, and Recognition for the Study of Symbolic Boundaries and Inequality.” Citizenship in Nativist Times (edited by Menno Hurenkamp and Tamar de Waal), 217-228.
2025 “Lights, Camera, Activism: Recognition Strategies in Hollywood and Comedy” (with Derek Robey and Nicole Letourneau). Work and Occupations, 53(1), 214-266.
2025 “Seeing Others for what?” (journal symposium on Seeing Others). Identities, 32(5), 738–743.
2024 “Feeling overlooked: A rural–urban divide in recognition.” (with Marie Hyland and Massimiliano Mascherini). Global Policy, 00, 1–16. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13454.
2023 "Recreating a Plausible Future: Combining Cultural Repertoires in Unsettled Times" (with Shira Zilberstein and Mari Sanchez). Sociological Science, 10(1): 348-373.
2021 “Sociology of Work Meets Cultural Sociology: Thoughts on Arne Kalleberg’s Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies” (with Elena Ayala-Hurtado). Contemporary Sociology, 50(2): 111-114.
2019 “Membership without Social Citizenship? Deservingness & Redistribution as Grounds for Equality” (with Irene Bloemraad, Will Kymlicka, and Leanne S. Son Hing). Special issue of Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 148(3): 73-104. PDF
2019 “Inequality Generation & Persistence as Multidimensional Processes: An Interdisciplinary Agenda” (with Paul Pierson). Special issue of Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 148(3): 5-18. PDF
2019 “Inequality as a Multidimensional Process” (co-edited with Paul Pierson). Special issue of Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 148(3): 5-190.
2017 Prisms of Inequality: Moral Boundaries, Exclusion, and Academic Evaluation. Amsterdam, NL: Erasmus Prize Essay. PDF
2017 “Bridging Cultural Sociology and Cognitive Psychology in Three Contemporary Research Programs.” (with Laura Adler, Bo Yun Park, and Xin Xiang). Nature Human Behavior, 1:866-872.
2014 “What is Missing? Cultural Processes and the Causal Pathways to Inequality” (with Stefan Beljean and Matthew Clair). Socio-Economic Review, 12(3): 573-608. PDF
2012 “Toward a Comparative Sociology of Valuation and Evaluation.” Annual Review of Sociology, 38: 201-221. PDF
2012 “How Has Bourdieu Been Good to Think With? The Case of the United States.” Sociological Forum, 27(1): 228-237. PDF
2010 Reconsidering Culture and Poverty (co-edited with Mario Luis Small and David J. Harding). Special issue of the ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 629: 6-225. PDF
2008 “How Culture Matters: Enriching Our Understanding of Poverty” (with Mario Luis Small). Pp. 76-102 in The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist, edited by Ann Chih Lin and David R. Harris. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation. PDF
2007 “Boundary Processes: Recent Theoretical Developments and New Contributions” (with Mark A. Pachuchi and Sabrina Pendergrass). Poetics, 35(6): 331-351. PDF
2002 “The Study of Boundaries in the the Social Sciences” (with Virág Molnár). Annual Review of Sociology, 28: 167-195. PDF
2000 Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology: Repertoires of Evaluation in France and the United States (co-edited with Laurent Thévenot). London, UK: Cambridge University Press and Paris, FR: Presses de la Maison des sciences de l’homme.
1992 Cultivating Differences: Symbolic Boundaries and the Making of Inequality (co-edited with Marcel Fournier). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press (2nd edition: 1994).
1989 “Culture as Capital” (co-edited with Marcel Fournier). Special issue of Sociologie et Sociétés, 19(4).
1988 “Cultural Capital: Allusions, Gaps and Glissandos in Recent Theoretical Developments” (with Annette Lareau). Sociological Theory, 6(2): 153-168. PDF