Culture and Inequality

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