Last week, the fifth duke of Westminster died. The new Duke of Westminster, 25-year-old Hugh Grosvenor, will avoid paying inheritance tax on his late father’s £9.9 bn fortune. Had he been taxed at the ...

This seminar will review classical and contemporary approaches to social inequality, broadly conceived as the differential distribution of valued social resources and positions. The first half of the ...

Here are some of André Béteille’s most important works, which continue to shape sociological thinking in India and beyond: ...

We live in societies fractured from top to bottom by corrosive and scarring inequalities. These cover multiple axes: notably including race, class, gender, sexuality, age, and geography – but this ...

24 April 2025 - Economic insecurity, staggering levels of inequality, declining social trust and social fragmentation are destabilizing societies worldwide. The World Social Report 2025, released ...

Email: [[cehanl]] Office: Boswell Hall 231 Office Hours: T/R: 11:00am - 12:00pm, and by appointment Research Areas: Earnings and Employment Inequality; Race, Class and Gender; Economic Sociology; ...

Many Americans imagine higher education as a place of social mobility -- an egalitarian pathway for reducing the gap between rich and poor. This viewpoint has been under public attack recently, with ...