Socioeconomic Achievement and Social Structure

Reviews of recent research on the transmission of socioeconomic advantage have decried the increasing “narrowness” of the field. This chapter focuses on an alternative proposition, namely, that there is now a large enough body of work seeking fundamentally to reorient the field of social attainment studies that it is useful to identify commonalities as well as distinctive features. Conceptualization and operationalization of “social structure” in recent stratification research is the point of departure. Special attention is given to contemporary efforts to formulate a new phenomenology of attainment. In light of the many connections that are illuminated when these diverse strands are brought together, it is worthwhile to review them within the same scope and to discuss the prospect that they will form into a single specialty area within sociology

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• The Contingent Value of Social Capital

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• Personality correlates of structural holes

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• The Gender of Social Capital

  Open Access•R S Burt•Rationality and Society•1998

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• A note on social capital and network content

  Open Access•R S Burt•Social Networks•1997

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• Past, present and future

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• Race, Gender, and Authority in the Workplace

  Ryan A Smith•Annual Review of Sociology•2002

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