Laura Adler
Biographic Data
| ID | 3610215 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Adler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Adler |
| SIGNATURE | ADLER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4506-1590 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 164 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Little Help from My Friends? Navigating the Tension Between Social Capital and Meritocracy in the Job Search
Job seekers often rely on help from social ties in the search for employment. Yet the job search is characterized by meritocratic ideals according to which candidates should be selected based on their qualifications, not their connections. How do people justify the use of connections given the conflicting cultural logics of social capital and meritocracy? We conduct an inductive analysis of 56 interviews with young Spaniards experiencing a diffic…
Gender Equity Against “Economic Realities: How a Conflict Between Two Movements Reshaped the Cultural Understanding of Pay
In the United States today, there is a broad cultural understanding that market forces drive pay outcomes. But prior to the 1980s, pay was understood to be the product of bureaucratic processes internal to organizations. The question of whether pay is determined by the market or organizational decisions is essential for evaluating employers’ liability for gender pay inequality, as employers are not responsible for inequalities resulting from the …
Living on the Job
Framing disruption: How a regulatory capture frame legitimized the deregulation of Boston's ride-for-hire industry
The theory of regulatory capture has long been used to make the case for deregulation by questioning the legitimacy of government's regulatory function. How do government officials, who are tasked with regulating, embrace deregulation? This article explores that question in the context of Boston's debate over regulating transportation network companies (TNCs). Analyzing media coverage, I identify two types of frames that emerged as stakeholders a…
Choosing Bad Jobs: The Use of Nonstandard Work as a Commitment Device
With nonstandard work on the rise, workers are increasingly forced into bad jobs-jobs that are low-paying, part-time, short-term, and dead-end. But some people, especially in cultural industries, embrace this kind of work. To understand why some might choose bad jobs when better options are available, this paper examines the job preferences of aspiring artists, who often rely on bad day jobs as they attempt to achieve economic success in the arts…
The Role of Space in the Formation of Social Ties
Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in the relation between networks and spatial context. This review examines critically a selection of the literature on how physical space affects the formation of social ties. Different aspects of this question have been a feature in network analysis, neighborhood research, geography, organizational science, architecture and design, and urban planning. Focusing primarily on work at the meso- and mic…
Bridging cultural sociology and cognitive psychology in three contemporary research programmes
The Role of Space in the Formation of Social Ties
Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in the relation between networks and spatial context. This review examines critically a selection of the literature on how physical space affects the formation of social ties. Different aspects of this question have been a feature in network analysis, neighborhood research, geography, organizational science, architecture and design, and urban planning. Focusing primarily on work at the meso- and mic…
Bridging cultural sociology and cognitive psychology in three contemporary research programmes
Choosing Bad Jobs: The Use of Nonstandard Work as a Commitment Device
With nonstandard work on the rise, workers are increasingly forced into bad jobs-jobs that are low-paying, part-time, short-term, and dead-end. But some people, especially in cultural industries, embrace this kind of work. To understand why some might choose bad jobs when better options are available, this paper examines the job preferences of aspiring artists, who often rely on bad day jobs as they attempt to achieve economic success in the arts…
Framing disruption: How a regulatory capture frame legitimized the deregulation of Boston's ride-for-hire industry
The theory of regulatory capture has long been used to make the case for deregulation by questioning the legitimacy of government's regulatory function. How do government officials, who are tasked with regulating, embrace deregulation? This article explores that question in the context of Boston's debate over regulating transportation network companies (TNCs). Analyzing media coverage, I identify two types of frames that emerged as stakeholders a…
Gender Equity Against “Economic Realities: How a Conflict Between Two Movements Reshaped the Cultural Understanding of Pay
In the United States today, there is a broad cultural understanding that market forces drive pay outcomes. But prior to the 1980s, pay was understood to be the product of bureaucratic processes internal to organizations. The question of whether pay is determined by the market or organizational decisions is essential for evaluating employers’ liability for gender pay inequality, as employers are not responsible for inequalities resulting from the …
Bridging cultural sociology and cognitive psychology in three contemporary research programmes
The Role of Space in the Formation of Social Ties
Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in the relation between networks and spatial context. This review examines critically a selection of the literature on how physical space affects the formation of social ties. Different aspects of this question have been a feature in network analysis, neighborhood research, geography, organizational science, architecture and design, and urban planning. Focusing primarily on work at the meso- and mic…
Living on the Job
Framing disruption: How a regulatory capture frame legitimized the deregulation of Boston's ride-for-hire industry
The theory of regulatory capture has long been used to make the case for deregulation by questioning the legitimacy of government's regulatory function. How do government officials, who are tasked with regulating, embrace deregulation? This article explores that question in the context of Boston's debate over regulating transportation network companies (TNCs). Analyzing media coverage, I identify two types of frames that emerged as stakeholders a…
Choosing Bad Jobs: The Use of Nonstandard Work as a Commitment Device
With nonstandard work on the rise, workers are increasingly forced into bad jobs-jobs that are low-paying, part-time, short-term, and dead-end. But some people, especially in cultural industries, embrace this kind of work. To understand why some might choose bad jobs when better options are available, this paper examines the job preferences of aspiring artists, who often rely on bad day jobs as they attempt to achieve economic success in the arts…
Gender Equity Against “Economic Realities: How a Conflict Between Two Movements Reshaped the Cultural Understanding of Pay
In the United States today, there is a broad cultural understanding that market forces drive pay outcomes. But prior to the 1980s, pay was understood to be the product of bureaucratic processes internal to organizations. The question of whether pay is determined by the market or organizational decisions is essential for evaluating employers’ liability for gender pay inequality, as employers are not responsible for inequalities resulting from the …
A Little Help from My Friends? Navigating the Tension Between Social Capital and Meritocracy in the Job Search
Job seekers often rely on help from social ties in the search for employment. Yet the job search is characterized by meritocratic ideals according to which candidates should be selected based on their qualifications, not their connections. How do people justify the use of connections given the conflicting cultural logics of social capital and meritocracy? We conduct an inductive analysis of 56 interviews with young Spaniards experiencing a diffic…
Sociology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Labour economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)