D Laurison
Biographic Data
| ID | 68900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Laurison |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Laurison |
| SIGNATURE | LAURISON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swarthmore College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8221-0535 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 407 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Election Reflections—and What Comes Next
A curated collection of essays tracking the pulse of American democracy as the second Trump Administration comes into power, this special section considers the campaigns that were waged and previews the battles yet to come
Higher Turnout, Greater Inequality? A Precinct-Level Analysis of Income Inequality in U.S. Presidential Voting, 2016 to 2020
The relationship between income and voter turnout is crucial to understanding U.S. democracy. Previous research has revealed that richer people tend to vote at higher rates than lower income people. But this research relied on survey data and was subject to response and social desirability bias, producing widely varying estimates of the size of the income-based turnout gap. Using data with official, geocoded precinct election results for the enti…
Ce moment de coalition entre facultés, universités et disciplines va laisser une trace durable
"It's like a disconnection" - political skepticism among poor and working-class black and Latine people
The Class Ceiling in the United States: Class-Origin Pay Penalties in Higher Professional and Managerial Occupations
Gender and racial pay penalties are well-known: women (of all races) and people of color (of all genders) earn less, on average, even when they gain access to occupations historically reserved for White men. Studies of social mobility show that people from working-class backgrounds in the US have also been excluded from top professional and managerial occupations. But do working-class-origin people who attain top US jobs face a class-origin pay p…
Income Inequality in U.S. Voting: A Visualization
Although it is clear that the 2020 election broke turnout records, we do not know how levels of voting changed across income groups. Journalistic accounts emphasized increases in turnout across demographic groups but relied on self-reported voter data. The authors use validated voting data from both the Common Election Study and the Pew Research Center to examine the relationship between income and voting across the two elections (along with educ…
Voting Intersections: Race, Class, and Participation in Presidential Elections in the United States 2008-2016
Intersectional analyses are increasingly common in sociology; however, analyses of voting tend to focus on only race, class, or gender, using the others as control variables. We assess whether and how race, class, and gender intersect to produce distinct patterns of voter engagement in presidential elections 2008-2016. Per existing research, we find income strongly predicts White voting. However, the class gap in voting is not statistically signi…
Social Progress in Britain
Class Mobility and Reproduction for Black and White Adults in the United States: A Visualization
The relationship between where people start out in life (class origin) and where they are likely to end up (class destination) is central to any question about the fairness of contemporary society. Yet we often don't have a good picture-literally or metaphorically-of the contours of that relationship. Further, work on class mobility in the United States often glosses over the large differences between white and Black Americans' class positions an…
The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged
Reviewer: Jessica McCrory Calarco, Indiana University In The Class Ceiling, authors Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison deftly dismantle popular (and often highly politicized) myths about inequality and meritocracy in the UK. First, and using nationally representative data from Britain’s Labour Force Survey (LFS), the authors highlight class-based gaps in access to elite professions and class-based pay gaps within those professions, as well. The rem…
The class ceiling: Why it pays to be privileged
On culture and inequality: Distinction, Omnivorousness, Status and Class
Are postgraduate qualifications the 'new frontier of social mobility
We investigate the relationship between social origin, postgraduate degree attainment, and occupational outcomes across five British age-group cohorts. We use recently-available UK Labour Force Survey data to conduct a series of logistic regressions of postgraduate (masters or doctorate) degree attainment among those with first degrees, with controls for measures of degree classification, degree subject, age, gender, ethnicity and national origin…
Mind the gap: Financial London and the regional class pay gap
The hidden barriers, or 'gender pay gap', preventing women from earning equivalent incomes to men is well documented. Yet recent research has uncovered that, in Britain, there is also a comparable class-origin pay gap in higher professional and managerial occupations. So far this analysis has only been conducted at the national level and it is not known whether there are regional differences within the UK. This paper uses pooled data from the 201…
Cultural Capital: Arts Graduates, Spatial Inequality, and London's Impact on Cultural Labor Markets
This article looks at the degree to which spatial inequalities reinforce other forms of social inequality in cultural labor markets. It does so using the example of London, an acknowledged hub for the creative and cultural industries. Using pooled data from 2013 to 2015 quarters of the United Kingdom's. Labour Force Survey, we consider the social makeup of London's cultural labor force, and reveal the extent to which, rather than acting as an "en…
Like Skydiving without a Parachute: How Class Origin Shapes Occupational Trajectories in British Acting
There is currently widespread concern that access to, and success within, the British acting profession is increasingly dominated by those from privileged class origins. This article seeks to empirically interrogate this claim using data on actors from the Great British Class Survey ( N = 404) and 47 qualitative interviews. First, survey data demonstrate that actors from working-class origins are significantly underrepresented within the professi…
Social Class and Political Engagement in the United States
The relationship between class and political engagement in the United States is well‐established: people with lower incomes, who have less education, or who work outside the professional and managerial occupations do less of all forms of political engagement. They vote less than better‐off people, are less likely to give money to candidates, pay less attention to politics, and contact their representatives less often than those with more resource…
Are the creative industries meritocratic? An analysis of the 2014 British Labour Force Survey
There is currently widespread concern that Britain’s cultural and creative industries (CCIs) are increasingly dominated by the privileged. This stands in stark contrast to dominant policy narratives of the CCIs as meritocratic. Until now this debate has been clouded by a relative paucity of data on class origins. This paper draws on new social origin data from the 2014 Labour Force Survey to provide the first large-scale, representative study of …
The Class Pay Gap in Higher Professional and Managerial Occupations
This article demonstrates how class origin shapes earnings in higher professional and managerial employment. Taking advantage of newly released data in Britain's Labour Force Survey, we examine the relative openness of different high-status occupations and the earnings of the upwardly mobile within them. In terms of access, we find a distinction between traditional professions, such as law, medicine, and finance, which are dominated by the childr…
The Willingness to State an Opinion: Inequality, Don't Know Responses, and Political Participation
Most explanations of inequality in political participation focus on costs or other barriers for those with fewer economic, educational, and “cognitive” resources. I argue, drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's work on “political competence,” that social position in the form of income also structures political participation through differences in the sense that one is a legitimate producer of political opinions. I test whether income differences in partici…
The Right to Speak: Differences in Political Engagement among the British Elite
In this paper, I examine differences in political engagement among an elite segment of the British population: GBCS respondents who are college-educated, non-routine workers making over £100,000a year. I show that even though everyone in this group ought to have more than sufficient skills and resources for political engagement, there are still substantial differences by social position. Specifically, postgraduate degrees and higher incomes still…
Breaking the 'Class' Ceiling? Social Mobility into Britain's Elite Occupations
In this paper we use the unusually large sample size of the Great British Class Survey to compare rates of social mobility into different elite occupations. We find a distinction between 'traditional' professions, such as law, medicine and finance, which are dominated by the children of higher managers and professionals, and technical or emerging high-status occupations, particularly those related to IT, that appear to recruit more widely. Second…
On Social Class, Anno 2014
This article responds to the critical reception of the arguments made about social class in Savage et al. (2013). It emphasises the need to disentangle different strands of debate so as not to conflate four separate issues: (a) the value of the seven class model proposed; (b) the potential of the large web survey - the Great British Class Survey (GBCS) for future research; (c) the value of Bourdieusian perspectives for re-energising class analysi…
The Class Pay Gap in Higher Professional and Managerial Occupations
This article demonstrates how class origin shapes earnings in higher professional and managerial employment. Taking advantage of newly released data in Britain's Labour Force Survey, we examine the relative openness of different high-status occupations and the earnings of the upwardly mobile within them. In terms of access, we find a distinction between traditional professions, such as law, medicine, and finance, which are dominated by the childr…
Are the creative industries meritocratic? An analysis of the 2014 British Labour Force Survey
There is currently widespread concern that Britain’s cultural and creative industries (CCIs) are increasingly dominated by the privileged. This stands in stark contrast to dominant policy narratives of the CCIs as meritocratic. Until now this debate has been clouded by a relative paucity of data on class origins. This paper draws on new social origin data from the 2014 Labour Force Survey to provide the first large-scale, representative study of …
The Willingness to State an Opinion: Inequality, Don't Know Responses, and Political Participation
Most explanations of inequality in political participation focus on costs or other barriers for those with fewer economic, educational, and “cognitive” resources. I argue, drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's work on “political competence,” that social position in the form of income also structures political participation through differences in the sense that one is a legitimate producer of political opinions. I test whether income differences in partici…
Breaking the 'Class' Ceiling? Social Mobility into Britain's Elite Occupations
In this paper we use the unusually large sample size of the Great British Class Survey to compare rates of social mobility into different elite occupations. We find a distinction between 'traditional' professions, such as law, medicine and finance, which are dominated by the children of higher managers and professionals, and technical or emerging high-status occupations, particularly those related to IT, that appear to recruit more widely. Second…
Are postgraduate qualifications the 'new frontier of social mobility
We investigate the relationship between social origin, postgraduate degree attainment, and occupational outcomes across five British age-group cohorts. We use recently-available UK Labour Force Survey data to conduct a series of logistic regressions of postgraduate (masters or doctorate) degree attainment among those with first degrees, with controls for measures of degree classification, degree subject, age, gender, ethnicity and national origin…
Like Skydiving without a Parachute: How Class Origin Shapes Occupational Trajectories in British Acting
There is currently widespread concern that access to, and success within, the British acting profession is increasingly dominated by those from privileged class origins. This article seeks to empirically interrogate this claim using data on actors from the Great British Class Survey ( N = 404) and 47 qualitative interviews. First, survey data demonstrate that actors from working-class origins are significantly underrepresented within the professi…
On Social Class, Anno 2014
This article responds to the critical reception of the arguments made about social class in Savage et al. (2013). It emphasises the need to disentangle different strands of debate so as not to conflate four separate issues: (a) the value of the seven class model proposed; (b) the potential of the large web survey - the Great British Class Survey (GBCS) for future research; (c) the value of Bourdieusian perspectives for re-energising class analysi…
Mind the gap: Financial London and the regional class pay gap
The hidden barriers, or 'gender pay gap', preventing women from earning equivalent incomes to men is well documented. Yet recent research has uncovered that, in Britain, there is also a comparable class-origin pay gap in higher professional and managerial occupations. So far this analysis has only been conducted at the national level and it is not known whether there are regional differences within the UK. This paper uses pooled data from the 201…
Social Class and Political Engagement in the United States
The relationship between class and political engagement in the United States is well‐established: people with lower incomes, who have less education, or who work outside the professional and managerial occupations do less of all forms of political engagement. They vote less than better‐off people, are less likely to give money to candidates, pay less attention to politics, and contact their representatives less often than those with more resource…
Cultural Capital: Arts Graduates, Spatial Inequality, and London's Impact on Cultural Labor Markets
This article looks at the degree to which spatial inequalities reinforce other forms of social inequality in cultural labor markets. It does so using the example of London, an acknowledged hub for the creative and cultural industries. Using pooled data from 2013 to 2015 quarters of the United Kingdom's. Labour Force Survey, we consider the social makeup of London's cultural labor force, and reveal the extent to which, rather than acting as an "en…
Class Mobility and Reproduction for Black and White Adults in the United States: A Visualization
The relationship between where people start out in life (class origin) and where they are likely to end up (class destination) is central to any question about the fairness of contemporary society. Yet we often don't have a good picture-literally or metaphorically-of the contours of that relationship. Further, work on class mobility in the United States often glosses over the large differences between white and Black Americans' class positions an…
The Class Ceiling in the United States: Class-Origin Pay Penalties in Higher Professional and Managerial Occupations
Gender and racial pay penalties are well-known: women (of all races) and people of color (of all genders) earn less, on average, even when they gain access to occupations historically reserved for White men. Studies of social mobility show that people from working-class backgrounds in the US have also been excluded from top professional and managerial occupations. But do working-class-origin people who attain top US jobs face a class-origin pay p…
Voting Intersections: Race, Class, and Participation in Presidential Elections in the United States 2008-2016
Intersectional analyses are increasingly common in sociology; however, analyses of voting tend to focus on only race, class, or gender, using the others as control variables. We assess whether and how race, class, and gender intersect to produce distinct patterns of voter engagement in presidential elections 2008-2016. Per existing research, we find income strongly predicts White voting. However, the class gap in voting is not statistically signi…
On culture and inequality: Distinction, Omnivorousness, Status and Class
Income Inequality in U.S. Voting: A Visualization
Although it is clear that the 2020 election broke turnout records, we do not know how levels of voting changed across income groups. Journalistic accounts emphasized increases in turnout across demographic groups but relied on self-reported voter data. The authors use validated voting data from both the Common Election Study and the Pew Research Center to examine the relationship between income and voting across the two elections (along with educ…
Social Progress in Britain
The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged
Reviewer: Jessica McCrory Calarco, Indiana University In The Class Ceiling, authors Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison deftly dismantle popular (and often highly politicized) myths about inequality and meritocracy in the UK. First, and using nationally representative data from Britain’s Labour Force Survey (LFS), the authors highlight class-based gaps in access to elite professions and class-based pay gaps within those professions, as well. The rem…
"It's like a disconnection" - political skepticism among poor and working-class black and Latine people
The Right to Speak: Differences in Political Engagement among the British Elite
In this paper, I examine differences in political engagement among an elite segment of the British population: GBCS respondents who are college-educated, non-routine workers making over £100,000a year. I show that even though everyone in this group ought to have more than sufficient skills and resources for political engagement, there are still substantial differences by social position. Specifically, postgraduate degrees and higher incomes still…
The Willingness to State an Opinion: Inequality, Don't Know Responses, and Political Participation
Most explanations of inequality in political participation focus on costs or other barriers for those with fewer economic, educational, and “cognitive” resources. I argue, drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's work on “political competence,” that social position in the form of income also structures political participation through differences in the sense that one is a legitimate producer of political opinions. I test whether income differences in partici…
The Right to Speak: Differences in Political Engagement among the British Elite
In this paper, I examine differences in political engagement among an elite segment of the British population: GBCS respondents who are college-educated, non-routine workers making over £100,000a year. I show that even though everyone in this group ought to have more than sufficient skills and resources for political engagement, there are still substantial differences by social position. Specifically, postgraduate degrees and higher incomes still…
Breaking the 'Class' Ceiling? Social Mobility into Britain's Elite Occupations
In this paper we use the unusually large sample size of the Great British Class Survey to compare rates of social mobility into different elite occupations. We find a distinction between 'traditional' professions, such as law, medicine and finance, which are dominated by the children of higher managers and professionals, and technical or emerging high-status occupations, particularly those related to IT, that appear to recruit more widely. Second…
On Social Class, Anno 2014
This article responds to the critical reception of the arguments made about social class in Savage et al. (2013). It emphasises the need to disentangle different strands of debate so as not to conflate four separate issues: (a) the value of the seven class model proposed; (b) the potential of the large web survey - the Great British Class Survey (GBCS) for future research; (c) the value of Bourdieusian perspectives for re-energising class analysi…
Social Class and Political Engagement in the United States
The relationship between class and political engagement in the United States is well‐established: people with lower incomes, who have less education, or who work outside the professional and managerial occupations do less of all forms of political engagement. They vote less than better‐off people, are less likely to give money to candidates, pay less attention to politics, and contact their representatives less often than those with more resource…
Are the creative industries meritocratic? An analysis of the 2014 British Labour Force Survey
There is currently widespread concern that Britain’s cultural and creative industries (CCIs) are increasingly dominated by the privileged. This stands in stark contrast to dominant policy narratives of the CCIs as meritocratic. Until now this debate has been clouded by a relative paucity of data on class origins. This paper draws on new social origin data from the 2014 Labour Force Survey to provide the first large-scale, representative study of …
The Class Pay Gap in Higher Professional and Managerial Occupations
This article demonstrates how class origin shapes earnings in higher professional and managerial employment. Taking advantage of newly released data in Britain's Labour Force Survey, we examine the relative openness of different high-status occupations and the earnings of the upwardly mobile within them. In terms of access, we find a distinction between traditional professions, such as law, medicine, and finance, which are dominated by the childr…
Are postgraduate qualifications the 'new frontier of social mobility
We investigate the relationship between social origin, postgraduate degree attainment, and occupational outcomes across five British age-group cohorts. We use recently-available UK Labour Force Survey data to conduct a series of logistic regressions of postgraduate (masters or doctorate) degree attainment among those with first degrees, with controls for measures of degree classification, degree subject, age, gender, ethnicity and national origin…
Mind the gap: Financial London and the regional class pay gap
The hidden barriers, or 'gender pay gap', preventing women from earning equivalent incomes to men is well documented. Yet recent research has uncovered that, in Britain, there is also a comparable class-origin pay gap in higher professional and managerial occupations. So far this analysis has only been conducted at the national level and it is not known whether there are regional differences within the UK. This paper uses pooled data from the 201…
Cultural Capital: Arts Graduates, Spatial Inequality, and London's Impact on Cultural Labor Markets
This article looks at the degree to which spatial inequalities reinforce other forms of social inequality in cultural labor markets. It does so using the example of London, an acknowledged hub for the creative and cultural industries. Using pooled data from 2013 to 2015 quarters of the United Kingdom's. Labour Force Survey, we consider the social makeup of London's cultural labor force, and reveal the extent to which, rather than acting as an "en…
Like Skydiving without a Parachute: How Class Origin Shapes Occupational Trajectories in British Acting
There is currently widespread concern that access to, and success within, the British acting profession is increasingly dominated by those from privileged class origins. This article seeks to empirically interrogate this claim using data on actors from the Great British Class Survey ( N = 404) and 47 qualitative interviews. First, survey data demonstrate that actors from working-class origins are significantly underrepresented within the professi…
The class ceiling: Why it pays to be privileged
On culture and inequality: Distinction, Omnivorousness, Status and Class
Social Progress in Britain
Class Mobility and Reproduction for Black and White Adults in the United States: A Visualization
The relationship between where people start out in life (class origin) and where they are likely to end up (class destination) is central to any question about the fairness of contemporary society. Yet we often don't have a good picture-literally or metaphorically-of the contours of that relationship. Further, work on class mobility in the United States often glosses over the large differences between white and Black Americans' class positions an…
The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged
Reviewer: Jessica McCrory Calarco, Indiana University In The Class Ceiling, authors Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison deftly dismantle popular (and often highly politicized) myths about inequality and meritocracy in the UK. First, and using nationally representative data from Britain’s Labour Force Survey (LFS), the authors highlight class-based gaps in access to elite professions and class-based pay gaps within those professions, as well. The rem…
Voting Intersections: Race, Class, and Participation in Presidential Elections in the United States 2008-2016
Intersectional analyses are increasingly common in sociology; however, analyses of voting tend to focus on only race, class, or gender, using the others as control variables. We assess whether and how race, class, and gender intersect to produce distinct patterns of voter engagement in presidential elections 2008-2016. Per existing research, we find income strongly predicts White voting. However, the class gap in voting is not statistically signi…
Income Inequality in U.S. Voting: A Visualization
Although it is clear that the 2020 election broke turnout records, we do not know how levels of voting changed across income groups. Journalistic accounts emphasized increases in turnout across demographic groups but relied on self-reported voter data. The authors use validated voting data from both the Common Election Study and the Pew Research Center to examine the relationship between income and voting across the two elections (along with educ…
The Class Ceiling in the United States: Class-Origin Pay Penalties in Higher Professional and Managerial Occupations
Gender and racial pay penalties are well-known: women (of all races) and people of color (of all genders) earn less, on average, even when they gain access to occupations historically reserved for White men. Studies of social mobility show that people from working-class backgrounds in the US have also been excluded from top professional and managerial occupations. But do working-class-origin people who attain top US jobs face a class-origin pay p…
Election Reflections—and What Comes Next
A curated collection of essays tracking the pulse of American democracy as the second Trump Administration comes into power, this special section considers the campaigns that were waged and previews the battles yet to come
Higher Turnout, Greater Inequality? A Precinct-Level Analysis of Income Inequality in U.S. Presidential Voting, 2016 to 2020
The relationship between income and voter turnout is crucial to understanding U.S. democracy. Previous research has revealed that richer people tend to vote at higher rates than lower income people. But this research relied on survey data and was subject to response and social desirability bias, producing widely varying estimates of the size of the income-based turnout gap. Using data with official, geocoded precinct election results for the enti…
Ce moment de coalition entre facultés, universités et disciplines va laisser une trace durable
"It's like a disconnection" - political skepticism among poor and working-class black and Latine people
Sociology (21 works) · Political science (20 works) · Economics (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (11 works) · Demographic economics (10 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Social class (9 works) · Social science (9 works)