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Number of items: 55.
International Inequalities Institute
  • Friedman, Sam, Savage, Mike, Spoerhase, Carlos (2025). Beyond the ‘scholarship boy’ paradigm: autosociobiography and social mobility. European Journal of Cultural Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494251394865 picture_as_pdf
  • Friedman, Sam, Ellersgaard, Christoph, Reeves, Aaron, Larsen, Anton Grau (2024). The meaning of merit: talent versus hard work legitimacy. Social Forces, 102(3), 861 - 879. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soad131 picture_as_pdf
  • Worth, Eve, Reeves, Aaron, Friedman, Sam (2023). Is there an old girls’ network? Girls’ schools and recruitment to the British elite. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 44(1), 1 - 25. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2022.2132472 picture_as_pdf
    • LSE
  • Reeves, Aaron, Friedman, Sam (2017). The dogged persistence of the British 'old boy': how private school alumni reach the elite.
  • Laurison, Daniel, Friedman, Sam (2015). ‘Poshness tests’ and the class ceiling: there is much more research to be done.
    • Law School
  • Friedman, Sam, Gronwald, Victoria, Summers, Andrew, Taylor, Emma (2025). But Switzerland's boring': tax migration and the pull of place-specific cultural capital. Socio-Economic Review, 23(3), 1091 - 1112. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwaf002 picture_as_pdf
  • Friedman, Sam, Gronwald, Victoria, Summers, Andrew, Taylor, Emma (2024). Tax flight? Britain’s wealthiest and their attachment to place. (III Working Papers 131). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.9cpej2l51pc9 picture_as_pdf
    • Sociology
  • Helland, Håvard, Friedman, Sam, Jarness, Vegard, Ljunggren, Jørn (2025). Is misrecognition recognised? Classed perceptions of occupational status. Sociology, 59(6), 1173 - 1194. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385251363893 picture_as_pdf
  • Friedman, Sam, Savage, Mike, Spoerhase, Carlos (2025). Beyond the ‘scholarship boy’ paradigm: autosociobiography and social mobility. European Journal of Cultural Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494251394865 picture_as_pdf
  • Blaabæk, Ea Hoppe, Friedman, Sam, Jæger, Mads Meier, Reeves, Aaron (2025). How are cultural tastes stratified? Evidence from library borrowing for the entire population of Denmark. European Sociological Review, https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf041 picture_as_pdf
  • Reeves, Aaron, Friedman, Sam (4 September 2025) Taxing private schools won't smash the class ceiling. British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Higgins, Katie, Friedman, Sam, Reeves, Aaron (2025). Outsiders on the inside: how minoritised elites respond to racial inequality. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 48(10), 1991 - 2011. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2354317 picture_as_pdf
  • Friedman, Sam, Gronwald, Victoria, Summers, Andrew, Taylor, Emma (2025). But Switzerland's boring': tax migration and the pull of place-specific cultural capital. Socio-Economic Review, 23(3), 1091 - 1112. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwaf002 picture_as_pdf
  • Moor, Liz, Friedman, Sam (2025). Justifying inherited wealth: a UK case study on conflicting orders of worth. In The Social Acceptance of Inequality On the Logics of a More Unequal World (pp. 185-210). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197814499.003.0008
  • Friedman, Sam, Reeves, Aaron (9 April 2025) Not such humble origins? The British elite's thirst to tell an "upward story" of their success. LSE Inequalities. picture_as_pdf
  • Reeves, Aaron, Friedman, Sam (2024). Born to rule: the making and remaking of the British elite. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
  • Friedman, Sam, Reeves, Aaron (11 September 2024) Q and A with Sam Friedman and Aaron Reeves on Born to Rule. LSE Review of Books. picture_as_pdf
  • Laurison, Daniel, Friedman, Sam (2024). The class ceiling in the United States: class-origin pay penalties in higher professional and managerial occupations. Social Forces, 103(1), 22 - 44. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soae025 picture_as_pdf
  • Bortun, Vladimir, Reeves, Aaron, Friedman, Sam (2024). We didn’t know what we were eating tomorrow’: how class origin shapes the political outlook of Members of the Parliament in Britain. Political Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217241257006 picture_as_pdf
  • Friedman, Sam (2024). Book review Who needs quantification? British Journal of Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13048_4
  • Friedman, Sam, Ellersgaard, Christoph, Reeves, Aaron, Larsen, Anton Grau (2024). The meaning of merit: talent versus hard work legitimacy. Social Forces, 102(3), 861 - 879. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soad131 picture_as_pdf
  • Friedman, Sam, Gronwald, Victoria, Summers, Andrew, Taylor, Emma (2024). Tax flight? Britain’s wealthiest and their attachment to place. (III Working Papers 131). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.9cpej2l51pc9 picture_as_pdf
  • Friedman, Sam, Reeves, Aaron (2024-06-10 - 2024-07-05) Who rules Britain? [Poster]. Displays of power: LSE Festival exhibition 2024, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom, GBR. picture_as_pdf
  • Ashley, Louise, Boussebaa, Mehdi, Friedman, Sam, Harrington, Brooke, Heusinkveld, Stefan, Gustafsson, Stefanie, Muzio, Daniel (2023). Professions and inequality: challenges, controversies, and opportunities. Journal of Professions and Organization, 10(1), 80-98. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpo/joac014 picture_as_pdf
  • Worth, Eve, Reeves, Aaron, Friedman, Sam (2023). Is there an old girls’ network? Girls’ schools and recruitment to the British elite. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 44(1), 1 - 25. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2022.2132472 picture_as_pdf
  • Friedman, Sam (2022). Climbing the velvet drainpipe: class background and career progression within the UK Civil Service. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muac045 picture_as_pdf
  • Friedman, Sam (13 June 2022) The “class ceiling”: tackling barriers to social mobility in UK television. LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf
  • Friedman, Sam (2022). (Not) bringing your whole self to work: the gendered experience of upward mobility in the UK Civil Service. Gender, Work and Organization, 29(2), 502 - 519. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12776 picture_as_pdf
  • Moor, Liz, Friedman, Sam (2021). Justifying inherited wealth: between ‘the bank of mum and dad’ and the meritocratic ideal. Economy and Society, 50(4), 618 - 642. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2021.1932353 picture_as_pdf
  • Friedman, Sam, O'Brien, Dave, Mcdonald, Ian (2021). Deflecting privilege: class identity and the intergenerational self. Sociology, 55(4), 716 - 733. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520982225 picture_as_pdf
  • Toft, Maren, Friedman, Sam (2020). Family wealth and the class ceiling: the propulsive power of the bank of Mum and Dad. Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520922537 picture_as_pdf
  • Friedman, Sam, Reeves, Aaron (2020). From aristocratic to ordinary: shifting modes of elite distinction. American Sociological Review, 85(2), 323-350. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122420912941 picture_as_pdf
  • Hecht, Katharina, Mcarthur, Daniel, Savage, Mike, Friedman, Sam (22 January 2020) Social mobility at the top: how elites in the UK are pulling away. British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Friedman, Sam, Laurison, Daniel (2019). The class ceiling: why it pays to be privileged. Policy Press.
  • Friedman, Sam, Savage, Mike (2018). Time, accumulation and trajectory: Bourdieu and social mobility. In Lawler, Steph, Payne, Geoff (Eds.), Social mobility for the 21st century: everyone a winner? . Routledge. https://doi.org/9781138244894
  • Reeves, Aaron, Friedman, Sam, Rahal, Charles, Flemmen, Magne (2017). The decline and persistence of the old boy: private schools and elite recruitment 1897 to 2016. American Sociological Review, 82(6), 1139-1166. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122417735742
  • Oakley, Kate, Laurison, Daniel, O'Brien, Dave, Friedman, Sam (2017). Cultural capital: arts graduates, spatial inequality, and London's impact on cultural labour market. American Behavioral Scientist, 61(12), 1510-1531. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764217734274
  • Friedman, Sam, O’Brien, Dave, Laurison, Daniel (2017). ‘Like skydiving without a parachute’: how class origin shapes occupational trajectories in British acting. Sociology, 51(5), 992-1010. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038516629917
  • Friedman, Sam, Laurison, Daniel (2017). Mind the gap: financial London and the regional class pay gap. British Journal of Sociology, 68(3), 474-511. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12269
  • O’Brien, Dave, Allen, Kim, Friedman, Sam, Saha, Anamik (2017). Producing and consuming inequality: a cultural sociology of the cultural industries. Cultural Sociology, 11(3), 271-282. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975517712465
  • Friedman, Sam, O’Brien, Dave (2017). Resistance and resignation: responses to typecasting in British acting. Cultural Sociology, 11(3), 359-376. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975517710156
  • Friedman, Sam, Macmillan, Lindsey (2017). Is London really the engine-room? Migration, opportunity hoarding and regional social mobility in the UK. National Institute Economic Review, 240(1), R58-R72. https://doi.org/10.1177/002795011724000114
  • Jarness, Vegard, Friedman, Sam (2017). ‘I’m not a snob, but…’: class boundaries and the downplaying of difference. Poetics, 61, 14-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2016.11.001
  • Laurison, Daniel, Friedman, Sam (2016). The class pay gap in Britain’s higher professional and managerial occupations. American Sociological Review, 81(4), 668-695. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122416653602
  • O'Brien, Dave, Laurison, Daniel, Miles, Andrew, Friedman, Sam (2016). Are the creative industries meritocratic? An analysis of the 2014 British labour force survey. Cultural Trends, https://doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2016.1170943
  • Friedman, Sam (2016). Habitus clivé and the emotional imprint of social mobility. Sociological Review, 64(1), 129-147. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.12280
  • Friedman, Sam, Savage, Mike, Hanquinet, Laurie, Miles, Andre (2015). Cultural sociology and new forms of distinction. Poetics, 53, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2015.10.002
  • Savage, Mike, Devine, Fiona, Cunningham, Niall, Friedman, Sam, Laurison, Daniel, Miles, Andrew, Snee, Helene, Taylor, Mark (2015). On social class, anno 2014. Sociology, 49(6), 1011-1030. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038514536635
  • Friedman, Sam, Laurison, Daniel, Miles, Andrew (2015). Breaking the ‘class’ ceiling?: social mobility into Britain's elite occupations. Sociological Review, 63(2), 259-289. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.12283
  • Friedman, Sam (2015). Comedy as an aesthetic experience. In Hanquinet, Laurie, Savage, Mike (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of the Sociology of Art and Culture . Routledge.
  • Savage, Mike, Friedman, Sam (2015). Social class in the 21st century. Penguin Books.
  • Friedman, Sam (2015). Social stratification and social classes. In Wilkinson, I., Inglis, D. (Eds.), Sociology: A Sociological Introduction . Sage Publications Ltd..
  • Friedman, Sam (2014). The hidden tastemakers: comedy scouts as cultural brokers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Poetics, 44, 22-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2014.04.002
  • Friedman, Sam (2014). The price of the ticket: rethinking the experience of social mobility. Sociology, 48(2), 352-368. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038513490355
  • Friedman, Sam (2014). Comedy and distinction: the cultural currency of a ‘good’ sense of humour. Routledge.
  • Friedman, Sam, Kuipers, Giselinde (2013). The divisive power of humour: comedy, taste and symbolic boundaries. Cultural Sociology, 7(2), 179-195. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975513477405
  • Friedman, Sam (2013). 'Handling' the darkness: Chris Morris as cultural capital. In Leggott, James, Sexton, Jamie (Eds.), No Known Cure: The Comedy of Chris Morris . Palgrave Macmillan for the British Film Institute.
  • Savage, Mike, Devine, Fiona, Cunningham, Niall, Taylor, Mark, Li, Yaojun, Hjellbrekke, Johs., Le Roux, Brigitte, Friedman, Sam, Miles, Andrew (2013). A new model of social class? Findings from the BBC's Great British Class Survey experiment. Sociology, 47(2), 219-250. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038513481128
  • Friedman, Sam (2012). Cultural omnivores or culturally homeless? Exploring the shifting cultural identities of the upwardly mobile. Poetics, 40(5), 467-489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2012.07.001
  • Friedman, Sam (2011). The cultural currency of a ‘good’ sense of humour: British comedy and new forms of distinction. British Journal of Sociology, 62(2), 347-370. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2011.01368.x