RC28 Social Stratification
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The International Sociological Association's Research Committee 28 (abbreviated RC28) on Social Stratification and Mobility.
Our travel award recipients 🎉🎉🎉🎉Thanks for travelling to NYC to share your wonderful work! Looking forward to reading your papers
Congratulations to Mitnik, Bryant, and Grusky on receiving the RC28 significant contribution award
Most exciting time of the conference announcing award winners and future conference locations by president Jennie Brand
Child full day head start program on mother employment by Rebecca Bier from Wisconsin sociology
Marita Jacob’s talk on how to reduce inequality via high school counseling using experimental evidence. The talk echoes Adam Gamoran’s keynote speech this morning #inequality @wtgrantfdn.bsky.social
Don Treiman reviewed the literature on status attainment over the life course. The literature can be traced back to Duncan and Hodge’s 1963 AJS paper. #socialstratification #mobility #NYU
ASA methodology midyear will be hosted at the University of Toronto on April 24-25, 2026. Submission deadline is March 5, 2026. Looking forward to seeing you in Toronto!
RC28 spring meeting deadline is December 1, 2025. Looking forward to seeing you in Seville. eventos.upo.es/137585/detai...
Goodbye, LA 👋 Safe travels to those who will go to ASA! Hope RC28 folks will continue conversations about social stratification and mobility in Chicago.
@mikehoutnyu showing examples of intergenerational inheritance of occupations. Can you name sociologists whose parents were also sociologists?
@mikehoutnyu.bsky.social first RC28 in 1983 at the Free University Amsterdam listed only 35 papers but 19 papers of them included mobility tables! 😮
Last day of the UCLA RC28 conference. Plenary presentation given by @mikehoutnyu.bsky.social on intergenerational occupational persistence in the US
This year’s RSSM publication award goes to The long-run causal effects of single-sex schooling on work-related outcomes in South Korea Kim, Ahn, Behrman, Choi, Dimant, Hannum, Lee, Mutz, Park Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 89, 100876, 2024 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The winner of this year’s significant contribution award goes to The great separation: Top earner segregation at work in advanced capitalist economies O Godechot, et al American Journal of Sociology 130 (2), 439-495, 2024 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
RC28 dinner happening right now. Stay tuned for this year’s winner 🥇
@natewilmers.bsky.social shared his work on the decline of low wage jobs
Clayton Adamson, PhD Student of Sociology and @cdeuw at the UW-Madison, presented his work on how local tech sectors influence intergenerational mobility.
@hunterwyork.com, PhD Candidate of Sociology at Princeton University , shared his new research on economic outcome stratification among workers by field of study and institutions. Please check out the paper on his website 👆 or email him.
Professor Adam Gamoran the President of William T Grant Foundation and an expert of educational inequality @wtgrantfdn.bsky.social calls for more research that investigates (1) race, ethnicity, and immigration, (2) occupations; & (3) solutions for reducing inequality, by RC28 scholars.
We are very happy to announce the next editor of RSSM — @mtriventi.bsky.social !!! We are also fortunate to have @pengzell.bsky.social , Jan Paul Heisig and Aidan Liu to continue their role as associate editors. Please send your best work on social stratification and mobility to RSSM.
We are celebrating Professor Margot Jackson’s 20th year anniversary as an RC28 conference participant. Professor Jackson graduated from #UCLA and attended her first RC28 at #UCLA in 2005! She is the editor of Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. Go Bruins @margotjackson.bsky.social
A special issue of RSSM edited by Claudia Buchmann on the growing gender divide in educational credentials just came out earlier this year. In case that you haven’t read it, it will be a must read for the next generation of stratification scholars. #RSSM #genderinequality
Professor Claudia Buchmann at Ohio State University speaks about the collaborative power of RC28.
In case you wonder the most important findings regarding social mobility. Here are five highlights: 2/2 3 Multigenerational influences are important 4 Intragenerational mobility has intergenerational implications 5 Mothers become increasingly important More details please see 👇 #mobility
In case you wonder the most important findings regarding social mobility. Here are five highlights: 1/2 1 Some countries experienced increasing mobility 2 Microclass occupational classifications allow more precise estimates of mobility than big group occupational classifications
Research on family demography and gender inequality are also on the rise. It’s great to see the growing affinity between demography and stratification research. #socialstratification #mobility
Research on Social Mobility, Occupation, Class, and Social Structure has declined over the last two decades. It’s time to revisit many classic themes in these fields and develop new insights. #socialstratification #mobility #RSSM