What is missing? Cultural processes and causal pathways to inequality

Socio-Economic Review

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 573-608

  Lamont, Michèle ^a   Beljean, Stefan ^a   Clair, Matthew ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural processes; Economic sociology; Inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905981424     PISSN: 14751461     EISSN: 1475147X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwu011     Document Type: Article

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