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Year	Authors	Title	Outlet	Link
2002	Thomas Adam	A Rich Man's Guide to Social Climbing: Philanthropy as a Bourgeois Behavioral Pattern in Nineteenth-Century New York	The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, 32(1)
1995	Helmut Anheier Jurgen Gerhards Frank P. Romo	Forms of Capital and Social Structure in Cultural Fields: Examining Bourdieu's Social Topography	American Journal of Sociology, 100(4)
1994	Michael Argyle	The Psychology of Social Class	Books
1997	Karen Aschaffenburg Ineke Maas	Cultural and Educational Careers: The Dynamics of Social Reproduction	American Sociological Review, 62(4)
1971	Basil Bernstein	Class, Codes, and Control. Theoretical Studies towards a Sociology of Language	Books
1984	Pierre Bourdieu	Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste	Books
1987	Pierre Bourdieu	What Makes a Social Class? On The Theoretical and Practical Existence Of Groups	Berkeley Journal of Sociology, 32(1)
1989	Pierre Bourdieu	Social Space and Symbolic Power	Sociological Theory, 7(1)
1990	Pierre Bourdieu	The Logic of Practice	Books
1993	Pierre Bourdieu	The Weight of the World: Social Suffering in Contemporary Society	Books
1981	Pierre Bourdieu Luc Boltanski	The Education System and the Economy: Titles and Jobs. In: French Sociology: Rupture and Renewal since 1968	Book Chapter
1990	Pierre Bourdieu Jean-Claude Passeron	Reproduction in education, society and culture	Books
2007	Tak Wing Chan John H. Goldthorpe	Class and Status: The Conceptual Distinction and its Empirical Relevance	American Sociological Review, 72(4)
2004	Edith Chen	Why Socioeconomic Status Affects the Health of Children, A Psychosocial Perspective	Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13(3)
2016	Johan S. G Chu	Who Killed the Inner Circle? The Decline of the American Corporate Interlock Network	American Journal of Sociology, 122(3)
2015	Johan S. G. Chu Mark S. Mizruchi	Elites. In: Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences	Book Chapter
2011	Stéphane Côté	How social class shapes thoughts and actions in organizations	Research in Organizational Behavior, 31
2013	Stéphane Côté Paul K. Piff Robb Willer	For Whom Do the Ends Justify the Means? Social Class and Utilitarian Moral Judgement	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104(3)
2000	Nan Dirk De Graaf	Parental Cultural Capital and Educational Attainment in the Netherlands: A Refinement of the Cultural Capital Perspective	Sociology of Education, 73(2)
1982	Paul DiMaggio	Cultural Capital and School Success: The Impact of Status Culture Participation on the Grades of U.S. High School Students	American Sociological Review, 47(2)
1978	Paul DiMaggio Michael Useem	Social class and arts consumption: The origins and consequences of class differences in exposure to the arts in America	Theory and Society, 5(2
2015	David Dubois Derek D. Rucker Adam D. Galinsky	Social class, power, and selfishness: When and why upper and lower class individuals behave unethically	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 108(3)
2003	Michael Emmison	Social Class and Cultural Mobility: Reconfiguring the Cultural Omnivore Thesis	Australian Journal of Sociology, 39(3)
1996	Bonnie H. Erickson	Culture, Class, and Connections	American Journal of Sociology, 102(1)
1991	Henk Flap	Social Capital in the Reproduction of Inequality. A Review	Comparative Sociology of Family, Health and Education, 20
2003	Linda C. Gallo Karen A. Matthews	Understanding the association between socioeconomic status and physical health: Do negative emotions play a role?	Psychological Bulletin, 129(1)
2016	Sean R. Martin Stéphane Côté Todd Woodruff	Echoes of Our Upbringing: How Growing up Wealthy or Poor Relates to Narcissism, Leader Behavior, and Leader Effectiveness	Academy of Management Journal, 59(6)
2022	Sean R. Martin Stéphane Côté	Social Class Transitioners: Their Cultural Abilities and Organizational Importance	Academy of Management Review 44(3)
2013	Dominik van Aaken Violetta Splitter David Seidl	Why Do Corporate Actors Engage in Pro-Social Behaviour? A Bourdieusian Perspective on Corporate Social Responsibility.	Organization, 20(3)
2013	Barbara Gray Jennifer J. Kish-Gephart	Encountering Social Class Differences at Work: How “Class Work” Perpetuates Inequality	Academy of Management Review, 38(4)
2001	Donald Palmer Brad M. Barber	Challengers, Elites, and Owning Families: A Social Class Theory of Corporate Acquisitions in the 1960s.	Administrative Science Quarterly, 46(1)
2011	Igor Grossmann Michael E. W. Varnum	Social Class, Culture, and Cognition	Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2(1)
2015	Jennifer J. Kish-Gephart Joanna Tochman Campbell	You Don’t Forget Your Roots: The Influence of CEO Social Class Background on Strategic Risk Taking	Academy of Management Journal, 58(6)
1990	Melvin L. Kohn Atsushi Naoi Carrie Schoenbach Carmi Schooler Kazimierz M. Slomczynski	Position in the Class Structure and Psychological Functioning in the United States, Japan, and Poland	American Journal of Sociology, 95(4)
1969	Melvin L. Kohn Carmi Schooler	Class, Occupation, and Orientation	American Sociological Review, 34(5)
1983	Melvin L. Kohn Carmi Schooler	Work and personality : an inquiry into the impact of social stratification	Books
2009	Michael W. Kraus Paul K. Piff Dacher Keltner	Social class, sense of control, and social explanation	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97(6)
2012	Michael W. Kraus Paul K. Piff Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton Michelle L. Rheinschmidt Dacher Keltner	Social class, solipsism, and contextualism: How the rich are different from the poor	Psychological Review, 119(3)
2009	Michèle Lamont	The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration	Books
2008	Yaojun Li Mike Savage Alan Warde	Social mobility and social capital in contemporary Britain	The British Journal of Sociology, 59(3)
1999	Nan Lin	Social Networks and Status Attainment	Annual Review of Sociology, 25(1)
2014	Andy Lockett Graeme Currie Rachael Finn Graham Martin Justin Waring	The Influence of Social Position on Sensemaking about Organizational Change	Academy of Management Journal, 57(4)
2018	David J. Woher Andrew Caleb Loignon	Social Class in the Organizational Sciences: A Conceptual Integration and Meta-Analytic Review	Journal of Management, 44(1)
2014	Mairi Maclean Charles Harvey Gerhard Kling	Pathways to Power: Class, Hyper-Agency and the French Corporate Elite	Organization Studies, 35(6)
2013	Mark S. Mizruchi	The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite	American Sociological Review, 61(5)
2014	Paul K. Piff	Wealth and the Inflated Self: Class, Entitlement, and Narcissism	Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40(1)
2010	Paul K. Piff Michael W. Kraus Stéphane Côté Bonnie Hayden Cheng Dacher Keltner	Having less, giving more: The influence of social class on prosocial behavior	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99(5)
2012	Paul K. Piff Daniel M. Stancato Stéphane Côté Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton Dacher Keltner	Higher Social Class Predicts Increased Unethical Behavior	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(11)
1978	Morris Rosenberg Leonard I. Pearlin	Social Class and Self-Esteem Among Children and Adults	American Journal of Sociology, 84(1)
2004	Nicole M. Stephens Hazel Rose Markus L. Taylor Phillips	The Working Poor: Invisible in America	Annual Review of Psychology, 65(1)
2007	Nicole M. Stephens Hazel Rose Markus Sarah S. M. Townsend	Choice as an Act of Meaning: The Case of Social Class	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93(5)
1984	Michael Useem	The Inner Circle: Large Corporations and Business Politics in the U.S. and U.K.	Books
2012	Joan C. Williams	The Class Culture Gap. In: Facing Social Class: How Societal Rank Influences Interaction	Book Chapter
2010	Mayer N. Zald Michael Lounsbury	The Wizards of Oz: Towards an Institutional Approach to Elites, Expertise and Command Posts	Organization Studies, 31(7)
2002	Paul S. Adler Seok-Woo Kwon	Social Capital: Prospects for a New Concept	Academy of Management Review, 27(1)
2014	Paul S Adler Seok-Woo Kwon	Social Capital: Maturation of a field of research	Academy of Management Review
2018	Carrie Leana	The Price of Financial Precarity: Organizational Costs of Employees’ Financial Concerns	Organization Science, 29(3)
2015	Carrie R. Leana Jirs Meuris	Living to Work and Working to Live: Income as a Driver of Organizational Behavior	Academy of Management Annals
2016	Julie G. Weatherhead	Persistent Exposure to Poverty During Childhood Limits Later Leader Emergence	Journal of Applied Psychology, 101(9)
2012	Lauren A. Rivera	Hiring as Cultural Matching: The Case of Elite Professional Service Firms	American Sociological Review, 77(6)
2000	Michael Hartman	Class–Specific Habitus and the Social Reproduction of the Business Elite in Germany and France	The Sociological Review
2018	Anna M. Kallschmidt Asia A. Eaton	Are Lower Social Class Origins Stigmatized at Work? A Qualitative Study of Social Class Concealment and Disclosure Among White Men Employees Who Experienced Upward Mobility	Journal of Vocational Behavior
2017	Sarah SM Townsend Mindy Truong	Cultural models of self and social class disparities at organizational gateways and pathways	Current Opinion in Psychology, 18
2008	Florian Pichler Claire Wallace	Social Capital and Social Class in Europe: The Role of Social Networks in Social Stratification	European Sociological Review, 25(3)
2018	Oleg Chuprinin Denis Sosyura	Family Descent as a Signal of Managerial Quality: Evidence from Mutual Funds	The Review of Financial Studies, 31(10)
2019	André Betzer Peter Limbach P. Raghavendra Rau Henrik Schürmann	Till Death (Or Divorce) Do us Part: Early-Life Family Disruption and Fund Manager Behavior	Working Paper
2019	Carrie R. Leana	The Cost of Financial Precarity	Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2019
2018	Barbara Gray Tiffany D. Johnson Jennifer J. Kish-Gephart Jacqueline Tilton	Identity Work by First-Generation College Students to Counteract Class-Based Microaggressions	Organization Studies, 39(9)
2017	Jennifer J. Kish-Gephart	Social Class Risk Preferences and Behavior	Current Opinion in Psychology, 18
2015	Paul S. Adler	Community and Innovation: From Tönnies to Marx	Organization Studies, 36(4)
2012	Paul S. Adler	The Sociological Ambivalence of Bureaucracy:From Weber via Gouldner to Marx	Organization Science, 23(1)
2003	Ray Reagans Ezra Zuckerman Bill McEvily	How to Make the Team: Social Networks vs. Demography	Administrative Science Quarterly, 49(1)
2017	Oliver Hahl Ezra Zuckerman Minjae Kim	Why Elites Love Authentic Lowbrow Culture: Overcoming High-Status Denigration with Outsider Art	American Sociological Review, 82(4)
2017	Stéphane Côté Michael W. Kraus Nichelle C. Carpenter Paul K. Piff Ursula Beermann Dacher Keltner	Social Affiliation in Same-Class and Cross-Class Interaction	Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(2)
2017	Kathleen L. McGinn Eunsil Oh	Gender, social class, and women’s employment	Current Opinion in Psychology, 18
2013	Kathleen L. McGinn Katherine L. Milkman	Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility Effects of Demographic Similarity among Professionals	Organization Science, 24(4)
2017	Brent D. Beal Marina Astakhova	Management and Income Inequality: A Review and Conceptual Framework	Journal of Business Ethics, 142(1)
2019	Hari Bapuji Gokhan Ertug Jason D. Shaw	Organizations and Societal Economic Inequality: A Review and Way Forward	Academy of Management Annals, 14(1)
2020	John M. Amis Johanna Mair Kamal A. Munir	The Organizational Reproduction of Inequality	Academy of Management Annals, 14(1)
2020	L. Taylor Phillips Nicole M. Stephens Sarah S. M. Townsend Sébastien Goudeau	Access Is Not Enough: Cultural Mismatch Persists to Limit First-Generation Students’ Opportunities for Achievement throughout College	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
2019	Marko Pitesa Madan M. Pillutla	Socioeconomic Mobility and Talent Utilization of Workers from Poorer Backgrounds: The Overlooked Importance of Within-Organization Dynamics	Academy of Management Annals, Volume 13, Issue 2
2018	M. Todd Henderson Irena Hutton	CEO Traits and Firm Outcomes: Do Early Childhood Experiences Matter?	Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3374389
2019	L. Taylor Phillips Sean R. Martin Peter Belmi	Social Class Transitions: Three Guiding Questions for Moving the Study of Class to a Dynamic Perspective	Social and Personality Psychology Compass, e12560
2022	Paul Ingram Jean Joohyun Oh	Mapping the Class Ceiling: The Social Class Disadvantage for Attaining Management Positions	Academy of Management Discoveries, 8(1)
2020	L. Taylor Phillips Brian S. Lowery	I Ain’t No Fortunate One: On the Motivated Denial of Class Privilege	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119(6)
2020	Dominik van Aaken Katja Rost David Seidl	The impact of social class on top managers’ attitudes towards employee downsizing	Long Range Planning, 55(2)
2022	Maximilian Göbel Alexander Seymer Dominik van Aaken	Differences between CEOs: A Social-Class Perspective on CEOs’ Industry Affiliation in Germany	Academy of Management Discoveries, 8(4)
2022	Jennifer J. Kish-Gephart Kristie J. N. Moergen Jacqueline D. Tilton Barbara Gray	Social Class and Work: A Review and Organizing Framework	Journal of Management, In-press
2021	Don O'Sullivan Leon Zolotoy Qingliang Fan	CEO early-life disaster experience and corporate social performance	Strategic Management Journal, 42(11)
2022	Michelle K Lee Jennifer J Kish-Gephart Mark S Mizruchi Donald A Palme Michael Useem	Social Class in Organizations: Entrance, Promotion, and Organizational and Societal Consequences of the Corporate Elite	Journal of Management Inquiry, 30(4)
2023	Jennifer J Kish-Gephart Kristie J N Moergen Jacqueline D Tilton Barbara Gray	Social Class and Work: A Review and Organizing Framework	Journal of Management, 49(1)
2022	Jianhua Ge Joanna Mingxuan Li Eric Yanfei Zhao Fan Yang	Rags to riches? Entrepreneurs' social classes, resourceful time allocation, and venture performance	Journal of Business Venturing, 37(5)
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