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Laurison, Daniel and 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. ISSN 0037-7732
Higgins, Katie, Friedman, Sam and Reeves, Aaron ORCID: 0000-0001-9114-965X
(2024)
Outsiders on the inside: how minoritised elites respond to racial inequality.
Ethnic and Racial Studies.
ISSN 0141-9870
Bortun, Vladimir, Reeves, Aaron ORCID: 0000-0001-9114-965X and 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.
ISSN 0032-3217
Friedman, Sam, Ellersgaard, Christoph, Reeves, Aaron ORCID: 0000-0001-9114-965X and Larsen, Anton Grau
(2024)
The meaning of merit: talent versus hard work legitimacy.
Social Forces, 102 (3).
861 - 879.
ISSN 0037-7732
Ashley, Louise, Boussebaa, Mehdi, Friedman, Sam, Harrington, Brooke, Heusinkveld, Stefan, Gustafsson, Stefanie and Muzio, Daniel (2023) Professions and inequality: challenges, controversies, and opportunities. Journal of Professions and Organization, 10 (1). pp. 80-98. ISSN 2051-8803
Worth, Eve, Reeves, Aaron ORCID: 0000-0001-9114-965X and 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.
ISSN 0142-5692
Friedman, Sam (2022) Climbing the velvet drainpipe: class background and career progression within the UK Civil Service. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. ISSN 1053-1858
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. ISSN 0968-6673
Moor, Liz and Friedman, Sam (2021) Justifying inherited wealth: between ‘the bank of mum and dad’ and the meritocratic ideal. Economy and Society, 50 (4). 618 - 642. ISSN 0308-5147
Friedman, Sam, O'Brien, Dave and Mcdonald, Ian (2021) Deflecting privilege: class identity and the intergenerational self. Sociology, 55 (4). 716 - 733. ISSN 0038-0385
Toft, Maren and Friedman, Sam (2020) Family wealth and the class ceiling: the propulsive power of the bank of Mum and Dad. Sociology. ISSN 0038-0385
Friedman, Sam and Reeves, Aaron ORCID: 0000-0001-9114-965X
(2020)
From aristocratic to ordinary: shifting modes of elite distinction.
American Sociological Review, 85 (2).
pp. 323-350.
ISSN 0003-1224
Reeves, Aaron ORCID: 0000-0001-9114-965X, Friedman, Sam, Rahal, Charles and Flemmen, Magne
(2017)
The decline and persistence of the old boy: private schools and elite recruitment 1897 to 2016.
American Sociological Review, 82 (6).
pp. 1139-1166.
ISSN 0003-1224
Oakley, Kate, Laurison, Daniel, O'Brien, Dave and Friedman, Sam (2017) Cultural capital: arts graduates, spatial inequality, and London's impact on cultural labour market. American Behavioral Scientist, 61 (12). pp. 1510-1531. ISSN 0002-7642
Friedman, Sam, O’Brien, Dave and Laurison, Daniel (2017) ‘Like skydiving without a parachute’: how class origin shapes occupational trajectories in British acting. Sociology, 51 (5). pp. 992-1010. ISSN 0038-0385
Friedman, Sam and Laurison, Daniel (2017) Mind the gap: financial London and the regional class pay gap. British Journal of Sociology, 68 (3). pp. 474-511. ISSN 0007-1315
O’Brien, Dave, Allen, Kim, Friedman, Sam and Saha, Anamik (2017) Producing and consuming inequality: a cultural sociology of the cultural industries. Cultural Sociology, 11 (3). pp. 271-282. ISSN 1749-9755
Friedman, Sam and O’Brien, Dave (2017) Resistance and resignation: responses to typecasting in British acting. Cultural Sociology, 11 (3). pp. 359-376. ISSN 1749-9755
Friedman, Sam and 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. ISSN 0027-9501
Jarness, Vegard and Friedman, Sam (2017) ‘I’m not a snob, but…’: class boundaries and the downplaying of difference. Poetics, 61. pp. 14-25. ISSN 0304-422X
Laurison, Daniel and Friedman, Sam (2016) The class pay gap in Britain’s higher professional and managerial occupations. American Sociological Review, 81 (4). pp. 668-695. ISSN 0003-1224
O'Brien, Dave, Laurison, Daniel, Miles, Andrew and Friedman, Sam (2016) Are the creative industries meritocratic? An analysis of the 2014 British labour force survey. Cultural Trends. ISSN 1469-3690
Friedman, Sam (2016) Habitus clivé and the emotional imprint of social mobility. Sociological Review, 64 (1). pp. 129-147. ISSN 0038-0261
Friedman, Sam, Savage, Mike ORCID: 0000-0003-4563-9564, Hanquinet, Laurie and Miles, Andre
(2015)
Cultural sociology and new forms of distinction.
Poetics, 53.
pp. 1-8.
ISSN 0304-422X
Savage, Mike ORCID: 0000-0003-4563-9564, Devine, Fiona, Cunningham, Niall, Friedman, Sam, Laurison, Daniel, Miles, Andrew, Snee, Helene and Taylor, Mark
(2015)
On social class, anno 2014.
Sociology, 49 (6).
pp. 1011-1030.
ISSN 0038-0385
Friedman, Sam, Laurison, Daniel and Miles, Andrew (2015) Breaking the ‘class’ ceiling?: social mobility into Britain's elite occupations. Sociological Review, 63 (2). pp. 259-289. ISSN 0038-0261
Friedman, Sam (2014) The hidden tastemakers: comedy scouts as cultural brokers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Poetics, 44. pp. 22-41. ISSN 0304-422X
Friedman, Sam (2014) The price of the ticket: rethinking the experience of social mobility. Sociology, 48 (2). pp. 352-368. ISSN 0038-0385
Friedman, Sam and Kuipers, Giselinde (2013) The divisive power of humour: comedy, taste and symbolic boundaries. Cultural Sociology, 7 (2). pp. 179-195. ISSN 1749-9755
Savage, Mike ORCID: 0000-0003-4563-9564, Devine, Fiona, Cunningham, Niall, Taylor, Mark, Li, Yaojun, Hjellbrekke, Johs., Le Roux, Brigitte, Friedman, Sam and Miles, Andrew
(2013)
A new model of social class? Findings from the BBC's Great British Class Survey experiment.
Sociology, 47 (2).
pp. 219-250.
ISSN 0038-0385
Friedman, Sam (2012) Cultural omnivores or culturally homeless? Exploring the shifting cultural identities of the upwardly mobile. Poetics, 40 (5). pp. 467-489. ISSN 0304-422X
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). pp. 347-370. ISSN 0007-1315
Friedman, Sam and Savage, Mike ORCID: 0000-0003-4563-9564
(2018)
Time, accumulation and trajectory: Bourdieu and social mobility.
In: Lawler, Steph and Payne, Geoff, (eds.)
Social mobility for the 21st century: everyone a winner?
Sociological Futures.
Routledge, Abingdon, UK.
ISBN 9781138244894
Friedman, Sam (2015) Comedy as an aesthetic experience. In: Hanquinet, Laurie and Savage, Mike, (eds.) Routledge International Handbook of the Sociology of Art and Culture. Routledge International Handbooks. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9780415855112
Friedman, Sam (2015) Social stratification and social classes. In: Wilkinson, I. and Inglis, D., (eds.) Sociology: A Sociological Introduction. Sage Publications Ltd., London, UK.
Friedman, Sam (2013) 'Handling' the darkness: Chris Morris as cultural capital. In: Leggott, James and Sexton, Jamie, (eds.) No Known Cure: The Comedy of Chris Morris. Palgrave Macmillan for the British Film Institute, London, UK. ISBN 9781844574797
Friedman, Sam, Gronwald, Victoria, Summers, Andrew ORCID: 0000-0002-4978-7743 and 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, London, UK.
Friedman, Sam and Laurison, Daniel (2019) The class ceiling: why it pays to be privileged. Policy Press, Bristol, UK. ISBN 9781447336068
Savage, Mike ORCID: 0000-0003-4563-9564 and Friedman, Sam
(2015)
Social class in the 21st century.
Penguin Books, London, UK.
ISBN 9780241004227
Friedman, Sam (2014) Comedy and distinction: the cultural currency of a ‘good’ sense of humour. CRESC: Culture, Economy and the Social. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9780415855037
Friedman, Sam (2022) The “class ceiling”: tackling barriers to social mobility in UK television. LSE Business Review (13 Jun 2022). Blog Entry.
Hecht, Katharina, Mcarthur, Daniel, Savage, Mike ORCID: 0000-0003-4563-9564 and Friedman, Sam
(2020)
Social mobility at the top: how elites in the UK are pulling away.
British Politics and Policy at LSE
(22 Jan 2020), 1 - 4.
Blog Entry.
Reeves, Aaron ORCID: 0000-0001-9114-965X and Friedman, Sam
(2017)
The dogged persistence of the British 'old boy': how private school alumni reach the elite.
British Politics and Policy at LSE
(Oct 2017).
Website.
Laurison, Daniel and Friedman, Sam (2015) ‘Poshness tests’ and the class ceiling: there is much more research to be done. British Politics and Policy at LSE (16 Jun 2015). Website.