Recent Publications

• A. Mears, E. Birced, and T. Nguyen. 2025. “The Right Amount of Sex: Digital Labor in the Grey Zone of Platform Governance.” Work & Occupations.

• M. Anteby and V. Iannucci. 2025. “Beyond Professional Experts: The Rise of Lay, Counter-, and Neo-Experts as Alternative Claim-Makers” Research in Organizational Behavior.

• A. Mears and T. Beauvais. 2025.”Learning to Like the Likes and the Hate:The Labor of Internet Fame in the New Attention Economy.”Social Problems.

• E. Birced. 2025.”Empowered by Consumers: How Content Creators Use Relational Labor to Resist Labor Control.”Socio-Economic Review.

• J. Battilana, C. Beckman, and J. Yen. 2025.”On Democratic Organizing and Organization Theory.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 70(2): 297-327.

• E. Aguirre, J. Yen, and J. Battilana. 2025.”An Organizational Theory of Corporate Law.”The Journal of corporation law, 50(3): 567-616.

• N. Kibria and A. Wigen. 2025. “Making Sense of Sibling Economic Gaps: Racialized Meritocratic Frames, Economic Inequalities, and Family Relationships.”American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 13: 517-541.

• N. Gondal and A. Wigen. 2025. “Professor-Writers and Machinist-PainterPhotographers: Investigating the Duality between Occupational Categories and Artistic Hobbies.”Poetics, 110.

• YC. Huang, and A. Guseva. 2025. “The Moral Economy of Severe Scarcity: How Considerations of Deservingness Shape Cloth Mask Distribution Practices in the Midst of a Global Health Crisis.” Journal of Cultural Economy, 18(4):475-495.

• J. L. Kidder, A. J. Binder, and Z. Cooper. 2025. “Normalizing Disreputable Exchanges in the Academy: Libertarian Scholars and the Stigma of Ideologically-Based Funding.” Qualitative Sociology, 48(1):51–72.

• A. Mears, and H. Mooney. 2024 “Getting In: Status Stratification and the Pursuit of the Good College Party.” Qualitative Sociology, 47: 221-247.

• A. Monier and A. Mears. 2024.”Elites, Bodies, and Gender: Women’s Appearance as Class
Distinction.” Ethnography.

• A. Holm, BT. Fong, and M. Anteby. 2024 “The Perils of Voice Veneer: The Case of Disneyland Puppeteers’ Unionization Efforts.” Academy of Management Discoveries, 10(4): 527-542.

• D. Joseph-Goteiner. 2024.”From Degrees to Dimensions: Accounts of Workers’ Socio-Economic Dependence on Platforms.”Socius, 10:1-12.

• JJ. Mijs, and A. Usmani. 2024. “How Segregation Ruins Inference: A Sociological Simulation of the Inequality Equilibrium.” Social Forces,103(1):45-65. 

• L. Ramarajan and J. Yen. 2024.”Defining Who You Are by Whom You Serve? Strategies for Prosocial–Professional Identity Integration with Clients.” Administrative Science Quarterly 69(2): 515-567.

• Y. Girgin, and T. Kuyucu. 2024. “My Tears Have Dried from Crying, I Want to Laugh Now!: Role Diversification Patterns and Gendered Accumulation of Status in the TV-Acting Field in Turkey.” The Sociological Quarterly, 66(1):148-169.

• Z. Cooper, Amy Binder, and Jeffrey Kidder. 2024. “Keeping Libertarianism Alive in the Academy: Organizations, Scholars, and the Idea Pipeline.” Socius, 10.

• A. Wigen. 2023. “Negotiating Unequal Exchange: Relational Work in Cross-Class Sibling Relationships.” Sociological Forum, 38(1): 235-253.

• M. Lucy. 2023 “Divestment as investment:“Kondo-ing” selves in the context of overaccumulation.” Journal of Consumer Culture, 23(4):769-788.

• N. Bourmault and M. Anteby. 2023 “Rebooting One’s Professional Work: The Case of French Anesthesiologists Using Hypnosis.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 68 (4), 913-955.

• A. Mears. 2023. “Bringing Bourdieu to a content farm: Social media production fields and the cultural economy of attention.” Social Media+ Society,

• D. Harmon, E. Rhee, and YH. Cho. 2023. “Building a bridge to the future: Prospective legitimation in nascent markets.” Strategic Management Journal, 44(11):2597-2633.

• H. Gowayed, A. Mears and N. Occhiuto. 2022 “Pause, Pivot, and Shift: Responses to Sudden Job Loss.” American Behavioral Scientist.

• L.D. Cameron, C.K. Chan, M Anteby. 2022. “Heroes from above but not (always) from within? Gig workers’ reactions to the sudden public moralization of their work” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 172.

• F. Godart and A. Mears. 2022. “Transitory Ties: A Network Ecology Perspective on Workers’ Opportunities in the Creative Economy.” Social Networks.

• P. Ward. 2022. “Worth our work? The (in)visible value of refugee volunteers in the transnational aid sector.” Work, Employment and Society,36(5):928-944.

• JJ. Mijs, and J. Nieuwenhuis. 2022. “Adolescents’ future in the balance of family, school, and the neighborhood: A multidimensional application of two theoretical perspectives.” Social science quarterly, 103(3):534-549. 

• A. Guseva. 2021. “The Expedient Lightness of Credit and the Surprising Truth about the American Developmental State” Contemporary Sociology 50(5), 378-381.

• M. Anteby and A. Holm. 2021 “Translating Expertise across Work Contexts: U.S. Puppeteers Move from Stage to Screen” American Sociological Review, 86 (2): 310-340.

• Bayurgil, L. 2021. “Fired and Evicted: Istanbul Doorkeepers’ Strategies of Navigating Double Precarity” Social Problems, 69(4): 1092-1108.

• JJ. Mijs. 2021. “The paradox of inequality: Income inequality and belief in meritocracy go hand in hand.” Socio-Economic Review, 19(1):7-35.

• N. Bourmault and M. Anteby. 2020. “Unpacking the Managerial Blues: How Expectations Formed in the Past Carry into New Jobs” Organization Science, 31(6): 1452-1474.

• DeCelles, K. and Anteby, M. 2020. “Compassion in the Clink: When and How Human Services Workers Overcome Barriers to Care” Organization Science., 31(6): 1408-1431.

• Anteby, M. and N. Occhiuto. 2020. “Stand-In Labor and the Rising Economy of Self” Social Forces, 98(3): 1287- 1310.

• Guseva, A. 2020. “Scandals, Morality Wars, and the Field of Reproductive Surrogacy in Ukraine” economic sociology_the european electronic newsletter 21(3).

• Guseva, A. and D. Ibragimova. 2020. “Autonomy as empowerment, or how gendered power manifests itself in contemporary Russian families.” Gender, Power, Eastern Europe: Changing Concepts of Femininities and Masculinities and Power Relations, ed. by Katharina Bluhm, Gertrud Pickhan, Justyna Stypinska and Agnieszka Wierzcholska. Springer.•

• Mears, A. 2020. Very Important People: Beauty and Status in the Global Party Circuit. Princeton University Press.

• Mears, A. 2019 “Des Fêtes très Exclusives. Les Promoteurs de Soirées VIP, des Intermédiaires aux Ambitions Contraries.” (“An Exclusive Night Scene: Promoters of VIP Evenings, Intermediaries with Thwarted Ambitions.”) Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales 230(5):56-75.

• Mobasseri, Sanaz. 2019. “Race, Place, and Crime: How Violent Crime Events Affect Employment Discrimination.” American Journal of Sociology 125(1): 63-104.

• Guseva, A. and A. Rona-Tas. 2019. “Consumer Credit Surveillance.” Oxford Handbook of Consumption, ed. by Frederick Wherry. London, UK: Oxford University Press.

• Cousin,B., S. Khan, and A. Mears. 2018. “Theoretical and methodological pathways for research on elites.” Socio-Economic Review 16(2): 225-249.

• Rona-Tas, A. and A. Guseva. 2018. “Consumer Credit in Comparative Perspective.” Annual Review of Sociology 44: 55-75.

• Anteby, M. and C. Chan. 2018. “A Self-Fulfilling Cycle of Coercive Surveillance: Workers’ Invisibility Practices and Managerial Justification” Organization Science, 29(2): 247-263.

• Mijs, Jonathan J.B. 2018. “Inequality is a problem of inference: How people solve the social puzzle of unequal outcomes.” Societies 8(3): 64

• Guseva, A. and A. Rona-Tas. 2017. “Money Talks, Plastic Money Tattles. The New Sociability of Money.” Money Talks: Explaining How Money Really Works, ed. by Nina Bandelj, Fred Wherry and Viviana Zelizer. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

• Ibragimova, D. and A. Guseva. 2017. “Who Is in Charge of Family Finances in the Russian Two-earner Households.” Journal of Family Issues, 38(17): 2425-2448.

•Darr, A. and M. Ashley. 2017.“Local Knowledge, Global Networks: Scouting for Fashion Models and Football Players.” Poetics 62: 1-14.