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Changing elites: how social and institutional change has altered the processes of elite formation over time?

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Publications

Gendered processes of recruitment to elite higher educational institutions in mid‐twentieth century Britain (opens in new window)

Author(s): Eve Worth, Naomi Muggleton, Aaron Reeves
Published in: Gender & History, Issue 38, 2026, Page(s) 307-326, ISSN 0953-5233
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12785

Is health politically irrelevant? Experimental evidence during a global pandemic. (opens in new window)

Author(s): Arnab Acharya; John Gerring; Aaron Reeves
Published in: BMJ Global Health, Issue 1, 2020, ISSN 2059-7908
Publisher: BMJ
DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/u27cp

Is there an old girls’ network? Girls’ schools and recruitment to the British elite (opens in new window)

Author(s): Eve Worth, Aaron Reeves, Sam Friedman
Published in: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023, ISSN 0142-5692
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2022.2132472

Capitalizing on a crisis: a computational analysis of all five million British firms during the Covid-19 pandemic (opens in new window)

Author(s): Naomi Muggleton, Charles Rahal, Aaron Reeves
Published in: Journal of Computational Social Science, Issue 8, 2025, ISSN 2432-2717
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s42001-025-00360-4

The Meaning of Merit: Talent versus Hard Work Legitimacy (opens in new window)

Author(s): Sam Friedman, Christoph Ellersgaard, Aaron Reeves, Anton Grau Larsen
Published in: Social Forces, Issue 102, 2024, Page(s) 861-879, ISSN 0037-7732
Publisher: University of North Carolina
DOI: 10.1093/sf/soad131

From Aristocratic to Ordinary: Shifting Modes of Elite Distinction (opens in new window)

Author(s): Sam Friedman, Aaron Reeves
Published in: American Sociological Review, Issue 85/2, 2020, Page(s) 323-350, ISSN 0003-1224
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/0003122420912941

‘We Didn’t Know What We Were Eating Tomorrow’: How Class Origin Shapes the Political Outlook of Members of the Parliament in Britain (opens in new window)

Author(s): Vladimir Bortun, Aaron Reeves, Sam Friedman
Published in: Political Studies, Issue 73, 2025, Page(s) 612-630, ISSN 0032-3217
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1177/00323217241257006

“Outsiders on the inside”: how minoritised elites respond to racial inequality (opens in new window)

Author(s): Katie Higgins, Sam Friedman, Aaron Reeves
Published in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, Issue 48, 2025, Page(s) 1991-2011, ISSN 0141-9870
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2024.2354317

The Unintended Consequences of Quantifying Quality: Does Ranking School Performance Shape the Geographical Concentration of Advantage? (opens in new window)

Author(s): Dan McArthur, Aaron Reeves
Published in: American Journal of Sociology, 2022, ISSN 0002-9602
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1086/722470

‘Corruption talk’ and the politics of class in 21st century Britain (opens in new window)

Author(s): Sacha Hilhorst, Insa Lee Koch, Mark Fransham, Aaron Reeves, Mike Savage
Published in: The Sociological Review, Issue 73, 2025, Page(s) 1201-1220, ISSN 0038-0261
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1177/00380261241291308

How are cultural tastes stratified? Evidence from library borrowing for the entire population of Denmark (opens in new window)

Author(s): Ea Hoppe Blaabæk, Sam Friedman, Mads Meier Jæger, Aaron Reeves
Published in: European Sociological Review, Issue 42, 2026, Page(s) 253-267, ISSN 0266-7215
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcaf041

‘I am almost the middle-class white man, aren’t I?’: elite women, education and occupational trajectories in late twentieth-century Britain (opens in new window)

Author(s): Eve Worth, Aaron Reeves
Published in: Contemporary British History, Issue 38, 2024, Page(s) 71-94, ISSN 1361-9462
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2023.2265815

The Cultivation of The Synthetic Gentleman: Exploring Horizontal Boundaries Within the British Elite

Author(s): Sam Friedman, Aaron Reeves
Published in: Class boundaries. The Bourdieusian approach in perspective, 2022
Publisher: Routledge

Family Fortunes (opens in new window)

Author(s): Aaron Reeves, Sam Friedman
Published in: The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Global Elites, 2026, Page(s) 43-54
Publisher: Oxford University PressNew York, NY
DOI: 10.1093/9780197780343.003.0003

Born to Rule: The making and remaking of the British elite

Author(s): Aaron Reeves, Sam Friedman
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Belknap, Harvard University Press

How the other half lives: Interconnecting socio-spatial inequalities

Author(s): Samuel Burgum, Katie Higgins
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press

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