The professions in the West are undergoing unprecedented calls for greater accountability
and efficiency in service delivery. This article links these changes to recent developments in …

Professional work is being attacked by three separate but related forces that transcend easy
categorization; market fundamentalism, the rigid belief that unfettered and unregulated free …

In this study, we examined several hypotheses on how the survival and success of small
businesses headed by men and women are related to industry differences, organizational …

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action was banned, including t-tests for differences between the two admission regimes. …

Our paper represents an attempt to stimulate continued sociological interest in professional
work. Our review suggests that understanding professional work is central to understanding …

This study investigates work-family connections and economic success among women and
men small business owners. We use what we term gender similarity and gender difference …

The study of the relationship between social status and inequality has a distinguished
history. Inequality scholars outside this tradition have paid more attention to social status in …

Group gaps research risks irrelevance because new forms of earnings inequality are increasing
inequality within groups. This review attempts to stimulate more broad-ranging research …

The study of the professions, as they are defined in the developed world, has been deeply
intertwined with institutional theory and topics central to institutional theory (legitimation, …

In our analysis, we examine whether the labeling of social media posts as misinformation
affects the subsequent sharing of them by social media users. Conventional understandings of …