… (Sauder 2008), these third-party evaluations greatly influence the status position of those
being judged (Sauder … This article was completed while Michael Sauder was a Scholar at the …

Recently, there has been a proliferation of measures responding to demands for accountability
and transparency. Using the example of media rankings of law schools, this article …

For organizations, as for individuals, status position governs access to a variety of valued
rewards. To uncover the causes of status position, recent research has focused on the …

In recent years, there has been a tremendous proliferation of quantitative evaluative social
measures in the field of law as well as society generally. One of these measures, the US …

Sociology has been curiously silent about the concept of luck. The present article argues
that this omission is, in fact, an oversight: An explicit and systematic engagement with luck …

This article proposes an interactionist framework for the study of status stratification. This
framework returns the focus of status research to how status works, especially emphasizing the …

This article demonstrates the value of Foucault's conception of discipline for understanding
organizational responses to rankings. Using a case study of law schools, we explain why …

Drawing on a 15-month ethnographic study of a drug court, we investigate how actors from
different institutional and professional backgrounds employ logical frameworks in their micro-…

… In Engines of Anxiety, sociologists Wendy Espeland and Michael Sauder delve deep into the
… Espeland and Sauder find that law schools face pressure to admit applicants with high test …

This article analyzes a process by which established organizational fields change through
the incorporation of new field-level actors. Drawing on 137 in-depth interviews with US law …