Although social network assets have been widely studied as mechanisms for social achievement in the capitalist context, they remain largely unexamined under socialist-type systems. This paper addresses that weakness in the literature and tests the usefulness of social network resources in income...

Konraacute;d and Szeleacute;nyi posed a powerful critique of state socialism with their formulation of the new class theory suggesting that intellectuals were on the road to class power. Using a Weberian reading of Bourdieu, we specify empirically one aspect of that critique and examine the...

Research on the historical level of union density in the United States is based on data or estimates that represent the sum of union members from different organizations. This results in aggregation bias, where the time-trend in union density is consistent with multiple, divergent trends among...