Friends and Fortunes - Social Capital Inequality in America

About the author

Benjamin Cornwell served as Chair of Sociology at Cornell University. He has published two books, including Social Sequence Analysis (Cambridge, 2015) and over 70 studies on topics such as social networks and epidemiology. In 2017, the American Sociological Association awarded Cornwell the Leo Goodman Award for advances in research methods.Cristobal Young is Associate Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. He studies the social dynamics of inequality, ranging from millionaire taxes to unemployment. His methodological work centers on model uncertainty and robust results. His most recent book is Multiverse Analysis: Computational Methods for Robust Results (with Erin Cumberworth, Cambridge, 2025).Barum Park is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. He works on topics in political sociology, social networks, social mobility, and quantitative methods. Barum's work has appeared in American Journal of Sociology, Journal of Politics, Social Forces, Sociological Methodology, and Sociological Science, among other outlets.Nan Feng is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. She received a Ph.D. in sociology from Cornell University in 2024. She studies how social networks shape inequality and are shaped by inequality. Her work employs innovative quantitative approaches to study complex data structures.

Product details

• Authors: Cornwell Benjamin, Nan Feng, Barum Park, Cristobal Young
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.05.2026
• EAN: 9781009483254
• ISBN: 978-1-009-48325-4
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
• Subjects: USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, Social Mobility, Social discrimination & inequality, Political Economy, United States of America, USA, Research methods: general, Social discrimination and social justice, Qualitative research methods / methodology