by Brooke Harrington | Sep 30, 2021 | Elites & Inequality
2021, Sociologica, 15 (2): 143 – 152. What relevance does an early twentieth-century thinker like Simmel have for the contemporary sociology of wealth? This paper suggests that Simmel’s classic work on the secret and secret societies is embedded but...
by Brooke Harrington | Aug 30, 2021 | Other
2021, The Atlantic This article uses the Sociology of fraud–from Goffman’s “On Cooling the Mark Out”–and of reference groups–from Merton’s Social Theory and Social Structure–to explain why many Americans have...
by Brooke Harrington | Aug 9, 2021 | Other
2021, The Guardian This article uses the Sociology of reference groups (Merton) and fraud (Goffman) to explain vaccine and mask refusal during the COVID-19 pandemic. Keywords: pandemic, COVID-19, fraud, Goffman, reference groups, Merton, anti-vaxx, vaccine refusal,...
by Brooke Harrington | Aug 6, 2021 | Tax & Policy
2021, Pp. 356-374 in Handbook on the Politics of Taxation, Lukas Hakelberg and Laura Seelkopf (Eds.), Edward Elgar; with Alice Guerra. This chapter reviews the latest findings in experimental research on tax compliance, from 2018 onward. It identifies the main themes...
by Brooke Harrington | May 30, 2021 | Other
2021, The Chronicle of Higher Education This article uses reference group theory (Merton), along with Goffman’s theory on the group dynamics of fraud, to explain a variety of puzzling behaviors by Americans during the pandemic: mask and vaccine refusal,...
