Sociologisk Forskning, vol 54, no 4, pp 377–381. Abstract Motivated by a recent controversy over handshaking, a survey of the personal networks of young Swedes (n=2244) is used to describe greeting prac

The British Journal of Sociology, vol 69, no 1, pp 99-123, doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.12289. Abstract The study investigates inequalities in access to social capital based on social class origin and immigra

Robert B. Talisse is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee Abstract Democracy is such an important social good that it seems natural to think that more i