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2026

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81
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347
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62

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Overview

Mike Savage is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a specialization in sociology and political science. This is reflected in a body of work that spans 52 publications, with notable concentrations in sociology and political science and international relations. Additional subfields include finance, urban studies, and general health professions.

The main topics covered in their research include housing, finance, and neoliberalism; social and cultural dynamics; social policy and reform studies; income, poverty, and inequality; cultural industries and urban development; youth education and societal dynamics; and political and economic history of the UK and US.

Frequent publication venues for Mike Savage include the British Journal of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online, Sociology, The Journal of Chinese Sociology, and The Political Quarterly. Their publication record demonstrates contributions to both academic journals and book form, with two books published by Harvard University Press under the title The Return of Inequality in 2021.

Several recent papers illustrate their research interests and output. These include:

  • "Meritocracy, Elitism and Inequality" (2020) published in The Political Quarterly
  • "What drove income inequality in EU crisis countries during the Great Recession?" (2020) published in Fiscal Studies
  • "Social Polarisation at the Local Level: A Four-Town Comparative Study on the Challenges of Politicising Inequality in Britain" (2020) published in Sociology
  • "Distinctions in the making: A theoretical discussion of youth and cultural capital" (2023) published in British Journal of Sociology
  • "Wealth and Class Analysis: Exploitation, Closure and Exclusion" (2024) published in Sociology

Mike Savage has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Insa Koch, Mark Fransham, Sarah Cant, Jill Ebrey, and Luna Glucksberg, each contributing to multiple publications. This indicates a networked approach to research within their fields of study.

Best Publications

  • A new model of social class : findings from the BBC's Great British Class Survey Experiment.

    Mike Savage;Fiona Devine;Niall Cunningham;Mark Taylor

  • Culture, Class, Distinction

    Tony Bennett;Michael Savage;Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva;Alan Warde

  • Globalization and belonging

    Michael Savage;Gaynor Bagnall;Brian Longhurst

  • Class Analysis and Social Transformation

    Michael Savage

  • The Coming Crisis of Empirical Sociology

    Mike Savage;Roger Burrows

  • Property, Bureaucracy and Culture: Middle Class Formation in Contemporary Britain

    Michael Savage;James Barlow;Peter Dickens;Tony Fielding

  • Social Class in the 21st Century

    Mike Savage;Niall Cunningham;Fiona Devine;Sam Friedman

  • Urban Sociology, Capitalism and Modernity

    Michael Savage;Alan Warde

  • Gender, Careers and Organisations

    Susan Halford;Mike Savage;Anne Witz

  • Gender, Careers and Organisations: Current Developments in Banking, Nursing and Local Government

    Susan Halford;Michael Savage;Anne Witz

  • Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940: The Politics of Method

    Michael Savage

  • Reassembling Social Science Methods: The Challenge of Digital Devices:

    Evelyn S. Ruppert;John Law;Mike Savage

  • Ordinary, ambivalent and defensive: class identities in the Northwest of England

    Mike Savage;Gaynor Bagnall;Brian Longhurst

  • Popular Contention in Great Britain

    Mike Savage;Charles Tilly

  • Social networks and the study of relations: networks as method, metaphor and form

    Hannah Knox;Mike Savage;Penny Harvey

  • Social Change And The Middle Classes

    Tim Butler;Michael Savage

  • Gender and Bureaucracy

    Kathy E. Ferguson;Mike Savage;Anne Witz

  • Social Capital and Social Trust in Britain

    Yaojun Li;Andrew Pickles;Mike Savage

  • After the crisis? Big data and the methodological challenges of empirical sociology

    R Burrows;M Savage

  • Emerging Forms of Cultural Capital

    Annick Prieur;Mike Savage

  • Social Change and the Middle Classes.

    Patricia McManus;Tim Butler;Mike Savage

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Warde
Alan Warde University of Manchester
Andrew Miles
Andrew Miles University of Toronto
Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett Western Sydney University
Roger Burrows
Roger Burrows Newcastle University
James Barlow
James Barlow Imperial College London
John Law
John Law The Open University
Rosemary Crompton
Rosemary Crompton City, University of London
John Scott
John Scott Queensland University of Technology
Andrew Pickles
Andrew Pickles King's College London
Nick Crossley
Nick Crossley University of Manchester

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