Power and Privilege: The Sociology of Inequality
Call for chapters on how power, privilege, status, and institutions shape the production and reproduction of inequality.
Call for Chapters. Durham & Thunmann invites chapter proposals for the forthcoming academic volume Power and Privilege: The Sociology of Inequality. The book will examine how power, status, resources, identities, institutions, and cultural narratives shape unequal life chances, and how privilege is reproduced, contested, or transformed across societies.
Scope and objectives
This volume approaches inequality as a relational and institutional phenomenon. We welcome work that studies not only deprivation and exclusion, but also the social production of advantage: how elite positions are consolidated, how organizational rules allocate opportunity, how categories such as class, race, gender, migration status, age, disability, and sexuality intersect, and how symbolic power legitimates hierarchy.
The book is especially interested in chapters that combine theoretical clarity with empirical depth, including comparative, historical, ethnographic, quantitative, legal-institutional, and mixed-methods approaches.
Suggested topics
Power and stratification
Class formation, status hierarchies, elite reproduction, social closure, and intergenerational advantage.
Privilege and institutions
Education, labour markets, housing, law, welfare, healthcare, and bureaucracy as sites of unequal allocation.
Intersectional inequality
Race, gender, class, sexuality, disability, citizenship, religion, age, and migration as intersecting structures.
Culture and legitimation
Meritocracy, moral worth, taste, credentialism, media narratives, and the cultural normalization of advantage.
Digital and technological power
Platforms, datafication, algorithmic sorting, surveillance, and new infrastructures of inequality.
Resistance and transformation
Social movements, collective action, redistribution, institutional reform, and alternative models of inclusion.
Global and comparative inequality
Colonial legacies, development, urban segregation, global labour chains, and transnational elites.
Propose your chapter
We also welcome original chapters that extend the volume beyond these indicative themes.
Submission guidelines
Proposal length
Submit a 500–700 word proposal outlining the chapter argument, research question, methodology, and contribution.
Full chapter length
Accepted chapters should normally be 6,000–8,000 words, including notes and references.
Author information
Include author name, affiliation, email, short biography, and ORCID when available.
Review process
Chapters will undergo editorial screening and peer review before final acceptance.
Important dates
- 01Proposal submission deadline
- 02Notification of acceptance
- 03Full chapter submission deadline
- 04Review feedback
- 05Final chapter submission
Submission process
Please send chapter proposals and full chapters to frans.lavdari@dandtpress.com with the subject line “Chapter Submission: Power and Privilege”.