Mark Lutter

TL;DR: This paper analyzed career survival models and interaction effects between gender and different measures of social capital and information openness and found that female actors have a higher risk of career failure than do their male colleagues when affiliated in cohesive networks, but women have better survival chances when embedded in open, diverse structures.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used career and publication data of virtually all sociologists working in German sociology departments to test how meritocratic and non-meritocratic factors (ascription, symbolic and social capital) influence the chances of getting a permanent professorship in sociology.

TL;DR: The authors found that peer play, educational attainment and self-perceived social deprivation have strong effects on lottery play, while culture, the study finds, plays a much lesser role, and it is not a lack of a 'Protestant' work ethic that makes the poor spend proportionally more on lottery tickets.

TL;DR: In this article, the distribution effects of state lotteries have on Germany's social structure were examined on the basis of a telephone survey conducted on a random sample of the German residential population.

TL;DR: The process of policy diffusion is gaining increasing attention among social scientists as discussed by the authors, following world society theory, and a burgeoning literature reports a positive relationship between national lin..., and a growing literature reports that