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Previous articleNext article FreeContributorsFull TextPDF Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreNancy T. Ammerman is professor of sociology of religion, emerita, Boston University. She is past president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Association for the Sociology of Religion, as well as past chair of the ASA Religion Section.John Levi Martin teaches sociology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Explanation of Social Action among other books and articles.Alessandra Lembo is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the effects of experience on perception and on the body’s role in processes of meaning making.Andrew G. Walder is the Denise O’Leary and Kent Thiry Professor of Sociology in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University, where he is also a senior fellow in the Freeman-Spogli Institute of International Studies. His recent publications include Agents of Disorder: Inside China’s Cultural Revolution (Harvard University Press, 2019), and, with Dong Guoqiang, A Decade of Upheaval: The Cultural Revolution in Rural China (Princeton University Press, forthcoming).James Chu is a Ph..D candidate in sociology at Stanford University, and he will join the Sociology Department at Columbia University in 2021. His research investigates how social institutions foster inequality and conflict: the role of ranking systems in reproducing inequality; reputations and self-fulfilling cycles that widen achievement gaps; or how status hierarchies insulate people from aggression or expose them to it. His publications have appeared in Social Forces, Socius, Journal of Public Analysis and Management, and Journal of Labor Economics. Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 126, Number 1July 2020 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/710161 Views: 751 © 2020 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

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