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  • Friedman, Sam, Savage, Mike, Spoerhase, Carlos (2025). Beyond the ‘scholarship boy’ paradigm: autosociobiography and social mobility. European Journal of Cultural Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494251394865 picture_as_pdf
  • Savage, Mike (2025). 'Quiet' and 'loud' elites: the visibility of economic power in the UK. Socio-Economic Review, https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag002
  • Hilhorst, Sacha, Koch, Insa, Fransham, Mark, Reeves, Aaron, Savage, Mike (2025). 'Corruption talk’ and the politics of class in 21st century Britain. Sociological Review, 73(6), 1201 - 1220. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261241291308 picture_as_pdf
  • Bühlmann, Felix, Christesen, Caroline Ahler, Cousin, Bruno, Denord, François, Ellersgaard, Christoph Houman, Lagneau‐Ymonet, Paul, Larsen, Anton Grau, Savage, Mike, Thine, Sylvain & Young, Kevin et al (2025). Varieties of economic elites? Preliminary results from the World Elite Database (WED). British Journal of Sociology, 76(3), 663 - 673. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13203 picture_as_pdf
  • Elliott, Jane, Friese, Carrie, Harris, Gaby, Mann, Liz, Savage, Mike (2025). Everyday voices as big data: a call for the secondary analysis of large-scale qualitative interview data. Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385251344472 picture_as_pdf
  • Savage, Mike (2025). Social class, wealth and multidimensional inequalities: the Great British Class Survey after ten years. Mens & Maatschappij, 100(2), 126 - 142. https://doi.org/10.5117/mem2025.2.002.sava picture_as_pdf
  • Waitkus, Nora, Savage, Mike, Toft, Maren (2025). Wealth and class analysis: exploitation, closure and exclusion. Sociology, 59(1), 126 - 143. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385241275842 picture_as_pdf
  • Savage, Mike (2025). Some personal reflections on the "mentorship paradox". Sociologica, 18(3), 31 - 36. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/20369 picture_as_pdf
  • Branson, Nicola, Hjellbrekke, Johs, Leibbrandt, Murray, Ranchhod, Vimal, Savage, Mike, Whitelaw, Emma (2024). The socioeconomic dimensions of racial inequality in South Africa: a social space perspective. British Journal of Sociology, 75(4), 613 - 635. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13115 picture_as_pdf
  • Savage, Mike (2024). In defence of sociological description: a ‘world-making' perspective. British Journal of Sociology, 75(3), 360 - 365. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13083 picture_as_pdf
  • Savage, Mike, Vaughan, Michael (2024). Durability in inequality discourse in the UK public sphere, 2008-2023. Javnost - the Public, 31(1), 176 - 192. https://doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2024.2311024 picture_as_pdf
  • Savage, Mike (2023). Book review: Thomas Piketty. A brief history of equality, translated by Steven Rendall. Administrative Science Quarterly, 68(3), NP53 - NP55. https://doi.org/10.1177/00018392231175346
  • Prieur, Annick, Savage, Mike, Flemmen, Magne (2023). Distinctions in the making: a theoretical discussion of youth and cultural capital. British Journal of Sociology, 74(3), 360-375. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13002 picture_as_pdf
  • Hecht, Katharina, Savage, Mike, Summers, Kate (2022). Why isn’t there more support for progressive taxation of wealth? A sociological contribution to the wider debate. LSE Public Policy Review, 2(4). https://doi.org/10.31389/lseppr.65 picture_as_pdf
  • Savage, Mike (2022). History and sociology a twenty-first century rapprochement? Twentieth Century British History, 33(3), 416-431. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwac012 picture_as_pdf
  • Savage, Mike, Waitkus, Nora (2022). Property, wealth, and social change: Piketty as a social science engineer. British Journal of Sociology, 72(1), 39 - 51. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12817 picture_as_pdf
  • Savage, Mike, Li, Chunling (2021). Introduction to thematic series “new sociological perspectives on inequality”. Journal of Chinese Sociology, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40711-021-00145-y picture_as_pdf
  • Díaz Pabón, Fabio Andrés, Leibbrandt, Murray, Ranchhod, Vimal, Savage, Michael (2021). Piketty comes to South Africa. British Journal of Sociology, 72(1), 106 - 124. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12808
  • Paidipaty, Poornima, Savage, Mike (2021). Debating Capital and Ideology: an introduction to the special issue. British Journal of Sociology, 72(1), 3 - 7. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12826 picture_as_pdf
  • Koch, Insa, Fransham, Mark, Cant, Sarah, Ebrey, Jill, Glucksberg, Luna, Savage, Mike (2021). Social polarisation at the local level: a four-town comparative study on the challenges of politicising inequality in Britain. Sociology, 55(1), 3 - 29. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520975593 picture_as_pdf
  • Savage, Mike (2021). Bourdieu comes to town: part II. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 45(1), 150 - 153. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12849 picture_as_pdf
  • Savage, Mike, Meersohn Schmidt, Cynthia (2020). The politics of the excluded: abjection and reconciliation amongst the British precariat. Journal of Chinese Sociology, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40711-020-00134-7 picture_as_pdf
  • Upton-Hansen, Chris, Kolbe, Kristina, Savage, Mike (2020). An institutional politics of place: rethinking the critical function of art in times of growing inequality. Cultural Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975520964357 picture_as_pdf
  • Mijs, Jonathan J.B, Savage, Mike (2020). Meritocracy, elitism and inequality. Political Quarterly, 91(2), 397 - 404. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.12828 picture_as_pdf
  • Cant, Sarah, Savage, Mike, Chatterjee, Anwesa (2020). Popular but peripheral: the ambivalent status of sociology education in schools in England. Sociology, 54(1), 37-52. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038519856815 picture_as_pdf
  • Simson, Rebecca, Savage, Mike (2020). The global significance of national inequality decline. Third World Quarterly, 41(1), 20 - 41. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2019.1662287
  • Savage, Mike (2019). What makes for a successful sociology? A response to “Against a descriptive turn”. British Journal of Sociology, 71(1), 19 - 27. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12713
  • Savage, Mike, Flemmen, Magne (2019). Life narratives and personal identity the end of linear social mobility? Cultural and Social History, 16(1), 85-101. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2019.1574049 description
  • Hanquinet, Laurie, Savage, Mike (2018). Feeling European in a globalised world and the role of mobility, networks, and consumption: a comparative approach to British exceptionalism. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 5(4), 423 - 454. https://doi.org/10.1080/23254823.2018.1478249
  • Savage, Mike, Hanquinet, Laurie, Cunningham, Niall, Hjellbrekke, Johs (2018). Emerging cultural capital in the city: profiling London and Brussels. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 42(1), 138-149. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12531
  • Hey, Ana Paula, Grimaldi-Christensen, Anna, Savage, Mike (2017). Elites in the UK: new approaches to contemporary class divisions. Tempo Social, 29(3), 161-179. https://doi.org/10.11606/0103-2070. ts.2017.125956
  • Halford, Susan, Savage, Mike (2017). Speaking sociologically with big data: symphonic social science and the future for big data research. Sociology, 51(6), 1132-1148. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038517698639
  • Dodd, Nigel, Lamont, Michèle, Savage, Mike (2017). Introduction to BJS special issue. British Journal of Sociology, 68(S1), S3-S10. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12326
  • Flemmen, Magne, Savage, Mike (2017). The politics of nationalism and white racism in the UK. British Journal of Sociology, 68(S1), S233-S264. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12311
  • Savage, Mike (2017). Déclin et renouveau de l’analyse de classe dans la sociologie britannique, 1945-2016. Actes de la Recherche En Sciences Sociales, 2017/4(219), 42-55. https://doi.org/10.3917/arss.219.0042
  • Nichols, Georgia, Savage, Mike (2017). A social analysis of an elite constellation: the case of Formula 1. Theory, Culture & Society, 34(5-6), 201-225. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276417716519
  • Cunningham, Niall, Savage, Mike (2017). An intensifying and elite city. City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action, 21(1), 25-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2016.1263490
  • Savage, Mike (2016). End class wars. Nature, 537(7621), 475-479. https://doi.org/10.1038/537475a
  • Savage, Mike (2016). The fall and rise of class analysis in British sociology, 1950-2016. Tempo Social, 28(2), 57-72. https://doi.org/10.11606/0103-2070.ts.2016.110570
  • Hall, Suzanne M., Savage, Mike (2016). Animating the urban vortex: new sociological urgencies. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 40(1), 82 - 95. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12304
  • Friedman, Sam, Savage, Mike, Hanquinet, Laurie, Miles, Andre (2015). Cultural sociology and new forms of distinction. Poetics, 53, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2015.10.002
  • Olcese, Cristiana, Savage, Mike (2015). Notes towards a ‘social aesthetic’: guest editors' introduction to the special section. British Journal of Sociology, 66(4), 720-737. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12159
  • Savage, Mike, Devine, Fiona, Cunningham, Niall, Friedman, Sam, Laurison, Daniel, Miles, Andrew, Snee, Helene, Taylor, Mark (2015). On social class, anno 2014. Sociology, 49(6), 1011-1030. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038514536635
  • Wakeling, Paul, Savage, Mike (2015). Entry to elite positions and the stratification of higher education in Britain. Sociological Review, 63(2), 290-320. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.12284
  • Savage, Mike (2015). Introduction to elites from the ‘Problematic of the Proletariat’ to a class analysis of ‘Wealth Elites’. Sociological Review, 63(2), 223-239. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.12281
  • Cunningham, Niall, Savage, Mike (2015). The secret garden? Elite metropolitan geographies in the contemporary UK. Sociological Review, 63(2), 321-348. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.12285
  • Savage, Mike (2014). Piketty's challenge for sociology. British Journal of Sociology, 65(4), 591-606. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12106
  • Hanquinet, Laurie, Roose, Henk, Savage, Mike (2014). The eyes of the beholder: aesthetic preferences and the remaking of cultural capital. Sociology, 48(1), 111-132. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038513477935
  • Savage, Mike (2013). The 'social life of methods': a critical introduction. Theory, Culture & Society, 30(4), 3 - 21. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276413486160
  • Savage, Mike, Silva, E. B. (2013). Field analysis in cultural sociology. Cultural Sociology, 7(2), 111-126. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975512473992
  • Meuleman, R., Savage, Mike (2013). A field analysis of cosmopolitan taste: lessons from the Netherlands. Cultural Sociology, 7(2), 230-256. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975512473991
  • Prieur, Annick, Savage, Mike (2013). Emerging forms of cultural capital. European Societies, 15(2), 246-267. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2012.748930
  • Savage, Mike, Devine, Fiona, Cunningham, Niall, Taylor, Mark, Li, Yaojun, Hjellbrekke, Johs., Le Roux, Brigitte, Friedman, Sam, Miles, Andrew (2013). A new model of social class? Findings from the BBC's Great British Class Survey experiment. Sociology, 47(2), 219-250. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038513481128
  • Ruppert, Evelyn S., Law, John, Savage, Mike (2013). Reassembling social science methods: the challenge of digital devices. Theory, Culture & Society, 30(4), 22-46. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276413484941
  • Miles, Andrew, Savage, Mike (2012). The strange survival story of the English gentleman, 1945–2010. Cultural and Social History, 9(4), 595-612. https://doi.org/10.2752/147800412X13434063754643
  • Hanquinet, Laurie, Savage, Mike (2012). ‘Educative leisure’ and the art museum. Museum and Society, 10(1), 42-59.
  • Hanquinet, Laurie, Savage, Mike, Callier, Louise (2012). Elaborating Bourdieu's field analysis in urban studies: cultural dynamics in Brussels. Urban Geography, 33(4), 508-529. https://doi.org/10.2747/0272-3638.33.4.508
  • Miles, Andrew, Savage, Mike, Bühlmann, Felix (2011). Telling a modest story: accounts of men's upward mobility from the National Child Development Study. British Journal of Sociology, 62(3), 418-441. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2011.01372.x
    • Book
  • Recchi, Ettore, Favell, Adrian, Apaydin, Fulya, Barbulescu, Roxana, Braun, Michael, Ciornei, Irina, Cunningham, Niall, Medrano, Juan Díez, Duru, Deniz, Hanquinet, Laurie, Jensen, Janne Solgaard, Pötzschke, Steffen, Reimer, David, Salamońska, Justyna, Savage, Mike, Varela, Albert (Eds.) (2018). Everyday Europe: a sociology of new transnationalism. Policy Press.
  • Korsnes, Olav, Heilbron, Johan, Hjellbrekke, Johs., Bühlmann, Felix, Savage, Mike (Eds.) (2017). New directions in elite studies. Routledge.
  • Hanquinet, Laurie, Savage, Mike (Eds.) (2015). Routledge international handbook of the sociology of Art and Culture. Routledge.
  • Savage, Mike, Friedman, Sam (2015). Social class in the 21st century. Penguin Books.
  • Savage, Mike (2010). Identities and social change in Britain since 1940: the politics of method. Oxford University Press.
  • Bennett, Tony, Savage, Mike, Bortolaia Silva, Elizabeth, Warde, Alan, Gayo-Cal, Modesto, Wright, David (2008). Culture, class, distinction. Routledge.
  • Blokland, Talja, Savage, Mike (Eds.) (2008). Networked urbanism: social capital in the city. Ashgate Dartmouth.
  • Savage, Mike, Williams, Karel (Eds.) (2008). Remembering elites. Wiley-Blackwell.
    • Chapter
  • Savage, Mike, Cunningham, Niall, Reimer, David, Favell, Adrian (2018). Cartographies of social transnationalism. In Recchi, Ettore (Ed.), Everyday Europe . Policy Press.
  • Hanquinet, Laurie, Savage, Mike (2018). Cultural boundaries and consumption patterns in Europe. In Recchi, Ettore (Ed.), Everyday Europe . Policy Press.
  • Friedman, Sam, Savage, Mike (2018). Time, accumulation and trajectory: Bourdieu and social mobility. In Lawler, Steph, Payne, Geoff (Eds.), Social mobility for the 21st century: everyone a winner? . Routledge. https://doi.org/9781138244894
  • Savage, Mike, Hecht, Katharina, Cunningham, Niall, Hjellbrekke, Johs, Laurison, Daniel (2017). Theorizing elites in unequal times: class, constellation and accumulation. In Korsnes, Olav, Heilbron,, Johan, Hjellbrekke, Johs, Bühlmann,, Felix, Savage, Mike (Eds.), New Directions in Elite Studies . Routledge.
  • Savage, Mike, Hecht, Katharina, Cunningham, Niall, Hjellbrekke, Johs, Laurison, Daniel (2017). An anatomy of the British economic elite. In Korsnes, Olav, Heilbron,, Johan, Hjellbrekke, Johs, Bühlmann,, Felix, Savage, Mike (Eds.), New Directions in Elite Studies . Routledge.
  • Savage, Mike (2017). The elite habitus in cities of accumulation. In Hall, Suzanne, Burdett, Ricky (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City . SAGE Publications.
  • Savage, Mike (2017). Afterword. In Crow, Graham, Ellis, Jaimie (Eds.), Revisiting Divisions of Labour: The impacts and legacies of a modern sociological classic . Manchester University Press.
  • Wakeling, Paul, Savage, Mike (2015). Elite universities, elite schooling and reproduction in Britain. In World Yearbook of Education 2015 Elites, Privilege and Excellence: The National and Global Redefinition of Educational Advantage . Routledge.
  • Li, Yaojun, Savage, Mike, Warde, Alan (2015). Social stratification, social capital and cultural practice in the UK. In Li, Yaojun (Ed.), Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Social Capital (pp. 21-39). Edward Elgar.
  • Prieur, Annick, Savage, Mike (2014). On 'knowingness', cosmopolitanism and busyness as emerging forms of cultural capital’. In The Routledge Companion to Bourdieu’s 'Distinction' . Routledge.
  • Savage, Mike (2014). The history of British sociology from the perspective of its archived qualitative sources: ruminations and reflections. In Holmwood, J., Scott, J. (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Sociology in Britain (pp. 359-373). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Savage, Mike, Tampubolon, Gindo, Warde, Alan (2008). Political participation, social networks and the city. In Blokland, Talja, Savage, Mike (Eds.), Networked Urbanism: Social Capital in the City (pp. 171-196). Ashgate Dartmouth.
  • Blokland, Talja, Savage, Mike (2008). Social capital and networked urbanism. In Blokland, Talja, Savage, Mike (Eds.), Networked Urbanism: Social Capital in the City (pp. 1-22). Ashgate Dartmouth.
  • Savage, Mike, Williams, Karel (2008). Introduction: elites: remembered in capitalism and forgotten by social sciences. In Savage, Mike, Williams, Karel (Eds.), Remembering Elites . Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Griffiths, Dave, Miles, Andy, Savage, Mike (2008). The end of the English cultural elite? In Savage, Mike, Williams, Karel (Eds.), Remembering Elites . Wiley-Blackwell.
    • Dataset
  • Savage, Mike, Miles, Andrew Graham, Moore, Niamh, Muir, Stewart, Lewis, Camilla, Lang, Luciana, Huyton, Clare, Tight, Miles, Timms, Paul & Watling, David et al (2018). Step Change: Sustainable Transport. [Dataset]. University of Leeds data repository. https://doi.org/10.23635/12
  • Savage, Mike, Devine, Fiona (2015). BBC Great British Class Survey, 2011-2013. [Dataset]. UK Data Service. https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-7616-1
    • Report
  • Savage, Mike, Mahmoudzadeh, Mina, Mann, Elizabeth, Vaughan, Michael, Hilhorst, Sacha (2024). Why wealth inequality matters. International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
    • Online resource
  • Eyres, Tallulah, Mwale, Temi, Savage, Mike, Gamsu, Sol, Daniel, Ronda (2016). Is there a class issue at LSE?: Episode 7.
  • Savage, Mike (2016). Is there a class issue at LSE?: Episode 2.
  • Savage, Mike (2016). Sociological dilemmas and the inequality agenda.
  • Savage, Mike (2016). Are we seeing a new ‘inequality paradigm’ in social science?
  • Savage, Mike, Mansell, Rebecca, Daniel, Ronda (2015). Social class in the 21st century: an interview with Mike Savage.
  • Savage, Mike, Hills, John (2015). The politics of inequality: Atkinson, Piketty and Stiglitz at the LSE’s International Inequalities Institute.
  • Savage, Mike (2015). Successful societies – “self, individualism and moral communities under neo-liberalism.”.
  • Savage, Mike (2014). LSE sociology at the forefront of the inequalities agenda.
  • Savage, Mike (2013). The old new politics of class.
  • Savage, Mike (2013). The making of the Great British Class Survey and its essential capacity to communicate through digital modes.
  • Savage, Mike (2013). The British class system is becoming more polarised between a prosperous elite and a poor ‘precariat’.
  • Savage, Mike (2013). The Great British Class Survey: calculating economic, social and cultural capital in order to analyse social class.
    • Working paper
  • Waitkus, Nora, Savage, Mike, Toft, Maren (2024). Wealth and class analysis: exploitation, closure and exclusion. (III Working Paper 143). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.jl9j1asvrzjm picture_as_pdf
  • Rossier, Thierry, Savage, Mike, Schulte, Jonathan, Brundu-Gonzalez, Benjamin (2024). Analysing inequalities within the LSE student body: bringing social class into the mix. (III Working Paper 134). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.zy68c61c1v4d picture_as_pdf
  • Advani, Arun, Burgherr, David, Savage, Mike, Summers, Andrew (2022). The UK’s global economic elite: a sociological analysis using tax data. (III Working Paper Series 79). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.v1fvjzwsrmj9 picture_as_pdf
  • (2021). The sociology of elites: a European stocktaking and call for collaboration. (III Working Papers 58). London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.ymkbeml6io8x picture_as_pdf
  • Kolbe, Kristina, Upton-Hansen, Chris, Savage, Mike, Lacey, Nicola, Cant, Sarah (2020). The art world’s response to the challenge of inequality. (III Working Paper 40). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.zd8vuojk0680 picture_as_pdf
  • Koch, Insa, Fransham, Mark James, Cant, Sarah, Ebrey, Jill, Glucksberg, Luna, Savage, Mike (2019). Social polarisation at the local level: a four-town comparative study. (III Working Paper 37). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.09h7d5dg48bd picture_as_pdf
  • Segal, Paul, Savage, Mike (2019). Inequality interactions. (III Working Paper 27). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.xm2ia8yuesyo picture_as_pdf
  • Savage, Mike (2015). An interview with Thomas Piketty, Paris 8th July 2015. (III Working Paper 1). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.8bww0dlqflxd picture_as_pdf
    • Blog post
  • Savage, Mike (26 February 2025) We need to talk more about class. LSE Inequalities. picture_as_pdf
  • Savage, Mike (4 June 2024) Why wealth inequality matters, part 2: reflections on the deselection of Faiza Shaheen. LSE Inequalities. picture_as_pdf
  • Savage, Mike (20 February 2024) Why wealth inequality matters - and what to do about it! LSE Inequalities. picture_as_pdf
  • Savage, Mike (29 June 2021) Book review: Michael Young, social science and the British Left, 1945-1970 by Lise Butler. LSE Review of Books. picture_as_pdf
  • Hecht, Katharina, Mcarthur, Daniel, Savage, Mike, Friedman, Sam (22 January 2020) Social mobility at the top: how elites in the UK are pulling away. British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf