Member - UK
Mike SAVAGE
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) -International Inequalities Institute/Department of Sociology
Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. He was co-founding Director of the International Inequalities Institute (2015-2020), where he now convenes the ‘Wealth, Elites and Tax Justice’ research theme. He has written extensively about social class and inequality, including on its cultural and symbolic aspects. His current projects include an analysis of the racial wealth divide in the UK and South Africa; editing a Handbook on the Sociology of Global Elites (with Annette Lareau and Maria Luisa Mendez); the historical analysis of the British imperial diaspora elite; and the critical analysis of meritocracy