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Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence

American Sociological Review

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Abstract

American Sociological Review, Volume 91, Issue 2, Page 191-226, April 2026.
How do some families manage to entrench themselves in the upper class for many generations while others do not? Bringing together economic sociology, political sociology, and stratification, I introduce a concept for the study of multigenerational ...