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ESRA BURAK HO

Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and Social Policy
Lingnan University (Hong Kong)
Hong Kong

Professor Social and Political Sciences
Biography

Esra Burak Ho received her BA in sociology and economics from Cornell University and her PhD in sociology from Stanford University. Her research interests are in the subfields of social stratification and inequality, distributive justice, and public opinion. Her current projects focus on attitudes towards top incomes and examine the role of distributive justice in the general public’s acceptance and disapproval of extremely high pay. She teaches Introduction to Sociology, Work and Occupations, Sociological Research Methods, and Public Opinion and Opinion Survey. Her personal website can be found here: www.esraburak.com.

Research Intrest

Income Inequality, Social Stratification, Distributive Justice, Public Opinion, Social Policy

List of Publications
Burak, Esra. 2013 “The Social Maximum: American Attitudes toward Extremely High Incomes.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 31: 97 – 114.
Smeeding, Timothy M., Jeffrey P. Thompson, Asaf Levanon and Esra Burak. 2011. “Poverty and Income Inequality in the Early Stages of the Great Recession” in The Great Recession by Grusky, David B., Bruce Western and Christopher Wimer (Eds.). Russell Sage.
Burak, Esra. Forthcoming. “Is The Sky the Limit? Fair Executive Pay as Performance Rises” Social Problems.
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