Cecilia L. Ridgeway

American sociologist

Cecilia L. Ridgeway (born 22. November 1947 in Edinburg, Texas) is an American sociologist and Lucie Stern Professor of Social Sciences in the Sociology Department at Stanford University.

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  • “We were not going to understand gender inequality or [other inequalities] unless we understood the interpersonal processes that mediated and enacted institutional structures and larger patterns of inequality.”
  • “No set of questions is more fundamental to sociology than those about inequality—what is it, why is it, how does it come about, and what can we do to change it.”
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