Dr Sam Friedman

Sam Friedman is Associate Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. He has published widely on class, culture and social mobility, and recently co-authored The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged (Policy, 2019). He is also the author of Comedy and Distinction: The Cultural Currency of a ‘Good’ Sense of Humour (Routledge, 2014) and co-author of Social Class in the 21^st Century (Penguin, 2015).

He is currently working on a new project looking at the historical development of the British elite, drawing on the entire 120-year database of Who’s Who. Outside of academia he is a Commissioner at the Social Mobility Commission.