Daniel Auguste
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Background
Daniel Auguste is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Florida Atlantic University and a faculty affiliate at the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis. He earned his PhD in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Interests
Auguste’s research interests include inequality, stratification, economic and organizational sociology, and entrepreneurship. More specifically, Auguste’s research seeks to understand the structural forces determining who gets what, who participates and to what level they participate in the capitalist production process–questions that have been at the center of sociological inquiry for decades. Drawing on structural sociological theories and using large-scale survey data and various statistical methodologies, Auguste offers new theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence to these timeless questions.
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Sample Work
Publication
The Precarity of Self-employment among Low- and Moderate-income Households
Auguste, Daniel, Stephen Roll and Mathieu Despard. Online First (2/2022). “The Precarity of Self-employment among Low- and Moderate-income Households.” Social Forces.
Publication
Varieties of Gendered Capitalism: Status Beliefs and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship
Auguste, Daniel. Online First (3/2022).“Varieties of Gendered Capitalism: Status Beliefs and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship.” Social Currents.
Publication
The Impact of Economic Inequality on Entrepreneurship: Does a Society’s Stage of Development Make a Difference?
Auguste, Daniel. 2021. “The Impact of Economic Inequality on Entrepreneurship: Does a Society’s Stage of Development Make a Difference?” Sociological Perspectives, 64(2) 176-195.
Publication
Who Becomes a Business Owner in High-Inequality Regimes? The Conditioning Effect of Economic Inequality on the Impact of Individual Educational and Financial Endowment on Entrepreneurship
Auguste, Daniel. 2020. “Who Becomes a Business Owner in High-Inequality Regimes? The Conditioning Effect of Economic Inequality on the Impact of Individual Educational and Financial Endowment on Entrepreneurship.” Social Currents 7(2): 131–154.