Rate My Professor Arthur Sakamoto

Sakamoto's research specializations include social stratification and inequality, racial and ethnic relations, demography, economic sociology, and East Asian societies. He has authored numerous publications on intergenerational mobility, socioeconomic attainments of Asian Americans, earnings inequality, and labor market dynamics. Key works include “Open-Population Inference in Research on Intergenerational Mobility: An Investigation of the Underrepresentation of the Second Generation” in International Migration Review (2022, with Deirdre Bloome et al.), “The Prevalence of Hardship by Race and Ethnicity in the United States, 1992-2019” in Population Research and Policy Review (2022, with John Iceland), “Comparing the Effects of Class Origins versus Race in the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty” in Social Sciences (2022, with Li Hsu and Mary Jalufka), and “Deconstructing ‘Hyper-Selectivity:’ Are the Socioeconomic Attainments of Second-Generation Asian Americans Only Due to Their Class Background?” in Chinese Journal of Sociology (2021, with Sharron Xuanren Wang). He guest-edited the special issue “Occupation, Stratification and Inequality” for Research in Social Stratification and Mobility (2020). Sakamoto received the 2011 Outstanding Article Award from the American Sociological Association’s Inequality, Poverty and Mobility section for “Is Rising Earnings Inequality Associated with Increased Exploitation? Evidence for Manufacturing Industries in the U.S., 1971-1996” (with ChangHwan Kim). He has held grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and Spencer Foundation, and served on editorial boards including American Sociological Review (1995-2003, 2006-2008, 2024-2026) and Social Problems (2025-2027). His scholarship has garnered over 4,500 citations.