Rachel Sherman (sociologist)

Rachel Sherman (born June 7, 1970) is a professor of sociology at the New School for Social Research. Her first book, Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels (University of California Press, 2007), analyzes how workers, guests, and managers in luxury hotels make sense of and negotiate class inequalities that mark their relationships. Her second book, Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence (Princeton University Press, 2017), explores the lived experience of privilege among wealthy parents in New York City.