Mauricio Bucca
Mauricio Bucca is a Chilean sociologist specializing in social stratification, inequality, and intergenerational mobility.
He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC), and later obtained his Ph.D. in Sociology from Cornell University.
Bucca serves as an assistant professor at the Institute of Sociology of the PUC, where he teaches courses on social inequality and advanced data analysis. His research explores structural and cognitive dimensions of inequality, including labor market disparities, educational assortative mating, and beliefs about social fairness.
Scholar career
Bucca’s research agenda combines quantitative methods such as Bayesian modeling and causal inference with classical sociological approaches to inequality. His work seeks to understand how objective social structures interact with subjective beliefs about justice and mobility.
He has contributed to international debates on mobility and inequality, focusing on both Chile and comparative contexts in Europe and the United States. His publications appear in journals such as Science Advances, Sociological Science, Sociological Methods & Research, and Socius.
Selected publications
Papers
- Bucca, Mauricio (2024). “Are Within-Racial Group Inequalities by Skin Color Really Greater Than Inequalities Between Racial Groups in the United States?” Socius.