“…Cultural analysis of various forms of inequalities -racial, gender, socioeconomic, but usually intersectional -remains a growing and undeniably important area of research (Small, Harding and Lamont, 2010;Lamont, Beljean and Clair, 2014;Lareau, 2014;Silva, 2015;Lamont et al, 2017;Valentino and Vaisey, 2022). To explain these inequalities, different concepts can be mobilized: for instance, beliefs, biases, norms and expectations that actors draw upon in social situations 1 , but also larger cultural narratives that unite these elements into a more or less coherent story that individuals apply to explain to a certain situation, event or outcome (Streib, 2017, p. 146;Valentino and Vaisey, 2022, p. 116).…”