Le Petit Machiavellian Prince: Effects of Latent Toxoplasmosis on Political Beliefs and Values. [PDF]
Evol Psychol, 2022 Kopecky R +4 more
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“Social science is explanation or it is nothing.” Introduction to a debate
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.Abstract This essay introduces contributions to a special section, which documents and extends a debate on the proposition “Social Science is Explanation or it is Nothing” held at the London School of Economics on October 13th, 2022. It discusses the history of the “Group for Theoretical Debates in Anthropology” led by Tim Ingold, Peter Wade and ...
Monika Krause
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Between the witness and the observer: what ethnography can learn from James Baldwin. [PDF]
Front Sociol, 2023 Ince JI.
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Power and the Subject in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians
, 2016 L. Lochner
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How are capital and the family interconnected in contemporary capitalism? In this article, we argue that they come together in owning relations. By owning capital across generations, families bridge the temporal gap between the durability of capital and the finite lifespan of private property holders and thus resolve the problem of bona ...
Jens Beckert, Isabell Stamm
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Spatial layout characteristics of Northern Wei Luoyang: A spatial humanities analysis of the "Record of the Monasteries of Luoyang". [PDF]
PLoS OneSun R, Liu W.
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Methodological Challenges in Studying Wealthy Families
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Studying the wealthy is not easy. This piece provides suggestions for recruitment, interview strategies, and design to gain high‐quality data on wealthy people. It is based on an interview study of 81 US racially‐diverse families with a median net worth of $25 million. First, to gain access to the wealthy, it is key for the researcher to use a
Annette Lareau
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Book review : Civilising barbarians by Leon de Kock
, 1996 Review of: Leon de Kock. Civilising barbarians.
Johnson, David, 1962 May 20-
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Cardiac wasting is not cardiac cachexia: the problem of the subjective/objective genitive in matters of the heart. [PDF]
Eur J Transl MyolMazzotti AL +5 more
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Unequal Family Ties, Wealth Transmission and Social Mobility Among Congolese Traders in Kinshasa
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Congolese traders operating in Kinshasa's urban economy, this article examines how differentiated family ties and wealth transmission shape social mobility and the intergenerational reproduction of inequality. We show that family support is neither uniform nor equally productive: its effects depend on both
Héritier Mesa, Joël Noret
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