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A Very Rare Case of Megalencephalic Leukoencephalopathy With Subcortical Cysts in a Child Born of Non-Consanguineous Marriage in a Non-Predisposed Community. [PDF]
Cureus, 2021 Randhawa HS +4 more
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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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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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Gender, Families, and Wealth Accumulation Among the One‐Child Generation
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Prior literature on gender and wealth accumulation largely examines the role of families in reproducing inequalities. However, less attention has been paid to families without sons, a significant demographic, particularly within China's one‐child generation, that challenges conventional understandings of familial wealth dynamics.
Ye Liu
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
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Time to Get Real: Investigating Potential Beneficial Genetic Aspects of Consanguinity
, 2011 The extensive and well-documented application of close genetic crosses in animal and plant breeding has amply demonstrated that, from a biological perspective, inbreeding is not necessarily detrimental, although a substantial price may have to be paid ...
Bittles, A.H.
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Convertibility of Cultural Capital: A Longitudinal Study of University Students From 2017 to 2024
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A defining feature of cultural capital is its propensity for accumulation and the potential of its convertibility. However, there are a lack of studies that would explore how different forms of cultural capital could be employed as an advantage.
Ondřej Špaček
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Genetic and reproductive consequences of consanguineous marriage in Bangladesh. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 Anwar S +3 more
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Consanguineous marriage within social/occupational class boundaries in Pakistan
, 1994 Data on patterns of consanguineous marriage were collected from 5340 families resident in eight cities in the Pakistan province of Punjab. To assess whether social and/or occupational class was interacting with con-sanguinity, information also was ...
Grant, J.C., Shami, S.A., Bittles, A.H.
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