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Not just mutations: inbreeding depression persists without genetic variation. [PDF]
Bonel N, Grunau C, David P.
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Methodological Challenges in Studying Wealthy Families
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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Adam13 interacts with large protein complexes to regulate histone modification and gene expression. [PDF]
Pandey A +8 more
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Unequal Family Ties, Wealth Transmission and Social Mobility Among Congolese Traders in Kinshasa
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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SLC52A3-related Brown-Vialetto-Van Laere syndrome: a large cohort from the Arabian Peninsula. [PDF]
Al Shamsi B +7 more
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ABSTRACT In recent years, sociological interest in the study of social class—particularly its subjective dimensions—has intensified. This article contributes to this growing body of literature by focusing on Poland as a case within the Central and Eastern European region.
Justyna Kajta, Stefan Bieńkowski
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No Evidence of Genetic Basis to Variation in Human Offspring Sex Ratio. [PDF]
Harper KT +4 more
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Alloparenting the investment child: A reply to responses
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Nina Bandelj
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Twenty‐First Century Butlers and the New Spirit of Service
ABSTRACT More than 50 years ago, Lewis Coser argued that the “servant” had become obsolete, claiming that such a “premodern” occupation could not function within modernity without religious legitimations. However, with parts of the contemporary service sector exhibiting the very characteristics that Coser viewed as “premodern”—especially within ...
Bryan Boyle
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