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Family Work Among the Astors

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

Criminal Records as Classification Situations

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy developed the notion of “classification situations” to describe how ordinal schema that sort and rank individuals, like credit scores, are used to differentiate opportunities, prices, and services in ways that structure life chances while masking inequality as meritocratic.
Lindsay Bing, Sarah Esther Lageson
wiley   +1 more source

Projected Health and Economic Outcomes in People Who Inject Drugs in the United States, 2025-2034: A Modeling Study. [PDF]

open access: yesOpen Forum Infect Dis
Chiosi JJ   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Worrying Expertise: Representation and Expert Knowledge in Trade Unions

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studies of professionalisation, oligarchy and expertise have asked how expertise affects democratic representation in professionalised membership organisations. This article approaches that problem from the other direction by examining the role of representation in the production of expert knowledge.
Staffan Edling
wiley   +1 more source

Towards an Asian registry of wrongful convictions. [PDF]

open access: yesForensic Sci Int Synerg
Zhang Y   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Towards Sustainable Urbanization and Zero–Carbon Urban Life: A Case Study of BRICS Countries Between 1992 and 2020

open access: yesNatural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Urban factors play a critical role in efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change. In this regard, this study aims to examine the impact of urbanization and its components (e.g., urban population growth [UPG], population in the largest city [ULC], population in urban agglomerations [UPA] of more than 1 million, and ...
Korkmaz Yildirim, Tunahan Haciimamoglu
wiley   +1 more source

Home foreclosure discounts in auctions without reserve prices

open access: yesReal Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This article estimates foreclosure discounts in Cape Town, South Africa, where, until 2019, foreclosure auctions occurred without reserve prices. Using newly constructed data linking sheriff auction notices to the universe of property transactions, rich property characteristics, and municipal service‐request records, I document large ...
Allan Davids
wiley   +1 more source

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