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Cultural and Human Capital Signals in Hiring—A Factorial Survey Experiment Across Contexts

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When evaluating candidates, hiring agents may draw on signals of human as well as cultural capital. While these processes have been considered separately, an open question is how the two types of signals interact. As signals of social class, cultural capital signals relate to human capital as they evoke stereotypes about competence, polish ...
Luisa Burchartz, Kobe De Keere, Sara Geven   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The transformative potential of Social and Solidarity Economy in elder care: social needs, social relations and provisioning systems. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Adam S, Douvitsa I, Pantazidou M, Vezyri Z.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Poverty as Biography in Motion: Agency, Emotion, and the Limits of Contemporary Poverty Theory

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite extensive research, poverty remains theoretically under‐explained. Dominant approaches oscillate between structural, resource‐based models that conceptualise poverty as a measurable condition, and behavioural or responsibilisation accounts that locate persistence in individual conduct.
Suzanne Butler
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring the experience of social trauma: Development and evaluation of the Social Devaluation Questionnaire. [PDF]

PLOS Ment Health
Neuner F, Neldner S, Krüger F, Saada A, Kibar M, Mohammed R.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

More Productive Bodies Faster! Human Capital and Anti‐Intellectualism in Danish University Reform

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the current Danish reform of master's programmes as a case of contested marketization in higher education. While the reform aims to produce “labour‐market‐relevant” graduates by shortening degrees, introducing corporate programmes, and reducing enrolment, it reveals a fundamental tension between two competing economic ...
Johan Gøtzsche‐Astrup, Kaspar Villadsen   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing work-related criticalities: psychometric properties of a questionnaire developed in an Italian occupational stress center. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Livellara S, Comotti A, Carena E, Bonzini M, Castellini G.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the link between anticipatory outcome encoding in the brain and goal-directed behavior during outcome devaluation. [PDF]

Imaging Neurosci (Camb)
Stein J, Ruge H, Wolfensteller U, Goschke T, Zwosta K.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

How Cultural Taste Shapes Recognition and Redistribution Struggles: Far‐Right Politics, Touristification and the Political Economy of Taste

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article connects cultural taste to capitalist mechanisms of redistribution through the concept of political economy of taste. Building on Bourdieusian scholarship on recognition struggles and drawing on Mike Savage and Nancy Fraser, it examines how public performances of taste reshape representations of working‐class culture and how these
Simone Varriale
wiley   +1 more source

Stigma related to male-factor infertility in China: a scale development and validation study. [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Zou F, Li J, Fang Y, Shi H, Lai M, Lan Y, Zhang Y, Chen R, Lin Y.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source