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, 2022 The Creative Writing Scholarship Committee had this to say on Karissa Wehri’s “The Street Dog’s Dowry”: “In the opening sentence, Karissa Wehri’s ‘The Street Dog’s Dowry’ invites the reader into a meditation on generosity, compassion, and the ties that ...
Wehri, Karissa
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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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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article presents a sociological study of promise‐to‐marry ‘rape’ cases in India to illuminate the inner lives of intimacies. It argues that promise‐to‐marry cases cannot be understood merely as instances of deceptive sex, wherein the consent of the victim is vitiated by a false promise of marriage as a pretext for sexual intercourse ...
Monika
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Life After Care in Türkiye: A Scoping Review on Care Leavers
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The fragmented and dispersed knowledge base on care leavers in Türkiye makes it difficult to establish an evidence foundation for policy development and the improvement of practices in this field. This study aimed to comprehensively evaluate the existing body of knowledge on care leavers in Türkiye by compiling academic studies conducted ...
Hüsnünur Aslantürk +1 more
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‘Arranged’ Marriage, Co-Residence and Female Schooling: A Model with Evidence from India [PDF]
We model the consequences of parental control over choice of wives for sons, for parental incentives to educate daughters, when the marriage market exhibits competitive dowry payments and altruistic but paternalistic parents benefit from having married ...
Mukherjee, Diganta +2 more
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract During the high and late Middle Ages, the European economy witnessed the emergence and substantial growth of capital markets, a phenomenon connected to urbanization and pestilence, both of which brought profound changes to the social, legal, and economic positions of women.
Anna Molnár
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Do Parents Propagate Inequality Among Children? Evidence From Chinese and Swedish Twins
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Economists have long studied how parental behavior shapes within‐family inequality, yet empirical findings remain mixed. Using twins data from China and Sweden, we examine the predominant mechanisms reported in the literature. Parents in both countries invest similarly during childhood.
Aiday Sikhova +2 more
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MAHAR PERKAWINAN DENGAN HAFALAN AL-QUR’AN: ANALISIS HERMENEUTIKA HADIS KHALED M. ABOU EL-FADL
Indonesian Journal of Islamic Literature and Muslim Society, 2019 The purpose of this study is to analyse the hadith about dowry in marriage. In this hadith, it is mentioned that one form of dowry is memorisation of the verses of the Qur'an, but that is said most recently after there is no more iron ring.
Anis Tilawati
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The Legal Status of Conjoined Twins in Islamic Law: A Socio‐Legal Analysis
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Conjoined twins are a rare congenital anomaly. Conjoined twins can occur in various morphological types. Conjoined twins are perceived not only as a physical difference but also as a subject of interest and curiosity in many areas of society.
Merve Yiğitoğlu
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Mediator learning and dowry determination in an arranged marriage setting [PDF]
Recently, Batabyal (2005) has analyzed a game model of dowry determination in which a mediator plays a key role. Batabyal's analysis shows that the equilibrium dowry offers from the bride and the groom optimally trade off the desire to make an assertive ...
Jeremy Bertomeu, Hamid Beladi
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