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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
wiley   +1 more source

Older people's preferences for elderly care mode in Northwest China: a multilevel analysis stratified by socioeconomic status. [PDF]

BMC Geriatr
Zhang J, Feng Y, Wang J, Yao J, Zhang J, Cheng H, Wang Y.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Improvement Plan of China’s Social Endowment Insurance System

, 2023
Yuhan Zou, Anna Shi
openaire   +1 more source

Understanding the Role of Migration, Culture and Transnational Ties in Family Financial Assistance With Home Ownership

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Family financial assistance with home ownership has attracted significant scholarly attention in recent years. However, the role of culture and ethnicity, transnational ties, and migration in this practice remains significantly under‐addressed.
Julia Cook
wiley   +1 more source

Does public spending on sports improve people's health? Empirical evidence from China. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Yang C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Methodological Challenges in Studying Wealthy Families

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Association of physical activity levels with frailty index in elderly Chinese: evidence from the China health and retirement longitudinal study (CHARLS). [PDF]

BMC Geriatr
Li Q, Guan J, Wang R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Relatability as a Racialised Construct in Corporate Graduate Recruitment: Revealing a Hidden Mechanism of Labour Market Exclusion for Black African Youth in South Africa

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In corporate graduate recruitment worldwide, candidates are often assessed not only on competence but on whether they are deemed relatable. This study theorises relatability as a racialised cultural–affective filter that covertly sustains inequality. Drawing on qualitative interviews, we identify five interlinked processes of self‐presentation,
Sifiso Mthembu, Kurt April, Cihat Erbil, Mustafa F. Özbilgin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Do Stunting Interventions Remain Unequal in Urban Areas? A Multivariate Analysis of Subdistrict Risk Profiles in Cirebon City, Indonesia. [PDF]

Risk Manag Healthc Policy
Saliaputri L, Ginanjar I, Handoko B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Criminal Records as Classification Situations

The 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