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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 2000s have witnessed a significant, worldwide boom in new art museums founded by private, wealthy collectors. While the arts have long been a key arena for the remaking of elite distinction and the reproduction of inequalities, this surge in private museums has sparked much controversy.
Sara de Andrade Silva +2 more
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Public support for tax policies in COVID-19 times: evidence from Luxembourg. [PDF]
Int Tax Public Financ, 2022 Olivera J, Van Kerm P.
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Does Inequality Blur Class Lines? Meritocratic Attitudes in Comparative Perspective
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars of inequality generally find that lower‐class individuals are more skeptical of meritocratic narratives that link economic success to individual work effort. However, past research has yielded inconclusive findings about how economic inequality affects meritocratic attitudes across different class groups.
Roshan K. Pandian, Ronald Kwon
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The gender gap in the ownership of promising land. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Chu CYC, Hsu PH, Wang YT.
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How does the ability to weather insecurity give some an upper‐hand over others? This paper examines the interrelationship between housing and labour market precarity among middle class young professionals. Drawing on interviews with residents of co‐living schemes—for‐profit shared housing where tenants are on temporary rental contracts—it ...
Tim White
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Islamic and capitalist economies: Comparison using econophysics models of wealth exchange and redistribution. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Kato T.
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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
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Research on performance variations of classifiers with the influence of pre-processing methods for Chinese short text classification. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Zhang D, Li J, Xie Y, Wulamu A.
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Justice Across Generations: Rethinking Reciprocity Under Conditions of Uncertainty
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This introduction investigates the role of justice as reciprocity in intergenerational settings. It argues that the growing prominence of intergenerational framing in contemporary policy agendas is best understood in light of distinct questions emerging within the normative debate on intergenerational justice.
Valentina Gentile, Fiammetta Sacconi
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