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The social life of money for children

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
wiley   +1 more source

Places of Persistence: Slavery and the Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States. [PDF]

Demography, 2018
Berger T.
europepmc   +1 more source

Capital and the Family

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are capital and the family interconnected in contemporary capitalism? In this article, we argue that they come together in owning relations. By owning capital across generations, families bridge the temporal gap between the durability of capital and the finite lifespan of private property holders and thus resolve the problem of bona ...
Jens Beckert, Isabell Stamm
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High School Employment and Intergenerational Mobility in Education: A Causal Decomposition Approach in a Period of Widespread Teenage Work. [PDF]

Socius
Vachuska K, Rodriguez-Elliott S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Family Work Among the Astors

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
wiley   +1 more source

The heterogeneous well-being effects of intergenerational mobility perceptions. [PDF]

J Health Psychol
Gugushvili A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Intergenerational Mobility in Relative Educational Attainment and Health-Related Behaviours. [PDF]

Soc Indic Res, 2019
Gugushvili A, McKee M, Murphy M, Azarova A, Irdam D, Doniec K, King L.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Taking Stock: Elite Studies and Social Change

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article provides a systematic synthesis of contemporary elite sociology through the analytical lens of change and stability. We distinguish between two types of change: change within elites, referring to transformations in elite composition, circulation, or internal characteristics; and change by elites, designating processes whereby ...
Lena Ajdacic, François Schoenberger, Johanna Behr, Fabio Cescon, Lion Hubrich, Emma Ischinsky, Muneeb Salman, Juliana Mazzucotelli, Laura Mrčela, Alonso Pi Cholula, Céline Roy, Sophie Serrano, Helle Dyrendahl Staven, Tina Thakur   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intergenerational Mobility and Goal-Striving Stress Among Black Americans: The Roles of Ethnicity and Nativity Status. [PDF]

J Immigr Minor Health, 2019
Mouzon DM, Watkins DC, Perry R, Simpson TM, Mitchell JA.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Global Inequality of Opportunity in Education Decreased During the 20th Century

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We document changes in global inequality of opportunity in education for women and men born between 1941 and 1983, using individual‐level census and survey data on 46.7 million individuals from 95 countries, representing all major regions of the world.
Michael Grätz, Mobarak Hossain, Martina Beretta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source