Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
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
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The impact of cultural leisure activities participation on older adults' subjective well-being: an empirical study in China. [PDF]
Ji R, Sheng Y, Zheng C, Chen W.
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ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Psychological Distress and Bias-relevant Thinking During the Jharkhand Elections Among Young Voters. [PDF]
Kumari A, Hasan K, Mirza AZ, Kazmi SSH.
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Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance
ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
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Dual Chain-Mediation of GenAI Chatbots on Loneliness: Perceived Misinformation Exposure and User Trust via Negative Emotions. [PDF]
Wang Y, Xu C.
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The Meaning of Work in the Digital Era: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda
ABSTRACT As digital technologies continue to reshape the nature of work, their impact on workers' experience of the meaning of work has attracted growing scholarly interest. However, the existing body of findings remains largely fragmented and conceptually inconsistent.
Yukun Liu +4 more
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Moral judgments influence emotional responses and comment lengths through the moderating role of linguistic style matching. [PDF]
Tian J, Zhang R.
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Technology for Whom and for What? A Global South View of Tech Diplomacy
ABSTRACT International politics is linked to its technical‐social character. Also, technology is socially constructed and thereby not entirely neutral or impartial. A tech‐driven geopolitical landscape has been a defining feature of contemporary world politics.
Eugenio V. Garcia
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Enhancing information credibility in citizen journalism through the integration of GNSS positioning and blockchain technology. [PDF]
Kaźmierczak R +3 more
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