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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 +13 more
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Kinship terminology as a deictic system : An evaluation of ethnolinguistic methodology. [PDF]
, 1978 This work presents a critical examination of the methodology of the analysis of kinship terms over the last 100 years, gives a global evaluation of the 'state of the art', and proposes a new, deictic interpretation of kinship terminology.
Horsten, Petrus Fredericus Marie
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Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2015 Machine componential analysis of Bulgarian kinship terminology and more on the problem of multiple solutions The Bulgarian kin terms of reference and address are subjected to componential analysis, using the sophisticated computer program KINSHIP.
Vladimir Pericliev
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The Tatar layer of words in the system of kinship terms of the Besermans
Этническая культура, 2023 The purpose of this study is to identify and systematize the terms of kinship of Tatar origin in the Beserman dialect. The terms of kinship in the Udmurt language are relatively well studied.
Sergey A. Maksimov
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Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores Australian media commentary on white Rhodesians migrating to Australia, focusing on the period of Malcolm Fraser's prime ministership (1975–1983). The main argument is that the Australian media debates about whether to classify white Rhodesians as ‘migrants’ or ‘refugees’ were not merely semantic but reflected a deeper ...
George Bishi, Ana Stevenson
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ArbitrerThis study examines Malay kinship terms and its role in shaping social identity among communities in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Employing an ethnographic approach within the framework of Social Identity Theory, it analyzes how this terminology ...
Yusriadi Yusriadi +4 more
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Injustice, relational violence, and the foster system
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Political theorists have not paid sustained attention to the foster system or treated it as a political institution. Despite this, scholars and social movement advocates have identified the system as a site of social and political injustice. This paper develops an account of racial, class, and relational injustice in the contemporary US foster
Emma Ebowe
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Papers in Historical Phonology, 2020 This paper discusses a postulated non-sound change-based development derived from the detection of an exception to a regular segmental correspondence and shows how this proposal receives independent support from internal etymologization within the domain
Fernando O. de Carvalho
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Containing Histories Past and Present: Making Samples in the “Huntington Collection” (1893–1921)
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Huntington Anatomical Collection (1893–1921) includes the skeletal remains of immigrants, migrants, and lifelong New York City residents. The collection's formation was coeval with the formalization of physical anthropology, and the collection was made to serve research aims centered on race and origin.
Alanna L. Warner‐Smith
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Savosavo Kinship Terminology: Social Context and Linguistic Features
, 2013 Wegener C. Savosavo Kinship Terminology: Social Context and Linguistic Features. Oceanic Linguistics. 2013;52(2):318-340.Savosavo kinship terminology is remarkable in that it covers fifteen generations, a feature unique in its immediate geographical ...
Wegener, Claudia
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