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
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Exploring educational hypogamy among women in urban and rural China: Insights from random forest machine learning. [PDF]
PLoS OneChang Q, Wu P, Wang S, Zhang M.
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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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Forced marriage, divorce, and the ecology of marital self-determination: findings from research with Orthodox Jews in New York. [PDF]
SSM Ment HealthHirsch JS +6 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent years, sociological interest in the study of social class—particularly its subjective dimensions—has intensified. This article contributes to this growing body of literature by focusing on Poland as a case within the Central and Eastern European region.
Justyna Kajta, Stefan Bieńkowski
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Prevalence and factors associated with intimate partner violence experiences among young married women in Nigeria: a cross-sectional study. [PDF]
Front Glob Womens HealthAfolabi A, Ilesanmi O.
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Subjective Social Inequalities, Lay Perceptions of Merit and Puzzles of Explanation
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite rising socioeconomic inequalities most people see individualised merit as crucial for social success. Drawing on surveys such as the ISSP a wealth of research examines trends in subjective perceptions, the relative importance accorded to merit and non‐merit factors for getting ahead in life and factors which influence lay perceptions ...
Sarah Irwin
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Spatial non-stationarity in son preference: a district-level geographically weighted regression analysis of NFHS-5 in India. [PDF]
Int J Health GeogrBarik S, Nagdeve DA, Singh A, Singh M.
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As digital technologies become embedded in everyday life, interpersonal violence increasingly takes place in cyberspace. Existing studies have focused on how states, experts, and the media define what counts as cyber violence and abuse. Less attention has been paid to how ordinary people interpret and contest these definitions and how their ...
Susanne Y. P. Choi +4 more
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Educational Expansions and Fertility: Evidence from Norwegian College Reforms. [PDF]
Eur J PopulRogne AF, Fauske A, Hart RK.
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