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Baltic Journal of Law & Politics, 2018 Many studies have documented the negative effect of corruption on development, economic growth, and democracy. Independent anti-corruption agencies are often recommended as the tool to curb corruption.
Pedersen Karin Hilmer, Johannsen Lars
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History, EarlyView.Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
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SociusIn this comment, the authors reevaluate the claim put forward by Mijs that popular belief in meritocracy has increased across a broad range of countries during recent decades of rising inequality.
Timo Wiesner, Patrick Sachweh
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Gender, Families, and Wealth Accumulation Among the One‐Child Generation
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Prior literature on gender and wealth accumulation largely examines the role of families in reproducing inequalities. However, less attention has been paid to families without sons, a significant demographic, particularly within China's one‐child generation, that challenges conventional understandings of familial wealth dynamics.
Ye Liu
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‘Neoliberal meritocracy, racialization and transnationalism’ [PDF]
, 2020 Littler, J.
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Young and old meritocracy: from radical critique to neoliberal tool [PDF]
, 2018 Meritocracy’ today is generally understood to involve the idea that a fair social system is one in which people can work hard, activate their talent and achieve social success. This credo has come to be ‘common sense’ within modern society. There is more-
Littler, J.
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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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Introduction to a Special Issue on Inequality in the Workplace (“What Works?) [PDF]
, 2017 [Excerpt] While overt expressions of racial and gender bias in U.S. workplaces have declined markedly since the passage of the original Civil Rights Act and the creation of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission a half century ago (Eagly and Chaiken
Castilla, Emilio J, Tolbert, Pamela S
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The Silent Standpoint: How Professors Explain Gender Disparities in Academia
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on 77 qualitative interviews with professors in higher education, this article explores the interviewees' opinions on how gender disparities in academia should be explained. We show that male professors relate women's career barriers to family factors and women's own interests and preferences.
Margaretha Järvinen, Nanna Mik‐Meyer
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the UK's 2025 Immigration White Paper as a critical site for understanding how immigration policy functions as an instrument of racial capitalism. Drawing on Critical Race Theory, the theory of social reproduction, and intersectionality, it interrogates how the state's construction of the ‘skilled migrant’ operates as a ...
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