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Childhood Cognitive Ability Predicts Adult Financial Well-Being
Journal of Intelligence, 2016 This study set out to investigate to what extent childhood cognitive ability, along with personality traits, education and occupational status, as well as marital status influence adult financial success.
Adrian Furnham, Helen Cheng
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INFRASTRUCTURAL CONCEALMENT: Everyday Festival Economies and Riverine Ecologies in Kolkata
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban infrastructures are often celebrated within marketized development logics for their promise of equitable access while concealing ecological harm. This article examines whether and how ecological degradation is integral to infrastructural modernization, showing how infrastructures that promise improvement and inclusion simultaneously ...
Debapriya Chakrabarti +2 more
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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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Вопросы образования, 2018 The paper is based on a survey of public school teachers in Russian large cities (Moscow, Rostov-on-Don and Kazan). In 2017 the survey was conducted to study the perception of social and economic situation by teachers, and the estimation of the labor ...
Liudmila Klimenko, Oxana Posukhova
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Marriage, Wealth, and the Spread of Cohabitation in Canada
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research demonstrates a robust link between marriage and wealth. Wealth facilitates marriage, which then fosters wealth accumulation, resulting in significant net worth disparities between married and cohabiting couples. Does the decline of marriage and growth of cohabitation alter this relationship?
Maude Pugliese
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Convertibility of Cultural Capital: A Longitudinal Study of University Students From 2017 to 2024
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A defining feature of cultural capital is its propensity for accumulation and the potential of its convertibility. However, there are a lack of studies that would explore how different forms of cultural capital could be employed as an advantage.
Ondřej Špaček
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How to Measure Employment Status and Occupation in Analyses of Survey Data?
Problemy Zarządzania, 2016 This article presents issues relevant for including employment status and occupational position in analyses of survey data. It describes the employment statuses distinguished by International Labour Organization (ILO) and discusses their internal ...
Małgorzata Mikucka
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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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Quaderni di Sociologia, 2013 We observe a relevant growth in teacher’s perception of reduction of their social prestige, even if it seems stable according to the occupational prestige scales.
Gianluca Argentin
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The Sociogenomics of Social Stratification and General Theories of Inequality
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The field of the sociogenomics of inequalities would benefit from discussing what its findings and ambitions mean for core theories of social stratification and mobility. Do sociologists need to reconsider their critique to structural‐functionalist theory of stratification, and its neo‐classical economic allies, that emphasise efficient ...
Herman G. van de Werfhorst
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