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Patriarchal Forestalling-the Anticipatory Structure of Legal Failure on Violence against Women. [PDF]

Oxf J Leg Stud
Choudhry S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

A Theory of Annexation. [PDF]

Oxf J Leg Stud
Levine-Schnur R, Megiddo T, Berda Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

CompLex: Legal systems through the lens of complexity science. [PDF]

Europhys Lett
Vivo P, Katz DM, Ruhl JB.
europepmc   +1 more source

Unkept Promises, Unequal Worlds: A Sociological Study of Intimate Abuse in Promise‐to‐Marry Cases in India

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article presents a sociological study of promise‐to‐marry ‘rape’ cases in India to illuminate the inner lives of intimacies. It argues that promise‐to‐marry cases cannot be understood merely as instances of deceptive sex, wherein the consent of the victim is vitiated by a false promise of marriage as a pretext for sexual intercourse ...
Monika
wiley   +1 more source

Digital Sequence Information and the Access and Benefit-Sharing Obligation of the Convention on Biological Diversity. [PDF]

Nanoethics, 2023
Akpoviri FI, Baharum SN, Zainol ZA.
europepmc   +1 more source

Technology, Work Intensification and Burnout*

Economic Record, EarlyView.
We model how technologies that allow managers to directly communicate with and more closely monitor employees can lead to an intensification of work, heightening employee vulnerability to burnout. When multiple managers assign tasks simultaneously, like in a matrix organisation, employees can become overburdened, decreasing their productivity and well ...
Alexander Matros, Vladimir Smirnov, Andrew Wait, Helen Zhang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enslaving Minds: On Freedom of Thought and the Exploitation of Mental Vulnerabilities. [PDF]

Neuroethics
Ligthart S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Determinants of case outcomes in Rwanda's postgenocide gacaca courts

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Transitional justice trials have become a central mechanism for addressing mass violence and human rights violations, yet little is known about the determinants of case outcomes within these courts—particularly in domestic contexts. This study examines Rwanda's gacaca courts, a localized transitional justice system that tried people suspected ...
Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, Jared Edgerton, Anneliese Ward   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source