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Methodological Challenges in Studying Wealthy Families
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Studying the wealthy is not easy. This piece provides suggestions for recruitment, interview strategies, and design to gain high‐quality data on wealthy people. It is based on an interview study of 81 US racially‐diverse families with a median net worth of $25 million. First, to gain access to the wealthy, it is key for the researcher to use a
Annette Lareau
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Protests and blood on the streets: repressive state, police brutality and #EndSARS protest in Nigeria. [PDF]
Secur J, 2022 Iwuoha VC, Aniche ET.
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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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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article connects cultural taste to capitalist mechanisms of redistribution through the concept of political economy of taste. Building on Bourdieusian scholarship on recognition struggles and drawing on Mike Savage and Nancy Fraser, it examines how public performances of taste reshape representations of working‐class culture and how these
Simone Varriale
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EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF POLICE HARASSMENT OF PRIVATE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN OGUN STATE, NIGERIA
International Studies Journal, 2023 Globally, police is an important institution of established states, given the responsibility to maintain public law and order. However, in Nigeria, these roles have been overshadowed by lack professionalism and civil public engagement which have ...
Ademolu Oluwaseun Adenuga +1 more
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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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The Normative Turn: Back to Hobhouse?
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Supporters of a recently announced normative turn in sociology acknowledge that what they recommend is by no means entirely new. However, they have given little attention to an early precursor: the British sociologist Leonard Hobhouse. He focussed on the role of the normative in social life and insisted that sociology could, and must, play an ...
Martyn Hammersley
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Columbia Journal of Race and LawThis article explores the persistent challenges in addressing police brutality through civil rights litigation, focusing on the limitations imposed by federal jurisdiction and justiciability doctrines post-Lyons.
Simona Grossi
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Perceptions of Mental Health and Exploring the Role of Social Activism Among African Americans Exposed to Media Coverage of Police Brutality and Protests. [PDF]
J Racial Ethn Health Disparities, 2023 Alexander AC +10 more
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