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The Contexts of Conversion among U.S. Latinos
, 2017 The growth of Protestantism among U.S. Latinos has been the focus of considerable discussion among researchers. Yet few studies investigate how Latino Protestants and Latino Catholics differ, or which types of Latinos convert from Catholicism to ...
Ellison, Christopher G. +2 more
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Solidarity across generations in New Zealand: Factors influencing parental support for children within a three-generational context [PDF]
, 2004 Interest in ascertaining the nature and extent of intergenerational exchanges between those in mid-life, and members of their kinship network has arisen because demographic, social and policy changes have brought into question the ability of individuals ...
Dharmalingam, Arunachalam +1 more
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Afriques, 2023 This paper compares two fields of analysis: on the one hand, hydrosociology, theorized by geographers and anthropologists, which conceptualizes the uses and landscapes of water as a reflection of the social organization of the group; on the other hand, hydraulic archaeology, developed by archaeologists and historians, which has demonstrated the ...
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Lifting the veil of ignorance: An experiment on the contagiousness of norm violations [PDF]
Norm violations can be contagious. Previous research analyzed two mechanisms of why knowledge about others’ norm violations triggers its spread: (1) Actors lower their subjective beliefs about the probability or severity of punishment, or (2) they ...
Andreas Diekmann +2 more
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The Changing Spatial Concentration of America’s Rural Poor Population [PDF]
, 2006 This paper documents changing patterns of concentrated poverty in nonmetro areas. Data from the 1970 through 2000 U.S. Census Summary Files reveal the changing shares of poor people and children living in rural counties with disproportionately poor ...
Johnson, Kenneth M., Lichter, Daniel T.
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Corporate competition: A self-organized network [PDF]
A substantial number of studies have extended the work on universal properties in physical systems to complex networks in social, biological, and technological systems.
Bar-Yam, Yaneer +2 more
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Who will leave? Oil, migration, and Scottish island youth [PDF]
, 1991 Rural communities facing the prospect of rapid energy development consider trade‐offs between economic benefits and “way of life”; as disruption. One of ten‐cited but unproved benefit of development is increased retention of local youth, who otherwise ...
Hamilton, Lawrence C. +1 more
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An Ecological Assessment of Property and Violent Crime Rates Across a Latino Urban Landscape: The Role of Social Disorganization and Institutional Anomie Theory [PDF]
, 2007 The present research put forth an integrated theoretical framework aimed at providing a more holistic community- level approach explaining crime across a heavily populated Latino city.
Cancino, Jeffrey Michael +3 more
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Sociological Studies Of The Krasnoyarsk Region Rural Territories Population Life Quality
European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences, 2020 Y. I. Koloskova +2 more
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BULLETIN OF L.N. GUMILYOV EURASIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY. PEDAGOGY. PSYCHOLOGY. SOCIOLOGY SERIESThe socio-economic characteristics of a population describe the social and economic living conditions of people in a particular country, region, or community. These characteristics include indicators such as income, education, employment, access to medical services, housing, pension and social benefits, as well as other factors that affect the ...
А.B. Shabdenova +4 more
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