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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article we apply Wacquant's conceptualization of the ghetto to an analysis of interviews conducted with Roma people living in the state‐enforced camps of Turin, Italy. We illustrate how the elements characterizing a ghetto according to Wacquant (i.e.
Vincenzo Romania, Tommaso Bertazzo
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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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Weaker the gang, harder the exit
Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract This study draws on 95 interviews and observations with gang‐affiliated individuals in Chicago to examine how gang structures shape disengagement and desistance from crime. During the last two decades, the city's gangs have experienced a decline in group closure, or their capacity to regulate membership and member behavior, and a blurring of ...
Megan Kang
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Love, Class‐Crossing Courtship, and the Reading of English Novels in Late Eighteenth‐Century Sweden
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how novel reading influenced the courtship practices of Pehr Stenberg, a peasant who became a clergyman. Stenberg wrote a detailed account of his life in which his courtships of high‐born women are described in detail. These courtships took place during a transformative time when the ideal that marriage should be based on
Ina Lindblom
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Caste criminalisation in South India and permanent migration to Fiji, 1903–1927
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Does the official criminalisation of a group lead to permanent out‐migration? In the early 20th century, British officials in south India designated multiple castes as inherently criminal under the Criminal Tribes Act (CTA). The CTA required police registration and could force entire groups into special settlements.
Alexander Persaud
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Unpacking the role of in‐group bias in US public opinion on human rights violations
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Which actor identities and social and political cleavages drive public opinion on human rights violations? While in‐group bias is known to influence public responses to government abuses, the relative impact of different identity characteristics has not been directly tested.
Rebecca Cordell
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Andrology, EarlyView.Abstract Couple infertility is a very ancient medical condition. One of the first descriptions of familial infertility/subfertility is contained in the first book of the Bible, Genesis, written in the 10th century BC and reporting tales from the oral tradition even occurred about 800 years earlier.
Manuela Simoni +2 more
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study presents multifaceted analyses of metal artefacts from the Jodłowno Hoard (Northern Poland), revealing that the metal originated from Iberian polymetallic ore deposits. Transported as raw ingots via Atlantic maritime routes, this copper was reworked locally into regionally distinctive forms.
K. Nowak +4 more
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study presents the results of an interdisciplinary investigation of 98 tin–lead sewn tokens from 13th‐century Gdańsk, the largest assemblage of its kind in Central Europe. Combining archaeological context, typology, SEM‐EDS and lead isotope analysis, the research explores provenance, production and function.
Sławomir Wadyl +4 more
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