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Social Inequality

2013
L. Warwick-Booth
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Network Diffusion Under Homophily and Consolidation as a Mechanism for Social Inequality

Sociological Methods & Research, 2021
Network externalities (where the value of a practice is a function of network alters that have already adopted the practice) are mechanisms that exacerbate social inequality under the condition of homophily (where advantaged individuals poised to be ...
Linda Zhao, F. Garip
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Worldwide shadow education and social inequality: Explaining differences in the socioeconomic gap in access to shadow education across 63 societies

, 2020
This article examines the cross-national differences in socioeconomic accessibility to shadow education (SE) across 63 societies. Drawing on arguments from two competing theoretical models either emphasizing cross-national cultural, economic, and ...
Steve R. Entrich
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CHALLENGING SOCIAL INEQUALITY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: CLASS, PRIVILEGE, AND CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING THROUGH CRITICAL MANAGEMENT EDUCATION

, 2020
In this article, we study the nexus between class privilege and social inequality through management education.
G. Zulfiqar, Ajnesh Prasad
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The merciless mind in a dog-eat-dog society: neoliberalism and the indifference to social inequality

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2020
Neoliberalism asserts that to preserve individual liberty, an effective competitive market must be established to allow individuals to freely choose their economic activities and to reward individuals according to their merits.
Karim Bettache, C. Chiu, P. Beattie
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Social inequality: empirical findings

2018
The notion of social inequality lends itself to different understandings. One of them is the measurement of inequality over non-monetary dimensions of well-being. The companion Chapter 17 in this Handbook by Lasso de la Vega discusses theoretically the methods to measure inequality when variables are ordinal, and the methods for inequality measurement ...
Dutta, Indranil, Yalonetzky, Gaston
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Kinship-based social inequality in Bronze Age Europe

Science, 2019
Ancient DNA informs on past cultures Archaeology has used analysis of the artifacts and remains of people to uncover their past behaviors and to infer their cultural practices. However, establishing genetic relationships has only recently become possible.
A. Mittnik, Ken Massy, C. Knipper, Fabian Wittenborn, R. Friedrich, S. Pfrengle, Marta Burri, Nadine Carlichi-Witjes, H. Deeg, Anja Furtwängler, M. Harbeck, Kristina von Heyking, Catharina Kociumaka, Isil Kucukkalipci, S. Lindauer, Stephanie Metz, Anja Staskiewicz, A. Thiel, J. Wahl, W. Haak, E. Pernicka, S. Schiffels, P. Stockhammer, J. Krause   +23 more
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SOCIAL INEQUALITIES UNDIMINISHED

The Lancet, 1979
Traditional differences in death-rates by social class continue in Britain in the 1970s, mostly at lower levels of mortality. The professions do well, unskilled workers and their families particularly badly. Data on health services are scanty, but they suggest that lower-class families, with greater needs, do not make proportionate demands on some ...
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Inequality in adult learning and education participation: the effects of social origins and social inequality

International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2019
This comparative study examines patterns of inequality in participation in two different types of adult learning and education (ALE) – job-related formal ALE (JFALE) and job-related non-formal ALE (JNFALE) – as related to social origins at the micro ...
Jeongwoo Lee, R. Desjardins
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Social Inequalities

2020
This chapter addresses the extent of social inequalities in contemporary Spain using a broad array of indicators. Trends in economic inequalities are firstly analysed. The risk of poverty and social exclusion are then considered because of their special relevance in the Spanish case in the context of the Great Recession.
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