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The social life of money for children

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
wiley   +1 more source

Capital and the Family

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are capital and the family interconnected in contemporary capitalism? In this article, we argue that they come together in owning relations. By owning capital across generations, families bridge the temporal gap between the durability of capital and the finite lifespan of private property holders and thus resolve the problem of bona ...
Jens Beckert, Isabell Stamm
wiley   +1 more source

Anthropology and Moral Philosophy: A Symposium on Michael Banner's The Ethics of Everyday Life [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Banner, Michael   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
wiley   +1 more source

Improving police behavior through artificial intelligence: Pre‐registered experimental results in two large US agencies

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Police body‐worn cameras (BWCs) generate extensive video data on officer behavior, yet resource constraints mean that only a fraction of this footage is ever reviewed. Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present an opportunity to automate these reviews, potentially influencing police conduct.
Ian T. Adams   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contemporary trends of witchcraft accusations and resulting violence against children: A scoping review and bibliometric analysis protocol. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Spence C   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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