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The 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
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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Making 'The Daily Me': Technology, economics and habit in the mainstream assimilation of personalized news [PDF]
, 2011 The mechanisms of personalization deployed by news websites are resulting in an increasing number of editorial decisions being taken by computer algorithms — many of which are under the control of external companies — and by end users.
Thurman, N.
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How kin help with parental investments
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Aliya Hamid Rao
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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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“Now we don't have that freedom to not work”: Childhood and parenting in insecurity culture
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Allison J. Pugh
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The policy adjacent: How affordable housing generates policy feedback among neighboring residents
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract While scholars have documented feedback effects among a policy's direct winners and losers, less is known about whether such effects can occur among the indirectly affected—“the policy adjacent.” Using 458 geocoded housing developments built between two nearly identical statewide ballot propositions funding affordable housing in California, we
Michael Hankinson +2 more
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The Historical Role of the European Shadow Banking System in the Development and Evolution of Our Monetary Institutions [PDF]
, 2013 When we hear about the 2008 Lehman Brothers crisis, immediately we relate it to the concept of "shadow banking system"; however, the credit intermediation involving lightly regulated entities and activities outside the traditional banking system are not ...
Lazcano, I. C.
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The unbearable (financial) burdens of parenting
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Alya Guseva
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding social factors that affected how people interpreted the meanings of COVID‐19 measures is important in postpandemic times. This study applies perspectives from research on emotions as one of the possible explanations and focuses on how institutions and their measures are perceived in the context of individual emotional situations.
Eva M. Hejzlarová
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