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Finding Welfare Rule Violators
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Spencer Headworth
Published: 22 May 2021
... structures of social stratification. deterrence incapacitation penology welfare rule violators criminology of welfare fraud informal welfare fraud’s causes applications application forms opportunism property crimes welfare fraud compared to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program SNAP Food Stamp...
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Inherited Terrains: The Political, Economic, and Social Foundations of American Public Schools
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Susan L. Moffitt and others
Published: 18 August 2023
... reform policy making public schools social safety net residential segregation children’s health social stratification economic development democratic governance For hundreds of years, American public schools have shouldered enormous expectations: to cultivate citizens, to prepare the workforce...
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Who Benefits from Shared Capitalism? The Social Stratification of Wealth and Power in Companies with Employee Ownership
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Edward J. Carberry
Published: 15 May 2010
... directly related to pay; it is not possible to assume that implementing shared capitalism creates instant equity and fairness. The reality is that the implementation and operation of these plans occurs within broader structures of stratification, and this reality may have negative consequences...
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Two Hemispheres Revisited: Fields of Law, Practice Settings, and Client Types
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Robert L. Nelson and others
Published: 03 October 2023
... of lawyers’ practice settings. The chapter also highlights the social stratification of fields of law, and the supplanting of ethno-religious background and social class by gender, law school status, and race as organizing concepts and axes of professional stratification. The authors find remarkable...
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Class, Race, and College Admissions in a Changing US Context
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Lois Weis and others
Published: 02 April 2014
...This chapter establishes the context within which the schools and families at the center of this book enact their “class work” vis-à-vis the college applications process. Highlighting recent economic instability and stratification of higher education wherein college credentials matter more than...
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Conclusion
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Janice M. McCabe
Published: 09 November 2016
... of education. Close attention to the ways that network structures vary by students’ race, gender, and class provides important insights into the mechanisms perpetuating stratification. organizations on campus students advice for academic multiplex ties cautionary tale testimonies of imbalance class...
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From Natural History to History of Nature: From Buffon to Kant and Herder (and Blumenbach)
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John H. Zammito
Published: 22 December 2017
...The historicization of nature emerged across the eighteenth century first in the development of historical geology and then in the historicization of life forms. Fossils and their stratification and the sense of ruptures in geological lime (“catastrophism”) not only dramatically extended...
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Exploring origins: The choice of anthropology
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Fuad I. Khuri
Published: 15 May 2007
... in private schools in Lebanon, but it contributes to making one a better teacher—and also increases one's salary as a teacher by about eight percent. For his master's thesis, the author chose to do fieldwork on social stratification and school achievement in Cedarstown (a pseudonym for a small village...
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Whom One Owes
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Francesca Polletta
Published: 06 November 2020
... of care feminism political solidarity debt emotional labor gender stratification relationship schemas dirty work Durkheim Solidarity is only gesturing when it involves no sacrifice. mary douglas , How Institutions Think (1986) Observers have long worried...
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Published: 15 September 2016
...” of each level to the lower ones; the stratification of nature, a metaphysical thesis, was thus displaced onto the hierarchy of the sciences but never really went away. Since true reduction was clearly far in the future, open defenses of naturalism could be indefinitely deferred. The chapter examines...
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Published: 14 October 2022
... distribution income distribution class location across wealth distribution class location across Alessie R Angelini V Feldstein M Jappelli T van Santen P inequality growing interest in geographic wealth inequality households survey data class economic stratification Pirmin Fessler is a senior...