Kim A. Weeden, American Journal of Sociology “There can be no question that the theme is enormously important. Having first-rate empirical material dedicated to a debate about the relevance of social ...
Stratification theories layer the natural world from the inanimate to the animate to the animal to the human. They used to be ...
Indeed, the road to sociology can be indirect. It was a book about social activist Jane Addams that caught the attention of a 12-year-old Verna Keith, who became intrigued with the idea of being a ...
Scholars of social history, meanwhile, have traditionally studied social stratification within national frameworks. The introduction to this special issue addresses these shortcomings, exploring ...
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In sociology, corruption has a straightforward definition ... In other words, it is the inability to separate one’s duties as a public official from personal obligations in various social ...
Historically, the Indian society had had social divisions based on birth-ascribed or primordial identities. Most of the medieval Indian Muslim rulers also adopted a non-egalitarian and ...
A few studies have been conducted on the social insurance of rural people. However, no study has ever addressed the issue of women with a focus on the theoretical aspects of sociology science, which ...
Following Weber’s (Reference Weber1978 [1921]) guidelines, comparative historical sociology developed in a different way. It conceived history as the field to which sociological analysis is applied, ...
This study assessed the effectiveness of various risk stratification tools, including clinical decision rules and troponin tests, in helping general practitioners rule out acute coronary syndrome ...
Under this new scenario, as expected, AM values are much lower than their corresponding values under a One Pulse model. In fact, part of the population structure that is modeled as social ...