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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"social stratification"”.
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Cuba's tourist industry: Parallel economies and social stratification
… has played an important role in unintended social changes in socialist countries. These social and cultural changes affect not only the economic, political and cultural genre of the government, but also of its citizens; This thesis asks the question, "Has the re-introduction of international …
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Three Essays on Social Stratification, Gender and Health
… chapter focuses on whether weight status is socially patterned by the interplay between human capital, economic, and behavioral resources in a highly gendered context of South Korea. The study shows that women who have fewer opportunities to transfer human capital into economic resources may …
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Paradigms of social stratification: the contemporary power elite debate
… when making theoretical statements about social reality. At the same time, the study has shown how the theorist must learn to construct theories in variable rather than categorical terms, (i.e., a power elite or pluralist system) which facilitate badly needed empirical research.
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The Effect of Social Stratification on College Students' Academic Performance & Progress
… research study is to understand the variables of social stratification, academic performance, and academic progress and how those variables affect a student’s decision to drop out of college. The researcher selected participants for this study from the database at a 4-year private HBCU located in …
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GEOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION: THE IMPACT OF GEOGRAPHICAL ORIGIN AND MOBILITY ON LIFE CHANCES
The study of life outcomes and their social stratification lies at the core of sociological research. As such, this dissertation aims to examine how one's place of origin and geographical mobility interact with social origins to shape occupational outcomes. By embedding these factors within the …
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Marching Upward: The Role of the Military in Social Stratification and Mobility in American Society
… for the association between military service and social mobility, including fluctuations in enlistment standards and educational benefits during the period under investigation, are presented.
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THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF SLAVERY: CONSUMER IDENTITY AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN HACIENDA LA ESPERANZA, MANATÍ, PUERTO RICO
… The discussion also addressed the topics of social stratification and identity.
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Social Stratification, Cultural Identities, and Politics of Leadership: The Consolidation of a National Culture at a Papua New Guinean University
… Papua New Guinea (PNG) experience processes of social stratification and differentiation. In particular, I describe and analyse how students and staff reflect on and enact reciprocal obligations to their kin, how different cultural identities are forged and strengthened at university, and how …
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The impact of the quota-based system on social stratification among the students at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
… on the students. This study examined some of the socialization practices of QBS and GCS based on Van Maanen and Schein’s (1979) work and revealed that hostels (residence halls) played a significant role especially among QBS educational endeavors at IIT(M). Van Maanen and Schein’s (1979) …
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Eating identity: food, gender, and social organization in late Neolithic northern China
… extremely elaborate burials indicating incipient social stratification. The initial spread of rice from southern China to the millet agriculture-based societies of the Yellow River Valley, including Dawenkou region, also occurred during this period. Dawenkou is also the assumed critical …
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Women as Fish: Physical Movement and Social Mobility in Contemporary Vietnam
… examines the changing rurality and the profound social stratification in contemporary Vietnam through the lens of rural-to-rural female migration. It is based on eighteen months of ethnographic research in a rural offshore fishing community in northern Vietnam called Hải Thành. I study the …
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YOUNG PEOPLE AND HOUSING IN EUROPE: DIMENSIONS AND DYNAMICS OF INEQUALITY
Housing plays a central role in the allocation of social resources and it is a key component of overall social stratification. Since the last decades of the 20th century, the increasing commodification, deregulation and financialisation of housing in Europe has had significant consequences. These …
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THE DIRECT EFFECT OF SOCIAL ORIGIN. A SCOPING REVIEW AND TWO COMPARATIVE ANALYSES
The work examines the Direct Effect of Social Origin (DESO), i.e. the intergenerational transmission of occupational status independent of individual education, or human capital. Building on the Blau-Duncan (1967) framework, foundational to current social stratification research, this work …
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Education and Personal Earnings Determination: A Synthetic Approach
… a number of mediating labor market and social stratification variables. Two effects of education are posited. The first, the "allocation effect," refers to the role that education plays in enabling people to obtain better-paying jobs. The second, the "earnings effect," concerns the way …
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Management Accounting Control and Managerial Bullying: Economic, Social, and Political Dynamics in Bangladesh RMG Sector
… emerging economy. Drawing on Max Weber’s ‘social stratification’ (i.e. class, status and party), this study has revealed that to maximise organisations’ profit and secure their personal gains, managers and supervisors frequently use accounting technologies and other MCMs to deliberately …
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Black parent involvement: An untold story
… suggests it should be at the forefront of social concern if one hopes to advance towards academic excellence in America. According to researchers (Cole-Henderson, 2000; Sheridan & Gutkin, 2000) children whose parents are involved have higher education attainment rates, perform better on …
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Youth, elites and distinction in a Northern Namibian town
… in Africa to the understanding of processes of social stratification and wider postcolonial debates on governance
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Caring for star-children : autism, families, and ethics in contemporary China
… across six provinces, this study explores how social stratification and the turn towards self-governance not only made autism as an epistemic object, but has intersected with that category to create new forms of inequality. In the absence of thorough and consistent state initiatives, moral …
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Samurai Sword Museum in Kyoto
… spirit in Kyoto, the core of Bushido is the social stratification and honor unto death. I would like to use the architecture language to demonstrate the Samurai Culture. Earth, Water, Fire, and Air are the elements that I want to consider. When the sword cut into the water, the water stopped …
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