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Transmitting inequality: An asset-based analysis of racial and ethnic
inequality and its intergenerational transmission [диссертация]
Опубликовано на портале: 19-05-2004
Yuval ElmelechНаучный руководитель: Seymour Spilerman
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY , 2001
This dissertation explores the determinants and socioeconomic consequences of inequality in material assets among middle-aged American households. Using survey data from the Health and Retirement study (HRS), and utilizing suitable quantitative techniques, this study establishes a conceptual ground which brings back the critical role private property and kinship relations play in contemporary stratification processes. This study shows that in the contemporary post-transitional, multi-asset society, two social mechanisms of closure and exclusion, marriage and inheritance ;intervene in th



Опубликовано на портале: 19-05-2004
Dita Andersson EverettНаучный руководитель: Mary Walsh
Организация: Department of Economics
2002
This study sought to determine whether social class contributed to differences in moral justifications and moral decision-making. The study also sought to determine whether particular situational variables, namely the nature of the relationship between individuals depicted in a moral dilemma and the severity of the grievance depicted in a moral dilemma, had an influence upon moral decision-making and moral justifications. Results found significant differences between the lower-income and middle-upper income participants in both their moral decisions and in their moral justifications. Mor


