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Das Thema soziale Ungleichheit steht nach wie vor im Zentrum der Soziologie. Die mehrdimensionale Analyse sozialer Ungleichheit stellt unter dem Begriff der "Intersektionalität" in den letzten Jahren die wohl größte Innovation in diesem Feld dar und gewinnt auch in der Lehre zun…
In this dissertation, I conduct three studies focusing on differences in social groups and their health outcomes or opinions related to medical practices. In Chapter 1, I outline each study and its findings.
India has the greatest maternal and child health burden in the world, having more stunted and wasted children, neonatal deaths, and deaths of children under age five than any other nation (Paul et al. 2011; UNICEF 2013; 2018; Hug, Sharrow, and You 2017). Progress has been made i…
Compilation of readings on the sociology of class stratification, social status and social structure - covers distributive and relational aspects of social inequality, and forms of discrimination and intergroup relations arising therefrom. Annotated bibliography pp. 381 to 384, …
The purpose of this research was to share and interpret the stories of young women in Zaria, an urban city in northern Nigeria, in order to illustrate how their unique positions framed their identity and their attitude toward schooling. There has been a huge concern about the in…
En las sociedades contemporáneas constatamos un estado de desigualdad social como en el viejo régimen: la acumulación de la riqueza en el 1% de la población, multimillonarios como presidentes, el aumento en el consumo de lujo, el surgimiento de una cultura de distinción, así com…
Long description: En las sociedades contemporáneas constatamos un estado de desigualdad social como en el viejo régimen: la acumulación de la riqueza en el 1% de la población, multimillonarios como presidentes, el aumento en el consumo de lujo, el surgimiento de una cultura de d…
Suitability modeling is a useful approach for exploring human interactions with their environments. Within a geographic information system (GIS) environment, locations are weighted relative to each other, resulting in a landscape hierarchy that displays regions from least to mos…
Childhood growth has been a means of identifying systemic, material inequalities within populations. The plasticity of growth is responsive to multiple environmental factors, most notably adequate nutrition, but also psychosocial stress. Psychosocial stress can be a function of …
Due to increasing investigations and studies of the Kura-Araxes cultural communities, our information about this enigmatic archaeological culture has increased in many respects. Its interactions and regional variations in terms of cultural materials have been analyzed by many sc…
This dissertation examines the role of social inequality in the allocation of individuals to different types of employment. It tests three related hypotheses—first, whether India has minority enclave markets built by socially disadvantaged individuals rejected by the primary mar…
Understanding emotion is essential to examining social inequality. Emotions help people make sense of the social world and can be internally managed for the purpose of remaining unthreatening to the social order. For women, this often means subconsciously evaluating and adjustin…
This dissertation examines outcomes of market transition, economic justice attitudes, and perceived legitimacy of the capitalist economic system in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan and is based on analysis of data from nationally representative surveys organized by the author in the tw…
In this book Tim McGettigan and Earl Smith make the unprecedented argument that racism is a remediable form of suggestion-induced sadism. Smith and McGettigan explain in plain terms how societies like the USA construct racism, and they also explain how societies can dismantle an…