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State Categories, Bureaucracies of Displacement, and Possibilities from the Margins. 国家类别、流离失所的官僚机构和边缘的可能性

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American Sociological Review Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Epub Date: 2023-01-24 DOI: 10.1177/00031224221145727

Cecilia Menjívar

引用次数: 5

Higher Education and the Black-White Earnings Gap 高等教育与黑人-白人收入差距

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American Sociological Review Pub Date : 2023-01-27 DOI: 10.1177/00031224221141887

Xiaoping Zhou, Guanghui Pan

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引用次数: 1

Hierarchies in the Decentralized Welfare State: Prioritization in the Housing Choice Voucher Program 去中心化福利国家的等级制度：住房选择券计划的优先顺序

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American Sociological Review Pub Date : 2023-01-24 DOI: 10.1177/00031224221147899

Simone Zhang, Rebecca A. Johnson

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引用次数: 1

Embracing Market Liberalism? Community Structure, Embeddedness, and Mutual Savings and Loan Conversions to Stock Corporations 拥抱市场自由主义?社区结构、嵌入性与股份公司的相互储蓄和贷款转换

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American Sociological Review Pub Date : 2022-12-28 DOI: 10.1177/00031224221138079

Marc Schneiberg, Adam Goldstein, Matthew S. Kraatz

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Party, Race, and Neutrality: Investigating the Interdependence of Attitudes toward Social Groups 政党、种族与中立：对社会群体态度的相互依赖性研究

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American Sociological Review Pub Date : 2022-11-26 DOI: 10.1177/00031224221135797

Jordan Brensinger, Ramina Sotoudeh

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Double Jeopardy: Teacher Biases, Racialized Organizations, and the Production of Racial/Ethnic Disparities in School Discipline 双重危险:教师偏见，种族化组织，以及学校纪律中种族/民族差异的产生

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American Sociological Review Pub Date : 2022-11-18 DOI: 10.1177/00031224221135810

Jayanti Owens

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引用次数: 18

Homicide and State History 凶杀和州历史

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American Sociological Review Pub Date : 2022-11-09 DOI: 10.1177/00031224221131758

J. Gerring, C. Knutsen

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Ready to Rent: Administrative Decisions and Poverty Governance in the Housing Choice Voucher Program 准备出租：住房选择券计划中的行政决策和贫困治理

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American Sociological Review Pub Date : 2022-11-07 DOI: 10.1177/00031224221131798

B. McCabe

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引用次数: 4

Relational Work in the Family: The Gendered Microfoundation of Parents’ Economic Decisions 家庭中的关系工作:父母经济决策的性别微观基础

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American Sociological Review Pub Date : 2022-11-03 DOI: 10.1177/00031224221132295

Aliya Hamid Rao

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引用次数: 3

Collaborating in Class: Social Class Context and Peer Help-Seeking and Help-Giving in an Elite Engineering School 课堂合作:一所精英工程学校的社会阶层背景与同伴寻求与给予帮助

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American Sociological Review Pub Date : 2022-10-29 DOI: 10.1177/00031224221130506

Anthony M. Johnson

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