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Between labor and capital
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This article is published in Contemporary Sociology.The article was published on 1981-03-01. It has received 98 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Physical capital & Capital (economics).read more
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Transforming Technology: A Critical Theory Revisited
TL;DR: The Critical Theory of Technology as mentioned in this paper rethinks the relationship between technology, rationality, and democracy, arguing that the degradation of labor, educational, and political systems is rooted in the social values that preside over technological development.
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Race, Class, and the Perception of Criminal Injustice in America'
John Hagan,Celesta A. Albonetti +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that black Americans are considerably more likely than white Americans to perceive criminal injustice, regardless of race, and that members of the surplus population are significantly more likely to perceived criminal injustice than other classes.
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Race and class bias in qualitative research on women
TL;DR: This paper analyzed the race and class background of 200 women who volunteered to participate in an in-depth study of Black and White professional, managerial, and administrative women and found that White women raised in middle-class families who worked in male-dominated occupations were the most likely to volunteer, and White women were more than twice as likely to respond to media solicitations or letters.
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MOVING UP WITH KIN AND COMMUNITY: Upward Social Mobility for Black and White Women
TL;DR: The authors examined evidence from a social science study of upward mobility among 200 Black and white professional-managerial women in the Memphis, Tennessee metropolitan area and found that the experiences of the women paint a different picture from the image of the mobility process that remains from scholarship conducted 20 to 30 years ago on white males.
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From the Sociology of Intellectuals to the Sociology of Interventions
Gil Eyal,Larissa Buchholz +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argued that the classical sociology of intellectuals is being converted into a sociology of interventions, i.e., instead of focusing on a certain social type, it analyzes the movement by which knowledge and expertise are mobilized to inform value-laden intervention in the public sphere.