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In their 1932 volume "American Business Leaders: A Study in Social Origins and Social Stratification," Frank W. Taussig and Carl S Joslyn, then a young Harvard graduate, argued that success in business depended more on innate superiority than on other environmental factors such as financial aid,...
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Als 1910 ihre Dissertation »Auslese und Anpassung der Arbeiterschaft der geschlossenen Großindustrie« bei Duncker & Humblot erschien, war Marie Bernays eine von wenigen promovierten Frauen im deutschen Kaiserreich. Für die Recherche ihrer Arbeit hatte die spätere Frauenrechtlerin und...
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Theorienvergleiche sind nicht nur ein kollektives Unternehmen zur Sicherung fachlicher Standards. Sie können auch dem eigenen produktiven Umgang mit Theorienvielfalt dienen und eignen sich sogar für die Konstruktion neuer Theorien. Es wird gezeigt, dass in der Praxis soziologischer Theorie...
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The facts of social sciences are ones that stem from scientificexpertise, but in the social world, everyone is their own expert.Everyone lives in society, and experiences either first-hand, orclosely second-hand, the same phenomena that social scientistsinvestigate. Consequently, people are not...
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“Population” is often a significant unit of analysis, and a point of passage for facts and models moving between the natural and social sciences, and between animals and humans. But the very existence of a population is a “fact” fraught with challenges: What distinguishes a population...
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This paper reassesses and extends Hawke’s passenger railway social savings for England and Wales. Better estimates of coach costs and evidence that third class passengers would otherwise have walked reduce Hawke’s social savings by two-thirds. We calculate railway speeds, and the amount and...
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