Cultural Knowledge and Social Inequality.
Using both qualitative longitudinal data collected 20 years after the original Unequal Childhoods study and interview data from a study of upwardly mobile adults, this address demonstrates how cultural knowledge matters when white and African American young adults of differing class backgrounds navi...
| Publicado en: | American Sociological Review Vol. 80; no. 1; pp. 1 - 28 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Feb2015
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