▪ Abstract In recent years, the concept of boundaries has been at the center of influential
research agendas in anthropology, history, political science, social psychology, and�…

Although it is evident in routine decision-making and a crucial vehicle of rationalization,
commensuration as a general social process has been given little consideration by�…

Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations
to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new�…

Working-class and poor parents issue many more directives to their children, and in some
households, place more emphasis on physical discipline than do middle-class parents�…

Working mothers today confront not only conflicting demands on their time and energy but
also conflicting ideas about how they are to behave: they must be nurturing and unselfish�…

The Sixth Edition of William A. Corsaro and Judson G. Everitt′ s groundbreaking text
discusses children and childhood from a sociological perspective—providing in-depth�…

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This article argues for reconfiguring the study of identity formatio through the concept of
narrative. It is motivated by two recent bu seemingly unrelated developments in social theory�…

You see it in every schoolyard: the girls play only with the girls, the boys play only with the
boys. Why? And what do the kids think about this? Breaking with familiar conventions for�…