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    Clinical and Biological Aspects

    Edición de Kenji Kosaka ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
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  • Social Stratification in Contemporary Japan

    Edición de Kenji Kosaka ...
    First Published in 1994. The focus of this study is class and stratification in Japan. There are a few papers on social stratification in Japan that are written in English and make use of the SSM research. The present study uses the latest SSM data. These were collected in 1985, and are themselves becoming out of date, given that Japanese society has been experiencing rapid and radical change, ... Leer más

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  • Generating Images of Stratification

    A Formal Theory

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Generating Images of Stratification is a self-contained presentation of a theoretical research program that deals with a significant explanatory problem relating to social inequality and that constructs generative theoretical models in doing so. In more detail:-Self-contained presentation - In respect to the background sociological facts and theoretical ideas and also the formal methods the book ... Leer más

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    Series series A John Hope Franklin Center book
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