Surprisingly, women are less likely than men to view children as central in Great Britain and the Netherlands. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth we examine processes by which students enter lucrative fields of study, selective colleges, and lucrative fields within selective colleges. We code fields by their graduates' average monthly income, and use average incoming student's SAT scores to measure selectivity. This essay argues that sociology's major current problems are intellectual. Examples of new methodologies founded on contextual thinking are considered.
Anniversaries are often valedictions.
A centennial sometimes shows an association to be moribund, just as a diamond jubilee may reveal a queen's irrelevance and a golden anniversary finds many a marriage dead. By contrast, living social relations celebrate daily. Anniversaries merely punctuate their excitement. It is commonly argued that unions regularize workplace conflict by substituting formal strikes and grievance proceedings for informal forms of resistance. This transformation is interpreted as part of a trade-off under business unionism in which unions help discipline workers and keep them on the job in exchange for the right to bargain collectively in their name.