A5102808729- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Forest ecology and management
- Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
- Historical Economic and Social Studies
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
Harvard University Press
2024-2025
Princeton University
1999-2023
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
1999
Light gap disturbances have been postulated to play a major role in maintaining tree diversity species-rich tropical forests. This hypothesis was tested more than 1200 gaps forest Panama over 13-year period. Gaps increased seedling establishment and sapling densities, but this effect nonspecific broad-spectrum, species richness per stem identical nongap control sites. Spatial temporal variation the disturbance regime did not explain richness. The composition of unpredictable even for pioneer...
Abstract This article introduces the first-ever full kinship network of an upper-class population in a US city (n = 12 273). Multigenerational class transmission models tend to conceptualize families as father–son chains, especially for upper class, but I systematically include women, finding that nearly 70% Dallas high society from 1895 1945 was related single web encompassing most city’s wealthy, powerful, and high-status people. Because elites did not always have sons, three times more...
ABSTRACT The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions economic power have influence on very large corporations the markets they dominate, vast amounts resources, rules game. However, sociology elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations what can be considered as position internationally incompatible sources information hinder comparative analysis. World Elite Database (WED) addresses this challenge, by generating, based consistent definition,...
Inheritance increasingly drives the global wealth gap. But we know little about variation in bequest practices across wealthy populations, beyond fact that eldest sons have traditionally inherited largest fortunes. This article offers a case study of one population, combining full kinship network Dallas upper class from 1895 to 1945 (n = 12 323) with probate data for sample elites who died during time period 551). Although population was highly patriarchal, suggesting would unequivocally...