Who Counts as Family? How Standards Stratify Lives
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DOI: 10.1177/00031224221092303
Abstract: Building on Max Weber’s observation that the state’s reliance on formal tools leads to governance for some and dehumanization for others, we investigate administrative standards as a social mechanism of stratification that sorts people into… read more here.
Keywords: stratify lives; family; counts family; next kin ... See more keywords