pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
Visit our new collection website www.collectionsforschool.co.uk
     
Email: Subscribe to news & offers:
Need assistance? Log In/Register


Item Details
Title: DEATH, DEEDS, AND DESCENDENTS
INHERITANCE IN MODERN AMERICA
By: Remi Clignet, Jens Beckert, Brooke Harrington
Format: Paperback

List price: £44.99
Our price: £40.49
Discount:
10% off
You save: £4.50
ISBN 10: 0202362566
ISBN 13: 9780202362564
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.
 Delivery rates
Stock: Currently 0 available
Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
Pub. date: 1 August, 2009
Pages: 264
Description: Analyses inheritance patterns in modern America. This book shows that inheritance serves to perpetuate both familial wealth and familial relations. It also examines what leads decedents to chose particular legal instruments (wills, trusts, insurance policies, gifts inter vivos).
Synopsis: Clignet's analysis of inheritance patterns in modern America is the first sustained treatment of the subject by a sociologist. Clignet shows that even today inheritance serves to perpetuate both familial wealth and familial relations. He examines what leads decedents to chose particular legal instruments (wills, trusts, insurance policies, gifts inter vivos) and how, in turn, the instrument chosen helps explain the extent and the form of inequalities in bequests, of a result of the gender or matrimonial status of the beneficiaries. The author's major is to identify and explain the most significant sources of variations in the amount and the direction of transfers of wealth after death in the United States. He uses two kinds of primary data: estate tax returns filed by a sample of male and female beneficiaries to estates in 1920 and 1944, representing two successive generations of estate transfers, and publicly recorded legal instruments such as wills and trusts. In addition, Clignet draws widely on secondary sources in the fields of anthropology, economics, and history. His findings reflect substantive and methodological concerns.The analysis underlines the need to rethink the sociology of generational bonds, as it is informed by age and gender. Death, Deeds, and Descendants underscores the variety of forms of inequality that bequests take and highlights the complexity of interrelations between the cultures of the decedents' nationalities and issues like occupation and gender. Inheritance is viewed as a way of illuminating the subtle tensions between continuity and change in American society. This book is an important contribution to the study of the relationship between sociology of the family and sociology of social stratification.
Illustrations: black & white illustrations
Publication: US
Imprint: AldineTransaction
Returns: Returnable
Some other items by this author:
AFRICANIZATION OF THE LABOR MARKET
AFRICANIZATION OF THE LABOR MARKET (HB)
BEYOND THE MARKET
BEYOND THE MARKET (HB)
CAPITAL WITHOUT BORDERS
CAPITAL WITHOUT BORDERS (HB)
CONSTRUCTING QUALITY (HB)
DEATH, DEEDS AND DESCENDANTS (HB)
DEATH, DEEDS, AND DESCENDENTS (HB)
DECEPTION (HB)
HOW WE SOLD OUR FUTURE (HB)
IMAGINED FUTURES
IMAGINED FUTURES (HB)
INHERITED WEALTH (HB)
INHERITED WEALTH (PB)
INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY
INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY
INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY
INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY
INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY
INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY
INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY (PB)
OFFSHORE
OFFSHORE (HB)
POP FINANCE
POP FINANCE (HB)
POP FINANCE (PB)
STRUCTURE OF ARTISTIC REVOLUTIONS (HB)
THE ARCHITECTURE OF ILLEGAL MARKETS (HB)
THE WORTH OF GOODS (HB)
THE WORTH OF GOODS (PB)
WIRTSCHAFTSSOZIOLOGIE (PB)

TOP SELLERS IN THIS CATEGORY
The Theory of the Leisure Class (Paperback)
Oxford University Press
Our Price : £8.02
more details
The Making of the English Working Class (Paperback)
Penguin Books Ltd
Our Price : £14.60
more details
White Trash (Paperback)
Atlantic Books
Our Price : £10.94
more details
Distinction (Paperback)
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Our Price : £17.85
more details
Class, Self, Culture (Paperback)
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Our Price : £43.19
more details
BROWSE FOR BOOKS IN RELATED CATEGORIES
 SOCIAL SCIENCES
 sociology, social studies
 social groups & communities
 social classes


Information provided by www.pickabook.co.uk
SHOPPING BASKET
  
Your basket is empty
  Total Items: 0
 






Early Learning
Little Worried Caterpillar (PB) Little Green knows she''s about to make a big change - transformingfrom a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly. Everyone is VERYexcited! But Little Green is VERY worried. What if being a butterflyisn''t as brilliant as everyone says?Join Little Green as she finds her own path ... with just a littlehelp from her friends.
add to basket

Early Learning
add to basket

Picture Book
All the Things We Carry PB What can you carry?A pebble? A teddy? A bright red balloon? A painting you''ve made?A hope or a dream?This gorgeous, reassuring picture book celebrates all the preciousthings we can carry, from toys and treasures to love and hope. With comforting rhymes and fabulous illustrations, this is a warmhug of a picture book.
add to basket