A Factory Closes: Structure, Stratification, and the Life Course
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State
This capstone follows one constructed manufacturing town through a plant closing, showing how the sociological imagination, the poverty line, and the labor market interact as one mechanism rather than separate stories.
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One constructed case illustrates how these four measurements interact; it is not a data point, and no figure here is a reported statistic.
Builds on
- 0010 The Sociological Imagination
- 0011 Personal Troubles and Public Issues
- 0523 The Life Course
- 0847 Absolute Poverty
- 0848 Relative Poverty
- 0857 The Davis-Moore Thesis
- 0858 Objections to Davis-Moore
- 1557 Outsourcing and Automation
- 1559 Structural Unemployment
- 1561 How the Unemployment Rate Is Counted
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