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A Factory Closes: Structure, Stratification, and the Life Course

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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.