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“These chains of events have cascading effects in that they both break and reproduce existing social formations - they are 'sequences of occurrences that result in the transformation of structures' (Sewell 2005: 227; also see: Mahoney and Schensul 2006).”
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“Tersely, I will advocate a model of “demographic conjunctures” that integrates the social practice of Bourdieu (1977, 1984, 1998) and duality of structure of Sewell (1992, 2005) with classical population analysis (e.g. Halbwachs and Sauvy 2005; Leridon 1977).”
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- Sewell Jr., W. H.
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