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Talk of Family: How Institutional Overlap Shapes Family-Related Discourse Across Social Class

Jessica Halliday Hardie, Alina Arseniev-Koehler, Judith A. Seltzer, Jacob G. Foster
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences September 2024, 10 (5) 165-187; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2024.10.5.07
Jessica Halliday Hardie
aProfessor of sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, United States
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Alina Arseniev-Koehler
bAssistant professor of sociology, Purdue University, and postdoctoral fellow of biomedical informatics, University of California, San Diego, United States
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Judith A. Seltzer
cResearch professor of sociology and faculty fellow at the California Center for Population Research, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
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Jacob G. Foster
dProfessor of informatics and cognitive science, Indiana University, adjunct professor of sociology and faculty fellow at the California Center for Population Research, University of California, Los Angeles, United States, and external professor at the Santa Fe Institute
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