How Long to Read Death, Deeds, and Descendents

How Long Does it Take to Read Death, Deeds, and Descendents?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 1 minute to read Death, Deeds, and Descendents by Remi Clignet

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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.

How long is Death, Deeds, and Descendents?

Death, Deeds, and Descendents by Remi Clignet is 236 pages long, and a total of 60,416 words.

This makes it 80% the length of the average book. It also has 74% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Death, Deeds, and Descendents Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 30 minutes to read Death, Deeds, and Descendents aloud.

What Reading Level is Death, Deeds, and Descendents?

Death, Deeds, and Descendents is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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