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Chapter 8 of the book "Hellfire and Herring: A Childhood Remembered" is presented. It explores the role of Alec Fergusson, the old lobsterman who doubled as beadle and sexton. It also illustrates Fergusson's gravediggers, whose duties were considered by Fergusson as a calling, and a no mere crust-of-bread occupation.

Chapter 9 of the book "The Inequality Reader: Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race, Class, and Gender," edited by David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelényi is presented. It presents excerpts from the book "Sociological Methodology, 1997," edited by Adrian Raftery. It explores the socioeconomic indexes of occupational status in the U.S.

Chapter 2 of the book "The Human Face of Global Mobility (Comparative Urban and Community Research)" is presented. It highlights the reality of migration politics and the desire of the state to maintain its control over the political and social issues of immigration. It scrutinizes the dynamics behind the structures of the globalization of labor mobility. It also discusses the growing pressure for liberalization in the context of debates in political science literature.

The article focuses on some of the work-related aspects that are affected by social exclusion. The idea of work has always been the focus of those identified with the project of modernity of the Western society. According to the author, the concept of work is still identified largely with industrial society. This relationship means that one recognizes work mainly as a productive process involving the transformation of raw materials into finished commodities.

Discusses the integration of training into the design and operation of complex systems. Deployment of complex sociotechnical systems; Reduction of manpower, personnel and training in human systems design; Improvement of performance capabilities.

This chapter relates the scheme of institutional orders to systems of stratification. The student of stratification is bent on understanding the ranking of people with respect to such values, and in finding out in what respects these ranks differ and why. When social structures are in fluid change, status has less of a chance to determine conduct; when society is, as it were, frozen, status may become a major determinant. As with status, so with power: all roles that are instituted, no matter in which order, involve authoritative relations--the family no less than the political, military, economic and religious orders. As sources of income, occupations are thus connected with class position. The development of interest organizations along class lines is one of the outstanding trends of twentieth-century society. Prestige involves at least two persons: one to claim it and another to honor the claim.