Getting ahead in the GDR: Social capital and status attainment under communism

Acta Sociologica

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 16-32

  Völker, Beate ^a   Flap, Henk ^a  

^a Department of Sociology/ICS ^*

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