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Field Theory in Social Science: Selected Theoretical Papers

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The article was published on 1975-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 916 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Field theory (sociology).

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The child's social network: Sex differences from three to six years

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the social networks of 85 young children as they make the transition from a home-centered to a more school-centered existence using longitudinal data and found that as children reached formal school age they had increased contact with peers and decreased contact with kin, while adult contact remained fairly consistent over the three to six-year age period.
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Path dependent constraints on innovation programmes in production and operations management

TL;DR: Innovation has been categorised into levels, ranging from incremental to radical, each of which has the potential to impact on the workforce and the organisation of a company, influenced by contextual factors as mentioned in this paper.
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Opening the black box: Why and when workplace exclusion affects social reconnection behaviour, health, and attitudes

TL;DR: In this article, a process through which co-worker exclusion is positively related to social reconnection behavior in the workplace is discussed. But despite these positive outcomes, they also found the mediated relationship of exclusion and perceptions of being envied to be damaging to workers' psychological health and work-related attitudes, and that these relationships were the strongest among employees with high positive affect (PA).
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Making sense of one’s actions in an explanatory vacuum: The interpretation of nonconscious goal striving

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of social norms, applicable conscious goals, and negative affect in the interpretation of nonconscious goal pursuit is discussed, and it is shown that applicable goals are indeed used to interpret nonconsciously-activated goal striving.