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Gender differences in the creation of different types of social capital : A multilevel study
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Men were shown to be more effective in creating hard social capital, but, unexpectedly, women were not found to be the emotional specialists they often are thought to be.About:
This article is published in Social Networks.The article was published on 2006-01-01. It has received 165 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social mobility & Social status.read more
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Nonlinear effects of group size on collective action and resource outcomes
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that group size has nonlinear effects on both collective action and resource outcomes, with intermediate group size contributing the most monitoring effort and leading to the biggest forest cover gain.
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The Micro‐politics of Gendering in Networking
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the implications of the conceptualization of gender as practice for social network theory and show that networking does not necessarily reinforce gender inequality, which opens up the possibility of examining which combinations of networking and gendering contribute to changing the gender order.
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The Matilda Effect—Role Congruity Effects on Scholarly Communication: A Citation Analysis of Communication Research and Journal of Communication Articles
TL;DR: Using role congruity theory as the basis for the study, an analysis of 1,020 articles published 1991-2005 in Communication Research and Journal of Communication found articles authored by female communication scientists received fewer citations than articlesauthored by males.
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Age Trends in Daily Social Contact Patterns
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the actual amount of social contact older adults have on a typical day using data collected in the 2003-2009 American Time Use Surveys (ATSU) to examine age-related trends in rates of everyday contact.
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Gender differences in medical students’ motives and career choice
TL;DR: Whether or not living with a partner is determinant for differences in profession-related motives and external motives (lifestyle and social situation) and external and intrinsic motives mediate this relationship to a greater of lesser degree are found.
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The Strength of Weak Ties
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the degree of overlap of two individuals' friendship networks varies directly with the strength of their tie to one another, and the impact of this principle on diffusion of influence and information, mobility opportunity, and community organization is explored.
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The measurement of psychological androgyny.
TL;DR: A new sex-role inventory is described that treats masculinity and femininity as two independent dimensions, thereby making it possible to characterize a person as masculine, feminine, or "androgynous" as a function of the difference between his or her endorsement of masculine and feminine personality characteristics.
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The contingent value of social capital.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an argument and evidence for a structural ecology of social capital that describes how the value of an individual's social capital to an individual is contingent on the number of people doing the same work.
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Measuring organizational cultures: A qualitative and quantitative study across twenty cases.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of a study on organizational cultures in twenty units from ten different organizations in Denmark and the Netherlands, which came from in-depth interviews of selected informants and a questionnaire survey of a stratified random sample of organizational members.
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Some Effects of Proportions on Group Life: Skewed Sex Ratios and Responses to Token Women
TL;DR: In this article, a framework is developed for conceptualizing the processes that occur between dominants and tokens, and three perceptual phenomena are associated with tokens: visibility, polarization, and assimilation, where tokens' attributes are distorted to fit preexisting generalizations about their social type.