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Manifesto for a relational sociology
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Sociologists today are faced with a fundamental dilemma: whether to conceive of the social world as consisting primarily in substances or processes, in static "things" or in dynamic, unfolding rela...Abstract:
Sociologists today are faced with a fundamental dilemma: whether to conceive of the social world as consisting primarily in substances or processes, in static "things" or in dynamic, unfolding rela...read more
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Social Theory of International Politics
TL;DR: Wendt as discussed by the authors describes four factors which can drive structural change from one culture to another - interdependence, common fate, homogenization, and self-restraint - and examines the effects of capitalism and democracy in the emergence of a Kantian culture in the West.
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What is agency
Mustafa Emirbayer,Ann Mische +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conceptualize agency as a temporally embedded process of social engagement, informed by the past (in its "iterational" or habitual aspect) but also oriented toward the future (as a projective capacity to imagine alternative possibilities) and toward the present, as a practical-evaluative capacity to contextualize past habits and future projects within the contingencies of the moment.
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The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences
Michèle Lamont,Virág Molnár +1 more
TL;DR: In recent years, the concept of boundaries has been at the center of influential research agendas in anthropology, history, political science, social psychology, and sociology, particularly concerning the study of relational processes as mentioned in this paper.
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The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences
Michèle Lamont and,Virág Molnár +1 more
TL;DR: The concept of boundaries has been at the center of influential research agendas in anthropology, history, political science, social psychology, and sociology as mentioned in this paper, particularly concerning the study of relational processes.
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Collective identity and social movements
TL;DR: Collective identity has been treated as an alternative to structurally given interests in accounting for the claims on behalf of which people mobilize, an alternative alternative to selective incentives in understanding why people participate, a alternative to instrumental rationality in explaining what tactical choices activists make, and a complementary alternative to institutional reforms in assessing movements' impacts.
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present La Volonté de Savoir, the methodological introduction of a projected five-volume history of sexuality, which seems to have a special fascination for Foucault: the gradual emergence of medicine as an institution, the birth of political economy, demography and linguistics as human sciences, the invention of incarceration and confinement for the control of the "other" in society (the mad, the libertine, the criminal) and that special violence that lurks beneath the power to control discourse.
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Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition.
Steven B. Andrews,Ronald S. Burt +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, structural holes are defined as network gaps between players which create entrepreneurial opportunities for information access, timing, referrals, and for control, and the structural holes also generate control benefits giving certain players an advantage in negotiating their relationships.
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Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition
TL;DR: In this paper, the Tertius Gaudens Entrepreneurs Secondary Holes Structural Autonomy (SSA) model is used to control the number of holes in a network.