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Social Theory and Social Structure
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The article was published on 1949-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 13688 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social change & Social relation.read more
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Economic Analysis of Social Interactions
TL;DR: For example, the authors used game theory, the economics of the family, and endogenous growth theory to study general social interactions and found that observable outcomes may be generated by many different interaction processes, so empirical findings are open to a wide variety of interpretations.
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Citizenship Behavior and Social Exchange
Mary A. Konovsky,S. Douglas Pugh +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an employee's trust in a supervisor is proposed to mediate the relationship between procedural fairness in the supervisor's decision making and employee citizenship, and data from 475 hospital employees and their supervisors were consistent with their model.
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Anomie, ego-enhancement and tourism
TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical case is made for concentration on push factors, and, in particular, those stemming from "anomie" and ego-enhancement in the tourist himself, which is conducive to the creation of a fantasy world, one to which he plans a periodic escape.
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New directions in equity research.
TL;DR: Equity theory as mentioned in this paper is a general theory of social behavior that predicts when individuals will perceive that they are justly treated and how they will react when they find themselves enmeshed in unjust relationships.
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Student Social Class and Teacher Expectations: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in Ghetto Education
TL;DR: Rist as mentioned in this paper reported the results of an observational study of one class of ghetto children during their kindergarten, first-and second-grade years, and concluded that the way in which the teacher behaved toward the different groups became an important influence on the children's achievement.