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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.

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Effects of a severely mentally retarded child on family integration

TL;DR: Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography is issued three times a year, two numbers in each issue, with a limited number of back issues of all publications available.
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Developing the Professional Self-Concept: Role Model Construals in Early, Middle, and Late Career Stages

TL;DR: It is discovered that individuals primarily construe their role models along positive/negative, global/specific, close/distant, and hierarchically superior/peer-subordinate dimensions, and that across the career span, the tendency to observe role models did not change.
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Self-enhancement and Superiority Biases in Social Comparison

TL;DR: An overview of self-related superiority biases in social comparison is presented in this paper, including false consensus, false uniqueness, pluralistic ignorance, illusory superiority, unrealistic optimism, the sensitive and multifaceted self, the Barnum effect and the self-other asymmetry.
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Student Resistance: How the Formal and Informal Organization of Classrooms Facilitate Everyday Forms of Student Defiance1

TL;DR: This article found that student defiance is more the result of organizational features of social networks and instruction than "alienation" factors, and is therefore rectifiable through classroom management, and that defiant behaviors arise when instructional formats give students access to public discourse and when students have advantaged social network relations.
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The impact of norm-conforming behaviors on firm reputation

TL;DR: The authors examined the corporate environmental disclosures of 90 U.S. firms and found that firms derive different reputational rewards depending on whether they conform to the goal or procedure dimension of the environmental transparency norm.