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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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The physics of communicability in complex networks
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Commitment Propensity, Organizational Commitment, and Voluntary Turnover: A Longitudinal Study of Organizational Entry Processes
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Social Perception and Social Reality: Why Accuracy Dominates Bias and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
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