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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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Linking Action to Social Structure within a System: Social Capital within and between Subgroups
TL;DR: In this paper, the French financial elite were identified based on the pattern of friendships and graphical representations established the descriptive link between social structure and action, and estimates from multilevel models quantify the extent to which actors abstain from hostile action against subgroup members but tend to support others not in their subgroup.
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Influence of long-term racial environmental composition on subjective well-being in African Americans
Tom Postmes,Nyla R. Branscombe +1 more
TL;DR: Findings suggest that the improvement of intergroup relations should not be at the expense of intragroup relations, and environments that are segregated offer in-group support and acceptance, thereby protecting self-esteem against possible perils of rejection by a powerful out-group.
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Leadership and gender: a dangerous liaison?
TL;DR: A review of the literature on the ways women lead in organizations with a focus on the fields of business and education is presented in this article, where women adopt democratic and participative leadership styles in the corporate world and in education.
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Data at work: supporting sharing in science and engineering
TL;DR: It is argued that the development of effective CSCW systems to support data sharing in work groups requires a better understanding of the use of data in practice, and that this can be achieved through supporting social interaction around data abstractions, reaching beyond current metadata models, and supporting the social roles of data.
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Slapping the grasping hand: Correlates of political corruption in emerging markets
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the effect of economic liberalization, political democratization, and administrative centralization on political corruption in a sample of less-developed countries using regression analysis.