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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 Guided Tour: Insulated Adventure
TL;DR: Schmidt et al. as discussed by the authors showed that guided tours are more functional for both tourists and the site when the latter are highly structured and have a purpose other than tourism, and suggested that they are more attractive for tourists when they have a social-psychological effect on tourists.
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Interracial Relationships and the Transition to Adulthood
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors track and explain changing patterns of involvement in interracial sexual relationships during the transition to adulthood using a life course perspective that highlights the role of historical changes as well as age-graded changes in contexts and relationships.
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Walking Difficulty, Walking Speed, and Age as Predictors of Self-Rated Health The Women's Health and Aging Study
TL;DR: Increasing severity of walking difficulty, slower walking speed, and younger age were all associated with fair or poor self-rated health, after simultaneous adjustment for these and other objective measures of physical performance and health.
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Defining and measuring trophic role similarity in food webs using regular equivalence.
TL;DR: This work presents a graph theoretic model of analysing food web structure called regular equivalence, a method for partitioning the species in a food web into "isotrophic classes" that play the same structural roles even if they are not directly consuming the same prey or if they do not share the same predators.