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Social Theory and Social Structure
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Integrating Modernist and Postmodernist Perspectives on Organizations: A Complexity Science Bridge
Max Boisot,Bill McKelvey +1 more
TL;DR: The authors show how the order-seeking regime of the modernists and the richness-seeking regimes of the postmodernists draw on different ontological assumptions that can be integrated within a single overarching framework.
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Problem Behavior and Romantic Relationships: Assortative Mating, Behavior Contagion, and Desistance
TL;DR: The purpose of this paper is to explore how antisocial behavior and substance use both influence and are influenced by romantic relationships in late adolescence and early adulthood.
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State of the Field The Conceptualization of Scientific Specialties
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the phenomenon of research specialization in science and present a state-of-the-art review of evidence from so-called specialty case studies, which can be found in the literature.
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Exploring Public Sector Communication Performance: Testing a Model and Drawing Implications
TL;DR: The authors developed and tested an exploratory model of public sector communication performance that is synthesized from the literature on public-private differences and organizational communication, which explains the variation in interpersonal, external, and internal communication performance.
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Contextual Diversity in Gentrification Research
TL;DR: The authors argue that the use of the term "gentrification" is highly dependent on contextual causality and its generalized use will not remove its contextual attachment to the Anglo-American metropolis, and that looking for gentrification in increasingly varied contexts displaces emphasis from causal mechanisms to similarities in outcomes across contexts.