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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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Should social science be more solution-oriented?
TL;DR: In this paper, Watts considers whether many branches of social science could benefit from setting research goals aimed at specific and manageable real-world problems and discusses how more solution-oriented social science might work.
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Children of misfortune: early adversity and cumulative inequality in perceived life trajectories.
TL;DR: Analysis of trajectories of life evaluations reveals that early adversity contributes to more negative views of the past but rising expectations for the future, and has enduring effects on life evaluations, offsetting the influence of buoyant expectations.
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How to model an institution
John W. Mohr,Harrison C. White +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, two key analytic principles for empirical research, relationality and duality, are linked to new research strategies for the study of institutions that draw on network analytic techniques.
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Path Dependence, Competition, and Succession in the Dynamics of Scientific Revolution
John D. Sterman,Jason Wittenberg +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a formal dynamic model of the birth, evolution, and death of scientific paradigms based on Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions and find that situational factors attending the birth of a paradigm largely determine its probability of rising to dominance, while the intrinsic explanatory power is only weakly related to the likelihood of success.
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Betwixt and be Tween: Age Ambiguity and the Sexualization of the Female Consuming Subject
Daniel Cook,Susan B. Kaiser +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that what is now known as the "tween" cannot be understood apart from its inception in, and articulation with the market exigencies of childhood - specifically girlhood - as they have emerged since the Second World War.