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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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A General Theory of Expropriative Crime: An Evolutionary Ecological Approach
TL;DR: In this article, the authors interpret criminal behaviors by which offenders expropriate goods or services from others as expressions of diverse behavioral strategies that derive from normal patterns of population-level social organization and interaction.
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Marketing interactions in subsistence marketplaces: A bottom-up approach to designing public policy
TL;DR: This paper conducted an in-depth, in situ study of an informal-economy subsistence marketplace in South India and identified seven themes that characterize the subsistence marketplace context, buyer-seller interactions within them, and specific elements of exchange.
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Schools of Comparative Housing Research: From Convergence to Divergence
Jim Kemeny,Stuart Lowe +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of the literature, distinguishing between three dominant perspectives: particularistic approaches, universalistic approaches and theoretical theories of the middle range, which attempt to develop typologies of housing systems.
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Nationalistic Attitudes and Ethnic Exclusionism in a Comparative Perspective. An Empirical Study of Attitudes Toward the Country and Ethnic Immigrants in 22 Countries
TL;DR: In this article, a cross-national comparative study was conducted to examine the attitudes of ethnic majority populations toward their own country and the national in-group (nationalistic attitudes) and their attitudes toward ethnic minorities and immigrants (ethnic exclusionism).
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How to Measure Motivation: A Guide for the Experimental Social Psychologist
TL;DR: In this paper, cognitive, affective, and behavioral measures of motivation and their use throughout the discipline of experimental social psychology have been examined, and the need for caution has been highlighted when selecting measures and when interpreting fluctuations captured by these measures.