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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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Insiders and Outsiders: A Chapter in the Sociology of Knowledge
TL;DR: The insider doctrine as discussed by the authors is a sociological notion that the outsider has a structural or psychological incapacity for access to new knowledge in the context of social change and conflict, and it can be described as the doctrine of the insider, which includes complementary claims of access to knowledge grounded on the assumption of socially based detachment.
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Implementing, embedding, and integrating practices: An outline of Normalization Process Theory.
Carl May,Tracy Finch +1 more
TL;DR: The theory focuses on the work of embedding and of sustaining practices within interaction chains, and helps in understanding why some processes seem to lead to a practice becoming normalized while others do not.
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Social Theory, Social Research, and a Theory of Action.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe paths in research and in theory development, that will reconstitute relevance of each for the other, and use a theory of purposive action as a foundation for social theory; this entails acceptance of a form of methodological individualism and rejection of holism.
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Suggestions for studying strategy process: a research note
TL;DR: This paper makes three suggestions to researchers for studying strategy process: define the meaning of process, clarify the theory of process and design research to observe strategy process in such a way that is consistent with one's definition and theory ofprocess.