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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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Reconsidering strain theory: Operationalization, rival theories, and adult criminality
TL;DR: The authors empirically assess three separate measures of strain to explain self-reported crime: the gap between aspirations and expectations, blocked opportunities, and relative deprivation, and find that the gap is not related to criminal involvement, while perceived blocked opportunities and feelings of relative deprivation significantly affect adult offending.
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Boundary Conditions: What They are, How to Explore Them, Why We Need Them, and When to Consider Them
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Citation Classics in Clinical Dermatologic Journals: Citation Analysis, Biomedical Journals, and Landmark Articles, 1945-1990
TL;DR: The half-life of the average citation classic of about 10 years reflects the rapid pace of advances in the science and practice of dermatology over the past several decades and may assist physicians in optimizing the time they spend reading the medical literature.
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Stochastic a posteriori blockmodels: Construction and assessment
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss some old suggestions for producing posterior blockmodels, and comment on other new suggestions based on multiple comparisons of model parameters, log-linear models for ordinal categorical data, and correspondence analysis.
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Oppression, emancipation, and volunteer tourism: Research Propositions
TL;DR: In this article, the inherent contradictions of volunteer tourism, particularly concerning the interplay of oppression/emancipation, dependency/resistance and dominant hegemony/agency, are deconstructed with a critical theory lens.