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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.

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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

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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.