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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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Culture or Contiguity: Ethnic Conflict, the Similarity of States, and the Onset of War, 1820-1989
TL;DR: This paper examined the relationships among cultural factors, contiguity, and the onset of interstate war and found that these concerns are nested within a larger debate about "ethnic conflict" that assumes the...
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Affordances for practice
Anne-Laure Fayard,John Weeks +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that Gibson's concept of affordance can provide a powerful conceptual lens for the study of sociomateriality as enacted in contemporary organizational practices and is described how affordances and habitus may be used together to provide a theoretical apparatus to study practice as a social and symbolic entanglement, thus adding to the methodological toolkit of scholars embracing a sociommaterial perspectives.
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How Does Status Affect Performance? Status as an Asset vs. Status as a Liability in the PGA and NASCAR
TL;DR: This paper model golfers' strokes from par in each competition as a function of their status in the sport and finds curvilinear effects of status in both contexts, concurs with the view that status brings tangible and intangible resources and provides empirical support for the contention that status fosters dispositions and behaviors that ultimately erode performance.
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Problems with Research by Organizational Scholars on Issues of Race and Ethnicity
TL;DR: Despite a growing need for knowledge about the effects of race and ethnicity in organizations, relatively little research on these issues has been performed and few research reports have been publi... as mentioned in this paper.
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Human Development in Time and Place
TL;DR: The study of the life course and human development has evolved rapidly over the past quarter century, extending across substantive boundaries of the social, behavioral, and medical sciences as discussed by the authors, and these cutting-edge studies tell us much about the dimensions of historical time and place and their importance in shaping biographical pathways.