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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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Sex Roles, Family and Society: The Seventies and Beyond.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model of gender-based decision making, applicable at both macro and micro levels, is offered as one way to specify relations between the sexes, and existing literature is subsumed within the model; while suggestions are made to increase the sophistication of the next decade's sex role studies.
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Community Strategies for the Reduction of Youth Drinking: Theory and Application

TL;DR: It is concluded that effective long-term alcohol prevention programs require strategies for community and societal change.
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Women's employment, marriage, motherhood and mortality: A test of the multiple role and role accumulation hypotheses

TL;DR: It is concluded that neither of the hypotheses on multiple roles are very relevant for the analysis of female mortality and that more attention should be devoted to understanding the contribution of possible selection effects leading to marriage and motherhood and the contributions of the 'healthy worker effect' in creating low mortality for the employed.
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Understanding and assessing school police officers: A conceptual and methodological comment

TL;DR: An overview of the development of school police officers is provided, an outline of issues which should be considered in conceptualizing school policeOfficers, and a discussion of methodological issues pertaining to the assessment of schoolPolice officers are provided.
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Linking Life Courses, Work, and the Family: Theorizing a Not So Visible Nexus between Women and Men [*]

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make an institution-oriented attempt at linking the dynamics of life courses, family, work participation and gender, and propose an approche focalisee sur le niveau institutionnel des connexions entre parcours de vie, famile, participation professionnelle et genre.