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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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Legal Environments and Organizational Governance: The Expansion of Due Process in the American Workplace
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the effect of legal environments on the expansion of due process in organizational governance and show that the civil rights mandates of the 1960s created a normative environment that threatened the legitimacy of arbitrary organizational governance.
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Schools as Communities, Poverty Levels of Student Populations, and Students’ Attitudes, Motives, and Performance: A Multilevel Analysis
TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship between students' sense of school community, poverty level, and student attitudes, motives, beliefs, and behavior among a diverse sample of 24 elementary schools in the US.
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Value from hedonic experience and engagement.
TL;DR: It is proposed that strength of engagement can contribute to experienced value through its contribution to the experience of motivational force--an experience of the intensity of the force of attraction to or repulsion from the value target.
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Differential Benefits of Volunteering Across the Life Course
TL;DR: This paper found that older volunteers experienced greater increases in life satisfaction over time as a result of their volunteer hours than did younger adult volunteers, especially at high rates of volunteering, and younger adults experienced greater positive changes in their perceived health than did older adult volunteers.
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Domestic Country Bias, Country-of-Origin Effects, and Consumer Ethnocentrism: A Multidimensional Unfolding Approach
TL;DR: In this article, a multidimensional unfolding approach was used to examine the preference patterns of U.K. consumers for domestic products and those originating from specific foreign countries for eight product categories.