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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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Dimensionalizing Cultures: The Hofstede Model in Context

TL;DR: The Hofstede model of six dimensions of national cultures: power distance, Uncertainty Avoidance, individualism/collectivism, Masculinity/Femininity, Long/ Short Term Orientation, and Indulgence/Restraint as discussed by the authors.

Interpretative phenomenological analysis

Dawn Joseph
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to analyse 8 participants' experiences of rejection sensitivity and found that rejection sensitivity is the same concept as abandonment anxiety.
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Social stigma and self-esteem: The self-protective properties of stigma.

TL;DR: In this article, it is proposed that members of stigmatized groups may attribute negative feedback to prejudice against their group, compare their outcomes with those of the ingroup, rather than with the relatively advantaged outgroup, and selectively devalue those dimensions on which their group fares poorly and value those dimensions that their group excels.
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Social psychology: Handbook of basic principles.

TL;DR: Forster, Liberman, and Shafir, Decisions Constructed Locally: Some Fundamental Principles of the Psychology of Decision Making as mentioned in this paper, and Shaver, Mikulincer, Attachment theory and research: Core Concepts, Basic Principles, Conceptual Bridges.
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Minority stress and mental health in gay men

TL;DR: The results supported minority stress hypotheses: each of the stressors had a significant independent association with a variety of mental health measures and odds ratios suggested that men who had high levels of minority stress were twice to three times as likely to suffer also from high level of distress.