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Understanding Global Migration: A Social Transformation Perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that a general theory of migration is neither possible nor desirable, but that we can make significant progress by re-embedding migration research in a more general understanding of contemporary society, and linking it to broader theories of social change across a range of social scientific disciplines.
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Behavioral confirmation in social interaction: From social perception to social reality.
Mark Snyder,William B. Swann +1 more
TL;DR: The authors observed successive interactions between one target and two perceivers and found that targets who interacted with perceivers who anticipated hostile partners displayed greater behavioral hostility than targets whose perceivers expected nonhostile partners.
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Street-level bureaucracy and public accountability
Peter Hupe,Michael Hill +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, some axiomatic assumptions are drawn from the existing literature on the theme of street-level bureaucracy and on the conception of governance, which results in a rethinking of the issue of accountability at the street level.
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Measuring Organizational Effectiveness in Institutions of Higher Education.
TL;DR: Some of the criticisms which have been advanced concerning the goal approach to effectiveness are: (1) there is a focus on official or management goals to the exclusion of the organizational member, organizational constituency, and societal goals (Blau and Scott, 1961; Scriven, 1967); (2) There is neglect of implicit, latent, or informal procedures and goals (Merton, 1957); (3) neglect of the multiple and contradictory nature of organizational goals (Rice, 1963); and (4) environmental influences on the organization and its goals are ignored (Lawrence and
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Role Models in Career Development: New Directions for Theory and Research.
TL;DR: In this paper, a dimensional approach to role models integrates current theory and research, suggesting that role models should be construed along two cognitive dimensions (positive/negative, global/specific), and two structural dimensions (close/distant, up/across-down).