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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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Social Foundations of Cognition
TL;DR: The history and present situation of social interaction in the developing world, as well as some of the myths and legends associated with it, are reviewed.
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Demystifying theory and its use in improvement
TL;DR: It is concluded that although informal theory is always at work in improvement, practitioners are often not aware of it or do not make it explicit, and the germane issue for improvement practitioners is whether they make explicit the particular theory or theories, informal and formal, they actually use.
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Longitudinal Benefit of Positive Self-Perceptions of Aging on Functional Health
TL;DR: This study found that those with more positive self-perceptions of aging in 1975 reported better functional health from 1977 to 1995, when it was controlled for baseline measures of functional health, self-rated health, age, gender, race, and socioeconomic status.
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Identifying Social Norms Using Coordination Games: Why Does Dictator Game Sharing Vary?
TL;DR: The authors explore the influence of social norms on behavior and find that social norms reflect social consensus regarding the appropriateness of different possible behaviors, and demonstrate that the norms they elicit, along with a simple model combining concern for norm-compliance with utility for money, predict changes in behavior across several variants of the dictator game in which behavior changes substantially following the introduction of minor contextual variations.
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Focusing the Corporate Product: Securities Analysts and De-diversification
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the de-diversification activity of publicly held American firms from 1985 to 1994 and found that managers of such firms face pressure from analysts to dediversify so that their stock is more easily understood.