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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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Definition and assessment of accuracy in social stereotypes.

TL;DR: Three forms of stereotype inaccuracy are identified: stereotypic inaccuracy, valence inaccurate, and dispersion inaccuracy; the implications of each form are discussed, along with how each can be assessed using a full-accuracy design.
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Some approaches and problems in the study of the use of services--an overview.

TL;DR: The paper traces the emergence of work in this area questions the wisdom of investigators proceeding along traditional research lines and highlights a number of promising new possibilities for research.
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The Neighborhood Context of Police Behavior

Douglas A. Smith
- 01 Jan 1986 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed data from sixty neighborhoods located in three large U.S. cities using bivariate and multivariate analyses of five measures of police behavior and eleven neighborhood characteristics to test the neighborhood context hypothesis.
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Border Crossing: Bricolage and the Erosion of Categorical Boundaries in French Gastronomy

TL;DR: This paper analyzed the erosion of categorical boundaries in the case of opposing category pairs in French gastronomy during the period from 1970 to 1997, when classical and nouvelle cuisines were rival categories competing for the allegiance of chefs.
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The Life Course Perspective Applied to Families Over Time

TL;DR: The metaphor of growth and decline, gain and loss have often been employed to characterize change in structure or function of organisms over time as mentioned in this paper, and these metaphors have been used to describe and explain change over time.