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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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What buildings do
TL;DR: In this article, the importance of social formations lies in their capacity of fixing their contents, as they accomplish a measure of stasis, and yet, buildings stabilize imperfectly, and some fall into ruin, others are destroyed naturally or by human hand, and most are unendingly renovated into something they were not originally.
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The focussed interview and focus groups continuities and discontinuities
TL;DR: In this article, a self-emancipation proclamation was made, a one-page statement asserting that I would not again accept any invitation from any source to write a book or give a public lecture unless it so happened that I had already written or edited that book, written that paper or review article, or assembled notes for the public lecture.
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The Key Informant Technique: A Nonethnographic Application
TL;DR: The use of the key informant technique in traditional anthropological field research has been discussed in this paper, where a few key informants are interviewed intensively over an extensive period of time for the purpose of providing a relatively complete ethnographical description of the social and cultural patterns of their group.
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Academic careers, patents, and productivity: industry experience as scientific and technical human capital
James L. Dietz,Barry Bozeman +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, career patterns within the industrial, academic, and governmental sectors and their relation to the publication and patent productivity of scientists and engineers working at university-based research centers in the United States were examined.
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Distributive Justice, Equity, and Equality
Karen S. Cook,Karen A. Hegtvedt +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a general review of the research conducted over the past two decades on individuals' conceptions of equity and distributive justice and their reactions to inequity is provided, and important topics for further theoretical development and empirical investigation are discussed.