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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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Fitting the Mold of Graduate School: A Qualitative Study of Socialization in Doctoral Education

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of the socialization process on doctoral student success and retention were investigated in the disciplines of chemistry and history at two institutions. But, the results highlighted a disparate experience for women, students of color, students with families, part-time students, and older students.
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The Future of Empirical Methods in Software Engineering Research

TL;DR: Means to meet challenges to meet the vision of empirical research methods for software engineering include increased competence regarding how to apply and combine alternative empirical methods, tighter links between academia and industry, the development of common research agendas with a focus on empirical Methods, and more resources for empirical research.
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Why use theories in qualitative research

TL;DR: Theories such as interactionism, phenomenology, and critical theory can be used to help design a research question, guide the selection of relevant data, interpret the data, and propose explanations of causes or influences.
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Nationalism, patriotism, and group loyalty: A social psychological perspective

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the reader to a social psychological perspective on the roots of nationalism and explore how such loyalty can lead to hostile reactions to other groups, can become translated into stereotypes that are shared by individuals, can shape the collective behavior of groups, and can help differentiate the multiple groups that define any political environment.
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Bureaucracy and Entrepreneurship: Workplace Effects on Entrepreneurial Entry

TL;DR: Using a study of the relationship between bureaucratic work environments and individual rates of entrepreneurship, this article revisited a fundamental premise of sociological approaches to entrepreneurship, which is that "nothing is static".