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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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Weak Ties in Networked Communities

TL;DR: Evidence is shown that people with weak (bridging) ties across groups have higher levels of community involvement, civic interest, and collective efficacy than people without bridging ties among groups, and the Internet—in the hands of bridging individuals–is a tool for enhancing social relations and information exchange.
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The influence of leaders' and other referents' normative expectations on individual involvement in creative work

TL;DR: The authors examined how the perceived expectations of the leader, customers, and family influence individuals' creative involvement at work and found that these self-expectations for creativity were associated with creative involvement.
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Corruption and Trust: Exceptionalism in Asian Democracies?

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors found a strong trust-eroding effect of political corruption in Asian democracies and no evidence that contextual factors lessen the corruption-trust link in Asia.
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Alcohol, Drugs, and Violence

TL;DR: A review of the scientific literature on the relationship between alcohol and violence and that between drugs and violence is presented in this paper, where a review and analysis of three major theoretical approaches to understand these relationships are also presented.
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Influence of customer participation on creating and sharing of new product value

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply an institutional arrangement perspective to develop an end-to-end model for the interaction between customers and upstream suppliers to develop a new product to understand how new product value is created and shared.