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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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A Culturalist Theory of Political Change

TL;DR: Eckstein introduced the political cultural approach as one of two viable options for theory in political science, the other being rational-choice theory as discussed by the authors, and explained why the cumulative socialization process that he associates with culture leads to what he calls "expectations of continuity".
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Working Wives and Convenience Consumption

TL;DR: This paper examined role overload as a possible explanation for the lack of direct links between working-wife families and convenience consumption, and combined role overload with factors from past research in a structural-equation model.
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Achieving Sustained Competitive Advantage: A Family Capital Theory

TL;DR: In this article, the concept of family capital was introduced and it was shown that family businesses with high levels of family resources possibly hold a sustained competitive advantage over non-family businesses.
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The Stress Process Revisited

TL;DR: The notion of the stress process was first used by Pearson, Lieberman, Menaghan, and Mullan as discussed by the authors as an attempt to give some conceptual organization to the diverse lines of research into stress and its consequences.