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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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An assessment of recent trends in girls' violence using diverse longitudinal sources: Is the gender gap closing?
TL;DR: This article examined recent trends in girls' violence and the gender gap as reported in four major sources of longitudinal data on youth violence: arrest statistics of the Uniform Crime Reports, victimization data of the National Crime Victimization Survey (where the victim identifies sex of offender) and self-reported violent behavior of Monitoring the Future and National Youth Risk Behavior Survey.
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Personal and Situational Determinants of Referent Choice
TL;DR: In this article, personal and situational variables that influence an individual's choice of comparative referent are examined, and the potential impact of these choices for organizations is explored, and Hypotheses detailing the effects of these personal variables on referent choice are presented.
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The Evolution of Norms1
Jonathan Bendor,Piotr Swistak +1 more
TL;DR: This article shows how social norms can be deductively derived from principles of (boundedly) rational choice as mechanisms that are necessary to stabilize behaviors in a large class of evolutionary games.
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Organizational knowledge, collective practice and Penrose rents
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for several different types of knowledge, developing a two-by-two matrix using the explicit-implicit and individual-social distinctions, and raise the paradox embedded in Penrose's theory of the firm, that if the collective resources built up by learning by doing give rise to Penrose rents, they are also appropriable.
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Public Beliefs About the Beliefs of the Public
James M. Fields,Howard Schuman +1 more
TL;DR: Schuman and Schuman as discussed by the authors examined three sample surveys of metropolitan Detroit and found that a real deal of inaccuracy in such perception is evident, and three broad tendencies or patterns can be discerned: "looking glass perceptions," the general propensity to believe that others' opinions are the same as one's own; "conservative bias," the belief that the population is more conservative on racial issues than it actually is; and limited response to reality constraints.