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Social Theory and Social Structure
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Imagined futures: fictional expectations in the economy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the decision-making of intentionally rational actors is anchored in fictions, i.e., the inhabitation in the mind of an imagined future state of the world and the beliefs in causal mechanisms leading to this future state.
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Postmodernism and Organizational Research
Martin Kilduff,Ajay Mehra +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue for an epistemology that combines a skepticism toward metanarrative with a commitment to rigorous standards of enquiry in pursuit of radical challenges to accepted knowledge, and provide examples of post-modern approaches to classic data sets, local knowledge, eclectic sources, and the counterintuitive.
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With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India
TL;DR: With respect to sex as discussed by the authors is an intimate ethnography that offers a provocative account of sexual and social difference in India, focusing on the "hijra" community, individuals who occupy a unique, liminal space between male and female, sacred and profane.
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Connecting the Dots in Public Management: Political Environment, Organizational Goal Ambiguity, and the Public Manager's Role Ambiguity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a middle-range theory to connect the dots, beginning with disparate sources in the polity influencing organizational goal ambiguity, which in turn is expected to increase managerial role ambiguity.
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Cultural capital and social exclusion: some observations on recent trends in education, employment and the labour market
TL;DR: The dominant forms of cultural capital associated with middle class access to ''bureaucratic'' careers are being devalued due to credential inflation and changing patterns of symbolic control as mentioned in this paper.