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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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Work-family conflict, work- and family- role salience, and women's well-being
TL;DR: The author observed a direct effect of role salience in the prediction of job satisfaction; work salience was positively related to job satisfaction, over and above the main-effect terms of work-interfering-with-family (WIF) conflict and family-interFering- with-work (FIW) conflict.
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Pluralistic Ignorance in Corporate Boards and Firms' Strategic Persistence in Response to Low Firm Performance
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TL;DR: A theoretical framework for the role of the mass media in the process of the social construction of reality from both European and American communication research traditions is developed in this paper, which is derived from the theories of Schutz (1967) and Berger and Luckmann (1967), and a model composed of two dimensions of reality and distance of social elements from direct experience is developed.
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Structured-case: a methodological framework for building theory in information systems research
Jenny M. Carroll,Paul A. Swatman +1 more
TL;DR: This paper present a methodological framework, structured-case, that assists IS researchers to undertake and assess theory building research within the interpretive paradigm, and explains its value in achieving convincing explanations that are strongly linked to both the research themes and data collected in the field.
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The Dynamics of Role Acquisition
Russell Thornton,Peter M. Nardi +1 more
TL;DR: A developmental approach to role acquisition, containing both social and psychological dimensions, is presented in this paper, which entails four stages in the acquisition of a role: anticipatory, formal, informal, and personal.