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The social space and the genesis of groups
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This article is published in Theory and Society.The article was published on 1985-11-01. It has received 2019 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social relation & Social space.read more
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blurred boundaries: the discourse of corruption, the culture of politics, and the imagined state
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors attempt to do an ethnography of the Indian state by examining the discourses of corruption in contemporary India, focusing on the practices of lower levels of the bureaucracy in a small north Indian town as well as on representations of the state in the mass media.
On The Theoretical and Practical Existence Of Groups
TL;DR: One of the main obstacles to scientific sociology is the use we make of common oppositions, paired concepts, or what Bachelard calls "epistemological couples" constructed by social reality, these are unthinkingly used to construct social reality as discussed by the authors.
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The space of vulnerability: the causal structure of hunger and famine:
Michael Watts,Hans G. Bohle +1 more
TL;DR: Ghose, A.K., 1989: 127 as mentioned in this paper argued that growth of mass poverty increases vulnerability to famine through raising the proportion of the population surviving on the margin, and that famines increase mass poverty by permanently altering the distribution of assets in favor of the rich.
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Understanding audience segmentation: From elite and mass to omnivore and univore
TL;DR: This article used a log-multiplicative model to simultaneously stratify occupational groups and music preferences, and found that those in the upper occupational groups are more apt to like symphonic music and to engage in elite arts activities, while those in lowest occupational groups tend to like few activities and to strongly like one single non-elite form of music.
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Social class, solipsism, and contextualism: how the rich are different from the poor.
Michael W. Kraus,Paul K. Piff,Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton,Michelle L. Rheinschmidt,Dacher Keltner +4 more
TL;DR: This framework describes how class-based contextualist and solipsistic tendencies shape the self, perceptions of the social environment, and relationships to other individuals and details 9 hypotheses and relevant empirical evidence concerning how class influences behavior.