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The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences
Michèle Lamont and,Virág Molnár +1 more
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The concept of boundaries has been at the center of influential research agendas in anthropology, history, political science, social psychology, and sociology as mentioned in this paper, particularly concerning the study of relational processes.Abstract:
▪ Abstract In recent years, the concept of boundaries has been at the center of influential research agendas in anthropology, history, political science, social psychology, and sociology. This article surveys some of these developments while describing the value added provided by the concept, particularly concerning the study of relational processes. It discusses literatures on (a) social and collective identity; (b) class, ethnic/racial, and gender/sex inequality; (c) professions, knowledge, and science; and (d) communities, national identities, and spatial boundaries. It points to similar processes at work across a range of institutions and social locations. It also suggests paths for further developments, focusing on the relationship between social and symbolic boundaries, cultural mechanisms for the production of boundaries, difference and hybridity, and cultural membership and group classifications.read more
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Institutions and Institutional Work
TL;DR: The Handbook of Organization Studies as mentioned in this paper provides a retrospective and prospective overview of organization studies, providing a synthesis of knowledge and literature from the field of organizational studies, and provides an overview of the most significant issues to affect organization studies such as leadership, diversity and globalization.
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Rankings and Reactivity: How Public Measures Recreate Social Worlds
TL;DR: In this paper, a framework for investigating the consequences, both intended and unintended, of public measures has been proposed, identifying two mechanisms, self-fulfilling prophecy and commensuration, that induce reactivity and then distinguishing patterns of effects produced by reactivity.
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An organizing framework for collective identity: Articulation and significance of multidimensionality
TL;DR: The authors illustrate the utility of the multidimensional organizing framework by analyzing the different configuration of elements in 4 major theories of identification.
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Boundary Crossing and Boundary Objects
Sanne Akkerman,Arthur Bakker +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the literature reveals four potential learning mechanisms that can take place at boundaries: identification, coordination, reflection, and transformation, and these mechanisms show various ways in which sociocultural differences and resulting discontinuities in action and interaction can come to function as resources for development of intersecting identities and practices.
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Intersectionality's Definitional Dilemmas
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine three interdependent sets of concerns: intersectionality as a field of study that is situated within the power relations that it studies, intersectional as an analytical strategy that provides new angles of vision on social phenomena, and intersectional knowledge project as critical praxis that informs social justice projects.
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Institutional Ecology, `Translations' and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model of how one group of actors managed the tension between divergent viewpoints and the need for generalizable findings in scientific work, and distinguish four types of boundary objects: repositories, ideal types, coincident boundaries and standardized forms.
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Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference
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A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation
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Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
TL;DR: In fact, although violence is a salient feature of inner-city communities, its use is far from random; it is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street as mentioned in this paper.
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Boundary-Work and the Demarcation of Science from Non-Science: Strains and Interests in Professional Ideologies of Scientists
TL;DR: The demarcation of science from other intellectual activities is an analytic problem for philosophers and sociologists and is examined as a practical problem for scientists in this article, where a set of characteristics available for ideological attribution to science reflect ambivalences or strains within the institution: science can be made to look empirical or theoretical, pure or applied.