The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences
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...these actors engage in to disrupt institutional structures are largely discursive and relate to what Lamont and Molnar (2002) have described as “boundary work”....
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...18 Espeland (1998) and Espeland and Stevens (1998) provide more detailed discussions of commensuration. bolic boundaries (Lamont and Molnar 2002)....
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...…in organizational research there is increasing interest in the role of maintaining and crossing organizational boundaries (Heracleous, 2004; Lamont & Molnár, 2002; Paulsen & Hernes, 2003), and in group psychology there is increasing interest in the collaborative processes of cross-site…...
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...Lamont and Molnár (2002) noted in a short review of the literature that boundaries are discussed in a wide variety of social sciences to investigate how markers of difference are created, maintained, or contested at many different levels of institutionalization and categorization....
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...…definitions of cultural membership-a topic rarely visited by social psychologists working on the self and identity (as for instance reviewed in Gecas & Burke 1995; but see Markus & Kitayama 1991 on the self and Reicher & Hopkins 2001 on the historical character of social categorization)....
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...Abbott (1988) shifted the analytical focus from the organizational forms to the contents of professional life, and from the struggles of professionals against outsiders to the struggles of professionals among themselves....
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