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The urban black community as network: toward a social network perspective
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The social organization of Afro-American urban communities has often been viewed in a negative manner as discussed by the authors as an alternative to traditional approaches to urban social organization that stress “patholog...Abstract:
The social organization of Afro-American urban communities has often been viewed in a negative manner. As an alternative to traditional approaches to urban social organization that stress “patholog...read more
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Different Strokes from Different Folks: Community Ties and Social Support
Barry Wellman,Scot Wortley +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated six potential explanations of why different types of ties provide different kinds of supportive resources: tie strength, contact, group processes, kinship, network members' characteristics, and similarities and dissimilarities between network members in such characteristics.
brand community
TL;DR: This paper explored the characteristics, processes, and particularities of three brand communities (those centered on Ford Bronco, Macintosh, and Saab) and found that these brand communities exhibit three traditional markers of community: shared consciousness, rituals and traditions, and a sense of moral responsibility.
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Prime Suspects: The Influence of Local Television News on the Viewing Public
TL;DR: This paper found that exposure to the racial element of the crime script increases support for punitive approaches to crime and heightens negative attitudes about African-Americans among white, but not black, viewers.
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Brown kids in white suburbs: Housing mobility and the many faces of social capital
TL;DR: In this article, the early impacts of a housing mobility program on social capital were examined in a sample of 132 low-income African-American and Latino adolescents in Yonkers, New York.
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The Strength of Weak Ties
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the degree of overlap of two individuals' friendship networks varies directly with the strength of their tie to one another, and the impact of this principle on diffusion of influence and information, mobility opportunity, and community organization is explored.
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The division of labor in society
TL;DR: The Division of Labor as discussed by the authors is one of the cornerstone texts of the sociological canon and has been updated and re-translated in this new edition, the first since 1984, by worldrenowned Durkheim scholar Steven Lukes revisits and revises the original translation to enhance clarity, accuracy, and fluency for the contemporary reader.
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Urbanism As a Way of Life
TL;DR: The characteristic feature of the mode of living of man in the modern age is his concentration into gigantic aggregations around which cluster lesser centers and from which radiate the ideas and practices that we call civilization as mentioned in this paper.
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Methods of Social Research
TL;DR: An introduction for undergraduates to every stage of sociological research, showing how to deal effectively with typical problems they might encounter, is given in this paper, along with examples from the LA riots and the 1992 presidential elections.
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The Negro Family: The Case for National Action
TL;DR: Moynihan as discussed by the authors called for major federal government programs to aid the black family and to help blacks achieve equal success and status in the United States, and played a crucial role in expanding the role of the federal government in antipoverty and family welfare programs.