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TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of adolescents' friendship relations in their final-year class of high school on subsequent labor market success was analyzed based on a typology of network positions, which identified individuals' social standing within the group of classmates and proxy for their interpersonal behavior and social competencies.
Abstract: We analyze the impact of adolescents' friendship relations in their final-year class of high school on subsequent labor market success. Based on a typology of network positions we locate each student within the social system of the school class as either: an isolate, a sycophant, a broker or a receiver. These positions identify individuals' social standing within the group of classmates and proxy for their interpersonal behavior and social competencies. We offer empirical evidence that differential social standing in adolescence predicts large and persistent earnings disparities over the entire life course. The estimated wage premia and penalties do not appear to be substantially confounded by measures of family and school resources, and materialize largely independent of differences in cognitive abilities, grade rank in class, personality traits or friends' characteristics. A moderate share of the earnings inequalities is mediated by differential post-secondary human and social capital investment. From a conceptual point of view, we contribute an application of egocentered network methods within conventional labor economic survey research.
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01 Mar 2002
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a series of problems encountered along the way, stemming directly or indirectly from the rigidity of traditional science assumptions, and find encouragement in contemporary ideas about "new science, " and its imagery of a self-organizing, non-linear and interdependent world.
Abstract: This paper reflects on the first author’s attempts to adapt traditional social science methods to her own purpose. The research involved developing a methodology to explore the subjective career, concerned with people’s internal, self-referential views of their unfolding career experiences. The paper describes a series of problems encountered along the way, stemming directly or indirectly from the rigidity of traditional science assumptions. In contrast, the authors find encouragement in contemporary ideas about “new science, ” and its imagery of a self-organizing, non-linear and interdependent world. The journey leads to philosopher Paul Cilliers’ principles of complex social systems, which provide an alternative, and more affirming, platform for the kind of research undertaken.
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TL;DR: A number of recent articles on aspects of internation simulation have claimed that a major justification of simulation experiments is their fruitfulness for hypothesis formation and theory construction as discussed by the authors, and that one of the major ways in which simulation may contribute to substantive knowledge of large-scale political, and particularly, international systems, is by way of its heuristic value in suggesting hypothesized relationships which may hold both for the political reference system and the constructed laboratory social system.
Abstract: A number of recent articles on aspects of internation simulation have claimed that a major justification of simulation experiments is their fruitfulness for hypothesis formation and theory construction. Thus, one of the major ways in which simulation may contribute to substantive knowledge of large-scale political, and particularly, international systems, is by way of its heuristic value in suggesting hypothesized relationships which may hold both for the political reference system and the constructed laboratory social system. To paraphrase Hermann': if x is observed to bear a given relationship
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TL;DR: In this article, the focus is on a natural, concrete linkage at the level of social work practice with individuals, families, and groups and larger social systems, which is most often theoretical in attempt.
Abstract: Linking social work practice with individuals, families, and groups and larger social systems is most often theoretical in attempt. The focus here, however, is on a natural, concrete linkage at the...
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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: Gilliland et al. as mentioned in this paper examined theoretical underpinnings of organizational justice and corporate social responsibility by identifying motives underlying desires for justice and by considering responses to injustice, and highlighted ten themes that cross this interesting collection of paper on Justice, Morality, and Social Responsibility.
Abstract: A volume in Research in Social Issues in Management Series Editors: Stephen W. Gilliland, The University of Arizona, Dirk D. Steiner, Universite de Nice-Sophia Antipolis and Daniel P. Skarlicki, The University of British Columbia This volume of Research in Social Issues in Management critically examines theoretical underpinnings of organizational justice and corporate social responsibility by identifying motives underlying desires for justice and by considering responses to injustice. The first set of chapters explores issues of morality, emotions, and social exchange relationships. These can be seen as engines that drive reactions to organizational justice. The second set of chapters addresses injustice and recovery, the social systems surrounding justice, and the application of justice principles to organizations' environmental and sustainability practices. A commentary chapter highlights ten themes that cross this interesting collection of paper on Justice, Morality, and Social Responsibility.
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