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This chapter aims to develop one of perhaps multiple specifications of embeddedness, a concept that has been used to refer broadly to the contingent nature of economic action with respect to cognition, social structure, ...

Materias / palabras clave: Historia social; 1970; Problemas sociales; Estructura social; Historia; Siglo XX; Siglo XXI; Movimientos sociales; Social history; Social problems; Social structure; History; 20th century; 21st century; Social movements

How behavior and institutions are affected by social relations is one of the classic questions of social theory. This paper concerns the extent to which economic action is embedded in structures of social relations, in m...

The literature suggests the positive role of social support in mental health in residential care. However, most of the studies are focused on psychopathology and fewer on well-being. Also, theoretically-oriented and mult...

Hacia finales de siglo XX las mutaciones que atraviesan el devenir de nuestra sociedad han producido transformaciones de carácter estructural que abren paso a una nueva configuración societal, poniendo en entredicho lo...

This study pioneered the construction or adaptation of a Spanish version of the Teacher as Social Context (TASC) Questionnaire. The current study included a sample of 410 secondary education teachers in Spain. A confirma...

Materias / palabras clave: social structure, sociology, social networks; Social Sciences: Sociology (General)

A number of recent studies have focused on the statistical properties of networked systems such as social networks and the Worldwide Web. Researchers have concentrated particularly on a few properties that seem to be com...

In his landmark study of exchange and power in social life, Peter M. Blau contributes to an understanding of social structure by analyzing the social processes that govern the relations between individuals and groups. Th...

In his landmark study of exchange and power in social life, Peter M. Blau contributes to an understanding of social structure by analyzing the social processes that govern the relations between individuals and groups. Th...

Similarity breeds connection. This principle—the homophily principle—structures network ties of every type, including marriage, friendship, work, advice, support, information transfer, exchange, comembership, and oth...

Many networks of interest in the sciences, including social networks, computer networks, and metabolic and regulatory networks, are found to divide naturally into communities or modules. The problem of detecting and char...

Examines whether the positive association between social support and well-being is attributable more to an overall beneficial effect of support (main- or direct-effect model) or to a process of support protecting persons...

Outline of a Theory of Practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu, a distinguished French anthropologist, develops a theory of practice which is s...

Instead of examining why organizations are dissimilar, this study explores why organizations tend to be increasingly and inevitably homogenous in their forms and practices. Organizations in a similar line of work are str...

Our usual representations of the opposition between the "civilized" and the "primitive" derive from willfully ignoring the relationship of distance our social science sets up between the observer and the observed. In fac...

Materias / palabras clave: social conflict, social change, social movements, sociological theory, social structure; Social Sciences: Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform; Social Sciences: Social pathology. Social and publi...

Materias / palabras clave: social conflict, social change, sociological theory, social structure, social movements, social sciences; Social Sciences: Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform