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Specious reward: a behavioral theory of impulsiveness and impulse control.

Psychological bulletin, 1975
In a choice among assured, familiar outcomes of behavior, impulsiveness is the choice of less rewarding over more rewarding alternatives. Discussions of impulsiveness in the literature of economics, sociology, social psychology, dynamic psychology and ...
G. Ainslie
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Examining the Antiascetic Hypothesis Through Social Control Theory: Delinquency, Religion, and Reciprocation Across the Early Life Course

, 2018
With empirical research in both sociology of religion and criminology finding conflicting evidence of the directional relationship between religious institutions and delinquency, we test the temporal order of religiosity and delinquency in the early life
Tyrus H. Miller, Michael Vuolo
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Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology

, 1998
This paper reviews the origins and definitions of social capital in the writings of Bourdieu, Loury, and Coleman, among other authors. It distinguishes four sources of social capital and examines their dynamics.
A. Portes
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New horizons in sociological theory and research : the frontiers of sociology at the beginning of the twenty-first century

, 2018
Theory and research - new horizons: sociology between scientism and aestheticism, or can sociology be positivist today? post-classical sociology or the twilight of sociology?
Luigi Tomasi
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Gender, Crime, and Desistance: Toward a Theory of Cognitive Transformation1

American Journal of Sociology, 2002
This article analyzes data derived from the first detailed long‐term follow‐up of a sample of serious adolescent female delinquents and similarly situated males.
Peggy C. Giordano, Stephen A. Cernkovich, Jennifer L. Rudolph   +2 more
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The Class Structure of Gender and Delinquency: Toward a Power-Control Theory of Common Delinquent Behavior

American Journal of Sociology, 1985
Though seldom considered together, class and gender are among the most frequently analyzed correlates of delinquency today. This paper formulates and test a neo-Marxian, class-based, power control theory of gender and delinquency. Using this theory and a
J. Hagan, A. Gillis, J. Simpson
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Class in the Household: A Power-Control Theory of Gender and Delinquency

American Journal of Sociology, 1987
This paper extends a power-control theory of common delinquent behavior developed by Hagan, Gillis, and Simpson in 1985. It does so by bringing the class analysis of delinquency into the household, using a new model of class relations based on the ...
J. Hagan, J. Simpson, A. Gillis
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A Power-Control Theory of Gender and Religiosity

, 2009
The fact that women are more religious than men is one of the most consistent findings in the sociology of religion. Miller and Stark (2002) propose that a gender difference in risk preference of physiological origin might explain this phenomenon.
J. Collett, Omar Alcides Lizardo
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Clarifying and Extending Power-Control Theory

American Journal of Sociology, 1990
This article responds to Jensen and Thompson's analysis of power control theory by placing the analysis within the context of Jensen's previous work and offering new findings from a wealthy Canadian community. This new analysis further contextualizes the
J. Hagan, A. Gillis, J. Simpson
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An Integrative Control Theory of Delinquent Behavior: A Validation 1976-1985.

Psychiatry, 1988
Criminology should be a field of inquiry where psychology and sociology meet in seeking to explain delinquency, but this has rarely been the case. Our paper is an attempt in that direction within the context of a control theory.
M. Blanc, M. Ouimet, R. Tremblay
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