An Institutional Approach to Donor Control: From Dyadic Ties to a Field‐Level Analysis [PDF]
, 2007 Literature on the nonprofit sector focuses on charities and their interactions with clients or governmental agencies; donors are studied less often.
Barman, Emily
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Tax morale and institutional theory: a systematic review
International journal of sociology and social policy, 2018 Purpose The purpose of this paper is to conduct a systematic review of the factors that shape tax morale. A large range of random explanatory variables identified in the literature as determinants of tax morale are synthesised and structured by drawing ...
I. Horodnic
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Structural balance and opinion separation in trust-mistrust social networks [PDF]
IEEE Transcations on Control of Network Systems, 3(1):46-56, 2016, 2016 Structural balance theory has been developed in sociology and psychology to explain how interacting agents, e.g., countries, political parties, opinionated individuals, with mixed trust and mistrust relationships evolve into polarized camps. Recent results have shown that structural balance is necessary for polarization in networks with fixed, strongly
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Fundamental properties of rhythm sequences [PDF]
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2008 AbstractFundamental mathematical properties of rhythm sequences are studied. In particular, a set of three axioms for valid rhythm indicators is proposed, and it is shown that the R‐indicator satisfies only two out of three but that the R′‐indicator satisfies all three.
Gondy Leroy +3 more
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Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods1
American Journal of Sociology, 1999 This article assesses the sources and consequences of public disorder. Based on the videotaping and systematic rating of more than 23,000 street segments in Chicago, highly reliable scales of social and physical disorder for 196 neighborhoods are ...
R. Sampson, S. Raudenbush
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Paradigm and Pluralism: Using Theory from Occupational Sociology and the Sociology of the Professions to Frame an Identity for IS [PDF]
, 2008 Concern that high levels of pluralism within IS have frustrated the development of a strong identity are evident in the literature. Rather than proposing an identity for IS, this paper uses theory and research from occupational sociology and the ...
Somers, Mark John
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Beyond capitalism and liberal democracy: on the relevance of GDH Cole’s sociological critique and alternative [PDF]
, 2015 This article argues for a return to the social thought of the often ignored early 20th-century English thinker GDH Cole. The authors contend that Cole combined a sociological critique of capitalism and liberal democracy with a well-developed alternative ...
Alperovitz G +42 more
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Causality and Statistical Learning [PDF]
arXiv, 2010 We review some approaches and philosophies of causal inference coming from sociology, economics, computer science, cognitive science, and ...
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For a political sociology of water resources management [PDF]
, 2008 This paper uses the growing volume of scholarly work on 'water and politics' to conceptually and methodologically frame an approach to the social analysis of water resources management.
Mollinga, Peter P.
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Luhmann's Communication-Theoretical Specification of the 'Genomena' of Husserl's Phenomenology [PDF]
arXiv, 2009 From the perspective of cultural studies and critical theory, Luhmann's communication-theoretical approach in sociology can still be read as a meta-biology: while biologists take the development of life as a given, Luhmann tends to treat the development of meaning as a cultural given. Meaning is no longer considered as constructed in communication, but
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