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TOWARD A STEWARDSHIP THEORY OF MANAGEMENT
, 1997Recent thinking about top management has been influenced by alternative models of man.1 Economic approaches to governance such as agency theory tend to assume some form of homo-economicus, which depict subordinates as individualistic, opportunistic, and ...
J. H. Davis, F. Schoorman, L. Donaldson
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The Role-Set: Problems in Sociological Theory
, 1957r N THE FIRST VOLUME of tlle first American journal devoted entirely to the subject of sociology, the role proper to the sociologist zwas described in these forthright terms: 'Social theorists need be meek men, and should stand with head uncovered before
R. Merton
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Human Emotions: A Sociological Theory
, 20071. Human Emotions 2. Why did Humans Become so Emotional? 3. Social Structure, Culture, and Emotions 4. Emotional Arousal: Basic Principles 5. Transactional Needs and Emotional Arousal 6. Social Structure and Emotional Arousal 7.
J. Turner
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Formalism, Behavioral Realism and the Interdisciplinary Challenge in Sociological Theory
, 2009In this paper, I argue that recent sociological theory has become increasingly bifurcated into two mutually incompatible styles of theorizing that I label formalist and behavioral-realist.
Omar Alcides Lizardo
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Careership: a sociological theory of career decision making
, 1997In the current discourse on the transition from school to work, career decision‐making has a pivotal but paradoxical position. Sociological literature emphasises the dominance of socially‐structured pathways, whilst policy‐making operates on assumptions ...
P. Hodkinson, A. Sparkes
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Philosophy or Sociological Theory?
1991A work which clearly illustrates the shift from sociological theory to philosophical analysis in recent years is Terry Johnson, Christopher Dendeker and Clive Ashworth’s The Structure of Social Theory,1 (henceforth referred to as TSST). According to the authors, every social theory explicitly or implicitly deals with two fundamental questions.
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Panel Models in Sociological Research: Theory into Practice
, 2004A selection of panel studies appearing in the American Sociological Review and the American Journal of Sociology between 1990 and 2003 shows that sociologists have been slow to capitalize on the advantages of panel data for controlling unobservables that
C. Halaby
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Contemporary Sociological Theory.
Contemporary Sociology, 1981Alison Wolf, Ruth A. Wallace, Ian Varcoe
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A History of Sociological Theory and a Theory of Sociological History [PDF]
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