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Faculty's Choice: Top 10
This article is a part of The Gazelle’s series Faculty’s Choice. Every week, we will ask various faculty divisions about the most influential or ...
Dec 6, 2014
This article is a part of The Gazelle’s series Faculty’s Choice. Every week, we will ask various faculty divisions about the most influential or significant works in their field. This week, we asked the Associate Dean of the Social Sciences and Program Head of Social Research and Public Policy, Hannah Brückner for ten key concepts to understand society
- Status attainment — Blau, Peter M. and Otis Dudley Duncan: The Process of Stratification. (1967)
- Social construction of categories — West, Candace and Don H. Zimmerman: “Doing Gender”. Gender and Society, Vol. 1, No. 2. (Jun., 1987), pp. 125-151.
- Arithmetic of Social Relations — Rytina, Steve and David L. Morgan: “The Arithmetic of Social Relations: The Interplay of Category and Network.” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 88, No. 1. (Jul., 1982), pp. 88-113.
- The strength of weak ties — Granovetter, Mark S.: “The Strength of Weak Ties”. American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 78, No. 6. (May, 1973), pp. 1360-1380.
- Tokenism — Kanter, Rosabeth M.: “Some Effects of Proportions on Group Life: Skewed Sex Ratios and Responses to Token Women” The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 82, No. 5. (Mar., 1977), pp. 965-990.
- Balanced opposition — Davis, James A.: “Structural Balance, Mechanical Solidarity, and Interpersonal Relations.” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 68, No. 4. (Jan., 1963), pp. 444-462.
- Resource mobilization — John D. McCarthy and Mayer N. Zald, “The Enduring Vitality of the Resource Mobilization Theory of Social Movements” in Jonathan H. Turner (ed.), Handbook of Sociological Theory, 2001, p.533-65
- Critical mass and tipping — Schelling, Thomas: Micromotives and Macrobehavior. (1978)
- Social conditions as fundamental cause of health — Link Bruce G., Phelan Jo C.. “Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Disease.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 35 (Extra Issue, 1995): 80–94.
- Relative deprivation — Stouffer: The American Soldier (1949), see also reference group theory
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