From false consciousness to folkways, find definitions and discussions of key theoretical concepts offered by both classical and contemporary social theorists.
FIVE KEY IDEA: HIRSCHI'S SOCIAL BOND/SOCIAL CONTROL THEORY KEY WORK Hirschi, T. (1969). Causes of delinquency. Berkeley: University of California Press. Travis Hirschi's social bond/social control theory has remained a major paradigm in criminology since its introduction in 1969. To be sure...
For example, Big Five theorists have emphasized the relevance of studying individual personality dimensions (e.g., agreeableness) to better understand cooperative dynamics (Barrick and Mount 1991, 1993). At the same time, the proactivity literature has also explored cooperation through several ...
The Origins of Young Children's Perceived Control: Mother Contingent and Sensitive Behavior The notion that caregiver sensitive and contingent behavior is closely related to children's perceived control has been proposed both by theorists interest... Ellen,A.,Skinner - 《International Journal of Behavi...
marmosets: Voelkl and Huber, 2000), this occurs at much lower levels of accuracy, and in far more restricted contexts than in humans who are highly accurate copiers in domain general contexts. This has prompted theorists to propose that capacities for imitation and social learning may have ...
The Oxford Handbook of Human Motivation, Second Edition, addresses key advances made in the field since the previous edition, offering the latest insights from the top theorists and researchers of human motivation. The volume includes chapters on social learning theory, control theory, self-determinati...
In an essay taken from the manuscript of her forthcoming Bourgeois Equality, McCloskey criticizes the common reliance by economic theorists on outdated narratives of the Industrial Revolution and the succeeding Great Enrichment. "Acemoglu and Robinson and the rest are accepting a leftish story of eco...
paradigm to challenge what he considered to be improper and inadequate employment of psychiatric categories to treat his own generation of disoriented combat veterans has provided a continuing platform for the rise of a surprising coalition of complementary theorists from the disciplines of psychology, so...
(1935, 91). He envisioned an approach that Dolf Sterrnberger, one of theleading political theorists of the early Federal Republic, dramatically stated as aprinciple for a “Herrschaft der Freiheit” right after the war in 1946: “No freedomfor the enemies of freedom! No compromise with the ...
He’s since gone on to become one of the most respected business theorists in the world, with his insights into knowledge management changing the way many companies are run. Hirotaka Takeuchi is a professor at Harvard Business School and is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review....