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What’s Alter Got to Do with It? A Consideration of Network Content and the Social Ties That Provide It 这和Alter有什么关系?网络内容与提供网络内容的社会联系的思考

IF 4.4 1区社会学

Sociological Theory Pub Date : 2019-08-29 DOI: 10.1177/0735275119869344

J. Greenberg

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引用次数: 32

Thick Concepts and Sociological Research 厚概念与社会学研究

IF 4.4 1区社会学

Sociological Theory Pub Date : 2019-08-29 DOI: 10.1177/0735275119869979

G. Abend

引用次数: 20

On the Ambivalence of the Aphorism in Sociological Theory 论社会学理论中警句的矛盾心理

IF 4.4 1区社会学

Sociological Theory Pub Date : 2019-08-09 DOI: 10.1177/0735275119888253

T. Crosbie, J. Guhin

引用次数: 2

Transitional Temporality 过渡临时性

IF 4.4 1区社会学

Sociological Theory Pub Date : 2019-08-06 DOI: 10.1177/0735275120981048

Daniel Hirschman

引用次数: 3

Profit as Social Rent: Embeddedness and Stratification in Markets 利润作为社会租金:市场的嵌入性和分层性

IF 4.4 1区社会学

Sociological Theory Pub Date : 2019-06-25 DOI: 10.1177/0735275119850860

Sascha Muennich

引用次数: 4

Overflowing Channels: How Democracy Didn’t Work as Planned (and Perhaps a Good Thing It Didn’t) 渠道溢出:民主如何没有按计划运作(也许这是一件好事)

IF 4.4 1区社会学

Sociological Theory Pub Date : 2019-06-25 DOI: 10.1177/0735275119850866

J. Markoff

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引用次数: 3

Toward a Hermeneutic Model of Cultural Globalization: Four Lessons from Translation Studies 走向文化全球化的解释学模式——翻译研究的四点启示

IF 4.4 1区社会学

Sociological Theory Pub Date : 2019-06-25 DOI: 10.1177/0735275119850862

Isabel Jijon

引用次数: 10

Cabdrivers and Their Fares: Temporal Structures of a Linking Ecology 出租车司机及其车费:连接生态的时间结构

IF 4.4 1区社会学

Sociological Theory Pub Date : 2019-06-25 DOI: 10.1177/0735275119850868

Marcin Serafin

引用次数: 8

Talking Your Self into It: How and When Accounts Shape Motivation for Action 说服自己：账户如何以及何时形成行动动机