This chapter reviews the current state of our knowledge about the role of institutional
arrangements in stratification processes in industrial societies. The particular institutional …

Renewed interest in the movement of people between jobs highlights the roles of time and
opportunity structures in career development. Vacancy-driven models provide the …

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This essay argues that sociology's major current problems are intellectual. It traces these
problems to the exhaustion of the current “variables paradigm” and considers the Chicago …

In this detailed history of the Chicago School of Sociology, Andrew Abbott investigates
central topics in the emergence of modern scholarship, paying special attention to" schools …

Calling for a broader, new approach to social mobility research, Pathways to Social Class: A
Qualitative Approach to Social Mobility moves beyond pure statistics to use qualitative …

This study examines the influence of neighborhood poverty and social networks on labor
market experiences of less-educated urban job seekers. Data come from the Multi-City …

Through an exhaustive review of the literature, this article looks at the applicability of social
network analysis (SNA) in the field of humanresource development. The literature review …

Dieses Buch geht auf drei Hauptseminare zur Netzwerkanalyse zurück, die ich 1991, 1993
und 1997 an den Universitäten Bochum und Düsseldorf gehalten habe. Im Sommer 1997 ist …

Arthur L. Stinchcombe has earned a reputation as a leading practitioner of methodology in
sociology and related disciplines. Throughout his distinguished career he has championed …