Recent work on neighborhood effects has rekindled interest in social organization theory and its relationship to local social capital. This article addresses several gaps in our knowledge about the mechanisms linking structural conditions to social (dis)organization and the role of culture in this process. Relying on the case of a predominantly Puerto Rican housing project in Boston, it investi...

This article elaborates and extends Sutherland’s [Principles of criminology (4th ed.), Lippincott, Philadelphia, Sutherland (1947)] concept of differential social organization, the sociological counterpart to his social psychological theory of differential association. Differential social organization contains a static structural component, which explains crime rates across groups, as well as a...

In the first chapter of this book, David Lane et al. point out that the Darwinian approach to biological evolution is insufficient for the description and explanation of the cultural and social transmission of many, if not most, of society’s characteristics. Instead, the chapter proposes that we shift from ‘population thinking’ to ‘organization thinking’ to understand socio-cultural phenomena. ...

Administrative social influence is a principal tool for motivating employee behavior. The authors argue that the compliance of professional employees (e.g., doctors) with administrative social influence will depend on the degree to which these employees identify with their profession and organization. Professional employees were found to be most receptive to administrator social influence to ad...

. Perceived organizational support has been raised as work backbone of employee in the organization and the psychological contracts are also a set of promises that top managers give to support their employees. Therefore, violation of this contract not only involves depriving organizational support, but also reduces the employee's belongings. The main purpose of this paper was to examine the imp...

This paper proposes a set of concepts for describing a software architecture as a social organization. This social structure consists of actors who have goals to fulfil and social dependencies describing their obligations. The framework is an adaptation of i* [17] proposed as a modeling language for early requirements. Based on this framework, the paper advocates architectural styles for softwa...

This book presents summaries by specialists of subjects related directly or indirectly to conception. The first five papers deal with male and female germ cells-their production, protection, release, and early transport. Chapters follow on fertilization, transportation of the zygote, and implantation. Finally there is consideration of immunological phenomena relating to fertility and fertility ...

Why do states join international organizations (IOs)? Cooperation theory offers a number of plausible answers to this question. However, empirical analysis of IOs has not kept pace with theory. We identify three key limitations in existing empirical research on IO membership. First, the units of analysis commonly used to model membership, such as the country-year or dyad-year, do not sufficient...

The 'social brain hypothesis' for the evolution of large brains in primates has led to evidence for the coevolution of neocortical size and social group sizes, suggesting that there is a cognitive constraint on group size that depends, in some way, on the volume of neural material available for processing and synthesizing information on social relationships. More recently, work on both human an...

Current studies argue that through building the virtual organization breeding environment one can quickly find partners and create a virtual enterprise. The creation of the virtual organization breeding environment requires its own social capital to satisfy some social requirements, but such researches are few This paper, based on complex network theory, proposes a new method to identify the vi...