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29 lis 2021 · In this article, we disentangle distinct facets of specialization as potential career strategies (targeted topics, focus, novelty, and consistency), provide a consistent methodological frame to measure them (structural topic modeling), and use an understudied population (PhD students) to capture how specialization strategies used at an early ...
15 wrz 2020 · Download PDF. 1. We live in a world of specialization. As Adam Smith [1776] (1937) pointed out at the beginning of The Wealth of Nations, the division of labor enables people to perform small tasks repeatedly.
2 maj 2019 · This article is the introduction to the special issue ‘Sociology and psychology: what intersections?’ In addition to presenting the articles included in this issue, the present text outlines the general stakes of interdisciplinarity between psychology and sociology.
This paper presents a simple mathematical model that shows how economic inequality between social groups can arise and be maintained even when the only adaptive learning processes driving cultural evolution increases individual’s economic gains. The key assumption is that human populations are structured into groups, and that cultural
variety of theories that link economic specialization, adivision of labor, and the emergence of socially stratified inequality since the birth of their discipline at the end of the nineteenth century. Here, we focus on understanding “stratification” as the emergence and persistence of institutionalized economic differences between social ...
JON M. SHEPARD. MANY social commentators and crit- ics have emphasized the adverse social-psychological effects on workers due to extreme functional specialization. (i.e., a minute subdivision of work tasks. such that each worker performs only one or a few small operations on the product).'
variety of theories that link economic specialization, adivision of labor, and the emergence of socially stratified inequality since the birth of their discipline at the end of the nineteenth century. Here, we focus on understanding “stratification” as the emergence and persistence of institutionalized economic differences between social ...
