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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 · Since individual actions are embedded in a historical and social context, economics (and especially political economy) can benefit from turning to sociological expertise. The main lesson from this paper is that there are different types of rationality guiding individual actions in different circumstances, and it is important to keep these distinct.
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.
27 lip 2011 · The sociology of work and employment is concerned with the social relations, normative codes, and organizational structures that inform the behavior, experience, and identities of people during the course of their working lives.
Introduction. We live in a world of specialization. As Adam Smith [1776](1937) pointed out at the begin-ning of The Wealth of Nations, the division of labor enables people to perform small tasks repeatedly. This has many benefits. Most important are the e ciency gains from letting. ffi.
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
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).'.
