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29 lis 2021 · Our own contribution to a better understanding of specialization as a career strategy in sociology is threefold: we investigate an understudied site for specialization—the dissertation; a critical career outcome—becoming an advisor; and a suite of specialization strategies—topic choice, focus, novelty, and consistency.
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.
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.
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
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. This article offers an innovative explanation for gender differences in job specialization that connects individual choices to the social struc-ture. Decisions about jobs are modeled as a choice over different tenure-reward slopes, which are steeper for more specialized skills.
In sociology, economy refers to the social institution through which a society’s resources are exchanged and managed. The earliest economies were based on trade, which is often a simple exchange in which people traded one item for another.
economy to economics. Over the course of its 32 years in existence, this journal has taken as its mission an attempt to broaden the perspective of economics and return it to something like the grand tradition of political economy.
