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    • No, this is not how I had expected my Senior Year would end 
      Svetlov, Nicole Rene (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      A Personal Narrative which details the increase in ethnic and racial tensions, which results from a general sense of panic and the influence said panic has over global politics.
    • A (Not So) Quick and Dirty Look at Robust M-Estimation 
      Wu, Lawrence L. (2017-08-16)
      a. Robust estimators, those procedures that distinguish likely from unlikely distributions, sometimes are preferable to either parametric or distribution-free estimations. This WP explores statistical properties of maximum ...
    • Of borders and Borders: from here to the moon 
      Krenčeyová, Miša (2020-05-30)
      It is not only the current pandemic that contributes to re-establishing borders after some of them seemed to have been dissolved.
    • On Conservative Attitudes 
      Anderson, Bo; Zelditch, Morris Jr; Takagi, Paul; Whiteside, Don (2015-07-13)
      This paper argues that rank disequilibrium (or status inconsistency) is a factor in developing right-wing attitudes. The topic had contemporary relevance with the prominence of the John Birch Society, the Christian ...
    • On the Balance of a Set of Ranks 
      Zelditch, Morris Jr; Anderson, Bo (2015-07-13)
      This theoretical paper addresses what was then called “status consistency” or “status crystallization.” Discrepant ranks on different characteristics such as income, occupational prestige, education, race, and religion ...
    • One Percent Sample of 1990 Census. Codebook 
      China Population and Information Research Center. Data User Services Branch (1990)
    • One Percent Sample of 1990 Census. DAT Files. 
      China Population and Information Research Center. Data User Services Branch (1990)
    • One Percent Sample of 1990 Census. SPSS Files. 
      China Population and Information Research Center. Data User Services Branch (1990)
    • Organization and productivity in R & D Teams: A Report of Research Findings 
      Cohen, Bernard P.; Arechavala-Vargas, Ricardo; Nobel, Darla R.; Shenhav, Yehouda A. (American Sociological Review, 1991)
      The authors report findings from 224 teams in Silicon Valley on the effects of factors on team productivity and innovativeness. The factors are of four types: interaction, team composition, team organization, and perceptions ...
    • Organizational Evaluation and Authority 
      Scott, Richard W.; Dornbusch, Sanford M.; Busching, Bruce C.; Laing, James D. (2015-07-21)
      The authors describe four kinds of authority rights (legitimate attempts to control others) and analyze organizational authority systems in terms of the process by which participants’ performances are evaluated. They present ...
    • Organizational Task Performance in Male and Female Groups 
      McMahon, Anne M; Barchas, Patricia; Cohen, Elizabeth; Hildebrand, Poll; Fennell, Mary (2015-08-15)
      The authors analyze different ways that problem solving groups organize structurally. The argument applies to all groups but because of historical facts, all-male and all-female groups instantiate the situations described. ...
    • Original China Archive Site 
      China Archive (2024-01-09)
    • Original Faculty Planning Committee 
      Unknown author (2024-01-03)
    • The Pandemic and the self 
      Bodhananda, Swami (2020-05-30)
      Reflections on the self, spirituality, migrant workers, and confinement during the pandemic.
    • Pandemic Enlightens 
      Gupta, Smita (2020-05-30)
      Pandemic enlightens with lessons of cooperation, solidarity and humanity.
    • The Pandemic, India’s Lockdown and the Fear of the Indian-Americans 
      Dutt-Ballerstadt, Reshmi (2020-05-30)
      This essay narrates the fear and anxiety faced by the Indian-Americans (NRI’s) about their parents and the elderly living in India as they navigate the ramifications of the lockdown in both India and the U.S.
    • #PandemicFoodPorn: Resilience and Precarity During COVID-19 
      Mitra, Rahul (2020-05-30)
      I negotiate the complex intersections between making (eating) food while quarantined at home and sharing those pictures on social media, especially as they help us be more resilient in a world that has all-too-suddenly ...
    • Participation in Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Groups: A Theoretical Integration 
      Fisek, M. Hamit; Berger, Joseph; Norman, Robert Z. (The American Journal of Sociology, 1991)
      The authors define a behavior interchange pattern that can affect performance expectation states and behavior. This WP was published by the authors (1991).
    • Paths of Consistent and Inconsistent Status Information and the Induction of Relevance 
      Berger, Joseph; Wagner, David G (2015-08-15)
      The concern is to determine the process by which directly relevant, and inversely relevant characteristics function to affect expectation states. Results of a four-condition experiment showed that dissimilarity alone of ...
    • #payusviaBVN: Social Media, Lockdowns and Social Welfare in Nigeria 
      Ephraim, Philip Effiom (2020-06-05)
      Nigerians are employing social media channels to call out the government’s corrupt practices, particularly, the unequal distribution of monetary assistance meant for minimizing severe hardships caused by COVID-19 lockdowns.