On Migration: Personal Networks and Migration Trajectories

TL;DR: When Prophecy Fails as discussed by the authors is a powerful account of what happens to ordinary people under extraordinary circumstances, and it is also a surprisingly touching account of ordinary people' reactions when their prophecy is not fulfilled.

TL;DR: Trends in educational assortative marriage from 1940 to 2003 in the United States are consistent with a growing social divide between those with very low levels of education and those with more education in theUnited States.

TL;DR: The To-Day and To-Morrow series of 110 books published by Kegan Paul Trench and Trübner from 1923 to 1931 as mentioned in this paper provides the first substantial history and analysis of the series.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore why organizations tend to be increasingly and inevitably homogeneous in their forms and practices, and suggest that organizational fields are structured into an organizational field by powerful forces that lead them to become similar.

TL;DR: The relationship between Stimulation and Stimulus Information for visual perception is discussed in detail in this article, where the authors also present experimental evidence for direct perception of motion in the world and movement of the self.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of reward or reinforcement on preceding behavior depend in part on whether the person perceives the reward as contingent on his own behavior or independent of it, and individuals may also differ in generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.