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"Social scientists do research, teach and mentor young scholars, and discuss theories and findings. Though there isn't complete agreement on how these activities should be conducted, clear public attention has been paid to these activities. Less attention has been paid to activities how researchers repeatedly generate new topics, best practices in publishing one's body of work, and how to make the most out of the publication review process. In Practicing Sociology, David Stark has assembled a team of skilled sociologists including Neil Fligstein, Wendy Espeland, Michele Lamont, Lucy Suchman, Paul DiMaggio, Peter Bearman, Shamus Khan, Marion Fourcade, John Levi Martin, and more, to provide their advice for new professionals."--

An increasing number of activities in everyday life are being evaluated and experienced in terms of performance metrics. This book examines this assemblage of networks of observation -- in which all are performing and keeping score -- and their attendant emotional pathologies across various industries and occupations.

An increasing number of activities in everyday life are being evaluated and experienced in terms of performance metrics. This text examines this assemblage of networks of observation - in which all are performing and keeping score - and their attendant emotional pathologies across various industries and occupations.

Entrepreneurial groups face a twinned challenge: recognizing new ideas and implementing them. Recent research suggests that connectivity reaching outside the group channels new ideas, while closure makes it possible to act on them. By contrast, we argue that entrepreneurship is not about importing ideas but about generating new knowledge by recombining resources. In contrast to the brokerage-plus-closure perspective, we identify a distinctive network position, intercohesion, which is found at the overlap of cohesive group structures. The multiple insiders at this intercohesive position participate in dense cohesive ties that provide close familiarity with the operations of the members in their groups. Because they are members of multiple cohesive groups, they have familiar access to diverse resources. First, we test whether intercohesion contributes to higher group performance. Second, because entrepreneurship is a process of creative disruption, we test intercohesion's contribution to group instability. Third, we move from dynamic methods to historical network analysis and demonstrate that coherence is a property of interwoven lineages of cohesion that are built up through an ongoing pattern of separation and reunification. Business groups use this pattern of interweaving to manage instability while benefitting from intercohesion. To study the evolution of business groups, we construct a dataset that records personnel ties among the largest 1,696 Hungarian enterprises from 19872001.

This commentary reviews key themes posed by papers in this Special Issue and points to open questions. For example, does resilience in socio-technical systems degrade with use or, like immune systems, is resilience upgraded with use? Similarly, is resilience about responding in the face of the rare event? Or, is it being prepared for the rare event? Is it useful to think about the evolution of resilience? What are the risks posed by models of risk? That is, do models to reduce vulnerability to risk, increase vulnerability? What is the role of reflexivity in the analysis of resilience?

Búsqueda es la consigna de la era de la información, pero este estudio sobre la innovación examina un tipo de búsqueda diferente –en que no sabemos lo que buscamos, pero lo reconoceremos al encontrarlo. El estudio recurre al pragmatista estadounidense John Dewey, que veía la indagación como un proceso abierto, colaborativo, con chispazos de "situaciones turbulentas y desconcertantes". El desafío de las organizaciones en ambientes rápidamente cambiantes y altamente inciertos es evitar quedar atrapadas en sus éxitos. Para romper con 'lo dado por supuesto' de las rutinas cognitivas, las organizaciones pueden fomentar de hecho situaciones desconcertantes, promoviendo principios evaluativos múltiples en busca de lo que es valioso. La fricción entre criterios de valoración competitivos estimula la reflexividad organizacional. La disonancia de principios diversos puede conducir al descubrimiento.

Nuestro conocimiento sobre la esclavitud en sectores urbanos del Caribe español colonial es en general limitado, y prácticamente inexistente sobre ciudades como San Juan. Debido a su localización y la naturaleza de su economía, San Juan era distinta a muchas otras ciudades del Caribe, notablemente en asuntos de raza y relaciones de género. San Juan era una ciudad con una gran economía de servicio dirigida a satisfacer las necesidades de la guarnición militar. Esto brindaba unas oportunidades económicas a los esclavos que no estaban disponibles en otros lugares. El censo de San Juan de 1673 nos permite precisar la situación de la población civil de la ciudad, identificar su composición racial, y calcular la proporción de los sexos dentro de varios segmentos de la ciudad. Los datos censales también se prestan para un análisis residencial detallado y de composición de hogares, así como para patrones residenciales. Existía una desproporción de género entre blancos, negros libres o personas de raza mixta y segmentos esclavizados de la población donde las mujeres superaban a los hombres. Las cifras de mujeres (esclavas y libres) eran altas en el terreno social y las áreas económicas. Más aún, blacos y no-blancos vivian juntos en las mismas calles y hogares. Las diferencias raciales no eran tan marcadas, lo que tuvo implicaciones para las relaciones raciales.