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Human Migration and the Marginal Man

Migrations, with all the incidental collision, conflicts, and fusions of peoples and of cultures which they occasion, have been accounted among the decisive forces in history. E...

1928 American Journal of Sociology 2090 citations

The Social Control of Impersonal Trust

How do societies control trust relationships that are not embedded in structures of personal relations? This paper discusses the guardians of impersonal trust and discovers that...

1987 American Journal of Sociology 1672 citations