Power, Authority, and the Constraint of Belief Systems1

By John Levi Martin. American Journal of Sociology, 2002

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• When Do Scientists Become Entrepreneurs? The Social Structural Antecedents of Commercial Activity in the Academic Life Sciences1 (2006, background): “Dating back to Durkheim, analysts of belief systems have argued that the constraint on the beliefs of a group’s members is an increasing function of the degree of consensus of views within the group (cf. Martin 2002).”
• The Negative Effects of Social Capital in Organizations: A Review and Extension (2017, unknown): “As Martin (2002) points out, this Durkheimian vision implies that a constraint constitutes any concentration among the points representing individual beliefs in the space of all possible beliefs.”