Using crowdsourcing websites for sociological research: The case of Amazon Mechanical Turk

DB Shank - The American Sociologist, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Amazon Mechanical Turk, an online marketplace designed for crowdsourcing tasks
to other people for compensation, is growing in popularity as a platform for gathering …

Organizational support for the workforce and employee safety citizenship behaviors: A social exchange relationship

TW Reader, K Mearns, C Lopes, J Kuha - Human relations, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Employee safety citizenship behaviors are crucial to risk management in safety-critical
industries, and identifying ways to encourage them is a priority. This study examines (i) …

Generalized generosity: How the norm of generalized reciprocity bridges collective forms of social exchange

MM Whitham - American Sociological Review, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examines the potential for small-scale acts of giving that are not directly
reciprocated, or generalized generosities, to build social bonds and promote contributions to …

Love cannot buy you money: Resource exchange on reward‐based crowdfunding platforms

TL James, W Shen, DM Townsend… - Information Systems …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Reward‐based crowdfunding platforms–in which campaigns exchange rewards for financial
backing to develop a product or service–are one of the fastest‐growing segments of the …

Investigating the temporal dynamics of interorganizational exchange: Patient transfers among Italian hospitals

JA Kitts, A Lomi, D Mascia, F Pallotti… - American Journal of …, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
Previous research on interaction behavior among organizations (resource exchange,
collaboration, communication) has typically aggregated those behaviors over time as a …

Understanding the dynamics of the individual donor's trust damage in the philanthropic sector

J Hou, C Zhang, RA King - Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and …, 2017 - Springer
Although trust is long known to be critical to predict behaviors in a charitable context, little
research has examined trust damage and its effects on giving behavior. Trust damage is an …

Beyond networks in structural theories of exchange: Promises from computational social science

JA Kitts - Advances in group processes, 2014 - emerald.com
Purpose The research community currently employs four very different versions of the social
network concept: A social network is seen as a set of socially constructed role relations (eg …

Honor among Crooks: The Role of Trust in Obfuscated Disreputable Exchange

O Schilke, G Rossman - American Sociological Review, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
When people want to conduct a transaction, but doing so would be morally disreputable,
they can obfuscate the fact that they are engaging in an exchange while still arranging for a …

The “social brain,” reciprocity, and social network segregation along ethnic boundaries

M Windzio - Human nature, 2020 - Springer
How does segregation along ethnic boundaries emerge in social networks? Human
evolution resulted in highly social beings, capable of prosociality, mindreading, and self …

Explaining supranational solidarity

JD Medrano, I Ciornei… - Everyday Europe, 2019 - bristoluniversitypressdigital.com
The 2008 financial crisis highlighted the European Union's enormous regional and national
economic inequalities. It also revealed significant social distance between the citizens of …