Journal of Communication · 1988 · 79 citations · 15 references
Social SciencesCommunicationAudience StudiesMass CommunicationMedia StudiesAudience ConsumptionAudience ReceptionBroadcast MediaTelevision AudiencesTelevision ReceptionTelevision StudiesAttentionEvent AtmosphereEvent SpectatorshipLive Audience BehaviorSports BroadcastingSports Television AudiencesTelevision Consumption
Watching the Olympics on television proved to be a media event for which people planned their viewing, paid close attention to the television, and arranged to have visitors with whom they ate, drank, and talked about what they saw.
15
The division of labor in society
Émile Durkheim · Columbia Law Review · 1935 · 5.2K citations
Humanities, History, Sociology +15
The Structure of Social Action
Earle L. Rauber, Talcott Parsons · Southern Economic Journal · 1938 · 4K citations
Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature.
Cathy N. Davidson, Janice Radway · American Literature · 1985 · 2.9K citations
Toward a General Theory of Action.
Clarence Schrag, Talcott Parsons, Edward Shils et al. · American Sociological Review · 1952 · 1.7K citations