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Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive
Overview
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
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Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
In the citing paper
“the motives people give when they are questioned say little about their true motives.Rather, they say something about -according to C. Wright Mills (1940) in a now classic essay -which social constraints of motive representation prevail in such a communication situation, in which motives are questioned.”
From Gifts of Cooperation, Mauss and Pragmatism (2016) · cites this paper as Mills 1940
Citations
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Metadata
- Authors
- Mills, C. W.
- Venue
- American Sociological Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1940-12
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 904
- ISSN
- 0003-1224
- Cited by
- 1,731
- References
- 0
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
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- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.2307/2084524
- The paper
- Mills, C. W. (1940). Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive. American Sociological Review. https://doi.org/10.2307/2084524
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
