Exchange and Power in Social Life

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Routledge, 29 sep 2017 - 372 pagina's
In his landmark study of exchange and power in social life, Peter M. Blau contributes to an understanding of social structure by analyzing the social processes that govern the relations between individuals and groups. The basic question that Blau considers is: How does social life become organized into increasingly complex structures of associations among humans.This analysis, first published in 1964, represents a pioneering contribution to the sociological literature. Blau uses concepts of exchange, reciprocity, imbalance, and power to examine social life and to derive the more complex processes in social structure from the simpler ones. The principles of reciprocity and imbalance are used to derive such processes as power, changes in group structure; and the two major forces that govern the dynamics of complex social structures: the legitimization of organizing authority of increasing scope and the emergence of oppositions along different lines producing conflict and change.
 

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Introduction
1
Chapter One The Structure of Social Associations
12
Chapter Two Social Integration
33
Chapter Three Social Support
60
Chapter Four Social Exchange
88
Chapter Five Differentiation of Power
115
Chapter Six Expectations
143
Chapter Seven The Dynamics of Change and Adjustment in Groups
168
Chapter Eight Legitimation and Organization
199
Chapter Nine Opposition
224
Chapter Ten Mediating Values in Complex Structures
253
Chapter Eleven The Dynamics of Substructures
283
Chapter Twelve Dialectical Forces
312
Name Index
339
Subject Index
343
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