Exchange and Power in Social LifeRoutledge, 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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... alternative sources of needed benefits ; ( 3 ) use of force ; ( 4 ) suppression of need for benefits . This schema can be used to specify the conditions of social in- dependence ( strategic resources , available alternatives , coercive ...
... alternative sources of needed benefits ; ( 3 ) use of force ; ( 4 ) suppression of need for benefits . This schema can be used to specify the conditions of social in- dependence ( strategic resources , available alternatives , coercive ...
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... alternatives to submission exists . Competition and differentiation . Influences that replenish and those that de- plete obligations . Democracy , status threats , and intolerance . CHAPTER SIX . EXPECTATIONS , 143 Satisfactions with ...
... alternatives to submission exists . Competition and differentiation . Influences that replenish and those that de- plete obligations . Democracy , status threats , and intolerance . CHAPTER SIX . EXPECTATIONS , 143 Satisfactions with ...
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... alternatives and limitation of resources . Structural Adjustment to Changing Conditions , 179 Elasticity of demand for advice depends on duties that are not too complex , available substitute sources of information , and significance of ...
... alternatives and limitation of resources . Structural Adjustment to Changing Conditions , 179 Elasticity of demand for advice depends on duties that are not too complex , available substitute sources of information , and significance of ...
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... alternative costs and of perfect competition . Major sources of imperfections : heterogeneity of services , which is greatest in multipurpose groups ; small size of group , which facilitates the development of monopoly , as does a ...
... alternative costs and of perfect competition . Major sources of imperfections : heterogeneity of services , which is greatest in multipurpose groups ; small size of group , which facilitates the development of monopoly , as does a ...
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... alternative to adjustment through mobility is ad- justment through new social investments represented by a suc- cessful opposition . Opposition as a Regenerative Force , 301 Opposition movements as countervailing forces against institu ...
... alternative to adjustment through mobility is ad- justment through new social investments represented by a suc- cessful opposition . Opposition as a Regenerative Force , 301 Opposition movements as countervailing forces against institu ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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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