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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... public agencies . From the outset of my observation of a law enforcement agency under study , I noticed that colleagues frequently consulted one another about responsibilities . Although the official regulations required that agents who ...
... public agencies . From the outset of my observation of a law enforcement agency under study , I noticed that colleagues frequently consulted one another about responsibilities . Although the official regulations required that agents who ...
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... colleague , there was rarely a time in the large office where they worked when I did not observe one or more pairs engaged in discussing one of their cases . Lunch periods were filled with shop talk , involving either one official ...
... colleague , there was rarely a time in the large office where they worked when I did not observe one or more pairs engaged in discussing one of their cases . Lunch periods were filled with shop talk , involving either one official ...
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... colleagues a professional earns for adherence to professional standards ) . Generally , however , moral norms do not prescribe social interaction in detail . They primarily set broad limites , proscribing conduct beyond those limits ...
... colleagues a professional earns for adherence to professional standards ) . Generally , however , moral norms do not prescribe social interaction in detail . They primarily set broad limites , proscribing conduct beyond those limits ...
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... colleagues in sociology and related fields have read parts , or all , of the first draft of this manuscript and made extensive comments . I have greatly benefited from their suggestions and criti- cisms in making revisions , though I ...
... colleagues in sociology and related fields have read parts , or all , of the first draft of this manuscript and made extensive comments . I have greatly benefited from their suggestions and criti- cisms in making revisions , though I ...
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... colleagues . Experimental findings support and refine theory ; pressure to become integrated promoted self - depreciation . It led low - status subjects , however , to stress that they have some impressive qualities as well as to be ...
... colleagues . Experimental findings support and refine theory ; pressure to become integrated promoted self - depreciation . It led low - status subjects , however , to stress that they have some impressive qualities as well as to be ...
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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