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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... creating new imbalances . Conclusions , 31 Discussion proceeds from simpler processes in interpersonal asso- ciations to more complex ones in large social structures . Impor- tance of social context of interpersonal relations ...
... creating new imbalances . Conclusions , 31 Discussion proceeds from simpler processes in interpersonal asso- ciations to more complex ones in large social structures . Impor- tance of social context of interpersonal relations ...
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... creating social reality by investing one's style with value ; living up to expectations initially produced ; bluffing . Preoccupation with impressing others impedes both ex- pressive involvement and instrumental endeavors . Restraints ...
... creating social reality by investing one's style with value ; living up to expectations initially produced ; bluffing . Preoccupation with impressing others impedes both ex- pressive involvement and instrumental endeavors . Restraints ...
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... creates an undeniable claim to power unless one of four alternatives to submission exists . Competition and differentiation . Influences that replenish and those that de- plete obligations . Democracy , status threats , and intolerance ...
... creates an undeniable claim to power unless one of four alternatives to submission exists . Competition and differentiation . Influences that replenish and those that de- plete obligations . Democracy , status threats , and intolerance ...
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Peter Blau. advice created by newcomers promotes partnerships of reciprocal consultation primarily if supply is inelastic . The addition of new- comers may produce a permanent increase in the amount of con- sultation , because the ...
Peter Blau. advice created by newcomers promotes partnerships of reciprocal consultation primarily if supply is inelastic . The addition of new- comers may produce a permanent increase in the amount of con- sultation , because the ...
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... create segregating boundaries between them . Diverse universalistic standards are a particularistic standard in the larger social structure , whereas universalistic values in the larger system may become sources of particularism in its ...
... create segregating boundaries between them . Diverse universalistic standards are a particularistic standard in the larger social structure , whereas universalistic values in the larger system may become sources of particularism in its ...
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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