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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Pagina vii
... relations and roles is often distinguished from the macrosociological analysis of broader social structures and institutions in societies and communities . In this book , I concentrate on the microsociological analysis of the processes ...
... relations and roles is often distinguished from the macrosociological analysis of broader social structures and institutions in societies and communities . In this book , I concentrate on the microsociological analysis of the processes ...
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... relations in work groups , which I had studied in Arensberg's course on industrial sociology . My objective was to apply the procedures developed in empirical studies of industrial work groups to research on officials in a government ...
... relations in work groups , which I had studied in Arensberg's course on industrial sociology . My objective was to apply the procedures developed in empirical studies of industrial work groups to research on officials in a government ...
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... exchange differs from such variables in that it pertains directly to the ... exchange , which implies that it cannot be reduced to or derived from psychological ... relations in terms of the motives and the underlying psychological ...
... exchange differs from such variables in that it pertains directly to the ... exchange , which implies that it cannot be reduced to or derived from psychological ... relations in terms of the motives and the underlying psychological ...
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... relations can be observed . The objective of this theory is to explain patterns ( or structures ) of social relations , not individual behavior , in structural terms , not in cultural or psychological ones . To be sure , social relations ...
... relations can be observed . The objective of this theory is to explain patterns ( or structures ) of social relations , not individual behavior , in structural terms , not in cultural or psychological ones . To be sure , social relations ...
Pagina xii
... relations , including marriage , and went on to theorems about more complex structural conditions , the most important of which corresponds to Simmel's concept of crosscutting social circles . Here I can provide only a few illustrations ...
... relations , including marriage , and went on to theorems about more complex structural conditions , the most important of which corresponds to Simmel's concept of crosscutting social circles . Here I can provide only a few illustrations ...
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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