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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... ideals lessening needs ) , the requirements of power , the issues in power conflicts , and basic problems in the analysis of social structure . The case of coercive force . Competition for Status , 125 The object of competition in ...
... ideals lessening needs ) , the requirements of power , the issues in power conflicts , and basic problems in the analysis of social structure . The case of coercive force . Competition for Status , 125 The object of competition in ...
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... ideals make men less dependent on material rewards and thus free their energies to oppose existing powers . Political Opposition , 234 Limitations of purely rational model of politics , notably that it cannot account for the growth of ...
... ideals make men less dependent on material rewards and thus free their energies to oppose existing powers . Political Opposition , 234 Limitations of purely rational model of politics , notably that it cannot account for the growth of ...
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... and differentiation ; ( 3 ) legitimating values as media of organization ; ( 4 ) opposition ideals as media of change and reorganization . These four are reflected in four facets of social structure xxxii Synopses of Chapters.
... and differentiation ; ( 3 ) legitimating values as media of organization ; ( 4 ) opposition ideals as media of change and reorganization . These four are reflected in four facets of social structure xxxii Synopses of Chapters.
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... ideals , though divisive force , unite subgroups in a common cause . The relation- ships between integration , differentiation , and organization in substructures to the integration , differentiation , and organization in the ...
... ideals , though divisive force , unite subgroups in a common cause . The relation- ships between integration , differentiation , and organization in substructures to the integration , differentiation , and organization in the ...
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... ideals and absolute values is of great importance in social life , but our understanding of it is not at all advanced by the assump- tion that it merely reflects idiosyncratic and irrational individual 4 Max Weber , The Theory of Social ...
... ideals and absolute values is of great importance in social life , but our understanding of it is not at all advanced by the assump- tion that it merely reflects idiosyncratic and irrational individual 4 Max Weber , The Theory of Social ...
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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