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 xii
... increases intergroup relations and intermarriage , because heterogeneity involves many groups and small differences in size among them . The research confirms all of nine empirical predictions of the theorem tested , including one ...
... increases intergroup relations and intermarriage , because heterogeneity involves many groups and small differences in size among them . The research confirms all of nine empirical predictions of the theorem tested , including one ...
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... increasing intergroup relations , diminishes ingroup pressures that discourage relations with outsiders , because the increasing proportion of the group that is intimate with outsiders is unlikely to disapprove of others who also are ...
... increasing intergroup relations , diminishes ingroup pressures that discourage relations with outsiders , because the increasing proportion of the group that is intimate with outsiders is unlikely to disapprove of others who also are ...
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... increase in intergroup relations resulting from newly developed structural conditions alters the nature of the prevalent exchange transactions , because social exchange in intergroup relations differs from that in ingroup relations ...
... increase in intergroup relations resulting from newly developed structural conditions alters the nature of the prevalent exchange transactions , because social exchange in intergroup relations differs from that in ingroup relations ...
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... increase ex- pectations and thus the significance of further rewards , but the attainment of increasing rewards also eventually diminishes the value ( marginal utility ) of further rewards . American intellectuals illustrate influence ...
... increase ex- pectations and thus the significance of further rewards , but the attainment of increasing rewards also eventually diminishes the value ( marginal utility ) of further rewards . American intellectuals illustrate influence ...
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... increase in demand for advice due to the assignment of newcomers is expected to increase the volume of consultation more if consultants are not under much pressure , and if others are ready to join the ranks of consultants than if the ...
... increase in demand for advice due to the assignment of newcomers is expected to increase the volume of consultation more if consultants are not under much pressure , and if others are ready to join the ranks of consultants than if the ...
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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