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 xiii
... 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 . The resulting greater tolerance of outgroup relations ...
... 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 . The resulting greater tolerance of outgroup relations ...
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... pressures sustain their prevalence . But it does not explain what produces these ingroup pressures . Exchange theory provides that explanation , by showing that ingroup pressures are rooted in processes of social exchange . Ingroup ...
... pressures sustain their prevalence . But it does not explain what produces these ingroup pressures . Exchange theory provides that explanation , by showing that ingroup pressures are rooted in processes of social exchange . Ingroup ...
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... pressures . When more group members enter into intergroup relations , often owing to the influence of heterogeneity , disapproval of associating with outsiders becomes less pervasive . Thus , the ingroup pressures taken as given ...
... pressures . When more group members enter into intergroup relations , often owing to the influence of heterogeneity , disapproval of associating with outsiders becomes less pervasive . Thus , the ingroup pressures taken as given ...
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... 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 self - depreciating in other respects , whereas high - status ...
... 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 self - depreciating in other respects , whereas high - status ...
Pagina xxvi
... pressures to withhold commitment . The challenge of conquest . Alienating demands for commitment . Conditions that encourage the expression of affection . For a lasting attachment to develop commitments must keep abreast . Conclusions ...
... pressures to withhold commitment . The challenge of conquest . Alienating demands for commitment . Conditions that encourage the expression of affection . For a lasting attachment to develop commitments must keep abreast . Conclusions ...
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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