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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... significance of social approval when approval from many others has already been earned . Theoretical principles already tested in other disciplines may , properly modified , serve as building blocks for constructing sociological theory ...
... significance of social approval when approval from many others has already been earned . Theoretical principles already tested in other disciplines may , properly modified , serve as building blocks for constructing sociological theory ...
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... Significance of social approval . Rational conduct ; which assumptions about it are not made and which ones are . Basic Processes , 19 Simple processes of social association , rooted in primitive psycho- logical processes , give rise to ...
... Significance of social approval . Rational conduct ; which assumptions about it are not made and which ones are . Basic Processes , 19 Simple processes of social association , rooted in primitive psycho- logical processes , give rise to ...
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... Significance of social approval depends on its being accepted as genuine . Problems of simony and prostitution . Approval and re- spect : respect for a man raises value of his approval ; indiscrimi- nate approval lowers respect for him ...
... Significance of social approval depends on its being accepted as genuine . Problems of simony and prostitution . Approval and re- spect : respect for a man raises value of his approval ; indiscrimi- nate approval lowers respect for him ...
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... significance depends on their being genuine , their being scarce , and other's orientation to the bestower . A basic difference between the two . CHAPTER FOUR . SOCIAL EXCHANGE , 88 Homans ' conception . Exchange in simple societies ...
... significance depends on their being genuine , their being scarce , and other's orientation to the bestower . A basic difference between the two . CHAPTER FOUR . SOCIAL EXCHANGE , 88 Homans ' conception . Exchange in simple societies ...
Pagina xxviii
... significance of further rewards , but the attainment of increasing rewards also eventually diminishes the value ( marginal utility ) of further rewards . American intellectuals illustrate influence of expectations on reactions to social ...
... significance of further rewards , but the attainment of increasing rewards also eventually diminishes the value ( marginal utility ) of further rewards . American intellectuals illustrate influence of expectations on reactions to 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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