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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... tion , I wish to discuss the changes that have occurred in my theoretical views . The microsociological analysis of the process underlying social relations and roles is often distinguished from the macrosociological analysis of broader ...
... tion , I wish to discuss the changes that have occurred in my theoretical views . The microsociological analysis of the process underlying social relations and roles is often distinguished from the macrosociological analysis of broader ...
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... tion in social positions , under which all unidimensional specific forms can be subsumed , are heterogeneity and inequality , whether concern is with ethnic or industrial heterogeneity , with inequality in wealth or power . Various ...
... tion in social positions , under which all unidimensional specific forms can be subsumed , are heterogeneity and inequality , whether concern is with ethnic or industrial heterogeneity , with inequality in wealth or power . Various ...
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... Gift exchanges in simpler societies and parallels in ours . Obliga- tion to give , to receive , and to repay . Exchange may engender peer relations or status differences , since bestowing benefactions is χχνί Synopses of Chapters.
... Gift exchanges in simpler societies and parallels in ours . Obliga- tion to give , to receive , and to repay . Exchange may engender peer relations or status differences , since bestowing benefactions is χχνί Synopses of Chapters.
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... tion may produce a social surplus by giving rise to a revolutionary ideology , since such ideals make men less dependent on material rewards and thus free their energies to oppose existing powers . Political Opposition , 234 Limitations ...
... tion may produce a social surplus by giving rise to a revolutionary ideology , since such ideals make men less dependent on material rewards and thus free their energies to oppose existing powers . Political Opposition , 234 Limitations ...
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... tion . Parallels and contrasts between simple structures , complex ones , and institutions , CHAPTER ELEVEN . THE DYNAMICS OF SUBSTRUCTURES , 283 Macrostructures composed of substructures and microstructures composed of interrelated ...
... tion . Parallels and contrasts between simple structures , complex ones , and institutions , CHAPTER ELEVEN . THE DYNAMICS OF SUBSTRUCTURES , 283 Macrostructures composed of substructures and microstructures composed of interrelated ...
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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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