Exchange And Power In Social Life

Author : Peter Blau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351521192

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Exchange and Power in Social Life by Peter Blau Pdf

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.

Author : Peter Blau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351521208

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Exchange and Power in Social Life by Peter Blau Pdf

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.

Author : Peter Michael Blau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:632406412

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Exchange and power in social life by Peter Michael Blau Pdf

Author : Peter M. Blau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:729108130

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Exchange and Power in Social Life by Peter M. Blau Pdf

Author : Adolf A. Berle (Jr.),Gardiner Coit Means
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Business enterprises
ISBN : PSU:000055769648

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The Modern Corporation and Private Property by Adolf A. Berle (Jr.),Gardiner Coit Means Pdf

Author : Dean Tjosvold,Barbara Wisse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521878593

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Power and Interdependence in Organizations by Dean Tjosvold,Barbara Wisse Pdf

Capitalizing on significant developments in social science over the past twenty years, this book explores both the positive and negative aspects of power, identifying opportunities and threats. It shows how managers and employees can manage power in order to make it a constructive force in organizations.

Author : Karen S. Cook
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1987-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038263450

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Social Exchange Theory by Karen S. Cook Pdf

The current state of social exchange theory is assessed in this collection of original papers. James S Coleman and Peter M Blau -- two of the founders of social exchange theory in the 1960s -- have contributed up-to-date reviews of their thinking on the subject. The volume also includes a piece by the late Richard Emerson, and contributions from young scholars who are expanding the frontiers of this theoretical framework. Jon Turner, a noted social theorist, rounds off this important volume with a critique of social exchange theory as presented by the contributors. As a current analysis of this major strand of social theory, this volume is unrivalled and should be of value to scholars and graduate students of sociology, social psychology and anthropology.

Author : John DeLamater
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780387369211

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Handbook of Social Psychology by John DeLamater Pdf

Psychology, focusing on processes that occur inside the individual and Sociology, focusing on social collectives and social institutions, come together in Social Psychology to explore the interface between the two fields. The core concerns of social psychology include the impact of one individual on another; the impact of a group on its individual members; the impact of individuals on the groups in which they participate; the impact of one group on another. This book is a successor to Social Psychology: Social Perspectives and Sociological Perspectives in Social Psychology. The current text expands on previous handbooks in social psychology by including recent developments in theory and research and comprehensive coverage of significant theoretical perspectives.

Author : Cecilia L. Ridgeway
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781475721997

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Gender, Interaction, and Inequality by Cecilia L. Ridgeway Pdf

Causal explanations are essential for theory building. In focusing on causal mechanisms rather than descriptive effects, the goal of this volume is to increase our theoretical understanding of the way gender operates in interaction. Theoretical analyses of gender's effects in interaction, in turn, are necessary to understand how such effects might be implicated with individual-level and social structural-level processes in the larger system of gender inequality. Despite other differences, the contributors to this book all take what might be loosely called a "microstructural" approach to gender and interaction. All agree that individuals come to interaction with certain common, socially created beliefs, cultural meanings, experiences, and social rules. These include stereotypes about gendered activities and skills, beliefs about the status value of gender, rules for interacting in certain settings, and so on. However, as individuals apply these beliefs and rules to the specific contingent events of interaction, they combine and reshape their implications in distinctive ways that are particular to the encounter. As a result, individuals actively construct their social relations in the encounter through their interaction. The patterns of relations that develop are not completely determined or scripted in advance by the beliefs and rules of the larger society. Consequently, there is a reciprocal causal relationship between constructed patterns of interaction and larger social structural forms. The constructed patterns of social relations among a set of interactants can be thought of as micro-level social structures or, more simply, "microstructures.

Author : Linda D. Molm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521562904

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Coercive Power in Social Exchange by Linda D. Molm Pdf

Coercive Power in Social Exchange describes the progression and results of a decade-long program of experimental research on power in social exchange relations. Exchange theorists have traditionally excluded punishment and coercion from the scope of their analyses; Molm examines whether exchange theory can be expanded to include both reward and coercive power. Working within the framework of Emerson's power-dependence theory, but also drawing on the decision theory concepts of strategic action and loss aversion, Molm develops and tests a theory of coercion in social exchange that emphasizes the interdependence of these two bases of power. Her work shows that reward power and coercive power are fundamentally different, not only in their effects on behavior but also in the structural incentive to use power and the risks of power use. When exchanges are nonnegotiated and secured by the "shadow of the future", rather than by binding agreements, dependence both encourages and constrains the use of coercion.

Author : Robert L. Burgess,Ted L. Huston
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483261300

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Social Exchange in Developing Relationships by Robert L. Burgess,Ted L. Huston Pdf

Social Exchange in Developing Relationships is a collection of papers that deals with the systematic study of the development of relationships. The papers discuss several theoretical perspectives, such as evolutionary theory, personality theory, cognitive developmental theory, equity theory, role theory, and attribution theory. One paper discusses romantic relationships—the evolution of first acquaintance to close or intimate commitment. Another paper presents the hypothesis that the factors causing a relationship to begin will also probably steer intermediate cognitive processes, eventually influencing the nature of the relationship. Commitment requires specific concepts such as input levels contributed to the relationship, duration of these inputs, and their consistency of occurrence. The equity theory suggests that equity principles determine the selection of one's mate and how they (the partners) will get along in the future. One paper analyzes the dynamic theories of social relationships and the resulting research strategies: that the conceptualization of a parameter of a social relationship can affect the choice of data collection techniques and other matters. Sociologists, psychologists, historians, students, and academicians doing sociological research, can benefit greatly from this collection.

Author : David Willer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313390593

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Network Exchange Theory by David Willer Pdf

The field of network exchange has grown over the last 20 years from a few scattered studies to substantial publications in leading journals. Today network exchange is as advanced as any area of sociology. Willer and his contributors present its most advanced theory, Network Exchange Theory, and, by assembling and supplementing formulations now spread across leading journals, provide scholars with a unique collection. Contributors examine basic issues in theory as well as research. The end product is a well-tested theory which relates social structure to social action under a wide range of conditions, and is proven to be a useful tool for structural analysis at both the micro and macro levels. An important text and guide for researchers and students of social theory, structure, and social psychology.

Author : Sarah Irwin
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415339375

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Reshaping Social Life by Sarah Irwin Pdf

Through analysis of key areas of social life, Irwin breaks with convention and develops a conceptual and analytical perspective of social change, focusing on relationality, context and interdependence.

Author : Peter Michael Blau
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1412838126

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The Organization of Academic Work by Peter Michael Blau Pdf

Author : Linda D. Molm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521562902

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Coercive Power in Social Exchange by Linda D. Molm Pdf

This book describes the progression and results of a decade-long experiment on power in social exchange relations. Exchange theorists have traditionally excluded punishment and coercion from their analyses; but Molm examines whether exchange theory can be expanded to include reward and coercive power. She develops and tests a theory that emphasizes the interdependence of reward and coercive power, finding that they are fundamentally different, not only in their effects on behavior, but also in the incentive and the risks of power use.