1st Edition

Elementary Forms of Social Relations Status, power and reference groups

By Theodore D. Kemper Copyright 2017
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Elementary Forms of Social Relations introduces the reader to social life as a perpetual quest by individuals to gain attention, respect and regard (status) accompanied by an effort to marshal defensive and offensive means (power) to overcome the reluctance of others to grant status. This work is based on empirical evidence from many research settings showing that status and power are the main... Read more

Contents

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Elementary Forms: Status, Power and Reference Groups

Chapter 2: The Minimum Complexity of Social Relations

Chapter 3: G. H. Mead Had Gotten it Half-Right

Chapter 4: After the Dialogical Self, What?

Chapter 5: The Marriage of Cognitive Neuroscience and Sociology: A Dissenting View

Chapter 6: A Nobel? Well, Yes! But Where's the Social?

Chapter 7: Status, Power and Conversational Analysis

Chapter 8: Leaders and Social Relations

Chapter 9: Some Applications of Status-Power and Reference Group Theory

Chapter 10: Concluding Theoretical Considerations

Appendix: A Status-Power Glossary

References

Index

Biography

Theodore D. Kemper is Professor of Sociology (Ret.) at St. John’s University, NY, USA.