388 Pages
by
Routledge
388 Pages
by
Routledge
372 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction; One: The Structure of Social Associations; Two: Social Integration; Three: Social Support; Four: Social Exchange; Five: Differentiation of Power; Six: Expectations; Seven: The Dynamics of Change and Adjustment in Groups; Eight: Legitimation and Organization; Nine: Opposition; Ten: Mediating Values in Complex Structures; Eleven: The Dynamics of Substructures; Twelve: Dialectical Forces
Biography
Blau, Peter
