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Status, Power, and Legitimacy - Strategies & Theories (Paperback)
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Status, Power, and Legitimacy - Strategies & Theories (Paperback)
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Status, Power, and Legitimacy presents methodological, theoretical,
and empirical essays by Joseph Berger and Morris Zelditch, Jr.two
of the leading contributors to the Stanford tradition in the study
of micropro-cesses. This three-part volume brings together major
contributions to the development of this tradition, in addition to
a number of newly written essays published here for the first time.
Berger and Zelditch integrate the essays and relate them to a
larger body of theory and research as they explore the importance
of a generalizing orientation in sociology. Their view of theory as
flux and process, the blending of social process with
theory-building, produces a picture of the social world in line
with the great tradition of George Herbert Mead, Max Weber, and
Georg Simmel. Status, Power, and Legitimacy explores the relation
between the scope of a theory and testing, applying, and developing
it; the relation between abstract, general theories and empirical
generalizations; and how to use an understanding of this relation
to construct theories that are neither historically nor culturally
bound. In the first part, Berger and Zelditch discuss strategies of
theory construction, the development of abstract, general theories
of social processes, and the different ways in which theories grow.
Status processes are the focus of the second part, which includes:
the formation of reward expectations; the role of status cues in
interaction; the evolution of status expectations; and the
application of status characteristics theory to male-female
interaction. Lastly, the authors dissect power and legitimacy: the
effect of expectations on power; the legitimation of power and its
effect on the stability of authority; and legitimation under
conditions of dissensus. This volume is a fine theoretical effort
of great depth and breadth. Berger and Zelditch review the
background of each paper, place the new concepts and principles
introduced by each paper in context and examine subsequent research
generated by the paper. They carve out new research areas in the
social world of class, status, power, and authority. This volume
will be of interest to those in the fields of sociology and, in
particular, social theory.
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