Exchange and Power in Social Life (Hardcover, 2nd edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2017
First published:	1986
Authors:	Peter Blau
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	372
Edition:	2nd edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-52319-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
LSN:	1-138-52319-4
Barcode:	9781138523197

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