Coercive Power in Social Exchange
Title | Coercive Power in Social Exchange PDF eBook |
Author | Linda D. Molm |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1997-01-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780521562904 |
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.
Power and Interdependence in Organizations
Title | Power and Interdependence in Organizations PDF eBook |
Author | Dean Tjosvold |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 393 |
Release | 2009-02-26 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0521878594 |
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.
Network Exchange Theory
Title | Network Exchange Theory PDF eBook |
Author | David Willer |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 1999-10-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0313390592 |
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.
Exchange and Power in Social Life
Title | Exchange and Power in Social Life PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Blau |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 591 |
Release | 2017-09-29 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1351521195 |
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.
Power in Close Relationships
Title | Power in Close Relationships PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher R. Agnew |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2019-02-28 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1107192617 |
An outline of how power, an inherent feature of social interactions, operates and affects close relationships.
Handbook of Social Theory
Title | Handbook of Social Theory PDF eBook |
Author | George Ritzer |
Publisher | SAGE |
Pages | 570 |
Release | 2003-07-26 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780761941873 |
The Handbook of Social Theory presents an authoritative and panoramic critical survey of the development, achievement and prospects of social theory.
Handbook of Social Psychology
Title | Handbook of Social Psychology PDF eBook |
Author | John DeLamater |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 570 |
Release | 2006-11-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 038736921X |
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.