ISBN:
9780520908970
,
052090897X
,
1282355422
,
9781282355422
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 219 pages)
Series Statement:
California series on social choice and political economy 11
DDC:
302.3
Keywords:
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Negotiating
;
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Interpersonal Relations
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
;
Social choice
;
Social control
;
Social groups
;
Solidarity
;
Wirtschaft
;
Solidarity
;
Social groups
;
Social choice
;
Social control
;
Soziale Kontrolle
;
Solidarität
;
Gruppenkohäsion
;
Gruppenpsychologie
;
Gruppe
;
Gruppenverhalten
;
Gruppenkohäsion
;
Solidarität
;
Soziale Kontrolle
;
Gruppe
;
Solidarität
;
Gruppenverhalten
;
Gruppenpsychologie
Note:
Cover; Contents; Tables and Figures; Preface; I. Introduction; II. The Problem; III. A Theory of Group Solidarity; IV. The Necessity of Formal Controls; V. Dependence and Party Solidarity; VI. The Production of Formal Controls; VII. The Limits of Compensation in Capitalist Firms; VIII. Economizing on Control Costs in Intentional Communities; IX. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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Social scientists have long recognized that solidarity is essential for such phenomena as social order, class, and ethnic consciousness, and the provision of collective goods. In presenting a new general theory of group solidarity, Michael Hechter here contends that it is indeed possible to build a theory of solidarity based on the action of rational individuals and in doing so he goes beyond the timeworn disciplinary boundaries separating the various social sciences
