ISBN:
0691127115
,
9780691127118
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 394 p)
,
ill
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Social Structures
DDC:
305
Keywords:
Social networks
;
Social interaction
;
Social structure
;
Social institutions
Abstract:
"Social Structures is a book that examines how structural forms spontaneously arise from social relationships. Offering major insights into the building blocks of social life, it identifies which locally emergent structures have the capacity to grow into larger ones and shows how structural tendencies associated with smaller structures shape and constrain patterns of larger structures. The book then investigates the role such structures have played in the emergence of the modern nation-state."--BOOK JACKET
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface: From Big Structures to Small; Chapter 1. Introduction: Social Action and Structures; Chapter 2. From a Small Circle of Friends to a Long Line of Rivals; Chapter 3. The Preservation of Equality through Exchange Structures; Chapter 4. The Institutionalization of Inequality: Pecking Orders; Chapter 5. The Escape from Comparability and the Genesis of Influence Structures; Chapter 6. The Short Cut to Structure with Patronage Pyramids; Chapter 7. The Institution of Transitivity and the Production of Command Structures; Chapter 8. From Pyramid to Party
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 9. From Structures to InstitutionsReferences; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
