Research Catalog

Title

Status, network, and structure : theory development in group processes / edited by Jacek Szmatka, John Skvoretz, and Joseph Berger.

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• Szmatka, Jacek.
• Skvoretz, John.
• Berger, Joseph, 1924-

Description

xvi, 467 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• The overall aim of the book is to provide models for researchers struggling to develop, construct, and integrate coherent sociological theory and knowledge.
• The papers are grouped around three themes: (1) the problem of theory construction in sociology, including what is meant by "theory" and the methods of testing it, particularly empirical testing; (2) the extension and elaboration of existing theories of group processes, notably in the study of status, sentiment, and the comparison process; and (3) the theoretical issues at the intersection of social structures, the pattern of connection in social networks, and the process of rational choice.

Subject

Sociology > Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-457) and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Jacek Szmatka, John Skvoretz and Joseph Berger -- Building and Testing Multilevel Theories / Barry Markovsky -- Theoretical Research Programs: A Reformulation / Joseph Berger and Morris Zelditch, Jr. -- Uses of Computer Simulation for Theory Development: An Evolving Component of Sociological Research Programs / Barbara F. Meeker and Robert K. Leik -- Beyond Experimental Inference: A Decent Burial for J. S. Mill and R. A. Fisher / Bernard P. Cohen -- Testing Elementary Theory for Universality / Jacek Szmatka -- Informal Theory Testing Through Mathematical Analysis / M. Hamit Fisek -- Social Structural Analysis and Status Generalization: The Contributions and Potential of Expectation States Theory / J. David Knottnerus -- Where Do Status Value Beliefs Come From? New Developments / Cecilia L. Ridgeway -- Status, Emotion, and Structural Power / Michael J. Lovaglia -- Status and Sentiment in Task Groups / James E. Driskell and Murray Webster, Jr. --
• Status, Affect, and Multiple Standards for Competence / Martha Foschi -- Operation of Status in the Middle Grades: Recent Complications / Elizabeth G. Cohen and Rachel A. Lotan -- Derivation of Predictions in Comparison Theory: Foundations of the Macromodel Approach / Guillermina Jasso -- Structural Formulations and Elementary Theory / David Willer and Jacek Szmatka -- Power and Dependence in Exchange Networks: A Comment on Structural Measures of Power / Karen S. Cook, Toshio Yamagishi and Shawn Donnelly -- Toward a Formal Theory of Equilibrium in Network Exchange Systems / Tadeusz Sozanski -- Strategy in Exchange Networks: Exploitation versus Accommodation / Philip Bonacich and Elisa Jayne Bienenstock -- Synthesizing Theories of Deviance and Control: With Steps Toward a Dynamic Sociocultural Network Model / Thomas J. Fararo and John Skvoretz -- Affective Attachments to Nested Groups: The Role of Rational Choice Processes / Edward J. Lawler --
• Endorsement of Nonlegitimate Domination: An Application of Experimental Research to Historical Settings / Richard Bell.

ISBN

0804728445 (alk. paper)

LCCN

97002429

OCLC

ocm36225092

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries