Research Catalog

Title

Structures of power and constraint : papers in honor of Peter M. Blau / edited by Craig Calhoun, Marshall W. Meyer, W. Richard Scott.

Publication

Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1990.

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Additional Authors

• Blau, Peter M., 1918-2002.
• Calhoun, Craig J., 1952-
• Meyer, Marshall W.
• Scott, W. Richard.

Description

x, 495 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Are social structures products of human action, expressions of individual or group power? Or are they essentially external constraints on human action, necessarily analyzed at a different level? How are themes of power and constraint to be joined in a common analytic approach? These have long been central questions for sociologists. since the collapse of functionalism as a unifying paradigm, however they have often appeared as the basis for sharp divisions between competing analytic paradigms. The divide between structuralism and rational-choice theory has been one of the most prominent such splits. Yet each approach has undergone a revival in past years. The editors of this book, in honour of Peter Blau, brought together a wide range of distinguished sociologists who have taken positions on different sides of this issue and brings them into focus as parts of a common discourse on the place of social structure and concepts of strategic action in sociological explanation.

Subject

• Blau, Peter M., 1918-2002
• Blau, Peter M., 1918-2002
• Blau, Peter Michael 1918-2002
• Blau, Peter Michael
• Social structure
• Power (Social sciences)
• social structure
• Bibliografie
• Bürokratie
• Soziale Ungleichheit
• Sozialer Wandel
• Soziales System
• Soziologie
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Sociale structuur
• Sociale netwerken

Bibliography (note)

• "Bibliography of the Writings of Peter M. Blau": p. 477-481.
• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Introduction : Peter Blau's sociological structuralism / Craig Calhoun and W. Richard Scott -- Epistolary notes on the making of a sociological dissertation classic : The dynamics of bureaucracy / Robert K. Merton -- Exchange, power, and inequality : introduction to part I / Craig Calhoun -- Rational-choice theory and behavioral psychology / George C. Homans -- Rational action, social networks, and the emergence of norms / James S. Coleman -- Linking actors and structures : an exchange network perspective / Karen Cook -- Models of social and market exchange : toward a sociological theory of games and social behavior / Tom R. Burns -- Family and birth-order effects on educational attainment / Otis Dudley Duncan -- Formal organization : introduction to part II / W. Richard Scott -- The Weberian tradition in organizational research / Marshall W. Meyer.
• Structural inconsistency and management strategy in organizations / Stanley H. Udy, Jr. -- Organizational demography and structural change in the Roman Catholic Church / Richard Schoenherr and Lawrence A. Young -- The technocratic organization of academic work / Wolf Heydebrand -- The organizational and structural context of employee assistance programs / Terry C. Blum -- Inequality and heterogeneity : introduction to part III / Marshall W. Meyer -- Penetrating differentiation : linking macro and micro phenomena / Joseph E. Schwartz -- Social structure and intermarriage : a reanalysis / John Skvoretz -- Network diversity, substructures, and opportunities for contact / Peter V. Marsden -- Kinds of relations in American discussion networks / Ronald S. Burt -- Social control and social networks : a model from Georg Simmel / Ronald L. Breiger.

ISBN

• 0521365988
• 9780521365987

LCCN

90001504

OCLC

• ocm21116809
• 21116809
• SCSB-1931796

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library