David Willer

Network Exchange Theory (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313390593
• Artikelnr.: 37842944

Autorenporträt

DAVID WILLER is Professor of sociology at the University of South Carolina. Among his earlier publications are Theory and the Experimental Investigation of Social Structures (1987) and, edited with Bo Anderson, Networks Exchange and Coercion (1981).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Network Exchange Theory: Issues and Directions Actors in Relations
Relations in Structures Power Relations Preface Power Relations in Exchange
Networks by Markovsky, Willer and Patton The Discovery of Weak Power
Exclusion and Power Preface Exclusion and Power: A Test of Four Theories of
Power in Exchange Networks by Skvoretz and Willer Negotiated Exchanges
Preface Negotiated Exchanges in Social Networks by Lovaglia et al. An
Alternative for Predicting Weak Power by Lovaglia and Willer Network
Connections Preface Network Connections and Exchange Ratios: Theory,
Predictions and Experimental Tests by Willer and Skvoretz Power and
Influence Preface Power and Influence: A Theoretical Bridge by Willer,
Lovaglia and Markovsky Status Influence and Status Value by Thye Recent
Problems and Solutions in Network Exchange Theory Preface An Automated
Approach to the Theoretical Analysis of Difficult Problems by Lovaglia et
al. A New Method for Finding Power Structures by Simpson and Willer
Developing Network Exchange Theory