Exchange and Power in Social Life - Hardcover

Blau, Peter M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471080306 ISBN 13: 9780471080305

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York, 1964

Synopsis

In this landmark study, originally published in 1964, Peter Blau considers a basic question: How does social life become organized into increasingly complex structures of associations among humans?

"Blau's analysis represents a very important advance in the application of exchange analysis to social structure and behavior."
- S. N. Eisenstadt, The American Journal of Sociology

About this title

About the Author:

Peter M. Blau is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Before that, he was Quetelet Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. Among his many publications are The Organization of Academic Work and Exchange and Power in Social Life, both published by Transaction in paperback.

Review:

"Blau's analysis represents a very important advance in the application of exchange analysis to social structure and behavior."

—S. N. Eisenstadt, The American Journal of Sociology

"A vast quarry of a book from which other writers will be able to extract ore—and fossils too—for some time.... The style is outstandingly clear and incisive; both abstract general terms and vivid anecdotes are made to serve (he argument."

— Alisdair Maclntyre, Sociology

"The book is brilliant,"

—Robert Bierstedt, American Sociological Review

"This book is exciting.... Blau makes a significant and successful attempt to identify some components, to state their general properties, and then to indicate how more complex social structures can be built from them."

— Alfred Kuhn, Science

"Blau has made an extremely important contribution to the theory of small group behavior."

—John Power, The Australian Journal of Politics and History

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York
• Publication date: 1964
• ISBN 10: 0471080306
• ISBN 13: 9780471080305
• Binding: Hardcover