Social Structures / / John Levi Martin.
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 tendencie...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (408 p.) :; 3 halftones. 47 line illus. 2 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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
- Chapter 9. From Structures to Institutions
- References
- Index