George C. Homans
Subtitle: history, theory, and method
By: edited by A. Javier Treviño ; foreword by Charles Tilly.
Contributors: Treviño, A. Javier, 1958-
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Boulder, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Homans, George Caspar, -- 1910-; Sociology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: Homage to Homans / Charles Tilly; title: Introduction: The sentiments and activities of George C. Homans / A. Javier Treviño; title: The rise of Homans at Harvard : Pareto and the English villagers / Lawrence T. Nichols; title: A medievalist for the twentieth century : George C. Homans and social history / Candice T. Quinn; title: Efficient causes, final causes, and human nature : George C. Homans and social anthropology / Aram A. Yengoyan; title: Elements and identity : Homans as an industrial sociologist / Stephen J. Appold; title: Homans's vision of social exchange / Linda D. Molm; title: Homans and Emerson on power : out of the Skinner box? / Karen S. Cook and Alexandra Gerbasi; title: Exchange, affect, and group relations / Edward J. Lawler; title: Homans and the study of justice / Guillermina Jasso; title: The return of the ghost of utilitarianism : Talcott Parsons and the theory of George C. Homans in the 1960s / Uta Gerhardt; title: Theorizing in sociology : the advocacy of George C. Homans / Jonathan H. Turner; title: Bringing obligations back into human rights : political thought in George Casper Homans / Irving Louis Horowitz; title: George C. Homans's life in poetry / Sue Standing.