Social structures
By: John Levi Martin.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780691127118
Subjects: Social structure; Social networks; Social interaction; Social institutions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface : from big structures to small; title: Introduction : social action and structures; title: From a small circle of friends to a long line of rivals; title: The preservation of equality through exchange structures; title: The institutionalization of inequality: pecking orders; title: The escape from comparability and the genesis of influence structures; title: The short cut to structure with patronage pyramids; title: The institution of transitivity and the production of command structures; title: From pyramid to party; title: From structures to institutions.