Social Exchange in Developing RelationshipsRobert L. Burgess, Ted L. Huston Social Exchange in Developing Relationships is a collection of papers that deals with the systematic study of the development of relationships. The papers discuss several theoretical perspectives, such as evolutionary theory, personality theory, cognitive developmental theory, equity theory, role theory, and attribution theory. One paper discusses romantic relationships—the evolution of first acquaintance to close or intimate commitment. Another paper presents the hypothesis that the factors causing a relationship to begin will also probably steer intermediate cognitive processes, eventually influencing the nature of the relationship. Commitment requires specific concepts such as input levels contributed to the relationship, duration of these inputs, and their consistency of occurrence. The equity theory suggests that equity principles determine the selection of one's mate and how they (the partners) will get along in the future. One paper analyzes the dynamic theories of social relationships and the resulting research strategies: that the conceptualization of a parameter of a social relationship can affect the choice of data collection techniques and other matters. Sociologists, psychologists, historians, students, and academicians doing sociological research, can benefit greatly from this collection. |
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... Foreword by George C. Homans ACADEMIC PRESS New York San Francisco London A Subsidiary of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers CoPYRIGHT © 1979, BY ACADEMIC PRESS, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Social Exchange in Developing Relationships.
... Foreword by George C. Homans ACADEMIC PRESS New York San Francisco London A Subsidiary of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers CoPYRIGHT © 1979, BY ACADEMIC PRESS, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Social Exchange in Developing Relationships.
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... which the general laws apply change, but not the laws themselves. Still,. * G. C. Homans, Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms, revised ed., New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. * Ibid., pp. 229–318. xviii Foreword.
... which the general laws apply change, but not the laws themselves. Still,. * G. C. Homans, Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms, revised ed., New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. * Ibid., pp. 229–318. xviii Foreword.
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... Critically our own personal experience of social behavior, which is the richest source of data that we, as individuals, possess. GEORGE C. HOMANS Harvard University Preface We trust the reader will agree with us that XX Foreword.
... Critically our own personal experience of social behavior, which is the richest source of data that we, as individuals, possess. GEORGE C. HOMANS Harvard University Preface We trust the reader will agree with us that XX Foreword.
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... Homans notes in his Foreword, it is exchange which makes human behavior social. An exchange perspective accepts as fundamental the reciprocal impacts that partners have on one another. Second, by explicitly looking at exchange processes ...
... Homans notes in his Foreword, it is exchange which makes human behavior social. An exchange perspective accepts as fundamental the reciprocal impacts that partners have on one another. Second, by explicitly looking at exchange processes ...
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... Homans in the Foreword, Wiggins in the Epilogue, and the various chapters in Part III deal with the latter. Many of the chapters in this book have grown out of a conference sponsored by the Division of Individual and Family Studies in ...
... Homans in the Foreword, Wiggins in the Epilogue, and the various chapters in Part III deal with the latter. Many of the chapters in this book have grown out of a conference sponsored by the Division of Individual and Family Studies in ...
Contents
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Beyond the Dyad Approaches to Explaining Exchange in Developing Relationships | 195 |
Epilogue | 379 |
Author Index | 409 |
Subject Index | 419 |
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