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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... Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 HARRIET B. BRAIKER (135), The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California 90406 ROBERT L. BURGESS (3), College of Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University ...
... Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 HARRIET B. BRAIKER (135), The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California 90406 ROBERT L. BURGESS (3), College of Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University ...
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... Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024 DOUGLAS C. KIMMEL (351), Department of Psychology, City College, City University of New York, New York, New York 10031 RICHARD M. LERNER (271), College of ...
... Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024 DOUGLAS C. KIMMEL (351), Department of Psychology, City College, City University of New York, New York, New York 10031 RICHARD M. LERNER (271), College of ...
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... Social Exchange.” Another feature I deplore in the current intellectual climate of psychology is the habit of drawing a sharp line between “behavioral” and “cognitive” psychology, as if they were contrasting or even competing ...
... Social Exchange.” Another feature I deplore in the current intellectual climate of psychology is the habit of drawing a sharp line between “behavioral” and “cognitive” psychology, as if they were contrasting or even competing ...
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... social scientists. The behavioral psychology, including the social psychology, of mankind is an experimental science, but it certainly cannot be just an experimental science. For one thing, we cannot experimentally manipulate the ...
... social scientists. The behavioral psychology, including the social psychology, of mankind is an experimental science, but it certainly cannot be just an experimental science. For one thing, we cannot experimentally manipulate the ...
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... social philosophers as Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Marx, all of whom believed that there is no inherent incompatibility between individual and social ... psychology or to the social system. The interpersonal structures of ...
... social philosophers as Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Marx, all of whom believed that there is no inherent incompatibility between individual and social ... psychology or to the social system. The interpersonal structures of ...
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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