Social structures /

"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 ten...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Martin, John Levi, 1964-
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2009.
Materias:
Estructura social
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface : from big structures to small
  • Introduction : social action and structures
  • From a small circle of friends to a long line of rivals
  • The preservation of equality through exchange structures
  • The institutionalization of inequality: pecking orders
  • The escape from comparability and the genesis of influence structures
  • The short cut to structure with patronage pyramids
  • The institution of transitivity and the production of command structures
  • From pyramid to party
  • From structures to institutions.

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