Social Structures

Name: Social Structures
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ISBN: 9780691150123

ISBN-10: 0691150125

ISBN-13: 9780691150123

Edition: 2009

Authors: John Levi Martin

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Social Structuresis 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 tendencies associated with smaller structures shape and constrain patterns of larger structures. The book then investigates the role such structures have played in the emergence of the modern nation-state.Bringing together the latest findings in sociology, anthropology, political science, and history, John Levi Martin traces how sets of interpersonal relationships become ordered in different ways to form…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/5/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.13" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.298



Acknowledgments


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


References


Index