Elementary Forms of Social Relations: Status, Power and Reference Groups

ISBN-13: 9781138696518 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 182 str.

Theodore D. Kemper

Opis

Elementary Forms of Social Relations introduces the reader to social life as a perpetual quest by individuals to gain attention, respect and regard (status) accompanied by an effort to marshal defensive and offensive means (power) to overcome the reluctance of others to grant status. This work is based on empirical evidence from many research settings showing that status and power are the main relational modes and that to understand our own and others' social behaviour, we need to understand how status and power operate in relational conduct.

O autorze

Theodore D. Kemper is Professor of Sociology (Ret.) at St. John’s University, NY, USA.