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Author : John R. French, Jr.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780829034271
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (342 download)
Download or read book A Formal Theory of Social Power written by John R. French, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 1993-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dorwin Editor Cartwright
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781014035745
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Studies in Social Power written by Dorwin Editor Cartwright and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Noah E. Friedkin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113949905X
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Social Influence Network Theory written by Noah E. Friedkin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social influence network theory presents a mathematical formalization of the social process of attitude changes that unfolds in a social network of interpersonal influences. This book brings the theory to bear on lines of research in the domain of small group dynamics concerned with changes of group members' positions on an issue, including the formation of consensus and of settled disagreement, via endogenous interpersonal influences, in which group members are responding to the displayed positions of the members of the group. Social influence network theory advances a dynamic social cognition mechanism, in which individuals are weighing and combining their own and others' positions on an issue in the revision of their own positions. The influence network construct of the theory is the social structure of the endogenous interpersonal influences that are involved in this mechanism. With this theory, the authors seek to lay the foundation for a better formal integration of classical and current lines of work on small groups in psychological and sociological social psychology.
Author : Mark Haugaard
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719057298
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Power: A Reader written by Mark Haugaard and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annotated reader is an introductory guide to some of the most significant perspectives on the subject of power within social and political theory. Containing extracts from such leading contemporary thinkers as Giddens, Lukes, and Bourdieu, alongside recent conceptions of power from important 20th century figures including Weber, Arendt, and Foucault, this book is intended as an introductory text for students encountering the subject for the first time.
Author : Mengbin Ye
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030106063
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Opinion Dynamics and the Evolution of Social Power in Social Networks written by Mengbin Ye and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses rigorous mathematical analysis to advance opinion dynamics models for social networks in three major directions. First, a novel model is proposed to capture how a discrepancy between an individual’s private and expressed opinions can develop due to social pressures that arise in group situations or through extremists deliberately shaping public opinion. Detailed theoretical analysis of the final opinion distribution is followed by use of the model to study Asch’s seminal experiments on conformity, and the phenomenon of pluralistic ignorance. Second, the DeGroot-Friedkin model for evolution of an individual’s social power (self-confidence) is developed in a number of directions. The key result establishes that an individual’s initial social power is forgotten exponentially fast, even when the network changes over time; eventually, an individual’s social power depends only on the (changing) network structure. Last, a model for the simultaneous discussion of multiple logically interdependent topics is proposed. To ensure that a consensus across the opinions of all individuals is achieved, it turns out that the interpersonal interactions must be weaker than an individual’s introspective cognitive process for establishing logical consistency among the topics. Otherwise, the individual may experience cognitive overload and the opinion system becomes unstable. Conclusions of interest to control engineers, social scientists, and researchers from other relevant disciplines are discussed throughout the thesis with support from both social science and control literature.
Author : Wynn C. Stirling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107165164
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Theory of Social Choice on Networks written by Wynn C. Stirling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly original book challenges social choice theory by arguing for the importance of dynamic preferences and context in understanding important social phenomena.
Author : Stanley Wasserman
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780803943032
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Advances in Social Network Analysis written by Stanley Wasserman and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1994-08-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social network analysis, a method for analyzing relationships between social entities, has expanded over the last decade as new research has been done in this area. How can these new developments be applied effectively in the behavioral and social sciences disciplines? In Advances in Social Network Analysis, a team of leading methodologists in network analysis addresses this issue. They explore such topics as ways to specify the network contents to be studied, how to select the method for representing network structures, how social network analysis has been used to study interorganizational relations via the resource dependence model, how to use a contact matrix for studying the spread of disease in epidemiology, and how cohesion and structural equivalence network theories relate to studying social influence. It also offers statistical models for social support networks. Advances in Social Network Analysis is useful for researchers involved in general research methods and qualitative methods, and who are interested in psychology and sociology.
Author : Rafael Wittek
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804785503
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research written by Rafael Wittek and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-05 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research offers the first comprehensive overview of how the rational choice paradigm can inform empirical research within the social sciences. This landmark collection highlights successful empirical applications across a broad array of disciplines, including sociology, political science, economics, history, and psychology. Taking on issues ranging from financial markets and terrorism to immigration, race relations, and emotions, and a huge variety of other phenomena, rational choice proves a useful tool for theory- driven social research. Each chapter uses a rational choice framework to elaborate on testable hypotheses and then apply this to empirical research, including experimental research, survey studies, ethnographies, and historical investigations. Useful to students and scholars across the social sciences, this handbook will reinvigorate discussions about the utility and versatility of the rational choice approach, its key assumptions, and tools.
Author : Samuel Leinhardt
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483267369
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Social Networks written by Samuel Leinhardt and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Networks: A Developing Paradigm contains studies of the nature and impact of social structure on behavior. It draws together readings from a variety of social science areas that share the basic premise that structure in social relationships can be fruitfully operationalized in terms of networks. It attempts to bring together classic works that opened new research areas and works that contain important statements of perspective, method, or empirical findings. The book is organized into four parts. Part I focuses on the cognitive organization of social relations and the effects of local social structure on individuals. In Part II the authors consider networks of ties in large social agglomerations, and treat a variety of different types of social relationships. The emphasis here is on empirical studies. Specific extant social networks are investigated to test a variety of structural hypotheses. Part III contains studies that address issues more common among social anthropologists than sociologists or social psychologists. The chapters in Part IV, while occasionally containing applications, are primarily methodological. These discuss mathematical and statistical ideas for modeling and analyzing social networks.
Author : Wenzel Matiaske
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443848859
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Social Capital in Organizations written by Wenzel Matiaske and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As recently as one generation ago, the term organization was synonymous with stasis, reliability, hierarchy and disciplined productivity. The new guiding principles of management practise, meanwhile, are dynamism, flexibility, teams and emancipated interactivity. The new key term “network” has summed up these contemporary organizational trends. This study suggests the interpretation of networks as social capital of individuals and organizations. This understanding requires a theoretical and methodological refocusing on the actions of the organization’s members. The present study places a variant of action theory – socioeconomic exchange theory – centre stage, fuses this theory with the toolkit of social network analysis and puts the resulting synthesis to the test by examining cooperation among equal members of an organization.
Author : Tamer Başar
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030046303
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Uncertainty in Complex Networked Systems written by Tamer Başar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters in this volume, and the volume itself, celebrate the life and research of Roberto Tempo, a leader in the study of complex networked systems, their analysis and control under uncertainty, and robust designs. Contributors include authorities on uncertainty in systems, robustness, networked and network systems, social networks, distributed and randomized algorithms, and multi-agent systems—all fields that Roberto Tempo made vital contributions to. Additionally, at least one author of each chapter was a research collaborator of Roberto Tempo’s. This volume is structured in three parts. The first covers robustness and includes topics like time-invariant uncertainties, robust static output feedback design, and the uncertainty quartet. The second part is focused on randomization and probabilistic methods, which covers topics such as compressive sensing, and stochastic optimization. Finally, the third part deals with distributed systems and algorithms, and explores matters involving mathematical sociology, fault diagnoses, and PageRank computation. Each chapter presents exposition, provides new results, and identifies fruitful future directions in research. This book will serve as a valuable reference volume to researchers interested in uncertainty, complexity, robustness, optimization, algorithms, and networked systems.
Author : Ruth Zimmerling
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402029942
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Influence and Power written by Ruth Zimmerling and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-28 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some years ago, on request of the German Political Science Association (DVPW), an empirical investigation „On the state and the orientation of political science in the Federal Republic of Germany“ was conducted by Carl Böhret. Among other interesting 1 information, in the paper that was subsequently published the author presented the results of a survey among 254 political scientists in the Federal Republic on what they considered to be the sine qua non basic concepts of the discipline. In various respects, the data are remarkable. 2 On the one hand, the enormous diversity of the answers corroborates statistically what has long been known from experience, i. e. , the existence of an extremely wide variety of standpoints, perspectives, and approaches within the discipline. An interesting case in point is the concept of power. Somewhat surprisingly, ‘power’ was not the most frequently mentioned term. But, it did, of course, end up at the very top of the list, in third place behind ‘conflict’ and ‘interest’. What is noteworthy is that it gained this position by being named only 81 times, that is, by less than a third of the respondents. This is no insignificant detail. Certainly, to that minority of scholars whose conceptions of politics do include ‘power’ as an indispensable basic concept, the approaches of the vast majority of their colleagues for whom, as their answers in the survey reveal, ‘power’ does not play an eminent role must appear, in an 3 important sense, mistaken or perhaps even incomprehensible.
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Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 9780080567167
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Advances in Experimental Social Psychology written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1966-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
Author : Vincent Buskens
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110647613
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Advances in the Sociology of Trust and Cooperation written by Vincent Buskens and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of cooperation is one of the core issues in sociology and social science more in general. The key question is how humans, groups, organizations, institutions, and countries can avoid or overcome the collective good dilemmas that could lead to a Hobbesian "war of all against all". The chapters in this book provide state of the art examples of research on this crucial topic. These include theoretical, laboratory, and field studies on trust and cooperation, thereby approaching the issue in three complementary and synergetic ways. The theoretical work covers articles on trust and control, reputation formation, and paradigmatic articles on the benefits and caveats of abstracting reality into models. The laboratory studies test the implications of different models of trust and reputation, such as the effects of social and institutional embeddedness and the potentially emerging inequalities this may cause. The field studies test these implications in applied settings such as business purchasing and supply, informal care, and different kinds of collaboration networks. This book is exemplary for rigorous social science. The focus is on effects of social conditions, in particular different forms of social and institutional embeddedness, on social outcomes at the macro level. Modelling efforts are applied to connect social conditions to social outcomes through micro-level behavior in ways that are easily overlooked when argumentation is intuitive and impressionistic. The book sets forth a mixed-method approach by applying different empirical methods to test hypotheses about similar questions. Several contributions re-evaluate the theoretical strengths and weaknesses following from the laboratory and field studies. Improving the theory in light of these findings facilitates pushing the boundaries of social science .
Author : James March
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135965420
Total Pages : 1269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Organizations (RLE: Organizations) written by James March and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 1269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts the state of organizational research and theory during the 1960s. A compendium of results, references, concepts ideas and theories, this Handbook will be of interest to both academics in organizational theory and managers facing operating problems of organizations.
Author : Peter J. Burke
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503605620
Total Pages : 757 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Social Psychological Theories written by Peter J. Burke and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text, first published in 2006, presents the most important and influential social psychological theories and research programs in contemporary sociology. Original chapters by the scholars who initiated and developed these theoretical perspectives provide full descriptions of each theory and its background, development, and future. This second edition has been revised and updated to reflect developments within each theory, and in the field of social psychology more broadly. The opening chapters of Contemporary Social Psychological Theories cover general approaches, organized around fundamental principles and issues: symbolic interaction, social exchange, and distributive justice. Following chapters focus on specific research programs and theories, examining identity, affect, comparison processes, power and dependence, status construction, and legitimacy. A new, original piece examines the state and trajectory of social network theory. A mainstay in teaching social psychology, this revised and updated edition offers a valuable survey of the field.
Author : David Willer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313390592
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Network Exchange Theory written by David Willer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-10-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of network exchange has grown over the last 20 years from a few scattered studies to substantial publications in leading journals. Today network exchange is as advanced as any area of sociology. Willer and his contributors present its most advanced theory, Network Exchange Theory, and, by assembling and supplementing formulations now spread across leading journals, provide scholars with a unique collection. Contributors examine basic issues in theory as well as research. The end product is a well-tested theory which relates social structure to social action under a wide range of conditions, and is proven to be a useful tool for structural analysis at both the micro and macro levels. An important text and guide for researchers and students of social theory, structure, and social psychology.
