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Foundations of social theory / James S. Coleman.

By: Coleman, James S.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c1990Description: xvi, 993 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0674312260 (pbk).Subject(s): Sociology -- MethodologyDDC classification: 301.01
Contents:
Preface - 1. Metatheory: Explanation in Social Science -- Part I / Elementary Actions and relations - 2. Actors and resources, interest and control - 3. Rights to Act - 4. Authority relations - 5. Relations of Trust -- Part II / Structures of Action - 6. Systems of Social Exchange - 7. From authority relations to authority systems - 8. Systems of Trust and their Dynamic properties - 9. Collective behavior - 10. The demand for effective norms - 11. The realization of effective norms - 12. Social Capital -- Part III Corporate Action - 13. Constitutions and the construction of Corporate Actors - 14. The problem of social choice - 15. From individual choice to social choice - 16. The corporate actor as a system of action - 17. Rights and corporate actors - 18. Revoking authority - 19. The self -- Part IV Modern Society - 20. Natural persons and the New Corporate Actors - 21. Responsibility of Corporate Actors - 22. New generations in the new social structure - 23. The relation of sociology to social action in the new social structure - 24. The new social structure and the new social science -- Part V The mathematics of social action - 25. The Linear system of action - 26. Empirical applications - 27. Extensions of the theory - 28. Trust in a linear system of action - 29. Power, the micro-to-marco transition and interpersonal comparison of utility - 30. Externalities and norms in a Linear system of action - 31. Indivisible events, coporate actors and collective decisions - 32. Dynamics of the Linear system of action - 33. Unstable and transient systems of action - 34. The internal structure of actors - References - Name index - Subject index.
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Includes bibliographies and index

Preface - 1. Metatheory: Explanation in Social Science -- Part I / Elementary Actions and relations - 2. Actors and resources, interest and control - 3. Rights to Act - 4. Authority relations - 5. Relations of Trust -- Part II / Structures of Action - 6. Systems of Social Exchange - 7. From authority relations to authority systems - 8. Systems of Trust and their Dynamic properties - 9. Collective behavior - 10. The demand for effective norms - 11. The realization of effective norms - 12. Social Capital -- Part III Corporate Action - 13. Constitutions and the construction of Corporate Actors - 14. The problem of social choice - 15. From individual choice to social choice - 16. The corporate actor as a system of action - 17. Rights and corporate actors - 18. Revoking authority - 19. The self -- Part IV Modern Society - 20. Natural persons and the New Corporate Actors - 21. Responsibility of Corporate Actors - 22. New generations in the new social structure - 23. The relation of sociology to social action in the new social structure - 24. The new social structure and the new social science -- Part V The mathematics of social action - 25. The Linear system of action - 26. Empirical applications - 27. Extensions of the theory - 28. Trust in a linear system of action - 29. Power, the micro-to-marco transition and interpersonal comparison of utility - 30. Externalities and norms in a Linear system of action - 31. Indivisible events, coporate actors and collective decisions - 32. Dynamics of the Linear system of action - 33. Unstable and transient systems of action - 34. The internal structure of actors - References - Name index - Subject index.