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Foundations of social theory
James S. Coleman
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Frontmatter
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Preface (page xv)
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1. Metatheory: Explanation in Social Science (page 1)
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Part I: Elementary Actions and Relations
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2. Actors and Resources, Interest and Control (page 27)
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3. Rights to Act (page 45)
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4. Authority Relations (page 65)
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5. Relations of Trust (page 91)
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Part II: Structures of Action
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6. Systems of Social Exchange (page 119)
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7. From Authority Relations to Authority Systems (page 145)
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8. Systems of Trust and Their Dynamic Properties (page 175)
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9. Collective Behavior (page 197)
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10. The Demand for Effective Norms (page 241)
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11. The Realization of Effective Norms (page 266)
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12. Social Capital (page 300)
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Part III: Corporate Action
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13. Constitutions and the Construction of Corporate Actors (page 325)
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14. The Problem of Social Choice (page 371)
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15. From Individual Choice to Social Choice (page 397)
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16. The Corporate Actor as a System of Action (page 421)
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17. Rights and Corporate Actors (page 451)
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18. Revoking Authority (page 466)
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19. The Self (page 503)
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Part IV: Modern Society
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20. Natural Persons and the New Corporate Actors (page 531)
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21. Responsibility of Corporate Actors (page 553)
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22. New Generations in the New Social Structure (page 579)
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23. The Relation of Sociology to Social Action in the New Social Structure (page 610)
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24. The New Social Structure and the New Social Science (page 650)
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Part V: The Mathematics of Social Action
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25. The Linear System of Action (page 667)
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26. Empirical Applications (page 701)
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27. Extensions of the Theory (page 719)
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28. Trust in a Linear System of Action (page 747)
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29. Power, the Micro-to-Macro Transition, and Interpersonal Comparison of Utility (page 769)
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30. Externalities and Norms in a Linear System of Action (page 785)
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31. Indivisible Events, Corporate Actors, and Collective Decisions (page 829)
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32. Dynamics of the Linear System of Action (page 874)
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33. Unstable and Transient Systems of Action (page 899)
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34. The Internal Structure of Actors (page 932)
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References (page 951)
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Name Index (page 973)
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Subject Index (page 979)
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Published: 1994
Publisher: Harvard University Press
- 9780674312265 (paper)
- 9780674312258 (hardcover)