Boissevain, Jeremy (University of Amsterdam): Friends of Friends : Networks, Manipulators and Coalitions. Oxford, Basil Blackwell, (1974). 8° (22x14), xv, 285 p., publisher’s hardbound with jacket, jacket border taped, else tight and clean,

This book is about the way patterns of interpersonal relationships form, are influenced and changed; about the way persons seen as social entrepeneurs seek to manipulate such relationships; and about the coalitions they construct to achieve their ends. The subject matter is thus familiar; the network of friends, relatives and work mates; the visiting, bargaining, gossiping and manoeuvring that goes on between them; the impact of promotion, religion and conflict on social relations; and the operation of neighbourhood and workplace cliques and factions.
The author argues that these familiar situations and processes have not received the scientific attention they deserve because of the prevailing bias in sociological theory. This bias derives partly from the colonial past and partly from entrenched power structures in universities. To counteract this bias Professor Boissevain provides what will probably be judged as the most thorough and persuasive statement of the network theory of social relationships yet to be attempted.–

• Kategorie: Psychologie Soziologie Pädagogik
• Schlagwörter: Psychologie, experimentelle
• Sprache: Englisch (en)
• Schutzumschlag
• Bestellnummer: 61375AB LEX100

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