Social structures

Main Author: Martin, John Levi, 1964-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2009.
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10460258
Table of Contents:
  • Preface : from big structures to small
  • Introduction : social action and structures
  • From a small circle of friends to a long line of rivals
  • The preservation of equality through exchange structures
  • The institutionalization of inequality: pecking orders
  • The escape from comparability and the genesis of influence structures
  • The short cut to structure with patronage pyramids
  • The institution of transitivity and the production of command structures
  • From pyramid to party
  • From structures to institutions.