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Coleman, James S.

Foundations of social theory/ James S. Coleman - Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1990. - xvi, 993 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Preface --
Metatheory: exploration in social science --
PART I: ELEMENTARY ACTIONS AND RELATIONS: Actors and resources, interest and control --
Rights to act --
Authority relations --
Relations of trust --
PART II: STRUCTURES OF ACTION: Systems of social exchange --
From authority relations to authority systems --
Systems of trust and their dynamic properties --
Collective behavior --The demand of effective norms --
The realization of effective norms --
Social capital --
PART III: CORPORATE ACTION: Constitutions and the construction of corporate actors --
The problem of social choice --
From individual choice to social choice --
The corporate actor as a system of action --
Rights and corporate actors --
Revoking authority --
The self --
PART IV: MODERN SOCIETY: Natural persons and the new corporate actors --
Responsibility of corporate actors --
New generations in the new social structure --
The relation of sociology to social action in the new social structure --
The new social structure and the new social science --
PART V: THE MATHEMATICS OF SOCIAL ACTION: The linear system of action --
Empirical applications --
Extensions of the theory --
Trust in a linear system of action --
Power, the micro-to-macro transition, and interpersonal comparison of utility --
Externalities and norms in a linear system of action --
Individual events, corporate actors, and collective decisions --
Dynamics of the linear system of action --
Unstable and transient systems of action --
The internal structure of actors.

ISBN: 9780674312258 0674312260

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sociology--Methodology

Dewey Class. No.: 301.01 / COL/F