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082			_a301.01 _bCOL/F
100			_aColeman, James S.
245		0	_aFoundations of social theory/ _cJames S. Coleman
260			_aCambridge: _bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press, _c1990.
300			_axvi, 993 p. : _bill. ; _c25 cm.
505			_aPreface -- 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.
650			_aSociology--Methodology
942			_cWB16