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STRUCTURAL CONTEXTS OF OPPORTUNITIES
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| By: |
Peter M. Blau |
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Hardback |
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£31.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0226057291 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780226057293 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 August, 1994 |
| Edition: |
2nd |
| Pages: |
244 |
| Description: |
This volume brings together Blau's concerns to form a wide-ranging theory of population structures and their influence on social life - from opportunities in job choice and social mobility, to organizational participation and intergroup relations. |
| Synopsis: |
This volume brings together Blau's concerns to form a wide-ranging theory of population structures and their influence on social life - from opportunities in job choice and social mobility, to organizational participation and intergroup relations. Blau begins by outlining the influences of population structures on intergroup relations and then examining the implications these influences have on occupational opportunities. He looks at the many groups within which an individual is likely to socialize - family, ethnic group, socioeconomic class - and the distance away from these groups an individual is likely to move. Blau demonstrates how such factors affect social mobility, which, in turn, influences membership and structures several types of organizations. Blau then moves on to interpersonal relationships and analyzes the social exchanges in them that reveal the ultimate effects of ethnic, socioeconomic and other aspects of population structures. He defines two types of power: influence in direct interpersonal exchange and large-scale domination (economic or political) of groups without personal contact.Finally, Blau explores recent historical changes in population structure in the United States and other developed countries, concluding with an analysis of the recent downturn in the US economy and the consequent decline in opportunities. |
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3 tables |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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