Pendekatan Social Exchange Perspekstif George C. Homans

George C Williams Prize 2015

Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Departments of Biology and Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; Department of Anthropology and Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing, Durham University, Durham, UK and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA *Corresponding author. Center for Infecti...

Reflexivity in Social Systems: the Theories of George Soros

George Soros’s reflexivity theory is quite compatible with second order cybernetics. Indeed his work shows how to apply ideas in second order cybernetics to economics, finance, and political science. This paper briefly reviews three theories of reflexivity in cybernetics. It provides an introduction to Soros’s version of reflexivity theory and reviews applications in economics and finance. Soro...

Power and Social Exchange

This article examines the basic social science concepts of "power" and "social exchange" in order to determine the possibility and desirability of integrating them. It is argued that: (1) all exchange relationships can be described in terms of conventional power concepts without twisting the common-sense notions that underlie such concepts; (2) most-but not necessarily all-power relationships c...

Trust and Social Exchange

Trust is broadly construed as a willingness on the part of individuals to put their wellbeing in the hands of other persons. In survey research it is typically assessed at a societal level by asking questions about “others” in a community, while in experimental research, it most often refers to decisions made in situations involving two persons, where reciprocated trust has the potential to imp...

George Herbert Mead and social reform: his work and writings.