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The field of network exchange has grown over the last 20 years from a few scattered studies to substantial publications in leading journals. Today network exchange is as advanced as any area of sociology. Willer and his contributors present its most advanced theory, Network Exchange Theory, and, by assembling and supplementing formulations now spread across leading journals, provide scholars with a unique collection.
Contributors examine basic issues in theory as well as research. The end product is a well-tested theory which relates social structure to social action under a wide range of conditions, and is proven to be a useful tool for structural analysis at both the micro and macro levels. An important text and guide for researchers and students of social theory, structure, and social psychology.
List of contents
Preface
Network Exchange Theory: Issues and DirectionsActors in RelationsRelations in StructuresPower RelationsPreface
Power Relations in Exchange Networks by Markovsky, Willer and Patton
The Discovery of Weak PowerExclusion and PowerPreface
Exclusion and Power: A Test of Four Theories of Power in Exchange Networks by Skvoretz and Willer
Negotiated ExchangesPreface
Negotiated Exchanges in Social Networks by Lovaglia et al.
An Alternative for Predicting Weak Power by Lovaglia and Willer
Network ConnectionsPreface
Network Connections and Exchange Ratios: Theory, Predictions and Experimental Tests by Willer and Skvoretz
Power and InfluencePreface
Power and Influence: A Theoretical Bridge by Willer, Lovaglia and Markovsky
Status Influence and Status Value by Thye
Recent Problems and Solutions in Network Exchange TheoryPreface
An Automated Approach to the Theoretical Analysis of Difficult Problems by Lovaglia et al.
A New Method for Finding Power Structures by Simpson and Willer
Developing Network Exchange Theory
About the author
DAVID WILLER is Professor of sociology at the University of South Carolina. Among his earlier publications are Theory and the Experimental Investigation of Social Structures (1987) and, edited with Bo Anderson, Networks Exchange and Coercion (1981).
