Identity and control : a structural theory of social action / Harrison C. White
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- White, Harrison C
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- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1992
- xix, 423 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- 0691043043
- 069100398X
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- Princeton paperbacks.
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- List of Figures Preface 1 Introduction to Identity and Control 3 Identities from Contingencies 5 Control and Decoupling 9 Scope and Terms of Social Organization 14 2 Disciplines 22 Pecking Orders 23 Three Species from Valuation Orderings 28 Embedding and Variations 32 Interfaces 38 Arenas 48 Councils 54 Catnets for Black Hole in Index Space 60 3 Network and Stories 65 Ties and Stories 66 Tracings of Social Space 70 Network as Population 78 Types of Tie 84 Blockmodels of Structural Equivalence 93 Ambiguity versus Ambage 102 4 Institutions 116 Village Caste and University Science 118 Boundaries 126 Values 136 Corporatism 142 Clientelism 150 Norman Feudalism 156 Positions across Role Frames 160 5 Styles and Person 166 Styles 167 Profiles 177 Entourages 191 Persons 196 Careers 212 Professionalism and Regimes 222 6 Getting Action 230 Further Control in Time 232 Hieratic Styles 237 Agenda for Agency 245 Getting Action 254 Dual Hierarchy and Servile Elite 267 General Management 273 Annealing 281 7 Rhetoric and Theory 287 Rhetorics and Systems 288 Rationality 297 History and Natural Science as Guides 303 Identity and Control 312 Appendix 1: One Hundred Topics 317 Conjectures 1-27 317 Speculations 1-19 321 Questions 1-54 323 Appendix 2: Some Models 328 A Disciplines and Networks 328 B Space-Times 337 C Persons as Kalman Filters 346 Appendix 3: List of Software 350 Works Cited 351 Index 415
- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Social structure, Social interaction, Social institutions, Social networks, Social control.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-413) and index.
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