George C. Homans
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, George Caspar Homans was an American sociologist, founder of behavioral sociology, the 54th president of the American Sociological Association, and one of the architects of social exchange theory. Homans is best known in science for his research in social behavior and his works The Human Group, Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms, his contributions to exchange theory, and the different propositions he developed to explain social behavior. He is also the third great grandson of the second President of the United States, John Adams.
George C. Homans's Published Works
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Published Works
- Social behavior; its elementary forms (1975) (5658)
- Social Behavior as Exchange (1958) (4041)
- Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms. (1961) (589)
- Social Behaviour, Its Elementary Forms (1962) (516)
- Human Group (1951) (416)
- The Origins Of English Individualism (1978) (372)
- Bringing Men Back In (1964) (291)
- Social behavior: Its elementary forms, Revised ed. (1974) (284)
- The nature of social science (1967) (284)
- English villagers of the thirteenth century (1943) (214)
- Conflict.@@@The Web of Group-Affiliations. (1955) (178)
- ANXIETY AND RITUAL: THE THEORIES OF MALINOWSKI AND RADCLIFFE-BROWN (1941) (126)
- Status among clerical workers. (1953) (105)
- THE CASH POSTERS: A STUDY OF A GROUP OF WORKING GIRLS (1954) (77)
- Kinship Terminology and the American Kinship System (1955) (73)
- Marriage, authority, and final causes : a study of unilateral cross-cousin marriage (1956) (67)
- Sentiments and activities (1962) (66)
- The Strategy of Industrial Sociology (1949) (55)
- The Rural Sociology of Medieval England (1953) (46)
- The Humanities and the Social Sciences (1961) (37)
- Tenure and Mobility: Studies in the Social History of the Mediaeval English Village. (1965) (32)
- THE EXPLANATION OF ENGLISH REGIONAL DIFFERENCES (1969) (29)
- Sentiments and activities : essays in social science (1963) (26)
- The Small Warship (1946) (24)
- Fifty Years of Sociology (1986) (24)
- The Present State of Sociological Theory (1982) (22)
- A Conceptual Scheme for the Study of Social Organization (1947) (21)
- Sentiments and Activities. Essays in Social Science (1963) (21)
- Reflections on the Wildcat Strikes (1947) (19)
- The Frisians in East Anglia (1957) (19)
- Marriage, Authority, and Final Causes, a Study of Unilateral Cross-Cousin Marriage (1957) (18)
- An introduction to Pareto (1934) (15)
- Steps to a theory of social behavior (1983) (14)
- Book Review:Medieval Technology and Social Change. Lynn White, Jr. (1962) (14)
- Coming to my senses (1984) (14)
- The Motivation, Productivity, and Satisfaction of Workers: A Prediction Study.@@@Behavior of Industrial Work Groups: Prediction and Control. (1959) (13)
- Men and the Land in the Middle Ages (1936) (12)
- The Society of Fellows (1959) (11)
- Leadership and productivity : some facts of industrial life (1969) (11)
- Certainties and Doubts: Collected Papers, 1962-1985 (1987) (10)
- Self-Portrait of a Maverick@@@Coming to My Senses: The Autobiography of a Sociologist. (1985) (10)
- The Perspectives of Elton Mayo: Some Corrections (1949) (9)
- A Life of Synthesis (1968) (7)
- The Mind and Society: Treatise on General Sociology.@@@Some Relations Between Political and Economic Theory.@@@An Introduction to Pareto and His Sociology. (1936) (6)
- Schlesinger on Humanism and Empirical Research (1963) (6)
- PARTIBLE INHERITANCE OF VILLAGERS’HOLDINGS. (1937) (6)
- The Puritans and the Clothing Industry in England (1940) (6)
- Reply to Blain (1971) (5)
- GENERAL AND THEORETICAL: Structure and Function in Primitive Society: Essays and Addresses. A. R. Radcliffe‐Brown. With a foreword by E. E. Evans‐Pritchard and F. Eggan. (1954) (5)
- Behavioral theory in sociology : essays in honor of George C. Homans (1978) (5)
- The Sociological Imagination.C. Wright Mills (1960) (5)
- The Dark Angel: The Tragedy of Herman Melville (1932) (4)
- Collective Choice@@@Individual Interests and Collective Action: Selected Essays. (1987) (2)
- Models of Social Organization. Fredrik Barth (1967) (2)
- Rebuttal to Blain (1971) (1)
- Salem Vessels and Their Voyages, Series IV (1930) (1)
- The Saxon Conquest of Somerset and Devon. H. M. Porter (1969) (1)
- Charles I and the Puritan Upheaval: A Study of the Causes of the Great Migration. (1956) (1)
- Beyond Freedom and Dignity.B. F. Skinner (1972) (1)
- GENERAL AND THEORETICAL: Lévi‐Strauss's Theory on KinshiP and Marriage.J. P. B. DE JUSSELIN DE JONG (1955) (1)
- Book Review:Family and Kin in Indo-European Culture. G. S. Ghurye (1958) (1)
- [Framework for the Analysis of Industrial Relations: Two Views]: Comments (1950) (1)
- Book Review:The Dynamics of Bureaucracy: A Study of Interpersonal Relations in Two Government Agencies. Peter M. Blau (1956) (1)
- Mother's Brother in Wikmunkan Society (1962) (1)
- Comments on Coult's “The Structuring of Structure” (1967) (1)
- Nature Versus Nurture: A False Dichotomy@@@On Human Nature (1979) (1)
- Book Review:The Agrarian History of England and Wales A.D. 43-1042. Vol. 1, pt. 2. H. R. P. Finberg (1973) (0)
- Book reviews (1985) (0)
- Book reviews (1985) (0)
- Book reviews (1989) (0)
- The Lost Villages of England. Maurice Beresford (1955) (0)
- CHAPTER XVIII. SERVICES (1941) (0)
- Book reviews (1984) (0)
- Book reviews (1984) (0)
- F. T. Wainwright, Scandinavian England: Collected Papers . Edited by H. P. R. Finberg. Chichester: Phillimore, 1975. Pp. ix, 387; 5 maps. $21.50. (1978) (0)
- Book reviews (1986) (0)
- CHAPTER XII. TROTHPLIGHT AND WEDDING (1941) (0)
- Book reviews (1982) (0)
- CHAPTER XXIII. THE HUSBANDMAN'S YEAR (1941) (0)
- What Can We Learn from the Utilitarian Tradition?@@@Certainties and Doubts: Collected Papers, 1962-1985. (1988) (0)
- Note on References (1941) (0)
- CHAPTER XX. THE HALLMOTE (1941) (0)
- But What is a Leader (1959) (0)
- Open-Field Husbandry and the Village Community: A Study of Agrarian By-laws in Medieval England. Warren O. Ault (1966) (0)
- CHAPTER XV. THE FAMILY IN CHAMPION COUNTRY (1941) (0)
- The Classics and the Contemporarv : A New Blend of Small Group Theory (0)
- CHAPTER XI. THE MARRIAGE OF THE HEIR (1941) (0)
- Book reviews (1984) (0)
- CHAPTER III. THE PLACE OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY (1941) (0)
- Research on Social Changes (1964) (0)
- CHAPTER XVI. AN EXAMPLE (1941) (0)
- Prestige or Status?@@@The Celebration of Heroes: Prestige as a Social Control System. (1980) (0)
- Book reviews (1985) (0)
- Beyond Sherington: The Early History of the Region of Buckinghamshire Lying to the North-East of Newport Pagnell. A. C. Chibnall (1980) (0)
- Alan R. H. Baker, Robin A. Butlin, eds., Studies of Field Systems in the British Isles . Cambridge, England, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1973. Pp. xxvi, 702; 83 text figures. $32.50. (1975) (0)
- Book reviews (1985) (0)
- Letters from readers (1943) (0)
- CHAPTER XXIV. THE PARISH CHURCH (1941) (0)
- Book Review:Constraint and Variety in American Education. David Riesman (1957) (0)
- CHAPTER XXV. THE ANATOMY OF SOCIETY (1941) (0)
- The Mind and Society [Trattato di Sociologia generale, 1916]. Vilfredo Pareto , Arthur Livingston , Andrew Bongiorno , James Harvey Rogers (1936) (0)
- Medieval Cornwall. L. E. Elliott-Binns (1955) (0)
- CHAPTER IV. THE SKILLS OF HUSBANDMEN (1941) (0)
- Sherington: Fiefs and Fields of a Buckinghamshire Village. A. C. Chibnall (1966) (0)
- Society and Homicide in Thirteenth-Century England.James Buchanan Given (1979) (0)
- CHAPTER XIX. TRADESMEN, SERVANTS, AND OFFICERS (1941) (0)
- Theory of Collective Behavior . By Neil J. Smelser. (New York: The Free Press of Glencoe, 1963. Pp. xi, 436. $6.75.) (1963) (0)
- CHAPTER V. THE CHAMPION HUSBANDRY (1941) (0)
- Childhood and Society.@@@The Human Group. (1951) (0)
- Soldier Groups and Negro Soldiers . David G. Mandelbaum. (1953) (0)
- Book Review:Parkinson's Law and Other Studies in Administration. C. Northcote Parkinson (1958) (0)
- Industry and Society.William Foote Whyte (1947) (0)
- Book Review:The Merchant Class of Medieval London: 1300-1500. Sylvia M. Thrupp (1951) (0)
- CHAPTER XVII. THE SORTS AND CONDITIONS OF MEN (1941) (0)
- P. D. A. Harvey, A Medieval Oxfordshire Village, Cuxham, 1240 to 1400 . (Oxford Historical Series, Second Series.) New York; Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1965. Pp. xii, 194; 5 maps (one folded). $4.80; 30 s. net (U.K. only). (1966) (0)
- Book reviews (1983) (0)
- CHAPTER XIII. FREE BENCH, CURTESY, AND WARDSHIP (1941) (0)
- The Open Fields. C. S. Orwin , C. S. Orwin (1955) (0)
- Sex and Power in Simple Societies (1984) (0)
- Skinner Again (1980) (0)
- CHAPTER XIV. ALIENATION (1941) (0)
- CHAPTER XXII. LORD AND MAN (1941) (0)
- Books in review (1987) (0)
- CHAPTER IX. IMPARTIBLE INHERITANCE OF LAND (1941) (0)
- CHAPTER Χ. CHILDREN NOT INHERITING (1941) (0)
- CHAPTER XXI. THE VILLAGE AND THE WORLD BEYOND (1941) (0)
- Books in review (1984) (0)
- CHAPTER VII. VILLAGE PLANS AND PLANNING (1941) (0)
- Review: Social Relations and Morale in Small Groups (1957) (0)
- Contemporary Issues in Theory and Research: A Metasociological Perspective" (Contributions in Sociology, No. 33). William E. Snizek , Ellsworth R. Fuhrman , Michael K. Miller (1980) (0)
- CHAPTER VI. THE HOLDING AND THE COMMON PLOW (1941) (0)
- CHAPTER II. WOODLAND AND CHAMPION (1941) (0)
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