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Peter Blau

Sociology

#20

World Rank

#38

Historical Rank

#13

USA Rank

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PhD Sociology Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, Peter Michael Blau was an American sociologist and theorist. Born in Vienna, Austria, he immigrated to the United States in 1939. He completed his PhD doctoral thesis with Robert K. Merton at Columbia University in 1952, laying an early theory for the dynamics of bureaucracy. The next year, he was offered a professorship at the University of Chicago, where he taught from 1953 to 1970. He also taught as Pitt Professor at Cambridge University in Great Britain, as a senior fellow at King's College, and as a Distinguished Honorary professor at Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences which he helped to establish. In 1970 he returned to Columbia University, where he was awarded the lifetime position of Professor Emeritus. From 1988 to 2000 he taught as the Robert Broughton Distinguished Research Professor at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in the same department as his wife, Judith Blau, while continuing to commute to New York to meet with graduate students and colleagues.

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Peter Blau's Published Works

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Published Papers

Exchange and Power in Social Life (1964) (17046)
The American Occupational Structure (1967) (4821)
Inequality and Heterogeneity: A Primitive Theory of Social Structure (1978) (2534)
The Cost of Inequality: Metropolitan Structure and Violent Crime (1982) (1388)
A FORMAL THEORY OF DIFFERENTIATION IN ORGANIZATIONS (1970) (1180)
The Structure of Organizations. (1971) (1080)
The Dynamics Of Bureaucracy (1955) (976)
Formal Organizations: A Comparative Approach (1962) (859)
A Macrosociological Theory of Social Structure (1977) (733)
Justice in Social Exchange (1964) (593)
Crosscutting Social Circles: Testing a Macrostructural Theory of Intergroup Relations (1984) (585)
HETEROGENEITY AND INTERMARRIAGE (1982) (465)
Bureaucracy in Modern Society (1971) (460)
Structural Contexts of Opportunities (1994) (431)
Technology and Organization in Manufacturing (1976) (384)
The Dynamics of Bureaucracy: A Study of Interpersonal Relations in Two Government Agencies. (1956) (325)
The Hierarchy of Authority in Organizations (1968) (290)
Occupational Choice: A Conceptual Framework (1956) (279)
On The Nature Of Organizations (1974) (241)
Intersecting Social Affiliations and Intermarriage (1984) (234)
A Theory of Social Integration (1960) (228)
Presidential Address: Parameters of Social Structure (1974) (207)
Social Mobility and Interpersonal Relations (1956) (200)
Interdependence and hierarchy in organizations (1972) (195)
Critical Remarks on Weber's Theory of Authority (1963) (180)
Approaches to the Study of Social Structure (1976) (171)
THE STRUCTURE OF SMALL BUREAUCRACIES (1966) (168)
Formal Organizations: A Comparative Approach. (1962) (155)
Metropolitan Structure and Criminal Violence (1986) (111)
Orientation Toward Clients in a Public Welfare Agency (1960) (88)
The Comparative Study of Organizations (1965) (83)
Formal Organization: Dimensions of Analysis (1957) (78)
Interpersonal Choice and Networks in China (1991) (75)
Co-operation and Competition in a Bureaucracy (1954) (66)
A Research Replication. The Reputations of American Professional Schools. (1974) (62)
Patterns of Deviation in Work Groups (1960) (57)
Inequality and Intermarriage: A Paradox of Motive and Constraint (1988) (56)
Inequality of Opportunity in Urban China and America (1990) (47)
Patterns of Choice in Interpersonal Relations (1962) (45)
Continuities in structural inquiry (1984) (44)
Social Inequality and the Arts (1985) (41)
How the Soviet System Works: Cultural, Psychological, and Social Themes. (1957) (35)
Patterns of Interaction Among a Group of Officials in a Government Agency (1954) (34)
The Peeking Order of the Elite: America's Leading Professional Schools (1973) (33)
Multilevel structural analysis (1993) (30)
Models of the Life Course@@@The American Occupational Structure (1992) (27)
Operationalizing a Conceptual Scheme: The Universalism-Particularism Pattern Variable (1962) (22)
Birokrasi dalam masyarakat modern (1987) (22)
Recruiting Faculty and Students (1974) (20)
The Influence of The American Occupational Structure on the Wisconsin Model.@@@The American Occupational Structure (1992) (19)
On limitations of rational choice theory for sociology (1997) (18)
Occupational Bias and Mobility (1957) (18)
Institutional Conditions and Student Demonstrations (1971) (17)
Some Preliminary Findings on Social Stratification in the United States (1966) (15)
A CIRCUITOUS PATH TO MACROSTRUCTURAL THEORY (1995) (15)
The Flow of Occupational Supply and Recruitment (1965) (14)
Leadership Stability and Social Change: An Experiment with Small Groups (1957) (14)
From Status Attainment to Segregation and Devaluation@@@The American Occupational Structure (1992) (13)
Social Integration, Social Rank, and Processes of Interaction (1959) (13)
A Fable About Social Structure (1980) (13)
New Methods for the Analysis of Occupational Mobility Tables and Other Kinds of Cross-Classifications@@@The American Occupational Structure (1992) (13)
The American Occupational Structure and Structural Equation Modeling in Sociology@@@The American Occupational Structure (1992) (12)
Mobility and Status Attainment@@@The American Occupational Structure (1992) (12)
[Excerpt from "The American Occupational Structure"] (1967) (12)
Orientation of College Students Toward International Relations (1953) (9)
Background, Earnings, and the American Dream@@@The American Occupational Structure (1992) (9)
A Quantitative History of Comparative Stratification Research@@@The American Occupational Structure (1992) (9)
DISSECTING TYPES OF PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS (1979) (8)
Comments on the Prospects for a Nomothetic Theory of Social Structure (1983) (8)
Decision Making in Schools (8)
How to Spin a Social Theory@@@Inequality and Heterogeneity: A Primitive Theory of Social Structure. (1978) (8)
Race, Poverty, and The American Occupational Structure@@@The American Occupational Structure (1992) (8)
Social inequality and art institutions (1986) (8)
5 – Occupational Choice: a Conceptual Framework* (1968) (7)
Determining the Dependent Variable in Certain Correlations (1955) (7)
A Theory of Social Structure: An Assessment of Blau's Strategy@@@Inequality and Heterogeneity: A Primitive Theory of Social Structure. (1978) (6)
Comments on Two Mathematical Formulations of the Theory of Differentiation in organizations (1971) (6)
Occupations and Stratification: Issues of Measurement@@@The American Occupational Structure (1992) (6)
Reciprocity in social network games and generation of social capital Donghee (2011) (5)
Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy.Alvin W. Gouldner (1955) (5)
Organizations, Stratification, and The American Occupational Structure@@@The American Occupational Structure (1992) (5)
What If?@@@The American Occupational Structure (1992) (5)
Occupational Changes in a Generation (1962 and 1973) (1973) (4)
A Preliminary Analysis of the Social Network of Residents in Tianjin with a Comparison to Social Networks in America (1990) (4)
Sociological Analysis: Current Trends and Personal Practice (1969) (3)
Dialectical Sociology: Comments (1972) (2)
Cumulative index to the American journal of sociology (1966) (2)
The Sociology of Organizations@@@A Comparative Analysis of Complex Organizations@@@Complex Organizations@@@Modern Organizations@@@Formal Organizations@@@Status and Kinship in the Higher Civil Service@@@The Bureaucratic Phenomenon (1964) (2)
Initiative and Bureaucracy@@@Administrative Vitality: The Conflict with Bureaucracy@@@Men Who Manage: Fusions of Feeling and Theory in Administration (1960) (2)
Putting Coleman’s Transition Right-Side Up (1993) (2)
The New Structuralism@@@The American Occupational Structure (1992) (1)
Studies on Formal Organizations: An Editorial Foreword (1962) (1)
Family, Socialization, and Interaction Process.Talcott Parsons , Robert F. Bales , James Olds , Morris Zelditch, Jr. , Philip E. Slater (1956) (1)
Book Review:Class, Status and Power: A Reader in Social Stratification. Reinhard Bendix, Seymour Martin Lipset (1955) (1)
Trends in the Process of Social Stratification@@@The American Occupational Structure (1992) (1)
Inferring mobility trends from a single study (1962) (1)
Book Review:Transactions of the Second World Congress of Sociology. International Sociological Association (1956) (0)
Book Review: Cultural Sciences: Their Origin and Development (1954) (0)
Comments on baseline models (1984) (0)
The Analysis of Social and Political Systems@@@Modern Social Theories@@@The Nerves of Government: Models of Political Communication and Control@@@Exchange and Power in Social Life@@@The Politics of the Developing Areas@@@A Framework for Political Analysis (1965) (0)
Comments on Issues Raised by Messner's Research (1980) (0)
The Academy as an Organization@@@The Organization of Academic Work (1979) (0)
Volume Information (1995) (0)
A Sociology of Organisations@@@The Concept of Organization@@@On the Nature of Organizations@@@The Applicability of Organizational Sociology (1976) (0)
Alternative Ways of Modeling Mobility@@@The American Occupational Structure (1992) (0)
Population@@@Bureaucracy in Modern Society@@@Social Movement in the United States@@@Crime and Society (1956) (0)
Structural Contexts of Opportunities. (1995) (0)
Are Academic Institutions Unique?@@@The Organization of Academic Work (1979) (0)
Letters to the Editor (1960) (0)
Has Structural Inquiry Any Identity?@@@Continuities in Structural Inquiry. (1983) (0)
Book Review:Service and Procedure in Bureaucracy: A Case Study. Roy G. Francis, Robert C. Stone (1957) (0)
Volume Information (1964) (0)
57." An Empiricist Model of Stratification," Peter M. Blau & Otis Dudley Duncan Peter M. Blau & Otis Dudley Duncan, The American Occupational Structure (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1967) 58." Critical Sociology," Jiirgen Habermas (2000) (0)
Volume Information (1965) (0)
Book Note and Review: Human Relations: Organizations (1959) (0)
Introduction (1965) (0)

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