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Peter Michael Blau (February 7, 1918 – March 12, 2002) was an Austrian and 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.
After Homans founded the theory, other theorists continued to write about it, particularly Peter M. Blau and Richard M. Emerson, who in addition to Homans are generally thought of as the major developers of the exchange perspective within sociology. [5] Homans' work emphasized the individual behavior of actors in interaction with one another.
Peter M. Blau (1918–2002) and Otis Duncan (1921–2004) were the first sociologists to isolate the concept of status attainment. Their initial thesis stated that the lower the level from which a person starts, the greater is the probability that he will be upwardly mobile, simply because many more occupational destinations entail upward mobility for men with low origins than for those with ...
Duncan's best known work is a 1967 book that he coauthored with Peter Blau, The American Occupational Structure. [ citation needed ] Based on quantitative analyses of the first large national survey of social mobility in the United States, the book elegantly depicts the process by which parents transmit their social standing to their children ...
Peter Blau (1918–2002), American sociologist; Kathleen M. Blee (born 1953), American sociologist; Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg (1929–2025), German sociologist, ethnologist, and sexologist; Danielle Bleitrach (born 1938), French sociologist and journalist; Fred L. Block, American sociologist; David Bloor, British sociologist
George Caspar Homans (August 11, 1910 – May 29, 1989) 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.
Peter Engel, ‘Saved by the Bell’ executive producer, dies at 88. Finance. Finance. Associated Press. Wall Street falls again but a rebound in technology stocks helps tamp down the losses.
Born in Parsons, Kansas to Charles H. Scott and Hildegarde Hewil, Scott received his PhD from the University of Chicago under Peter Blau, [3] and has received honorary doctorates from the Copenhagen School of Business (2000), the Helsinki School of Economics and Business (2001), and Aarhus University in Denmark (2010).