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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.
The most comprehensive social exchange theories are those of the American social psychologists John W. Thibaut (1917–1986) and Harold H. Kelley (1921–2003), the American sociologists George C. Homans (1910–1989), Peter M. Blau (1918–2002), Richard Marc Emerson (d. 1982), and Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009). [1]
Peter Michael Blau (February 7, 1918 – March 12, 2002) 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.
George Herbert Mead and Charles Cooley, who had met at the University of Michigan in 1891 (along with John Dewey), moved to Chicago in 1894. [48] Their influence gave rise to social psychology and the symbolic interactionism of the modern Chicago School. [49] The American Journal of Sociology was founded in 1895, followed by the ASA in 1905. [47]
Exchange theory is specifically attributed to the work of George C. Homans, Peter Blau, and Richard Emerson. [23] Organizational sociologists James G. March and Herbert A. Simon noted that an individual's rationality is bounded by the context or organizational setting.
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George Homans' version of exchange theory specifically argues that behaviorist stimulus-response principles can explain the emergence of complex social structures. Blau, Peter. 1964. Exchange & Power in Social Life. Emerson, Richard. 1962. "Power-Dependence Theory." American Sociological Review 27(1):31-41. Homans, George C. 1958.