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Social stigma : the psychology of marked relationships
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ISBN: 0716715929 Year: 1984 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Freeman


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Statistiques de la duree du travail : methodes et mesures dans la communaute europeenne
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ISBN: 9282539407 9789282539408 Year: 1984 Publisher: Luxembourg : Office des publications officielles des communautés européennes = Office for official publications of the European communities = OPOCE,


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Handboek voor gesprekstraining : programmeren, werkwijzen, hulpmiddelen, procedures en oefeningen
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ISBN: 9060091922 Year: 1984 Publisher: Meppel Boom


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La famille enfin...
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ISBN: 2282203100 9782282203102 Year: 1984 Publisher: Paris Denoël


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Les barrages personnels dans les rapports humains : comment les comprendre et les surmonter
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ISBN: 2710104806 9782710104803 Year: 1984 Publisher: Paris ESF

Patrons, clients, and friends : interpersonal relations and the structure of trust in society
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ISBN: 0521288908 0521246873 0511557744 9780521288903 9780511557743 Year: 1984 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Abstract

The form of social relations described by the terms 'patronage' and 'patron-client relations' is of central concern to sociologists, anthropologists and political scientists today. Characterised by its voluntary and highly personal but often fully institutionalised nature, it is a type of behaviour found in almost every human society. It touches upon basic aspects of the construction and regulation of social order and is therefore closely connected to major theoretical problems and controversies in the social sciences. This book analyses some special types of these interpersonal relations - ritual kinship, patron-client relations and friendship - and the social conditions in which they develop. The authors draw upon a wide range of examples, from societies as diverse as these of the Mediterranean, Latin America, the Middle and Far East and the U.S.S.R., in their study of the core characteristics of such relationships. They look at them as mechanisms of social exchange, examine their impact on the institutional structures in which they exist, and assess the significance of the variations in their occurrence. Their analysis highlights the importance of these relationships in social life and concludes with a stimulating discussion of the ensuring tensions and ambivalences and the ways in which these are dealt with - though perhaps never fully overcome. Patrons, clients and friends is the first systematic comparative study of these interpersonal relations and makes the first attempt to relate them to central aspects of social structure. It will therefore be an important contribution to both comparative analysis and social theory and will be of interest to a wide range of social scientists.

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