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Pour une sociologie relationnelle.
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ISBN: 2130439934 9782130439936 Year: 1992 Publisher: Paris PUF

The critical mass in collective action: a micro-social theory
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ISBN: 0521308399 052103955X 0511663765 Year: 1993 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The problem of collective action is that each member of a group wants other members to make necessary sacrifices while he or she 'free rides', reaping the benefits of collective action without doing the work. Inevitably the end result is that no one does the work and the common interest is not realized. This book analyses the social pressure whereby groups solve the problem of collective action. The authors show that the problem of collective action requires a model of group process and cannot be deduced from simple models of individual behaviour. They employ formal mathematical models to emphasize the role of small subgroups of especially motivated individuals who form the 'critical mass' that sets collective action in motion. The book will be read with special interest by sociologists, social psychologists, economists and political scientists. It will also be of concern to those in industrial relations and communications research working on issues in collective action and rational choice.

Advances in social theory and methodology : toward an integration of micro - and macro -sociologies
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ISBN: 071000947X 0710009461 9780710009470 Year: 1981 Publisher: Boston : Routledge,

Micro social theory.
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ISBN: 0333995708 0333995694 9780333995709 9780333995693 Year: 2006 Volume: *1 Publisher: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan


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Theoretical Principles of Sociology, Volume 2 : Microdynamics
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ISBN: 1441962247 1441962255 1299196802 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,

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Micro-level dynamics revolve around face-to-face interactions among individuals. What occurs within encounters is constrained by their embedding with corporate and categoric units and, by extension, institutional domains, stratification systems, community networks, societies, and inter-societal systems. In this Handbook, the author explores the effect of microdynamics on these larger social systems.

Three sociological traditions.
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ISBN: 0195035194 Year: 1985 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press


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Macro-micro linkages in sociology
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ISBN: 0803941048 9780803941045 Year: 1991 Publisher: Newbury Park Sage

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