Investigators interested in developing a general theory of social cohesion are confronted
with a complex body of work that involves various definitions of social cohesion, specialized …

Much convergence exists between exchange theory and network approaches to social
structure. Starting with the work of Emerson, exchange theory increasingly has considered …

Over the last 20 years, work within anthropology, social psychology, sociology,
communications, psychology, geography, and political science has converged on the …

This book examines almost two decades of research using the structural or network
approach to political behavior. Network analysis begins with the assumption that the most …

Sociologists have long believed that psychology alone can't explain what happens when
people work together in complex modern societies. In contrast, most psychologists and …

Has sociology become more socially integrated over the last 30 years? Recent work in the
sociology of knowledge demonstrates a direct linkage between social interaction patterns …

This article offers a formal theoretical model of the emergence of hierarchy that bridges the
division between individualistic and structuralist accounts of inequality. In the model, actors …

The first objective in this chapter is to present an overview of metatheorizing in sociology. To
that end, we will delineate four broad philosophical approaches—positivist, hermeneutic …

When entrepreneurs enter structural holes in networks, they can exploit the related benefits.
Evidence for these benefits has steadily accumulated. The authors ask whether those who …

Frequently social theorists conflate power and influence, often subsuming influence under a
broad conception of power. Two contemporary theories separate them. Elementary theory …