George Caspar Homans
Biographic Data
| ID | 134549 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Caspar Homans |
| GIVEN NAMES | George Caspar |
| FAMILY NAME | Homans |
| SIGNATURE | HOMANS G C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 321 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1941 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Contemporary Theory in Sociology
Contemporary sociologists have been preoccupied with "theory," yet have seldom tried to make clear what a theory is. This chapter describes the essential features of a theory. It considers the intellectual confusions and practical difficulties that get in the way of the construction of theories in sociology. The chapter examines the differences between the main types of sociological theory. A theory consists, of a set of propositions , each stati…
The Human Group
George C. Homans's classic volume The Human Group was among the first to study the small group as a microcosm of society. It introduced a method of analysis and a set of influential theories that cut across areas of specialization on the personality, community, and industry.The study of even the smallest groups is extremely complex, with the simplest associations involving an abundance of actions, relationships, emotions, motives, ideas, and beli…
Coming to My Senses: The Autobiography of a Sociologist
Those interested in the development of scientific theory and in the nature of academic life will appreciate this intellectual autobiography written by one of America's leading sociologists. Following his family tradition (The Education of Henry Adams was written by his great-uncle), George Caspar Homans describes how his ideas about the proper nature of theory in social science, both in form and content, have developed over time. The chief intere…
Elementarformen Sozialen Verhaltens: Social Behavior Its Elementary Forms
Sentiments and Activities: Essays on Social and Behavioral Science
This collection of essays by George Caspar Homans, a foundational figure in sociological theory, explores the interplay between sentiments and activities in social life. Spanning several decades of his intellectual career, the essays delve into topics such as social exchange, distributive justice, altruism, and the dynamics of small groups. Homans argues that understanding individual behavior is crucial for comprehending larger social structures …
Self-Portrait of a Maverick
Beyond Sherington: The Early History of the Region of Buckinghamshire Lying to the North-East of Newport Pagnell . A. C. Chibnall
Social behavior: Its Elementary Forms
Was ist Sozialwissenschaft?
Elementarformen sozialen Verhaltens: Social Behavior Its Elementary Forms
Das vorliegende Buch von George C. Romans bedarf keines Vorwortes im iiblichen Sinne. Was Homans aussagen will, sagt er selbst: klar, folgerichtig und ausfiihrlich. Es ware deshalb unerheblich, etwa darstellen zu wollen, ob ich ihn auch richtig ver standen habe. Es ware auch vermessen, wollte ich das mir Wesentliche aus seinem Buche herausstellen. Ich lehne dies als untunliche Einmischung in seine eigenen exak ten Gedankengange ab, wie ich auch d…
Grundfragen soziologischer Theorie: Aufsätze
Was ist Sozialwissenschaft
Die soziale Unrast unserer Tage hat sich eine eigene Sprache zu gelegt: Der revolutionare Jargon der Gegenwart gibt sich, wie dies kiirzlim M. Rainer Lepsius bemerkte, soziologisch oder wird doch als solmer empfunden. Es haufen sich die Soziologismen im Umgang mit gesellschaftlichen Fragen. Eine Fachsprame, die sich eigentlich nom nimt allgemein zu etablieren vermomte, wurde bereits zum Ritual. Es wird deshalb mit Begriffen hausiert, die eher ver…
Elementarformen sozialen Verhaltens
Elementarformen Sozialen Verhaltens
A Life of Synthesis
Publisher Summary This chapter presents various aspects related to a life of synthesis. There are two realities that any writer of a work of synthesis must face. First, unless he is an anthropologist describing a society for the first time, he will have to rely on the work of others on secondary sources. He will not be able to produce wholly new findings. His originality will at best lie in the synthesis itself. This means that he would necessari…
Sentiments and Activities: Essays in Social Science
In the original edition of this book, presenting his collected papers from 1946 to 1962, George Caspar Romans observed that Sentiments and Activities represents dialogue between the data of social science and certain kinds of general ideas. In the introduction to this new edition, he reviews the interests which originally inspired the papers, and reconsiders the extent to which they achieved their purposes. He concludes that first hand observatio…
Sentiments and Activities. Essays in Social Science
Social behaviour: Its Elementary Forms
Theorie der sozialen Gruppe
The Dynamics of Bureaucracy: A Study of Interpersonal Relations in Two Government Agencies. Peter M. Blau
The Open Fields . C. S. Orwin , C. S. Orwin
Medieval Cornwall . L. E. Elliott-Binns
The Lost Villages of England . Maurice Beresford
Conflict
People of Plenty: Economic Abundance and the American Character
People of Plenty: Economic Abundance and the American Character. By David M. Potter. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1954. xxviii + 219 pp. Index. $3.50.) Fred A. Shannon Fred A. Shannon University of Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 41, Issue 4, March 1955, Pages 733–734, https://doi.org/10.2307/1889220 Published: 01 March 1955
Social behavior: Its Elementary Forms
Social behaviour: Its Elementary Forms
The Human Group
George C. Homans's classic volume The Human Group was among the first to study the small group as a microcosm of society. It introduced a method of analysis and a set of influential theories that cut across areas of specialization on the personality, community, and industry.The study of even the smallest groups is extremely complex, with the simplest associations involving an abundance of actions, relationships, emotions, motives, ideas, and beli…
Sentiments and Activities: Essays on Social and Behavioral Science
This collection of essays by George Caspar Homans, a foundational figure in sociological theory, explores the interplay between sentiments and activities in social life. Spanning several decades of his intellectual career, the essays delve into topics such as social exchange, distributive justice, altruism, and the dynamics of small groups. Homans argues that understanding individual behavior is crucial for comprehending larger social structures …
Coming to My Senses: The Autobiography of a Sociologist
Those interested in the development of scientific theory and in the nature of academic life will appreciate this intellectual autobiography written by one of America's leading sociologists. Following his family tradition (The Education of Henry Adams was written by his great-uncle), George Caspar Homans describes how his ideas about the proper nature of theory in social science, both in form and content, have developed over time. The chief intere…
Theorie der sozialen Gruppe
Sentiments and Activities: Essays in Social Science
In the original edition of this book, presenting his collected papers from 1946 to 1962, George Caspar Romans observed that Sentiments and Activities represents dialogue between the data of social science and certain kinds of general ideas. In the introduction to this new edition, he reviews the interests which originally inspired the papers, and reconsiders the extent to which they achieved their purposes. He concludes that first hand observatio…
Grundfragen soziologischer Theorie: Aufsätze
The Rural Sociology of Medieval England
Journal Article The Rural Sociology of Medieval England Get access George Caspar Homans George Caspar Homans Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 4, Issue 1, November 1953, Pages 32–43, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/4.1.32 Published: 01 November 1953
A Life of Synthesis
Publisher Summary This chapter presents various aspects related to a life of synthesis. There are two realities that any writer of a work of synthesis must face. First, unless he is an anthropologist describing a society for the first time, he will have to rely on the work of others on secondary sources. He will not be able to produce wholly new findings. His originality will at best lie in the synthesis itself. This means that he would necessari…
The Dynamics of Bureaucracy: A Study of Interpersonal Relations in Two Government Agencies. Peter M. Blau
English Villagers of the Thirteenth Century
The Rural Sociology of Medieval England
Journal Article The Rural Sociology of Medieval England Get access George Caspar Homans George Caspar Homans Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 4, Issue 1, November 1953, Pages 32–43, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/4.1.32 Published: 01 November 1953
People of Plenty: Economic Abundance and the American Character
People of Plenty: Economic Abundance and the American Character. By David M. Potter. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1954. xxviii + 219 pp. Index. $3.50.) Fred A. Shannon Fred A. Shannon University of Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 41, Issue 4, March 1955, Pages 733–734, https://doi.org/10.2307/1889220 Published: 01 March 1955
General and Theoretical: Structure and Function in Primitive Society: Essays and Addresses. A. R. R adcliffe ‐B rown . With a foreword by E. E. E vans ‐P ritchard and F. E ggan
The Sociology of Work
The Open Fields . C. S. Orwin , C. S. Orwin
Medieval Cornwall . L. E. Elliott-Binns
The Lost Villages of England . Maurice Beresford
Conflict
The Dynamics of Bureaucracy: A Study of Interpersonal Relations in Two Government Agencies. Peter M. Blau
Theorie der sozialen Gruppe
Social behaviour: Its Elementary Forms
Sentiments and Activities: Essays in Social Science
In the original edition of this book, presenting his collected papers from 1946 to 1962, George Caspar Romans observed that Sentiments and Activities represents dialogue between the data of social science and certain kinds of general ideas. In the introduction to this new edition, he reviews the interests which originally inspired the papers, and reconsiders the extent to which they achieved their purposes. He concludes that first hand observatio…
Sentiments and Activities. Essays in Social Science
Elementarformen sozialen Verhaltens
Elementarformen Sozialen Verhaltens
A Life of Synthesis
Publisher Summary This chapter presents various aspects related to a life of synthesis. There are two realities that any writer of a work of synthesis must face. First, unless he is an anthropologist describing a society for the first time, he will have to rely on the work of others on secondary sources. He will not be able to produce wholly new findings. His originality will at best lie in the synthesis itself. This means that he would necessari…
Was ist Sozialwissenschaft
Die soziale Unrast unserer Tage hat sich eine eigene Sprache zu gelegt: Der revolutionare Jargon der Gegenwart gibt sich, wie dies kiirzlim M. Rainer Lepsius bemerkte, soziologisch oder wird doch als solmer empfunden. Es haufen sich die Soziologismen im Umgang mit gesellschaftlichen Fragen. Eine Fachsprame, die sich eigentlich nom nimt allgemein zu etablieren vermomte, wurde bereits zum Ritual. Es wird deshalb mit Begriffen hausiert, die eher ver…
Was ist Sozialwissenschaft?
Elementarformen sozialen Verhaltens: Social Behavior Its Elementary Forms
Das vorliegende Buch von George C. Romans bedarf keines Vorwortes im iiblichen Sinne. Was Homans aussagen will, sagt er selbst: klar, folgerichtig und ausfiihrlich. Es ware deshalb unerheblich, etwa darstellen zu wollen, ob ich ihn auch richtig ver standen habe. Es ware auch vermessen, wollte ich das mir Wesentliche aus seinem Buche herausstellen. Ich lehne dies als untunliche Einmischung in seine eigenen exak ten Gedankengange ab, wie ich auch d…
Grundfragen soziologischer Theorie: Aufsätze
Social behavior: Its Elementary Forms
Beyond Sherington: The Early History of the Region of Buckinghamshire Lying to the North-East of Newport Pagnell . A. C. Chibnall
Self-Portrait of a Maverick
Elementarformen Sozialen Verhaltens: Social Behavior Its Elementary Forms
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