George C Homans
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George C Homans |
| GIVEN NAMES | George C |
| FAMILY NAME | Homans |
| SIGNATURE | HOMANS G C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 82 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 997 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 82 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1930 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
English Villagers of the Thirteenth Century
Reprinted by permission of the publishers from George C. Homans, English Villagers of the Thirteenth Century. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Copyright ® 1941, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. George C. Homans is Professor in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard University. He is the author of The Human Group, Social Behavior, and Sentiments and Activities (a collection of essays), in addition to the book from…
Conducta social como intercambio
Considerar la conducta social como un intercambio de bienes puede clarificar las relaciones entre cuatro cuerpos de teoría: la psicología conductista, la economía, las proposiciones sobre la dinámica de la influencia y las proposiciones sobre la
What Can We Learn from the Utilitarian Tradition
Books in review
Collective Choice
The Nature of Social Laws from Machiavelli to Mill
Fifty Years of Sociology
What follows is a personal appraisal of the development of sociology over the past 50 years. The 1930s were a time of high hopes, empirically (field studies, new statistical techniques) and theoretically (for instance, functionalism and operationalism). The great achievement of sociology has been its development of statistical techniques, but these have had the effect of inhibiting field studies. In theory, sociology has remained divided into a n…
Books in review
Sex and Power in Simple Societies The Politics of Reproductive Ritual. Karen Ericksen Paige , Jeffery M. Paige , Linda Fuller , Elizabeth Magnus
Books in review
The Present State of Sociological Theory
Sociology has fractured into a number of schools, each claiming to be distinct from the others and to have its own theory. The trouble with the theories is that most of them fail to make their general propositions explicit. Were they made explicit, all the theories would turn out to contain at least the general propositions of behavioral psychology, and the intellectual unification of sociology could begin. The paper discusses the reasons why man…
Social Exchange
Skinner Again Reflections on Behaviorism and Society. B. F. Skinner
Prestige or Status
The Origins of English Individualism
In a work entitled The Origins of English Individualism, which will appear at roughly the same time as this article, I have assembled the evidence to support a new thesis concerning the nature of English social and economic structure between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries. Since the results of this work have implications for those who would not normally read a book on English social history, it is worth repeating them to a wider audience…
Nature Versus Nurture
Society and Homicide in Thirteenth-Century England.James Buchanan Given
Scandinavian England
Studies of Field Systems in the British Isles . Alan R. H. Baker, Robin A. Butlin
Beyond Freedom and Dignity. B. F. Skinner
Reply to Blain
Rebuttal to Blain
The Monastic Grange in Medieval England
The Saxon Conquest of Somerset and Devon . H. M. Porter
Leadership and Productivity
Social Behavior as Exchange
To consider social behavior as an exchange of goods may clarify the relations among four bodies of theory; behavioral psychology, economics, propositions about the dynamics of influence, and propositions about the structure of small groups
Bringing Men Back In
A theory of a phenomenon is an explanation of it, showing how it follows as a conclusion from general propositions in a deductive system. With all its empirical achievements, the functional school never produced a theory that was also an explanation, since from its general propositions about the conditions of social equilibrium no definite conclusions could be drawn. When a serious effort is made, even by functionalists, to construct an explanato…
Anxiety and Ritual
Kinship Terminology and the American Kinship System
Marriage, Authority and Final Causes
Sociology and the Military Establishment
Status Among Clerical Workers
Students of industrial organization have long been interested in the connection between the relative status of workers on different jobs and the characteristics of these jobs, especially differences in pay. But surprisingly few studies of this connection have been reported in any detail. In this paper, I shall describe how a group of workers complained because the high status conferred on them by some features of their job was not reflected in ot…
The Cash Posters
There are certain ways, however, in which the approach may be adapted to take account of the time dimension. For one thing, the respondent may be asked directly about changes, about his recollection of the past and his predictions about the future. For another, the same respondents may be interviewed repeatedly at different points of time. This use of the panel technique for the study of interpersonal orientations seems to offer great promise of …
English Villagers of the Thirteenth Century
Fifty Years of Sociology
What follows is a personal appraisal of the development of sociology over the past 50 years. The 1930s were a time of high hopes, empirically (field studies, new statistical techniques) and theoretically (for instance, functionalism and operationalism). The great achievement of sociology has been its development of statistical techniques, but these have had the effect of inhibiting field studies. In theory, sociology has remained divided into a n…
The Strategy of Industrial Sociology
Industrial sociology needs more than one set of methods. So far, field work has been dominated by observation and the nondirective interview, and methodological thinking has been preoccupied with discovery, social organization, and the conceptual social system. In the future there should be greater insistence on quantitative methods and analytical concepts
Reflections on the Wildcat Strikes
The Present State of Sociological Theory
Sociology has fractured into a number of schools, each claiming to be distinct from the others and to have its own theory. The trouble with the theories is that most of them fail to make their general propositions explicit. Were they made explicit, all the theories would turn out to contain at least the general propositions of behavioral psychology, and the intellectual unification of sociology could begin. The paper discusses the reasons why man…
The Small Warship
MR Y EXPERIENCE in World War II was different, I believe, from that of most social scientists who entered government service. For many years I had been an officer of the Naval Reserve, so that when the time came, instead of being assigned to some such field as public opinion analysis or military government, which were obviously related to sociology as an academic discipline, I was sent to sea as an ordinary line officer. And out of four and half …
Marriage, Authority, and Final Causes, a Study of Unilateral Cross-Cousin Marriage
Commentary
Tenure and Mobility
The Frisians in East Anglia
The Explanation of English Regional Differences
Journal Article THE EXPLANATION OF ENGLISH REGIONAL DIFFERENCES Get access George C. Homans George C. Homans Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 42, Issue 1, February 1969, Pages 18–34, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/42.1.18 Published: 01 February 1969
A Conceptual Scheme for the Study of Social Organization
IT IS the office of theoretical investigation, said Willard Gibbs, give the form in which the results of experiment may be expressed.' If he had put observation for experiment, Gibbs would have stated the purpose of the present paper. It is to provide one form in which may be expressed what we know about social organization. Please note, at the beginning, that more than one form is possible and that, in a limited space, the one suggested here can…
Social Exchange
Reply to Blain
Leadership and Productivity
Equitable Payment
The Sociological Imagination. C. Wright Mills
Salem Vessels and Their Voyages, Series IV
The Dark Angel
rT HIS is a tragedy in three acts. It takes the three unautobiographical novels of Herman Melville's first period: Mardi, Moby-Dick, and Pierre-understanding by unautobiographical that, though many of the scenes of these books may be drawn from life, their sequence of incidents is fictionaland tries to show a regularly developed action, complete in the three novels and completed with the catastrophe in the last. action of the tragedy is intellect…
St. Paul's School 1855-1934
Men and the Land in the Middle Ages
The Mind and Society [Trattato di Sociologia generale, 1916] . Vilfredo Pareto , Arthur Livingston , Andrew Bongiorno , James Harvey Rogers
Partible Inheritance of Villagers'holdings
Partible Inheritance of Villagers' Holdings
The Puritans and the Clothing Industry in England
Since Baxter, as a Puritan preacher who exercised his ministry for many years in a clothing town-Kidderminster in Worcestershire-was in an excellent position to know what he was talking about, his classification is entitled to much weight. Of particular interest, however, is the last part of his assertion-that dealing with the'cloth-makers' adherence to the Parliamentary side. By customary assumption, the men who supported Parliament were also, v…
Anxiety and Ritual
The Cambridge Economic History of Europe from the Decline of the Roman Empire, Volume I
English Villagers of the Thirteenth Century
English Villagers of the Thirteenth Century
The Small Warship
MR Y EXPERIENCE in World War II was different, I believe, from that of most social scientists who entered government service. For many years I had been an officer of the Naval Reserve, so that when the time came, instead of being assigned to some such field as public opinion analysis or military government, which were obviously related to sociology as an academic discipline, I was sent to sea as an ordinary line officer. And out of four and half …
Reflections on the Wildcat Strikes
A Conceptual Scheme for the Study of Social Organization
IT IS the office of theoretical investigation, said Willard Gibbs, give the form in which the results of experiment may be expressed.' If he had put observation for experiment, Gibbs would have stated the purpose of the present paper. It is to provide one form in which may be expressed what we know about social organization. Please note, at the beginning, that more than one form is possible and that, in a limited space, the one suggested here can…
Industry and Society.William Foote Whyte
The Strategy of Industrial Sociology
Industrial sociology needs more than one set of methods. So far, field work has been dominated by observation and the nondirective interview, and methodological thinking has been preoccupied with discovery, social organization, and the conceptual social system. In the future there should be greater insistence on quantitative methods and analytical concepts
Framework for the Analysis of Industrial Relations
E. Wight Bakke, Douglas V. Brown, Lloyd H. Fisher, George C. Homans, Clark Kerr, F. L. W. Richardson, Jr., [Framework for the Analysis of Industrial Relations: Two Views]: Comments, ILR Review, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Apr., 1950), pp. 402-412
Childhood and Society
The Merchant Class of Medieval London
Ou Va le Travail Humain
The Human Group
Other . Soldier Groups and Negro Soldiers. David G. Mandelbaum
Status Among Clerical Workers
Students of industrial organization have long been interested in the connection between the relative status of workers on different jobs and the characteristics of these jobs, especially differences in pay. But surprisingly few studies of this connection have been reported in any detail. In this paper, I shall describe how a group of workers complained because the high status conferred on them by some features of their job was not reflected in ot…
The Cash Posters
There are certain ways, however, in which the approach may be adapted to take account of the time dimension. For one thing, the respondent may be asked directly about changes, about his recollection of the past and his predictions about the future. For another, the same respondents may be interviewed repeatedly at different points of time. This use of the panel technique for the study of interpersonal orientations seems to offer great promise of …
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