Background
Blau, Peter Michael was born on February 7, 1918 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Theodor I. and Bertha (Selka) Blau. came to the United States, 1939, naturalized, 1943.
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The Dynamics of Bureaucracy; A Study of Interpersonal Relations in Two Government Agencies
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Crosscutting Social Circles describes a theory of groups' relations to each other, and tests the theory in the 125 largest metropolitan areas In the United States. The focus is on the Influence social structure exerts on intergroup relations. Blau and Schwartz show how role relations are influenced by how people are distributed among social positions. Examples are a community's racial composition, division of labor, ethnic heterogeneity, income Inequality, or the extent to which educational differences are related to income differences. Blau and Schwartz test their theory by considering its impact on such structural conditions as intermarriage, an important form of intergroup relations. The authors derive the main principles of previously formulated theories of intergroup relations and present them in simpler and clearer form. They empirically test the power of the theory by analyzing its ability to predict how social structure affects intermarriage in the largest American cities, where three-fifths of the American population live. They selected cities because population distribution of a small neighborhood might be affected by casual associations among neighbors; it is much more sociologically interesting if population distribution also affects mate selection in a city of millions. Unlike most theories that emphasize the implications of such cultural orientations as shared values and common norms, this volume focuses on the significance of various forms of inequality and heterogeneity. As one of the few books that supplies a large-scale empirical test of implications of a theory, Crosscutting Social Circles serves as a model. The new introduction by Peter Blau reviews the origins and impact of the book. It will be of immense value to sociologists, psychologists, and group relations specialists.
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In his landmark study of exchange and power in social life, Peter M. Blau contributes to an understanding of social structure by analyzing the social processes that govern the relations between individuals and groups. The basic question that Blau considers is: How does social life become organized into increasingly complex structures of associations among humans. This analysis, first published in 1964, represents a pioneering contribution to the sociological literature. Blau uses concepts of exchange, reciprocity, imbalance, and power to examine social life and to derive the more complex processes in social structure from the simpler ones. The principles of reciprocity and imbalance are used to derive such processes as power, changes in group structure; and the two major forces that govern the dynamics of complex social structures: the legitimization of organizing authority of increasing scope and the emergence of oppositions along different lines producing conflict and change.
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This book is the classic source of empirical information on the patterns of occupational achievement in American society. Based on an unusually comprehensive set of data, it is renowned for its pioneering methods of statistical analysis as well as for its far-reaching conclusions about social stratification and occupational mobility in the United States. The American Occupational Structure received the Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association in recognition of its significant contribution to the social sciences.
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Blau, Peter Michael was born on February 7, 1918 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Theodor I. and Bertha (Selka) Blau. came to the United States, 1939, naturalized, 1943.
AB, Elmhurst College, 1942. Doctor of Laws, Elmhurst College, 1973. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia, 1952.
Master of Arts, Cambridge University, 1966.
Member of faculty, Wayne State University, 1949-1951;
member of faculty, Cornell Univercity, 1951-1953;
assistant professor sociology, University of Chicago, 1953-1958;
associate professor, University of Chicago, 1958-1963;
professor, University of Chicago, 1963-1970;
professor, Columbia University, New York City, 1970-1988;
Quetelet professor sociology, Columbia, New York City, 1977-1988;
Distinguished professor, State University of New York, Albany, 1978-1981;
Robert Broughton Distinguished research professor, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, since 1988. Social Science Research Council predoctoral fellow, 1948-1949. Fellow Center Advanced Studies Behavioral Sciences, 1962-1963.
Senior postdoctoral fellow National Science Foundation, 1962-1963. Pitt professor American history and institutions Cambridge (England) University, 1966-1967. Fellow Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, 1975-1976.
Guggenheimfellow, 1985-1986. Board directors Social Science Research Council, 1966-1969.
( Crosscutting Social Circles describes a theory of grou...)
( Crosscutting Social Circles describes a theory of grou...)
( This book is the classic source of empirical informatio...)
( This book is the classic source of empirical informatio...)
(Upon its publication in 1962, this book became one of the...)
(The Dynamics of Bureaucracy; A Study of Interpersonal Rel...)
( In his landmark study of exchange and power in social l...)
(The book is solidly good. Rarely read. Spine is sturdy. A...)
With Army of the United States, 1943-1945. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member National Academy of Sciences, American Association of University Professors, American Philosophical Society, American Sociological Association (president 1973-1974), International Sociological Association.
Son of Theodor I. and Bertha (Selka) B. M. Judith R. Fritz, July 31, 1968. 1 daughter, Reva T.; 1 daughter by previous marriage, Pamela L.