FAML 400 Ch.8 Social Exchange Theory Questions and Answers
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Social Exchange theory - Answer-Social relationships can be understood as revolving around the exchange of resources valued by the participants.
Bronislaw Malinowski and Claude Levi-Strauss - Answer-demonstrated how many" cultures" engage in the exchange of various goods and services as a centra...
FAML 400 Ch.8 Social Exchange Theory
Questions and Answers
Social Exchange theory - Answer-Social relationships can be understood as revolving
around the exchange of resources valued by the participants.
Bronislaw Malinowski and Claude Levi-Strauss - Answer-demonstrated how many"
cultures" engage in the exchange of various goods and services as a central aspect of
their social life.
James George Frazer - Answer-many social structures result from the economic needs
or the individuals within the system. (ie. Aborigines are poor and so exchange female
relative for a bride. p. 250)
George Homans - Answer-Behaviorism. reinforcement and punishment were the driving
forces in human behavior and that sociology should pay more attention to how
individuals choose to act within social situations. I
Richard Emerson - Answer-It is not the individual, but the relationship between people
and the networks in which those exchange relationships are embedded.
"dependence, power, and balance" are not individual properties. p. 250-51
Ivan Nye - Answer-"Choice and Exchange theory". Relevant within a relationship.
Caryl Rusbult - Answer-Study of commitment and persistence in relationships.
as one becomes increasingly dependent upon a relationship, commitment to that
relationship strengthens, and allegiance is established.
Blau - Answer-Six commodities that are capable of rewarding another
1. personal attraction,
2. social acceptance,
3. social approval,
4. instrumental services,
5. respect/prestige, and
6. compliance/power.
Foa and Foa - Answer-Six additional reward commodities:
7. love,
8. status,
9.services,
10.goods,
11. information, and
12. money
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