Social Behavior as Exchange
1958/05/01 by George C. Homans · 5,196 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Economics #Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies #Positive economics #Psychology #Social exchange theory #Social psychology #Social relation #Sociology
paper · doi:10.1086/222355
published in American Journal of Sociology 63(6), 597-606 (University of Chicago Press)
openalex publication_date 1958/05/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Abstract
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.
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