Social institutions : their emergence, maintenance, and effects / edited by Michael Hechter, Karl-Dieter Opp, and Reinhard Wippler.
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : A. Gruyter, ©1990. |
| Description | vi, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Hechter, Michael. |
| Other author/creator | Opp, Karl-Dieter. |
| Other author/creator | Wippler, Reinhard. |
| Other author/creator | Werner-Reimers-Stiftung. |
| Other author/creator | American Sociological Association. |
| Other author/creator | National Science Foundation (U.S.) |
| Series | Sociology and economics Sociology and economics. ^A268009 |
| Contents | The emergence of cooperative social institutions / Michael Hechter -- The emergence of norms / James S. Coleman -- The costs of organizing social cooperation / Hartmut Kliemt -- Individual interests and moral institutions : an endogenous approach to the modification of preferences / Werner Raub and Thomas Voss -- The attenuation of customs / Karl-Dieter Opp -- The Kula : social order, barter and ceremonial exchange / Rolf Ziegler -- A comparative institutional analysis in the arts : the theater / Bruno S. Frey and Werner Pommerehne -- Cultural resources and participation in high culture / Reinhard Wippler -- The welfare state and unemployment : a theoretical analysis / Henk de Vos -- Patronage : an institution in its own right / H. D. Flap -- The political geography of fascist party membership in Germany and Italy / William Brustein -- Incentives, governance and development in Chinese collective agriculture / Anthony Oberschall -- Toward a theory of union emergence and demis e / Debra Friedman -- Intrafamilial markets for education in Japan / Mary C. Brinton. |
| General note | Based on papers from a meeting held in Bad Homburg, West Germany in Jan. 1988 under the sponsorship of the Werner Reimers Foundation, the American Sociological Association, and the National Science Foundation (U.S.). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 89017836 |
| ISBN | 0202304094 |