Social institutions : their emergence, maintenance, and effects / edited by Michael Hechter, Karl-Dieter Opp, and Reinhard Wippler.

Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : A. Gruyter, ©1990.
Descriptionvi, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

Other author/creatorHechter, Michael.
Other author/creatorOpp, Karl-Dieter.
Other author/creatorWippler, Reinhard.
Other author/creatorWerner-Reimers-Stiftung.
Other author/creatorAmerican Sociological Association.
Other author/creatorNational Science Foundation (U.S.)
SeriesSociology 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 noteBased 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 89017836
ISBN0202304094