SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Feminist Theory, Northern United States, Social Forces
16 Aug 2018
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Introductory issues and historical overview: what are theories of exchange and rational choice, these theories are exchange theory, exchange network theory, and rational choice theory (3 main theories we will talk about) In various ways, these theories focus on the social processes whereby individuals or groups seek. & exchange resources: resources can include a number of things: e. g. assistance, approval, information, money, status, influence, the development of exchange theory. Sf: homans said we have to instead be concrete/specific, not abstract like parsons build theory on observations of the social world, the influence of behaviourist psychology. In the 1930s, the psychologist b. f. skinner developed the notion of operant conditioning (also referred to as behaviour conditioning: essentially, this is the idea that behaviour is determined (conditioned) by experience w/rewards. & punishments: ho(cid:373)a(cid:374)s de(cid:448)eloped the idea that ki(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:396)(cid:859)s ideas a(cid:271)out (cid:272)o(cid:374)ditio(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:272)ould (cid:271)e used i(cid:374) so(cid:272)iolog(cid:455) 2- the work of peter blau: further developed exchange theory; tried to build of homans work.
