Networks, Exchange and Coercion: The Elementary Theory and Its Applications

'œA significant breakthrough for theory formation in the social sciences at both the micro- and macro-levels. Using their unique elementary theory of social interaction, Willer, Anderson and their colleagues derive a set of model types that can be applied to a variety of research settings, including experimental, historical, institutional, and ethnographic. The results of their efforts are a theory of considerable scope and a methodology facilitating the advancement of knowledge not through empirical generalizations, but through abstractive connections of empirical research in diverse settings to systematic models.'' William Julius Wilson, University of ChicagoWiller, David is the author of 'Networks, Exchange and Coercion: The Elementary Theory and Its Applications', published 1981 under ISBN 9780444990785 and ISBN 044499078X.