Product Description: Advances in Group Processes publishes interdisciplinary group related research, this includes work on groups ranging from the very small to the very large, and on classic and contemporary topics such as status, power, exchange, justice, influence, decision-making, intergroup relations and social networks...read more

Product Description: This volume marks the 30th anniversary of the Advances in Group Processes Series. Publishing theoretical analyses, reviews, and theory based empirical chapters on group phenomena. The series adopts a broad conception of 'group processes...read more

Product Description: This special volume features contributions aligned with the interdisciplinary explosion of research on the biological and neurological foundations of social behavior and organization. Biosociology and neurosociology are rapidly developing scientific fields that draw from, and contribute unique knowledge to, a number of interdisciplinary partners, including: biopsychology, neuropsychology, evolutionary psychology, social and affective neuroscience and neurophilosophy...read more

Product Description: In this volume scholars from a variety of disciplines address a range of phenomena related to the general question of when people behave in an altruistic fashion. The specific topics addressed in this volume include how empathy induced altruism can actually be a threat to the some larger collective good, the role of egoism in the production and maintenance of social order, the basis of cooperation in social dilemmas, an evolutionary account of sex differences in the propensity to cooperate, a theoretical analysis of when individuals experience gratitude versus indebtedness in response to receiving help, a new status-driven theory of large scale collective action, a cross-national analysis of institutional versus generalized trust in societies, and how individuals develop expectations for the sanctioning of particular kinds of behaviors...read more

Product Description: Advances in Group Processes publishes theoretical analyses, reviews and theory based empirical chapters on group phenomena. Volume 22, the fourth volume of a 5-series set, includes papers that address fundamental issues of Social Identification in Groups...read more

Product Description: From the contents: Cohesion and membership duration: linking groups, relations and individuals in an ecology of affiliation (M. McPherson, L. Smith-Lovin). - Building a model for solidarity and cohesion using three theories (D. Willer et al...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work on organizational politics is part of a series that considers the theoretical, methodological and research issues relevant to organizational sociology. Both micro and macro sociological approaches are emphasized.

Product Description: Hardbound. This volume offers a diverse array of chapters. Areas covered consist of an extension and clarification of theoretical research on social networks; the emergence of trust and cooperative norms under conditions of uncertainty; social identity processes; and the emergent processes in discussion groups and teams...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the 15th volume in a series of theoretical, review and empirically-based papers on group phenomena. The series adopts a broad conception of group processes consistent with prevailing ones in the social psychological literature...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This collection of articles reflects trends within what is often termed sociological social psychology. This psychology employs a social structural theme and it tends to place more emphasis on cumulative theoretical work, instead of the accumulation of empirical observations.

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