{"product_id":"2026200017340-secondhand-exchange-and-power-in-social-life","title":"Exchange And Power In Social Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the crossroads of sociology and economics lies one of the twentieth century's most influential works of social theory — Peter M. Blau's Exchange and Power in Social Life presents a bold and systematic framework for understanding how human beings relate to one another through the reciprocal logic of exchange. Blau argues that social life itself is structured by transactions — not merely economic ones, but the everyday giving, receiving, and withholding of favours, approval, information, and compliance — and that from these micro-level interactions emerge the macro-structures of power, authority, and social organisation.\n\nDrawing on both classical sociology and modern structural analysis, Blau constructs a theoretical bridge between intimate interpersonal relationships and large-scale institutional forces, illustrating how power imbalances arise naturally when exchange becomes asymmetrical. His prose is precise and rigorous yet animated by a genuine curiosity about the mechanics of human association, making Exchange and Power in Social Life as relevant to political scientists and organisational theorists as it is to sociologists. A foundational text that reshaped the discipline, it leaves the reader asking a deeply unsettling question: if every relationship is, at its core, a transaction, what does that reveal about the nature of human freedom?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49210269204699,"sku":"2026200017340-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/66f356f7-9fb6-4252-ba7f-6d51d23e0222.png?v=1788268435","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200017340-secondhand-exchange-and-power-in-social-life","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}