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George C. Homans

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Gender Male
Death34 years ago
Date of birth August 11,1910
Zodiac sign Leo
Born Boston
Massachusetts
United States
Date of died May 29,1989
DiedCambridge
Massachusetts
United States
Field Sociology
Influenced by Émile Durkheim
Talcott Parsons
Robert K. Merton
Job Writer
Educator
Sociologist
Education Harvard College
Harvard University
Buckingham Browne & Nichols Upper School
University of Cambridge
Known for The Human Group
Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms
Parents Abigail Adams
Influences Talcott Parsons
Influencees Peter Blau
James Samuel Coleman
Charles Tilly
Edward Laumann
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Date of Upd.
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Social behavior; its elementary forms
The human group
Social Behavior As Exchange
The nature of social science
Coming to my senses
Sentiments and activities
English villagers of the thirteenth century
An introduction to Pareto
Certainties and doubts
The Witch Hazel: Poems of a Lifetime
The Western Electric Researches
Anxiety and Ritual: The Theories of Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown
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George Caspar Homans was an American sociologist, founder of behavioral sociology, a president of the American Sociological Association, and one of the architects of social exchange theory.

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