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Identity and Control - A Structural Theory of Social Action, In proposing a comprehensive network theory that cuts across the range of social sciences, Harrison White rejects conventional hierarchical models and focuses instead on efforts of control in a social structure described as a tangle of locked-in practices, Identity and Control - A Structural Theory of Social Action
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  • Identity and Control - A Structural Theory of Social Action
  • Written by author Harrison C. White
  • Published by Princeton University Press, 1992/08/24
  • In proposing a comprehensive network theory that cuts across the range of social sciences, Harrison White rejects conventional hierarchical models and focuses instead on efforts of control in a social structure described as a tangle of locked-in practices
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Preface
1 Introduction to Identity and Control 3
Identities from Contingencies 5
Control and Decoupling 9
Scope and Terms of Social Organization 14
2 Disciplines 22
Pecking Orders 23
Three Species from Valuation Orderings 28
Embedding and Variations 32
Interfaces 38
Arenas 48
Councils 54
Catnets for Black Hole in Index Space 60
3 Network and Stories 65
Ties and Stories 66
Tracings of Social Space 70
Network as Population 78
Types of Tie 84
Blockmodels of Structural Equivalence 93
Ambiguity versus Ambage 102
4 Institutions 116
Village Caste and University Science 118
Boundaries 126
Values 136
Corporatism 142
Clientelism 150
Norman Feudalism 156
Positions across Role Frames 160
5 Styles and Person 166
Styles 167
Profiles 177
Entourages 191
Persons 196
Careers 212
Professionalism and Regimes 222
6 Getting Action 230
Further Control in Time 232
Hieratic Styles 237
Agenda for Agency 245
Getting Action 254
Dual Hierarchy and Servile Elite 267
General Management 273
Annealing 281
7 Rhetoric and Theory 287
Rhetorics and Systems 288
Rationality 297
History and Natural Science as Guides 303
Identity and Control 312
Appendix 1: One Hundred Topics 317
Conjectures 1-27 317
Speculations 1-19 321
Questions 1-54 323
Appendix 2: Some Models 328
A Disciplines and Networks 328
B Space-Times 337
C Persons as Kalman Filters 346
Appendix 3: List of Software 350
Works Cited 351
Index 415


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