Foundations of Social Theory

Coleman, J. S. (1990). Foundations of Social Theory. Harvard University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1990

Link

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674312265

Cited from

sociology_anthropology

Cited by

5 citations across 5 artifacts.

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Primes

• Collective Efficacy
  • T1 — Collective efficacy and moral direction of collective action. High collective efficacy can be directed toward socially beneficial ends (neighborhood safety, community health, environmental stewardship) or socially harmful ones (gang solidarity, persecuting outsiders, enforcing discriminatory norms)

    This sourceDevelops the theory of norms and sanctions, including how dispersed sanctioning is realized at a cost to sanctioners and how the locus of enforcement is separated from the holder of authority.

• Informal Enforcement
  • The neighbor who lets the trash pile up, the trader who reneges on a handshake deal, the forum member who posts in bad faith, the colleague who claims others' work — none of these is hauled before a tribunal, yet each faces a real cost imposed by the people around them.

    This sourceDevelops the theory of norms and sanctions, including how dispersed sanctioning is realized at a cost to sanctioners and how the locus of enforcement is separated from the holder of authority; supports the claims about converting scattered reactions into a coherent disincentive and distinguishing who makes a rule bite from who is nominally in charge.

• Micro Macro Linkage
  • The "boat" schema of social theory — macro-cause to micro-situation to micro-action to macro-effect — is the canonical diagram; statistical mechanics relating molecular states to thermodynamic variables is its physical prototype.

    This sourceIntroduces the macro-micro-micro-macro "boat" schema for social explanation (the diagram on p. 8), the canonical diagram of micro-macro linkage.

• Social Capital
  • … + mutual monitoring + informal sanction → reliable cooperation without formal enforcement infrastructure. Mapped back: Grameen's model demonstrates that social capital can substitute for financial capital, achieving credit allocation and default prevention through tie-based mechanisms where legal contracts fail

    This sourceDevelops the theory of norms and sanctions, including how dispersed sanctioning is realized at a cost to sanctioners and how the locus of enforcement is separated from the holder of authority; supports the claims about converting scattered reactions into a coherent disincentive and distinguishing who makes a rule bite from who is nominally in charge.

• Social Norms
  • Context-switching is the usual coping strategy, but cross-cutting situations (work dinner with family visiting, ethnic identity in workplace) can force uncomfortable choices

    This sourceDevelops the theory of norms and sanctions, including how dispersed sanctioning is realized at a cost to sanctioners and how the locus of enforcement is separated from the holder of authority; supports the claims about converting scattered reactions into a coherent disincentive and distinguishing who makes a rule bite from who is nominally in charge.

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