Author: Michael Hechter
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 052090897X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Social scientists have long recognized that solidarity is essential for such phenomena as social order, class, and ethnic consciousness, and the provision of collective goods. In presenting a new general theory of group solidarity, Michael Hechter here contends that it is indeed possible to build a theory of solidarity based on the action of rational individuals and in doing so he goes beyond the timeworn disciplinary boundaries separating the various social sciences.