by Theodore Caplow
This Unique and important book develops the idea that social interaction is always triangular or triadic because the behavior of pairs is subject to the influence of an audience. This third party interprets the meaning of the interaction, applies customary norms to it, notes what is new or unusual, and incorporates each episode into its own history. Tirads have a natural tendency to divide into a coalition of two partners facing one apponent, converting strength into weakness or weakness into strength. The geometry of triads is therefore full of surprises. In this remarkable work, new explanatory principles derived from the analysis of triads are applied to data drawn from small group experiments, animal sociology, organization, the family, politics, literature, and international relations.
More books by Theodore Caplow
The
First Measured Century: An Illustrated Gude to Trends in America, 1900-2000
Sociologie Militaire
The Academic Market Place
Peace Games
Perverse
Incentives - The Neglect of Social Technology in the Public Sector
Elementary Sociology
Recent Social
Trends in the United States 1960-1990
Leviathan
Transformed - Seven National States in the New Century
The Sociology of Work
The Urban
Ambience
Principles of Organization
Old Men Drunk and Sober
Toward Social Hope
Middletown Families: Fifty Years of Change & Continuity
All
Faithful People: Change & Continuity in Middletown's Religion
Managing
an Organization
American Social Trends
Systems of War & Peace
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