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Format: 1 online resource (x, 343 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 0-511-55774-4

Series Statement: Themes in the social sciences

Content: The form of social relations described by the terms 'patronage' and 'patron-client relations' is of central concern to sociologists, anthropologists and political scientists today. Characterised by its voluntary and highly personal but often fully institutionalised nature, it is a type of behaviour found in almost every human society. It touches upon basic aspects of the construction and regulation of social order and is therefore closely connected to major theoretical problems and controversies in the social sciences. This book analyses some special types of these interpersonal relations - ritual kinship, patron-client relations and friendship - and the social conditions in which they develop. The authors draw upon a wide range of examples, from societies as diverse as these of the Mediterranean, Latin America, the Middle and Far East and the U.S.S.R., in their study of the core characteristics of such relationships. They look at them as mechanisms of social exchange, examine their impact on the institutional structures in which they exist, and assess the significance of the variations in their occurrence. Their analysis highlights the importance of these relationships in social life and concludes with a stimulating discussion of the ensuring tensions and ambivalences and the ways in which these are dealt with - though perhaps never fully overcome. Patrons, clients and friends is the first systematic comparative study of these interpersonal relations and makes the first attempt to relate them to central aspects of social structure. It will therefore be an important contribution to both comparative analysis and social theory and will be of interest to a wide range of social scientists.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). , Personal Relations, Trust and Ambivalence in Relation to the Institutional Order -- , The Construction of Trust in the Social Order and its Ambivalences: Viewed From the Development of Sociological Theory -- , The Structuring of Trust in Society: Unconditionalities, Generalised Exchange and the Development of Interpersonal Relations -- , The Basic Characteristics and Variety of Patron-Client Relations -- , The core characteristics of patron-client relations -- , Patron-client relations in southern Europe -- , Ancient Republican Rome -- , Southern Italy -- , Western Sicily -- , Central Italy -- , Spain -- , Greece -- , Patron-client relations in the Muslim Middle East -- , Turkey -- , Jordan -- , Northern Iraq -- , Egypt -- , Lebanon -- , Morocco -- , Patron-client relations in Latin America -- , Colombia -- , Brazil -- , Peru -- , Bolivia -- , Argentina -- , Mexico -- , Patron-client relations in southeast Asia -- , Indonesia -- , The Philippines -- , Thailand -- , Burma -- , Patron-client relations in China, Japan, India, Rwanda and southwestern Cyrenaica -- , China -- , Japan -- , India -- , Rwanda -- , Southwestern Cyrenaica -- , Patron-client relations in the U.S.A., the U.S.S.R. and modern Japan -- , The U.S.A. -- , The U.S.S.R. -- , Modern Japan -- , Approaching the systematic study of variations in patron-client relations -- , The Clientelistic Mode of Generalised Exchange and Patron--Client Relations as Addenda to the Central Institutional Nexus -- , The clientelistic mode of generalised exchange in comparative perspective. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-521-28890-8

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-521-24687-3

Language: English

URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511557743