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Eisenstadt, S. N. 1923-

Patrons, clients, and friends : interpersonal relations and the structure of trust in society / S.N. Eisenstadt and L. Roniger. - Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1984. - x, 343 p. ; 24 cm. - Themes in the social sciences .

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine derived contents note: Preface -- 1. Personal relations, trust and ambivalence in relations to the institutional order -- 2. The construction of trust in the social order and its ambivalences: viewed from the development of sociological theory -- 3. The structuring of trust in society: Unconditionalities, generalised exchange and the developement of interpersonal relations -- 4. The basic characteristics and variety of patron-client relations -- 5 The clientelistic mode of generalised exchange and patron-client relations as addenda to the central relations -- 6. The social conditions generating patron-client relations -- 7. Variations in patron-client relations -- 8. Ritualised interpersonal relations -- privacy -- 9. Concluding remarks: The dialectics of trust and the social order -- Notes -- Index.

0521246873 0521288908 (pbk.)

83026333

GB84-35587


Interpersonal relations.
Trust.
Patron and client.
Friendship.

Personal patronage - Sociological perspectives

HM132 / .E37 1984 HM132 / .E37 1984

302 / EIP
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