Power, Dependence, and the Complaints of the Elderly: A Social Exchange Perspective

1971 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. David Martin
Keyword(s):  
Social Exchange ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Power Dependence

scholarly journals Culture, Cognition, and Social Exchange: A Classic Case Study of Social Negotiation Network Dynamics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Stolte
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Social Exchange Theory ◽  
Cultural Cognition ◽  
Power Dependence ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Behavioral Choice ◽  
Social Negotiation ◽  
Selection Of

How do automatic vs. controlled, hot vs. cold, and agentic vs. communal facets of cultural cognition operate together in a perspective informed by social neuroscience? This question is explored by re-imagining Malinowski’s classic ethnographic case study of the Kula in light of a contemporary social exchange theory of negotiation networks. We propose: (1) sub-institutional patterns of power-dependence form a structural foundation for the rise of tacit meanings, which evolve through social negotiation into explicit, cultural meaning agreements; (2) crucial sub-cultural categories form around the pursuit of both agentic benefits and communal benefits; (3) an individual is culturally shaped through externalization, socialization, and internalization to value and seek both kinds of benefits; (4) an individual faces the existential task of navigating both agentic and communal situations across the negotiation network; (5) the basic individual mechanism underlying such navigation entails motivated behavioral choice and motivated cultural cognition; (6) a behavioral choice rests on automatic, largely implicit and hot cognitive processing; (7) motivated cultural cognition rests mostly on the deliberate, mostly explicit, and cool selection of materials from the prevailing cultural toolkit for assembling a justification, but whose underlying trajectory is biased by an automatic, hot value-position, whether agentic or communal. Based on the analysis, some directions for future empirical research are suggested

Resource Variations and Marital Status among Later-Life Elderly

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-60
Author(s):  
Ron J. Hammond ◽  
Alisa M. Hammond ◽  
Luke Einerson ◽  
Marsha Miskin ◽  
Chet Ludlow
Keyword(s):  
Marital Status ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Later Life ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Prevalence Rates ◽  
Never Married ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
The U.S

The U.S. divorced prevalence rates have increased steadily between the years 1963–2003 for the elderly and pre-elderly cohorts and will likely continue in coming decades. This study utilized Social Exchange principles in evaluating the comparative resource diminutions between female and male elderly divorced and between married and not married elderly. Results suggest that elderly divorced females have fewer financial resources, while having more social and emotional resources than males. Results also suggest that widowed, separated, divorced, and never married elderly have fewer resources than married ones. Separated elderly females notably had the fewest resources.

scholarly journals Culture, Cognition, and Social Exchange: A Classic Case Study of Social Negotiation Network Dynamics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Stolte
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Social Exchange Theory ◽  
Cultural Cognition ◽  
Power Dependence ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Behavioral Choice ◽  
Social Negotiation ◽  
Selection Of

How do automatic vs. controlled, hot vs. cold, and agentic vs. communal facets of cultural cognition operate together in a perspective informed by social neuroscience? This question is explored by re-imagining Malinowski’s classic ethnographic case study of the Kula in light of a contemporary social exchange theory of negotiation networks. We propose: (1) sub-institutional patterns of power-dependence form a structural foundation for the rise of tacit meanings, which evolve through social negotiation into explicit, cultural meaning agreements; (2) crucial sub-cultural categories form around the pursuit of both agentic benefits and communal benefits; (3) an individual is culturally shaped through externalization, socialization, and internalization to value and be motivated to seek both kinds of benefits; (4) an individual faces the existential task of navigating both agentic and communal situations across the negotiation network; (5) the basic individual mechanism underlying such navigation entails motivated behavioral choice and motivated cultural cognition; (6) a behavioral choice rests on automatic, largely implicit and hot cognitive processing; (7) motivated cultural cognition rests mostly on the deliberate, mostly explicit, and cool selection of materials from the prevailing cultural toolkit for assembling a justification, but whose underlying trajectory is biased by an automatic, hot value-position, whether agentic or communal. Based on the analysis, some directions for future empirical research are suggested.

scholarly journals Understanding Corruption in Nigeria: The Social Exchange Perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Israel Dantata Sule
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Power Dependence ◽  
The Social

There are several challenges that confront one who wants to interrogate corruption in Nigeria. One of such challenges is to ascertain the theoretical perspective that is suitable to explain the ubiquitous nature of the phenomenon and hence proffer a remedy. The paper argues that corruption should also be interrogated through the prism of Richard Emerson’s Power-dependence genre of Social Exchange Theoretical Approach. This theory has the capacity to account for the pervasiveness of the phenomenon by locating it within the context of relationships that are determined and underguarded by dependence and the proximity of actors to power in everyday life. The paper further posits en passant that corruption cannot be understood outside these variables in any geo-political clime. The paper concludes that this theoretical approach is relevant and should be adopted to rethink and restructure the strategies to deal with the problem of corruption in Nigeria.

The Influential Mechanism Research of Leisure-Skill Sharing Intention of the Elder Adult within Community in Hangzhou: Based on the Social Exchange Theory

2014 ◽  
Vol 905 ◽  
pp. 717-720
Author(s):  
Shang Shang Zhu ◽  
Yi Qi Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Social Exchange ◽  
Social Exchange Theory ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Leisure Activity ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Exchange Theory ◽  
Behavior Intention ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mechanism Research

Whether the quality of some leisure activity is high depends on the mastery of leisure skill. Sharing-education is more suitable for the elderly rather than teaching-education. The object of this study is the retired elderly of 50-70 in Hangzhou. Based on the social exchange theory, the study is aimed at the influence mechanism of leisure skills sharing intention as well as the attitude within the community. We find that the most significant factor affecting the sharing intention is altruism, then interdependence, then self-efficacy, then trust. While the influences of reciprocity, reputation, and skill-sharing effort on knowledge-sharing behavior intention are insignificant. The result can give guidance for the design of the local virtual community of leisure skill among the elderly.

scholarly journals Culture, Cognition, and Social Exchange: A Classic Case Study of Social Negotiation Network Dynamics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Stolte
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Social Exchange Theory ◽  
Cultural Cognition ◽  
Power Dependence ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Behavioral Choice ◽  
Social Negotiation ◽  
Selection Of

How do automatic vs. controlled, hot vs. cold, and agentic vs. communal facets of cultural cognition operate together in a perspective informed by social neuroscience? This question is explored by re-imagining Malinowski’s classic ethnographic case study of the Kula in light of a contemporary social exchange theory of negotiation networks. We propose: (1) sub-institutional patterns of power-dependence form a structural foundation for the rise of tacit meanings, which evolve through social negotiation into explicit, cultural meaning agreements; (2) crucial sub-cultural categories form around the pursuit of both agentic benefits and communal benefits; (3) an individual is culturally shaped through externalization, socialization, and internalization to value and be motivated to seek both kinds of benefits; (4) an individual faces the existential task of navigating both agentic and communal situations across the negotiation network; (5) the basic individual mechanism underlying such navigation entails motivated behavioral choice and motivated cultural cognition; (6) a behavioral choice rests on automatic, largely implicit and hot cognitive processing; (7) motivated cultural cognition rests mostly on the deliberate, mostly explicit, and cool selection of materials from the prevailing cultural toolkit for assembling a justification, but whose underlying trajectory is biased by an automatic, hot value-position, whether agentic or communal. Based on the analysis, some directions for future empirical research are suggested.

scholarly journals Culture, Cognition, and Social Exchange: A Classic Case Study of Social Negotiation Network Dynamics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Stolte
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Social Exchange Theory ◽  
Cultural Cognition ◽  
Power Dependence ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Behavioral Choice ◽  
Social Negotiation ◽  
Selection Of

How do automatic vs. controlled, hot vs. cold, and agentic vs. communal facets of cultural cognition operate together in a perspective informed by social neuroscience? This question is explored by re-imagining Malinowski’s classic ethnographic case study of the Kula in light of a contemporary social exchange theory of negotiation networks. We propose: (1) sub-institutional patterns of power-dependence form a structural foundation for the rise of tacit meanings, which evolve through social negotiation into explicit, cultural meaning agreements; (2) crucial sub-cultural categories form around the pursuit of both agentic benefits and communal benefits; (3) an individual is culturally shaped through externalization, socialization, and internalization to value and be motivated to seek both kinds of benefits; (4) an individual faces the existential task of navigating both agentic and communal situations across the negotiation network; (5) the basic individual mechanism underlying such navigation entails motivated behavioral choice and motivated cultural cognition; (6) a behavioral choice rests on automatic, largely implicit and hot cognitive processing; (7) motivated cultural cognition rests mostly on the deliberate, mostly explicit, and cool selection of materials from the prevailing cultural toolkit for assembling a justification, but whose underlying trajectory is biased by an automatic, hot value-position, whether agentic or communal. Based on the analysis, some directions for future empirical research are suggested.

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