Principles of Group Solidarity

Author/Contributor(s):	Hechter, Michael
Publisher:	University of California Press
Date:	08/24/1988
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.