Patrons, clients, and friends : interpersonal relations and the structure of trust in society /

Patrons, clients, and friends : interpersonal relations and the structure of trust in society /

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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...

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Main Authors: Eisenstadt, S. N. 1923-2010 (Author), Roniger, Luis, 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Series:Themes in the social sciences.
Subjects:
Interpersonal relations.
Trust.
Patron and client.
Friendship.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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