Recent Developments in the Theory of Social Structure is an integrated
collection of essays reviewing and assessing progress in social structural
analysis since 1970. Organizationally, the book is divided into six parts
corresponding to six analytical levels of social structure: social
relationships, social networks, intraorganizational relations,
interorganizational relations, societal stratification and the world system.
The ten essays expound and assess what has been learned about the influences of
social structure on human behaviour at each level of analysis. In the
introduction, the editors examine the metatheoretical issues in structural
analysis and promote the cause of theory integration.
