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Social Behaviour and Competition
Author(s) -
Skidmore William L.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
canadian review of sociology/revue canadienne de sociologie
Language(s) - French
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.414
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1755-618X
pISSN - 1755-6171
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-618x.1971.tb02364.x
Subject(s) - humanities , competition (biology) , sociology , philosophy , biology , ecology
Dans sa théorie du comportement social, Georges Homans se sert de certaines présuppositions qui proviennent de la théorie economique et que se rapportent aux activites des individus. Cet article examine le concept de competition sociale en utilisant comme point de départ la theorie de la conduite sociale, mais en accordant une attention speciale au phénomene de la compétition, tel qu'il se mani‐feste sur le marche dans le sens de la théorie économique. L'analyse souligne quelques unes des limitations qui viennent restreindre la portée de la théorie du comportement social d'Homans lorsqu'elle s'applique à l'analyse de la compétition. In his theory of social behaviour, Homans makes use of certain assumptions taken from elementary economic theory concerning the activities of individuals. In this paper, the concept of social competition is examined using the theory of social behaviour as a basis, but with special reference to competition as it might occur in a “market” in the economic theory sense. The analysis indicates certain conceptual limitations and qualifications which ought to be placed on Homans' theory of social behaviour when applied to the analysis of competition.