This book is designed to honor George Caspar Homans for his many and varied contributions to the development of modern sociology.

He is regarded as the father of social exchange theory.Homans considers academic and intellectual as well as nonacademic influences on his development: personalities of highly idiosyncratic individuals against whose views of culturalism, ...

In all five cases, Homans selects comparable phenomena for analysis with a contextually different emphasis and elaboration each time.

George C. Homaris' classic volume was among the first to study the small group as a microcosm of society.

Published in 1998, Sentiments and Activities is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology and Social Policy.

A discussion of the social sciences and of their relation to the physical and biological sciences. Homans believes that these all form a single science, sharing the same subject and explanatory principles.

Sentiments and Activities represents a dialogue between the data of social science and certain kinds of general ideas.