Etnic Relations as a Type of Social Relations in the Contemporary „Individualistic Macro-sociology” Cover Image

Stosunki etniczne jako typ stosunków społecznych we współczesnej "makrosoocjologii indywidualistycznej"
Etnic Relations as a Type of Social Relations in the Contemporary „Individualistic Macro-sociology”

Author(s): Janusz Mucha
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Peter Blau; Hubert Blalock; social relations; ethnic relations; race relations; interactions; macro-sociology

Summary/Abstract: The aims of this article are as follows. After introducing basic concepts of: social relations, individualistic macro-sociology and ethnicity, the author analyzes in great detail Peter M. Blau’s theory of intergroup relations and Hubert M. Blalock’s idea of ethnic relations. Both of these theories are very important for macro-sociology of social relations and hardly known in this context in Poland. In both cases the author stresses the ethnic aspect of these theories and, in the end, discusses the significance of the “interactive” approach in sociology of ethnicity, and perhaps in the whole “macro-sociology of social relations”. The problem of relations between interactions among individual actors on the one hand and large collectivities and relations among them on the on the other is also addressed briefly.

  • Issue Year: 177/2005
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 71-106
  • Page Count: 35
  • Language: Polish