Problem of Solidarity

Patrick Doreian, Thomas J. Fararo, both University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

• Preface I Introduction 1 The Theory of Solidarity: An Agenda of Problems 2 A Theory of the State and of Social Order 3 The Microfoundations of Solidarity: A Framing Approach 4 The Management of Trust Relations via Institutional and Structural Embeddedness 5 A Mathematical Model of Group Dynamics Including the Effects of Solidarity III Affect and Solidarity 6 Conditions for Empathic Solidarity 7 Modelling the Interaction Ritual Theory of Solidarity IV Social Networks and Solidarity 8 Solidarity and Social Networks 9 Structures and Processes of Solidarity: An Initial Formalization 10 Group Formation in Friendship Networks V Assessment 11 Social Network Conceptions of Group Solidarity 12 Solidarity, Social Structure, and Social Control

"Provocative....How the book as a whole addresses the topic of solidarity is also a success....The Problem of Solidarity may be best viewed as the initiation of debate on the development of formal solidarity....This achievement is remarkable....The books sets an example of how to make attempts to understand solidarity fruitful."