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This book explores the effects of microdynamics, such as interactions among individuals, on larger social systems, from corporate and categoric units to institutional domains, stratification systems, community networks, societies, and inter-societal systems.

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Micro-level dynamics revolve around face-to-face interactions among individuals. What occurs within encounters is constrained by their embedding with corporate and categoric units and, by extension, institutional domains, stratification systems, community networks, societies, and inter-societal systems. In this Handbook, the author explores the effect of microdynamics on these larger social systems.

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The Micro-level Realm of Social Reality.- The Embedding of Encounters.- Ecological and Demographic Dynamics in Encounters.- Status Dynamics in Encounters.- Role Dynamics in Encounters.- Cultural Dynamics in Encounters.- Motivational Dynamics in Encounters.- Emotional Dynamics in Encounters.- The Micro Basis of the Meso and Macro Social Realms.- Principles of Microdynamics.

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Jonathan H.Turner is Distinguished Professor of Sociology. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1968, and since the 1969-1970 academic year,he has been at UCR. Within the discipline, he is known primarily as a general theorist, although he has a number of more subtantive specialities,including: the sociology of emotions, ethnic relations, social institututions, social stratification, and bio-sociology. He has been Faculty Research Lecturer at UCR, and in the profession, he has been president of the Pacific Sociological Association and California Sociological Association. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has lectured widely all over the world, and he has been a visiting professor at Cambridge University, UK, Universitat Bremen, Germany, Universitat Bielefeld, German, Shandong University and Nan Kai University, Peoples Republic at China.

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