Are Social Structures Products Of Human Action, Expressions Of Individual Or Group Power? Or Are They Essentially External Constraints On Human Action, Necessarily Analyzed At A Different Level? How Are Themes Of Power And Constraint To Be Joined In A Common Analytic Approach? These Have Long Been Central Questions For Sociologists. Since The Collapse Of Functionalism As A Unifying Paradigm, However They Have Often Appeared As The Basis For Sharp Divisions Between Competing Analytic Paradigms. The Divide Between Structuralism And Rational-choice Theory Has Been One Of The Most Prominent Such Splits. Yet Each Approach Has Undergone A Revival In Past Years. The Editors Of This Book, In Honour Of Peter Blau, Brought Together A Wide Range Of Distinguished Sociologists Who Have Taken Positions On Different Sides Of This Issue And Brings Them Into Focus As Parts Of A Common Discourse On The Place Of Social Structure And Concepts Of Strategic Action In Sociological Explanation. Introduction : Peter Blau's Sociological Structuralism / Craig Calhoun And W. Richard Scott -- Epistolary Notes On The Making Of A Sociological Dissertation Classic : The Dynamics Of Bureaucracy / Robert K. Merton -- Exchange, Power, And Inequality : Introduction To Part I / Craig Calhoun -- Rational-choice Theory And Behavioral Psychology / George C. Homans -- Rational Action, Social Networks, And The Emergence Of Norms / James S. Coleman -- Linking Actors And Structures : An Exchange Network Perpsective / Karen Cook -- Models Of Social And Market Exchange : Toward A Sociological Theory Of Games And Social Behavior / Tom R. Burns -- Family And Birth-order Effects On Educational Attainment / Otis Dudley Duncan -- Formal Organization : Introduction To Part Ii / W. Richard Scott -- The Weberian Tradition In Organizational Research / Marshall W. Meyer. Structural Inconsistency And Management Strategy In Organizations / Stanley H. Udy, Jr. -- Organizational Demography And Structural Change In The Roman Catholic Church / Richard Schoenherr And Lawrence A. Young -- The Technocratic Organization Of Academic Work / Wolf Heydebrand -- The Organizational And Structural Context Of Employee Assistance Programs / Terry C. Blum -- Inequality And Heterogeneity : Introduction To Part Iii / Marshall W. Meyer -- Penetrating Differentiation : Linking Macro And Micro Phenomena / Joseph E. Schwartz -- Social Structure And Intermarriage : A Reanalysis / John Skvoretz -- Network Diversity, Substructures, And Opportunities For Contact / Peter V. Marsden -- Kinds Of Relations In American Discussion Networks / Ronald S. Burt -- Social Control And Social Networks : A Model From Georg Simmel / Ronald L. Breiger. Edited By Craig Calhoun, Marshall W. Meyer, W. Richard Scott. Bibliography Of The Writings Of Peter M. Blau: P.477-481. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.