Patrons, clients, and friends : interpersonal relations and the structure of trust in society - Eisenstadt, S. N. (Shmuel Noah), 1923-; Roniger, Luis, 1949- (Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1984)
Machine derived contents note: Preface -- 1. Personal relations, trust and ambivalence in relations to the institutional order -- 2. The construction of trust in the social order and its ambivalences: viewed from the development of sociological theory -- 3. The structuring of trust in society: Unconditionalities, generalised exchange and the developement of interpersonal relations -- 4. The basic characteristics and variety of patron-client relations -- 5 The clientelistic mode of generalised exchange and patron-client relations as addenda to the central relations -- 6. The social conditions generating patron-client relations -- 7. Variations in patron-client relations -- 8. Ritualised interpersonal relations -- privacy -- 9. Concluding remarks: The dialectics of trust and the social order -- Notes -- Index.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Interpersonal relations; Trust; Patron and client; Friendship; Personal patronage - Sociological perspectives