George C. Homans Quotes

George Casper Homans was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an American Sociologist, founder of behavioral sociology and the Social Exchange Theory. He is best known for his research in social behavior and his works including The Human Group, Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms, his Exchange Theory and the many different propositions he enforced to better explain social behavior. He educated at Harvard University. He was a visiting professor at the University of Manchester in 1953, at Cambridge University from 1955 to 1956, and at the University of Kent in 1967. He was elected President of the American Sociological Association in 1964. He wrote several books include: English Villagers of the Thirteenth Century, Coming to my senses, The nature of social science, Sentiments and activities, The witch Hazel, Certainties and doubts, and Social Behavior As Exchange.