Making Good on a Promise: The Impact of Larger Social Structures on Commitments

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Advances in Group Processes

ISSN: 0882-6145
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Title:	Making Good on a Promise: The Impact of Larger Social Structures on Commitments
Author(s):	Sheldon Stryker, Richard T. Serpe, Matthew O. Hunt
Volume:	22 Editor(s): Shane R. Thye, Edward J. Lawler ISBN: 978-0-76231-223-8 eISBN: 978-1-84950-352-5
Citation:	Sheldon Stryker, Richard T. Serpe, Matthew O. Hunt (2005), Making Good on a Promise: The Impact of Larger Social Structures on Commitments, in Shane R. Thye, Edward J. Lawler (ed.) Social Identification in Groups (Advances in Group Processes, Volume 22), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.93-123
DOI:	10.1016/S0882-6145(05)22004-0 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
Abstract:	We present here research on the impact of three levels of social structure – large-scale, intermediate, and proximate – on commitment to three types of role-related relationships: family, work, and voluntary associational. This research is carried out using data from a sample survey of Whites, Blacks, and Latinos drawn from a five-county area of southern California. The central problem of this paper is to explicate the social structural sources of commitment to social network relationships. Our interest in this problem arises out of earlier work on Identity Theory.