28 Facts About George Homans

George Caspar Homans was an American sociologist, founder of behavioral sociology, and a major contributor to the social exchange theory.

George Homans is best known for his research in social behavior and his works The Human Group, Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms, his Exchange Theory and the many different propositions he made to explain social behavior.

George Homans did not talk about the Adamses, yet had distinctively visible features in his skull that came from the Adamses.

George Homans attended St Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, from 1923 to 1928.

From his autobiography, George Homans entered Harvard College in 1928 with a concentration in English and American literature.

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George Homans published his original works in The Harvard Advocate, in which he was elected into the editorial board.

George Homans served in the Naval Reserve ; he always had a love for the sea, as an undergraduate he assisted Samuel Eliot Morison in writing Massachusetts on the Sea, so much so that Morrison named George Homans co-author.

George Homans served four and a half years on active duty, serving five years in the navy in total, more than two were spent in command of several small ships engaged in antisubmarine warfare and the escort of convoy operations.

In many ways, too, "George Homans adopted the mannerisms of de Voto, the outwardly boisterous tones and the scorn of intellectualist rhetoric".

George Homans reserved all his pain and suffering for his poetry, which is seen in his book of poetry.

George Homans became interested in sociology by living in an environment where people are highly conscious of social relations.

George Homans describes his entrance to sociology as "a matter of chance; or rather, I got into sociology because I had nothing better to do".

From 1934 to 1939 Homans was selected to become a part of the Society of Fellows a newly formed institution founded by A Lawrence Lowell at Harvard, undertaking a variety of studies in various areas, including sociology, psychology, and history.

George Homans was taken into the graduate program at Harvard; Pitirim Sorokin, founder of Harvard's sociology department in 1930, was credited with bringing George Homans and Robert Merton into the program.

George Homans was an instructor of sociology until 1941 when he left to serve in the U S Navy to support the war effort.

George Homans was a Ford Foundation Fellow at Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration.

George Homans 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.

George Homans was elected 54th president of the American Sociological Association in 1964.

George Homans was impressed by Henderson's notion of a conceptual scheme, which consists of a classification of variables that need to be taken into account when studying a set of phenomena.

George Homans was very interested in Henderson's conceptual scheme as a way of classifying phenomena and applied it to his own study of small groups.

George Homans believed that a sociology built on his principles would be able to explain all social behavior.

George Homans said, "An incidental advantage of an exchange theory is that it might bring sociology closer to economics" .

George Homans regretted that his theory was labeled "Exchange Theory" because he saw this theory of social behavior as a behavioral psychology applied to specific situations.

George Homans looked to Emile Durkheim's work for guidance as well, but often disagreed in the end with particular components of Durkheim's theories.

George Homans believed that society could be studied without reducing it to individuals and their motivations.

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George Homans believed his Exchange Theory was derived from both behavioral psychology and elementary economics.

George Homans didn't believe that new propositions are needed to explain social behavior.

George C Homans left to the sociological world many works on social theory, and is best known for his Exchange Theory and his works on social behavior.